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Doll with attachment means
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InventorsCynthia G. Schiavo, Carol P. Faller
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InventorsCynthia G. Schiavo, Carol P. Faller
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A doll with fastening means attached to its hands and back to enable the doll to hold objects or to hold on to a mating fastening means attached to another doll. Dolls of the prior art that are capable of holding objects usually have hands that are shaped to hold a rounded object or a rounded portion of an object between the thumb and index finger by means of a resilient clamping action between the thumb and index fingers or by merely creating an interference fit with the object to be held. This type of construction is severely limiting as to the types of objects the doll can grasp and hold onto, and with age and wear, the dolls hand members attain a permanently stretched apart condition after which the ability to hold objects is greatly diminished or entirely lost. The doll constructed according to the invention has a doll body including a head, a torso poriton, a pair of arms with hands, and a pair of legs with feet, as well as doll clothing. A fastening means is attached to the outer surface of at least one of the hands of the doll, preferably both. Another fastening means is centrally attached to the outer surface of the clothing covering the rear upper torso portion of the doll. In this fashion, the fastening means of a pair of dolls cooperate for a mutually engaging and capturing one another in a holding position in which an arm and hand of one doll is held with its arm around the back of the other doll. The two hands of a doll may also be releasably held together, in an alternate embodiment of the invention.
In a doll having a doll body including a head, a torso portion, a pair of arms with hands, a pair of legs with feet, and doll clothing, the improvement comprising:
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Dolls: details; Accessories
Amusement devices: toys: detachably adhesive
Toys
Technical subjects covered by former uspc cross-reference art collections [xracs] and digests
Term ended 11 Aug 2006 (estimated)
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1. Field of Art
This invention relates to a doll, and more particularly to a doll with fastening means attached to its hands to enable the doll to hold objects or to hold onto a mating fastening means attached to another doll or object.
2. Summary of the Prior Art
The invention will now be described in detail having reference drawing in which:
FIG. 1 is a front view of a doll showing the positioning of the hand fastening means in accordance with the invention;
FIG. 2 shows a rear view of the doll illustrating the position of the fastening means located in the central rear torso portion of the doll;
In FIG. 1, the front view of a doll made in accordance with the invention is illustrated. The doll 1 comprises a pair of arms 3, 5 and associated hands 7, 9, each hand shown to have attached thereto one of a pair of fastening patches 11, 13, respectively. The doll is complete with legs 15, 17 and associated feet 19, 21.
In the illustration of FIG. 2, the rear view of the doll shows a fastening patch 23 comprised, preferably, of two vertical strips 25 and 27. A hip pocket 29 with a flag emblem 30 attached can also be seen in the rear view of FIG. 2.
Referring now to the two views of FIGS. 1 and 2, the fastening patch 11 is attached to the outer surface of hand 7, facing inwardly (in the direction the doll is facing), and is seen to be positioned so as to be easily accessible. The fastening strip 23 is shown to be centrally attached to the outer surface of the clothing covering the rear upper torso portion of the doll, and it also is clearly positioned to be easily accessible.