Amusement devices: toys – Figure toy or accessory therefor – Head
Reexamination Certificate
1998-11-12
2001-04-17
Muir, D. Neal (Department: 3712)
Amusement devices: toys
Figure toy or accessory therefor
Head
Reexamination Certificate
active
06217407
ABSTRACT:
It is known to provide a doll's head with hair by sewing hair tufts into the head of the doll. For this purpose, the material of the doll's head has to be comparatively soft in order to be able to be pierced by the needle. These soft materials have the disadvantage that the holes pierced by the needle can be easily torn, with the result that the sewn-in hair tufts are poorly anchored. In addition, the surface of such a material does not lend itself at all well to being painted or printed on, and any painting or printing does not last very long. The disadvantages are the same in the case of other toy figures which are to be provided with hair, for example in the case of a toy horse which is to be provided with a mane or a tail.
The above-mentioned disadvantages of a toy figure, in particular of a doll's head, which is made of a soft plastic material and is to be provided with hair may be avoided by a hairpiece being slipped over onto the body part of the toy figure which is made of any other material, or onto such a doll's head, and possibly adhesively bonded thereon.
Such a wig of hair and its manufacture are described in FR-A-1,146,400. In one embodiment, a fabric of weft and warp threads is formed. The warp threads run only in the center of the fabric and only a few warp threads at the two edges. The central part of such a piece of fabric is glued onto a doll's head along its longitudinal central line, and the region of the warp threads is subsequently trimmed at the edges. Since the weft threads are all oriented in the same direction, this wig does not, however, have very natural appearance.
Another method of producing a hairpiece is described in AT-A-326 068. A contour of the hairpiece to be manufactured is marked on a flat face of a rubber block. Individual hairs or bundles of individual hairs are then held with one hand and their ends pushed into the block by means of a reciprocating blunt needle. The block is put into the bin in which the hairs are embedded in a hardenable material. After hardening the rubber block is pulled off and the hair ends protruding from the hardened material are embedded in a silicone rubber layer. After hardening of the silicone rubber the hardened material is dissolved. The hairpiece is then removed from the remainder of the rubber layer along the hairpiece contour.
The object of the present invention is thus to provide a method which is simple and cost-effective and provides a thickly covered, natural-looking hairpiece for a toy figure of any size, that is to say for small toy figures in particular.
In order to achieve this object, the method according to the invention has the features outlined in Patent claim
1
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By carrying out a stitching operation on a flat, flexible base, a hairpiece of any appearance and of any size and shape can be produced mechanically in a simple manner. This hairpiece may then be fastened without difficulty on the toy-figure body part made of a user-friendly and environmentally acceptable material, in particular on the doll's head.
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Muir D. Neal
Pitney Hardin Kipp & Szuch LLP
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