Improvements in the Connection of Limbs for Dolls, Playing Figures, and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Oct., 1890-Accepted, 22nd Nov., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
Improvements in the Connection of Limbs for Dolls, Playing Figures,
and the like.
I, JOHN PITT BAYLY, of 18 Fulham Place Paddington, W., in the County of
London, Patent Agent, (a communication to me from abroad by Albert Pulvermacher,
of Sonneberg, Thuringia, Germany, Doll Manufacturer), do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to improvements in the connection of limbs for dolls, playing
figures and the like.
The connection of limbs of dolls with ball joints has been manufactured with india
rubber bands and twine, which were drawn through the body of the doll, and in a
stretched condition fastened together; this aforesaid has its peculiar difficulties and
the work has to be done by the cleverest workman. When the doll is in use and the
string should give way or the head or another limb of the doll become broken, the
said doll falls completely asunder, and it is almost impossible for a non-practical man
to put it together again, as he would not be able to secure the india rubber band
without damaging the figure. Although connecting the limbs in this way appears to
be simple the manufacture is expensive.
To obviate the aforesaid difficulty and to produce a connection of limbs which any
man can make and which is at the same time not expensive I have made use of spiral
springs to produce a simple connection of the limbs. A spiral spring is not only
elastic but also possesses the property that it can be used as a screw; for example,
if a spiral spring a, Fig. 3, is put with one end against a pin b, and is turned, the
spring will wind itself round the pin, similar to a male screw moving into a female
screw socket, consequently the pin b can hold the spring a; if the spring a is held
fast, the pin b, Fig. 3, fastened in the arm of a doll can be attached to the spring a,
by turning the arm. If one end of the spiral spring is fastened in the body of the
doll, the arms or any other limb may easily be attached to the doll in this way; by
screwing the pin b, into the spiral spring a, the spring is bent at the same time, and
the limb is attached to the doll in a movable state.
Instead of the pin b, some other construction may be chosen, for instance, a disc
with small holes, or similar mechanism, or the spring a in a bent form may be
hooked on to the pin b; this may be varied in many ways within the scope of my
invention.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed to
describe the accompanying drawing thereof, reference being had to letters and figures
marked thereon.
Figure 1 is a section of a figure describing the mode of construction.
Figure 2 is a section of a portion of the figure of a doll, representing another mode
of construction.
Figure 3 is a section of the lower portion of the arm, with the spiral spring attached
to the pin b.
In Fig. 1, in the upper part of the head of the doll two wires d, d, are fastened
which go through the body of the doll and end in the feet C, C. The wires d, d,
change into a spiral spring d¹, d', or the whole length of the wire may be made into
a spring. Into the lower portions of the legs C, C, of the doll, pins c, c, are fastened
in order to connect the spiral springs d', d. It can be easily seen that after having
connected the head A, with the parts of the legs B, B, the lower parts C, C, can be
readily screwed on, and the spring be bent in the way as herein before described.
Through the upper part of the body D, D, of the doll a spiral spring f is placed,
which pass down the interior of the arms and connected to the pins 9, 9, which are

page_text: fastened in the lower parts E, E, of the arms, so that in the same way as above the
arms can be attached to the body of the doll.
In Fig. 2, the head A is as though it was fastened by itself. The wires d, d, for
the attachment of the legs are held here in the parts of the shoulder 1, while
in the head a ball or plug m is put which has a pin h, to receive the spiral
spring, and the other end is fastened in the shoulder, where a similar pin as his
fixed.
The connection of limbs according to this invention may also be employed for
animals or other playing toy figures.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
The combination of the connections of limbs for movable dolls or other playing toy
figures, and the spiral springs inside the body of the doll, which grasp the pins or the
like fastened in the different parts of the doll; and the mode of fixing the limbs by
the springs situated in the different limbs attached to the body of the doll or
figure, substantially as herein described and according to the accompanying
drawing.
Dated this 2nd day of October 1890
J. P. BAYLY,
Applicant.