Methods of making a doll having functional inserts
AssigneeLesney Products & Co. Limited
InventorsWilliam Frederick Clark, Richard Joseph Maddocks
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Abstract
A method of producing an article which incorporates an insert intended to perform a function in the finished article in which method the insert is placed in a rotation mold and material is molded around said insert to envelope the insert in the material. The method is particularly, but not exclusively, concerned with the production of prehensile hands for dolls and other primate figures in which an insert that includes a spring is enveloped in a synthetic plastics material, such as polyvinyl chloride, by a rotation molding process to produce a hand which will tend to grip an item placed between at least one finger and the thumb thereof.
Claims10
In a method for making a doll in a rotational mold, the doll having at least one spring biased insert member extending into at least two digits of one hand by actuation of which member the doll hand can be caused to grasp and hold on object, the steps comprising:
- inserting each said insert member into a hand portion of said mold, said hand portion of said mold being separated from a insert portion of said mold by a projecting shoulder, said insert member having two spaced extending members adapted to be inserted into digit portions of said mold each said extending member having a boss projecting therefrom, said inserting including introducing said extending members into digit portions of said mold until each said boss engages one said shoulder and introducing hardenable molding material into said mold and about portions of said insert.
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