Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
  • B65H37/00—Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating devices for performing specified auxiliary operations
  • B65H37/002—Web delivery apparatus, the web serving as support for articles, material or another web
  • B65H37/005—Hand-held apparatus
  • B65H37/007—Applicators for applying coatings, e.g. correction, colour or adhesive coatings
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
  • A45D—HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING
  • A45D19/00—Devices for washing the hair or the scalp; Similar devices for colouring the hair
  • A45D19/0041—Processes for treating the hair of the scalp
  • A45D19/0066—Coloring or bleaching
  • A45D19/0075—Producing special patterns, e.g. by masks
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
  • A45D—HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING
  • A45D19/00—Devices for washing the hair or the scalp; Similar devices for colouring the hair
  • A45D19/012—Devices for colouring or bleaching separated strands of hair, e.g. highlighting
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
  • A45D—HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING
  • A45D19/00—Devices for washing the hair or the scalp; Similar devices for colouring the hair
  • A45D19/012—Devices for colouring or bleaching separated strands of hair, e.g. highlighting
  • A45D19/018—Devices for colouring or bleaching separated strands of hair, e.g. highlighting comprising wrapping foils or foldable sheets for enclosing a strand of hair during treatment, e.g. frosting foils
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
  • B44C—PRODUCING DECORATIVE EFFECTS; MOSAICS; TARSIA WORK; PAPERHANGING
  • B44C1/00—Processes, not specifically provided for elsewhere, for producing decorative surface effects
  • B44C1/10—Applying flat materials, e.g. leaflets, pieces of fabrics
  • B44C1/105—Applying flat materials, e.g. leaflets, pieces of fabrics comprising an adhesive layer
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
  • A45D—HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING
  • A45D2/00—Hair-curling or hair-waving appliances ; Appliances for hair dressing treatment not otherwise provided for
  • A45D2/001—Hair straightening appliances

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a method of decorating the hair and more specifically to producing colored decorative effects on the hair and to a device for this purpose.
• the coloring of the hair and more precisely the dyeing thereof with coloring materials, either on the whole of the hair or on locks is well known.
• certain colored effects are particularly difficult to obtain by this technique, in particular for producing non-permanent adornments which are sufficiently adherent, however, for example for a short-term event such as an evening.
• the local effects of hair decoration consisting in applying stickers of different shapes (star, heart, etc.) are known but are generally considered to be not very decorative and generally too loose.
• Some decorative effects such as effects for a large area of the hair imitating gold, silver or other colored effects such as bronze etc. are not achievable in this way.
• Colored effects obtained by powdering have of course been used, but in addition to their difficulty of application and their poor adhesion, they have the drawback that they do not adhere sufficiently to the hair, mark clothes.
• a tape consisting of a support is taken from an unwinder, generally in the form of a plastic film, covered over its entire surface with a decorative element, for example a thin layer of a deposit of golden-colored particles, itself covered with a hot-activatable adhesive layer.
• the ribbon thus made up of these two elements is fed into a heating matrix provided with a plate taking up the pattern or the text which one wishes to reproduce on paper, cardboard or a plastic material.
• the tape can then be brought onto the surface to be decorated so as to "print" the text or the decorative pattern, so that the plate provides only the heat necessary for the activation of the adhesive material on the surface which has been planned to print or decorate.
• the part whose adhesive surface has not been activated hot therefore remains on the tape and the pattern or the text is transferred to the surface to be decorated.
• the ribbon then continues to circulate and carries "in negative" the part which has not adhered to the surface to be decorated and can be eliminated.
• Such a device most generally operates discontinuously by successively presenting a new part of the ribbon in the form of jerks. It is conceivable to work semi-continuously for example to decorate a cylinder, it being understood in this case that the surface to be decorated undergoes a rotary movement. It is theoretically also possible for large areas to work continuously but this solution is little used for reasons of technical constraints because it also involves the use of a plate also driven in rotation.
• there are also devices for applying adhesive tapes used to support a decorative film Document WO 01/51394 A1 presents such a device which applies an adhesive strip to a paper support. The application is done cold. Other devices of the same kind are described in document US-A-5 430 904.
• the decorative effects generally desired for hair are a total decoration of the hair or a decoration for locks, the term “decoration” covering in particular effects similar to large golden, silver, tanned, iridescent, colored surfaces, etc. implying or not printing effects of any shape (for example in the form of chevrons or others) by a transfer technique.
• AIMS OF THE INVENTION The present invention aims to obtain specific decoration effects for the hair by a simple and economical process, the technique being able to be implemented directly by the users without having to resort to a professional hairdresser.
• the adhesion of these decorative effects is sufficient for example for an evening, while being relatively easy to remove by washing or brushing.
• a hair decoration process' of applying to the hair one or more ribbons comprising a support in the form of a thin plastic film covered on its surface with a decorative element under the form of a deposit of material of different coloring than that of the hair, this decorative element itself being covered with an adhesive layer which can be activated by an appropriate means, for example by a technique combining the thermal and wet route such as surface steam treatment.
• activation by thermal means activation by wet means or any other technique allowing the user to transfer the decorative element to it. detaching from its support and transferring it to the hair where it adheres sufficiently. Activation can also result from a hairspray or the like previously applied to the hair.
• thermal activation of the adhesive layer temperature, duration and pressure. The specialist can easily determine the most appropriate operating conditions on the basis of a few simple preliminary tests by varying these three parameters, while respecting the integrity of the hair.
• the decorative effect can vary within wide limits.
• the decorative element may also, in a pattern, cover only part of the support or the adhesive layer may have been provided only locally in a pattern.
• the coloring materials proper are constituted by materials in the form of colored particles generally applied during the manufacture of the ribbon by coating or printing in the presence of an appropriate binder well known to the manufacturers of this type of ribbon and whose there are a large number of compositions.
• compositions of activatable adhesive substances in the circumstances recommended by the invention.
• Adhesives are also available at different fluidity ratings for use by the manufacturer.
• a suitable device for the use of tapes as described may consist of an unwinder for reel of tape combined with a means of applying the activation of the adhesive layer. This can be for example a heated rotary cylinder or a heated pad or a humidifier depending on the activation techniques described.
• the device may also include an assembly (kit) with a shoe clip 1, a hair clip (5) intended in particular to hang the tape 2 and the tape itself.
• kit with a shoe clip 1, a hair clip (5) intended in particular to hang the tape 2 and the tape itself.
• FIG. 4 represents an embodiment of an applicator device illustrated in a sectional view for this device and corresponding to FIG. 1.
• Figure 5 shows an example of a set (kit) of marking to create a decorative effect in the hair.
• Figures ' 6 to 13 show an example of different steps from the fixing of the hair clip intended in particular to hang the ribbon until obtaining the decorative effect on the lock of hair.
• a heating device consisting of two clamp shoes is brought near the hairline.
• a ribbon 2 consisting of a support covered with a decorative element obtained by sublimation, metallization, etc. as well as an adhesive layer, the latter facing the lock of hair.
• the heater is moved from the position of FIG. 1 to the position of FIG. 2.
• the arrows respectively illustrate the pressure and slip factors required in addition to the heat.
• the various pressure, slip and heat factors are sufficient to transfer under the effect of the activation of the adhesive layer of the decorative part to the lock of hair 3 by removing (see FIG. 3) the remaining part of the ribbon.
• FIG. 4 Another embodiment shown in Figure 4 operates according to the same technique, the difference being that the ribbon 2 is housed in the body of the heater 4.
• FIG. 9 An additional embodiment is shown in Figures 6 to 13.
• the user uses a marking assembly (kit) proposed by the invention comprising a hair clip 5 with fixing device for the tape 2, the heating clip 1 and the ribbon 2 itself.
• the hair clip 5 is fixed near the root of a wick to decorate 3 ( Figures 6 and 7).
• the wick is aligned using the comb 8 located on the heating tongs 1 ( Figure 8).
• the ribbon 2 intended to mark the lock is then attached to a device for fixing the hair clip (FIG. 9).
• the heating clip then successively pushes the ribbon 2 against the lock of hair 3 by exerting a pressure of a duration and at an adequate temperature to cause the marking of the lock 3 ( Figures 10 and 11).
• the heating clip preferably comprises a profile in the form of grooves 6 on the upper shoe and a resilient surface 7 on the shoe being in direct contact with the lock of hair.
• Figures 12 and 13 show the removal of the support from the decorative part of the ribbon and a realignment of the lock of hair 3 ( Figure 13).
• Heating device comprising a clamp with two pads

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• Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
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• Cleaning And Drying Hair (AREA)
• Adornments (AREA)
• Decoration Of Textiles (AREA)
• Decoration By Transfer Pictures (AREA)
• Cosmetics (AREA)
• Adhesives Or Adhesive Processes (AREA)

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