Toilet – Hair device – Hair structures
Patent
1997-05-21
1999-09-28
Manahan, Todd E.
Toilet
Hair device
Hair structures
A41G 300, A63H 344
Patent
active
059571390
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a method to produce a wig which can be glued onto a body part of a toy figure, in particular onto a doll's head, and to a body part of a toy figure, in particular a doll's head, with a glued-on wig.
It is known to provide a doll's head with hair by sewing tufts of hair into the head part of the doll. For this purpose, the material of the doll's head must be comparatively soft in order to be able to be pierced by the sewing needle. These soft materials have the disadvantage that the holes pierced by the sewing needle easily tear out, such that the sewn-in tufts of hair are badly anchored. Moreover, in such a material, the surface can only be painted or printed in a difficult and less durable manner. The same disadvantages also exist in other toy figures to be provided with hair, for example in a toy horse which is to be provided with a mane or a tail.
The said disadvantages of a toy figure, in particular a doll's head, consisting of a soft plastic material and to be fitted with hair can be avoided by a wig of hair being glued onto a body of the toy figure, consisting of any other desired material, or onto such a doll's head.
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 centre 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 centre 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 a very natural appearance.
It is therefore the object of the present invention to provide a method of the type mentioned at the beginning, which is simple and cost-effective, and which provides a sturdy wig of natural appearance for a doll (or a different toy figure) of any desired size, that is to say in particular of small size.
According to the invention, this object is achieved in that threads of hair are stitched in loops on a flat, flexible base in an area bounded by a desired wig contour, and in that, afterwards, the stitched area is removed from the base along the wig contour.
By carrying out an stitching operation on a flat, flexible base, a hair style of any desired appearance and any size and shape can be produced by machine in a simple manner. This wig can subsequently be bonded without difficulty onto the body part of a toy figure, in particular onto the doll's head, consisting of a user-friendly and environmentally compatible material.
Exemplary embodiments of the method according to the invention are described below with reference to the drawings in the application on a doll's head. It is understood that the same method steps can also be applied to producing hair for other toy figures, in which case the contour of the wig mentioned in the following naturally has to be adapted to the respective body part of the toy figure. In the drawings,
FIG. 1 shows a view of a contour, marked on a base by stitching, of a wig to be glued onto a doll's head;
FIG. 2 shows a diagrammatic view of threads or tufts of hair stitched in loops of different lengths within the marked contour of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 shows a diagram of cut-out or punch-out steps carried out in the base to separate the area stitched within the contour according to FIG. 2 from the base;
FIG. 4 shows a view of a basic area, defined by stitching on a base, of a wig to be glued onto a doll's head; and
FIG. 5 shows a diagrammatic view of a doll's head with a depression to receive the area, shown in FIG. 3, which has been stitched and removed from the base.
In a first embodiment of the method according to the invention, the contour 1 of the wig to be produced and to be glued onto a doll's head is stipulated according to FIG. 1. The contour 1 naturally depends on the shape and the size of the doll's head to be provided with the wig. In the example illustrated, it has a front part 2, a neck part
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