Improvements in Printed Cardboard Dolls.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 30th Aug.. 1894-Accepted, 6th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Printed Cardboard Dolls.
I, ADOLPH TUCK, of the Firm of Raphael Tuck and Sons, of 72 and 73 Coleman
Street in the City of London, Fine Art Publishers, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to cut out figures of persons, generally children or dolls,
with removeable or changeable dresses and garments so arranged that the dresses
hats and the like may be changed from time to time with very little trouble but
with very realistic effect and yet by the employment of only one figure.
According to my invention the figure to be represented, say for instance a young
child dressed in such simple or under garments as may be desired is cut (stamped)
out of thick paper, cardboard, or the like, and printed preferably in colours to
represent the intended figure. It is convenient that the head should be formed of a
separate piece which may be stuck on to the top of an upward extension of the
neck, thus leaving say the lower part of the face and hair free from, and slightly in
front of the neck and shoulders.
Another piece is then similarly cut out to represent a dress, and this may have
as part of it representations of a piece of neck and say for instance gloved hands
holding a parasol or other device according to the design, several such different
dresses and appropriate devices are intended to accompany each doll.
The piece of cardboard printed in colors to represent the dress, &c. of the doll is
arranged to be placed in front of the other or body piece and may fit under the hair
and chin, that is to say between these and the piece forming the other part of the
body, and I provide at the back of this dress piece two or more tabs or lappets of
strong paper which are adapted to turn down or fold over some part preferably the
shoulders of the doll and thus define accurately the position which the one piece
should occupy on the other and assist in maintaining such correspondence and
juxtaposition.
At the back of the figure I may attach a slip of stiff paper or card, one end of which
reaches to about the same level as the feet and which serves to support the figure
in a nearly upright position.
The head covering may conveniently be made of a separate piece and being cut
through say where the front brin is represented against the back part, or as may
suit, according to the design, the top of the head may be inserted into such cut and
the hat made thus to cover (or conceal) the top part of the head and be supported
thereon.
The figures thus produced may be exceeding elegant, the resources of color-
printing affording such ample means of representing form and giving color, and
these figures are of immense interest to their youthful possessors and a source of
very much delight, besides which they admit of being so elegantly got up that they
form very pretty and amusing articles of decoration to place on side-boards what-
nots and other like places.
Dated this 30th day of November 1896.
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: improvements in Printed Cardboard Dolls.
I, ADOLPH TUCK, of the Firm of Raphael Tuck and Sons, of 72 and 73, Coleman
Street, in the City of London, Fine Art Publishers, 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 cut out figures of persons, generally children, or dolls
with removeable and changeable dresses and garments so arranged that the dresses,
bats, and the like may be changed from time to time with very little trouble but
with very realistic effect and yet by the employment of only one figure.
According to my invention the figure to be represented, say for instance a young
child dressed in such simple or under garments as may be desired, is cut (stamped)
out of thick paper, cardboard, or the like and printed, preferably in colours, to
represent the intended figure. It is convenient that the head should be formed of a
separate piece which may be stuck on the top of an upward extension of the neck,
thus leaving say the lower part of the face and hair free from, and slightly in front
of, the neck and shoulders.
Another piece is then similarly cut out to represent a dress, and this may have,
as part of it, representations of a piece of neck and cay for instance gloved hands
holding a parasol, or other device, according to the design, several such different
dresses and appropriate devices are intended to accompany each doll.
The piece of cardboard printed in colours to represent the dress &c. of the
doll is arranged to be placed in front of the other, or body piece, and may fit under
the hair and chin, that is to say between these and the piece forming the other
part of the body, and I provide at the back of this dress-piece two or more tabs,
or lappets, of strong paper which are adapted to turn down or fold over some part,
preferably the shoulders of the doll, and thus define accurately the position
which the one piece should occupy on the other and assist in maintaining such
correspondence and juxtaposition.
At the back of the figure I may attach a slip of stiff paper, or card, one end of
which reaches to about the same level as the feet and which serves to support the
figure in a nearly upright position.
The head covering may conveniently be made of a separate piece, and being cut
through say where the front brim is represented against the back part or as may
suit according to the design, the top of the head may be inserted into such cut and
the hat made thus to cover (or conceal) the top part of the head and be supported
thereon.
In order that my invention may be fully understood I have represented in the
accompanying sheets of drawings, by way of example, one of the dolls, and two
of the dresses to accompany it, manufactured by my said firm, it is usual to send
out six or more dresses of different designs with each doll, but the number of
dresses, hats and appurtenances and the character of their design as well as that of
the doll or figure may be, and is varied indefinitely.
Fig. 1 is a representation of the doll, in this instance representing a young child
in simple under garments: Fig. 2 represents the three parts of which it is formed
separated viz. the head, A; the body, B; and the strut or support, C;
Fig., represents one of the dresses together with a piece of neck E; Fig. 4,
the back of the same showing the tabs or lappets f which are most conveniently
attached in the part shewn and when so placed turn down over the shoulders of
the figure as shewn in Fig. 9, and secure the juxtaposition of these pieces:
Fig. 5, is a dress of another design in which gloved hands and a parasol are
represented Fig. 6, is the back of the same and shows the tabs or lappets f¹

page_text: formed of the same piece of cardboard as the dress, being upward extensions
thereof instead of being stuck on as in the preceding figure :
Figs. 7 and 8, represent the hats forming part of or accompanying the said
dresses, in which G is a cut through the cardboard corresponding with the under
and inner edge of the brim, or as the particular design may necessitate and so that
when the upper portion of the head of the doll is passed into the cut G the hat
may appear as if really on the head:
Fig. 9, represents the back of the doll showing how the parts A, B and C are
attached to each other, the parts where they are glued, or gummed together being
indicated on the back by shading and marked d, d; also the dress in situ, with the
tabs turned down over the shoulders, but without the hat.
Figs. 10 and 11, represent the doll in the two different dresses respectively and
with its hat on.
In some cases and more particularly for the purpose of reducing the cost I may
cut out and print the head A and the body B in one piece, and in such case I make
the tops of the dress-pieces without the piece of neck E, cutting them instead close
round the edge of the dress-and I then make the tabs or lappets f' of the same
piece as the dress as in Fig. 6.
The figures, thus produced, may be exceedingly elegant, the resources of colour
printing affording such ample means of representing form and giving colour, and
these figures are of immense interest to their youthful possessors and a source of
very much delight, besides which they admit of being so elegantly got up that
they form very pretty and amusing articles of decoration to place on sideboards,
what-nots and other like places.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
1. The manufacture and sale of dolls made of cardboard or like material in
parts united or fitting together with changeable dresses and appendages, printed
with surface representations of the parts and articles substantially in the manner
and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
2. The hereinbefore described improvements in printed cardboard dolls
substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated the 30th day of August 1894.
ADOLPH TUCK.