JP2003319815A - Hair holder - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hair holder which gives a pretty curl to a hair easily and surely. <P>SOLUTION: The hair holder is formed of a tubular body 2 which is constituted of a sheet 23 so that a hair bundle can be inserted therethrough from an opening part 21 in one end to an opening part 22 in the other. The tubular body 2 does not have elasticity substantially in the lengthwise direction. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a hair holder used as an auxiliary tool for winding a bundle of hair into a predetermined shape when curling hair with a perm or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a method of using a sheet to impart a curl to hair, for example, the means disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 11-14546 has been known for a long time. However, it was difficult to handle hair. Therefore, as a hair winding technique that enables easier handling of hair and easy handling of curls, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-192036 discloses a cylindrical hair winding tool and a hair winding method. Proposed. According to such a tubular hair winder, the hair bundle is much easier to handle, which is a great advantage. However, when the hair winder is formed into a tubular shape,
The deformation inevitably causes distortion in the inner and outer sheets. This distortion becomes more remarkable as the number of hair bundles inserted into the tubular hair holder increases and as the hair is made to have a wave with a large curvature. Further, if the product is subjected to a squeeze in a state where the distortion is not eliminated, a beautiful circular wave is not formed, and an uneven polygonal wave is formed.

[0003] WO 00/57744 discloses a tubular hair treatment device, which is composed of a mesh sheet and has elasticity in the longitudinal direction and the transverse direction, as an assisting tool when curling hair by a perm or the like. Have been described. According to this hair treatment device, the tubular portion is contracted in the longitudinal direction and stretched in the lateral direction, and then the hair bundle is inserted into the tubular portion to extend the tubular portion, and then the tubular portion is expanded. It is possible to curl the hair bundle by twisting the portion together with the hair bundle at a plurality of locations and then maintaining that state for a predetermined time. However, when this hair treatment device is used, when the tubular portion contracts when the hair bundle is inserted into or after the insertion of the hair bundle into the tubular portion, the hair tips become so-called reverse hair, or the hair tips have irregular ridges. However, there is a problem that a beautiful curl cannot be applied to the hair bundle.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a hair holder which can easily and surely give a beautiful curl to hair.

[0005]

As a result of various investigations, the inventors of the present invention have found that a tubular body having substantially no elasticity in the longitudinal direction, particularly the tubular body having a Taber stiffness of a specific value or less. It was found that the object can achieve the above object. The present invention has been made based on the above findings, and comprises a tubular body formed of a sheet so that a hair bundle can be inserted from an opening at one end toward an opening at the other end, and the tubular body is As a hair holder that does not substantially have elasticity in its longitudinal direction, and as a more preferable hair holder, a sheet of at least a semi-circumferential portion of the cross section of the tubular body has a length in the longitudinal direction of the tubular body. Further, the present invention provides the hair holder having a Taber stiffness of 0.4 mN · m or less.

[0006]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION A hair holder according to the present invention will be described below with reference to a preferred embodiment (first embodiment) shown in FIG.
2 and FIG. 2. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the hair holder 1 of the first embodiment has an opening 21 at one end.
So that the hair bundle 3 can be inserted toward the opening 22 at the other end,
The tubular body 2 is composed of the sheet 23. The tubular body 2 does not substantially have elasticity in the longitudinal direction, and the entire circumferential portion of the cross section of the tubular body 2. The sheet 23 has a Taber stiffness of 0.4 mN · m or less over the entire length in the longitudinal direction of the tubular body 2.

The hair holder 1 of the first embodiment will be described in detail below. In the hair holder 1 of the first embodiment,
The tubular body 2 has a linear cross section.
It has a flat shape formed by joining surfaces. In FIG. 1, for convenience, the tubular body 2 is shown in a state in which the opening is opened in a flat shape in which two arcuate surfaces are joined.
In addition, in the hair holder 1 of the first embodiment,
The surface has a Taber stiffness of 0.4 mN · m or less, and preferably 0.3 mN · m or less. When the Taber stiffness of the sheet 23 is more than 0.4 mN · m, when the hair bundle 3 is wound around the tubular body 2 in a manner described below, the tubular body 2 is smoothly wound. I can't
A beautiful curl cannot be given to the hair bundle 3.
The "Taber stiffness" in the hair holder of the present invention
Is the taper stiffness measured by the "stiffness test method" specified in JIS P8125.

In the hair holder 1 of the first embodiment,
As described above, the tubular body 2 does not substantially have elasticity in the longitudinal direction (vertical direction in FIG. 1). When the tubular body 2 has elasticity in the longitudinal direction, the size of the holder easily changes, and when the hair bundle 3 is inserted into the tubular portion 2 or in the inserted state, so-called reverse hair is formed. , It is easy for irregular hairs to be attached to the tips of hair. It should be noted that the phrase "substantially not stretchable in the longitudinal direction of the tubular body" means that the tubular body does not have stretchability in the longitudinal direction, but the tubular body is within the range of elastic deformation and the reverse hair is This means that the amount of elongation that does not occur may be indicated.

In the hair holder 1 of the first embodiment,
The tubular body 2 is formed by folding a single rectangular sheet 23 in two along the longitudinal direction and joining the side end portions 24, 24 along the longitudinal direction. Tubular body 2
Can be appropriately selected depending on the length of the hair, the place where the hair is to be stiffened, and the amount of the hair bundle to be inserted.

The Taber stiffness of the cylindrical body 2 is 0.
Various flexible materials are used as the sheet 23 of 4 mN · m or less, and examples thereof include non-woven fabric (polyethylene non-woven fabric, polyethylene terephthalate non-woven fabric, etc.), woven fabric, and porous or non-porous resin film (polyethylene film, polyethylene terephthalate). Film, etc.), paper, polymer material sheet, rubber sheet, resin net, or a composite of these. In this embodiment, a nonwoven fabric having a Taber stiffness of 0.4 mN · m or less and having permeability to a hair treatment agent for perm is used. The thickness of the sheet 23 is not particularly limited as long as the Taber stiffness is 0.4 mN · m or less, but preferably 5 μm to 5 μm.
It is 00 μm. The Taber stiffness and thickness of the sheet are
It is preferable that the entire sheet is uniform.

FIG. 2 shows the evaluation results of the tubular bodies formed by using various flexible materials having the Taber stiffness values shown in FIG. 2 respectively. Each of the tubular bodies used for this evaluation has the same configuration as the tubular body in the hair holder of the first embodiment described above.
PE with a Taber stiffness of 0.4 mN / m or less
(Polyethylene) Nonwoven fabric (Polyethylene), LPD
E (low density polyethylene film) film or P
The tubular bodies formed of ET (polyethylene terephthalate) non-woven fabric were able to be wound into a clean circle. On the other hand, the Taber stiffness is 0.4 mN / m
According to the tubular body formed from the PET non-woven fabric or the copy paper, which is super, it cannot be wound in a circular shape. In addition, a tubular body formed of latex gloves, stockings (two pieces stacked) and a net for souvenir mandarin orange, which has a Taber stiffness of 0.4 mN / m or less, is also a flexible material. The same evaluation as that of the tubular body formed from was obtained.

Next, as one mode of use of the first embodiment of the hair holder of the present invention, a case of directly curling hair (head hair) by a perm treatment will be described with reference to FIG. First, according to the amount of the hair bundle 3 and the curl shape to be obtained, a hair holder 1 composed of a tubular body 2 having an appropriate Taber stiffness, length and width is used, and FIG.
As shown in, the opening 21 at one end of the tubular body 2 is opened in an elliptical shape, and the hair bundle 3 is inserted from the opening 21. Then, as shown in FIG. 3 (b), until the tip of the hair bundle 3 slightly protrudes from the opening 22 at the other end of the tubular body 2,
The tubular body 2 is inserted. After inserting the hair bundle 3 into the tubular body 2, as shown in FIGS. The hair bundle 3 is wound with a winding diameter, and the wound state of the hair bundle 3 is maintained by using a known fixing means such as a clip (not shown). After that, the hair treatment agent for perm is applied to the hair bundle 3 from the outside of the tubular body 2. After a predetermined time, the hair bundle 3 is removed from the tubular body 2 and the hair is washed to complete the perm treatment. When inserting the hair bundle 3 through the opening 21 of the tubular body 2, it is easier to smoothly insert the hair bundle 3 by opening the opening 21 in a perfect circle shape, if necessary. In addition, it is not always necessary that the tip of the hair bundle 3 protrudes from the opening 22 at the other end of the tubular body 2.

When the hair holder 3 of the present embodiment is used to wind the hair bundle 3, in the hair holder 1 of the present embodiment, the sheet 23 constituting the tubular body 2 has a predetermined Taber stiffness. Therefore, the tubular body 2 having the hair bundle 3 inserted therein can be smoothly wound without forming an irregular shape, and the tubular body 2 does not substantially have elasticity. When the hair bundle 3 is inserted into the tubular body 2 or in the inserted state, the tubular body 2 does not expand, and it is unlikely that reverse hair or irregular irregularity of hair tips occurs. Therefore, according to the hair holder 1 of the present embodiment, it is possible to easily and surely give a beautiful curl to the hair.

Next, another embodiment of the hair holder of the present invention will be described. For these embodiments, first
Only the points different from the embodiment will be described, and the description about the first embodiment will be applied to the points not particularly described.

In the hair holder 1 of the second embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, the tubular body 2 has two rectangular sheets 23A,
23B is formed by joining the side end portions 24, 24 along the longitudinal direction thereof, and the Taber stiffness of one of the sheets 23A is 0.4 mN · m or less. If the Taber stiffness of one sheet 23A is 0.4 mN · m or less, the Taber stiffness of the other sheet 23B is 0.
It may be 4 mN · m or less or more than 0.4 mN · m. When the Taber stiffness is more than 0.4 mN · m, the Taber stiffness is preferably 20 mN · m or less. In the second embodiment, the other sheet 23B has a Taber stiffness of 2 to 5 mN · m.

According to the hair holder 1 of the second embodiment, like the hair holder of the first embodiment, it is possible to easily and surely apply a beautiful curl to the hair. When the hair bundle 3 is wound using the hair holder 1 of the second embodiment, it is better to place the sheet 23A having a low Taber stiffness inside. If the tubular body is a tubular body that does not expand and contract as a whole and the sheet itself is an elastic sheet, either may be placed inside.

In the hair holder 1 of the third embodiment, as shown in FIG. 5, the tubular body 2 is formed by folding one elastic rectangular sheet 23 into two along its lengthwise direction. It is formed by joining the side end portions 24, 24 along the longitudinal direction thereof, and the joined side end portion 24 does not have elasticity. The sheet 23 has a lattice-like mesh structure, and the stretchability is realized by this mesh structure.
Then, in the tubular body 2, the mesh of the sheet 23 is arranged obliquely with respect to the longitudinal direction of the tubular body 2, but as described above, the side end portion 24 has elasticity. Therefore, the tubular body 2 as a whole does not substantially have elasticity. Further, in the hair holder 1 of the third embodiment,
The tubular body 2 is stretchable in the lateral direction (left-right direction in FIG. 5). When the tubular body 2 has elasticity in the lateral direction, when the hair bundle 3 is inserted into the opening 21 of the tubular portion 2, the opening 21 easily expands and the hair bundle 3 is easily inserted. . According to the hair holder 1 of the third embodiment, the first
Similar to the hair holder of the embodiment, it is possible to easily and surely apply a beautiful curl to hair.

In the hair holder 1 of the fourth embodiment, as shown in FIG. 6, a tubular body 2 has a rectangular sheet 23A having a lattice-like mesh structure and a rectangular sheet having no mesh or holes. The sheet 23B having a shape and the side end portion 2 along the longitudinal direction thereof.
It is formed by joining together 4, 24. Seat 23
A has elasticity in the longitudinal direction, but the sheet 23B has substantially no elasticity in the longitudinal direction, and therefore,
The tubular body 2 as a whole is not substantially stretchable. The sheet 23A has a Taber stiffness of 0.4 mN · m or less over the entire length in the longitudinal direction, and the sheet 23B has a Taber stiffness of 0.4 mN · m over the entire length in the longitudinal direction.
It's super. According to the hair holder 1 of the fourth embodiment, the tubular body 2 can be smoothly wound regardless of which of the sheet 23A and the sheet 23B is wound inside, and the hair can be easily and surely cleaned. Curl can be imparted.

The hair holder of the present invention is not limited to the embodiment described above, and can be appropriately modified as shown below, for example, without departing from the gist of the present invention. When the tubular body is flat, the Taber stiffness is 0.4 mN.
If the sheet of m or less occupies at least half of the cross section of the tubular body, the sheet may be arranged from one surface of the tubular body to the other surface. Further, the flat shape may be a shape formed by joining two surfaces in an arc shape. As long as the tubular body is not substantially stretchable as a whole, a part of the sheet forming the tubular body may be stretchable. In the third embodiment, the tubular body 2 is formed by folding one elastic sheet in two and joining the side ends thereof, but is formed of an elastic sheet. The tubular body can also be formed by joining the two side sheets together at their side end portions.

The tubular body is not particularly limited in its forming method, and may be formed by stitching, fusing or adhering sheets, or may be formed into a tubular shape from the beginning by extrusion molding or the like. In the first and second embodiments, a nonwoven fabric having permeability to the hair treatment agent for perms is used as the sheet forming the tubular body, but in the present invention, the tubular body is constructed. A liquid-impermeable sheet can be used as the sheet, and a chuck can be provided at the opening at the other end of the tubular body to close the opening. Further, a plastically deformable member may be joined to the sheet forming the tubular body in the longitudinal direction, and when the hair bundle is wound using the hair holder of such a configuration, the hair bundle inserted into the tubular body is inserted. It is possible to suppress the restoring force of. 1st to 4th
In the embodiment, both ends of the tubular body are open, but the tubular body may be provided with a means that is open at one end and can be closed at the other end. Furthermore, the different portions of the first to fourth embodiments may be appropriately changed or combined. The shape and surface condition of the sheet material forming the “cylindrical body” in the hair holder of the present invention may be any one capable of forming the cylindrical body of the above-described form, and in the case of “flat” The surface of the sheet material may be an uneven surface. Further, the “cylindrical body” in the hair holder of the present invention may have a divergent shape as shown in FIG. 7, and by doing so, the hair insertability can be improved.

Also, the method of using the hair holder of the present invention is
The hair holder of the first embodiment is not limited to the usage mode.
When winding the hair bundle, a rod may be used together as in the conventional case. When the perm treatment is performed using the hair holder in which the tubular body is made of a liquid-impermeable sheet, the hair treatment agent for perming may be injected from the opening of the tubular body. Further, the hair holder of the present invention is not limited to the case where curl is imparted to the hair by the perm treatment, but after the hair bundle is wound, it is heat-treated with a dryer or the like, or the dried hair is held in a wound state. It can also be applied to the case where curl is imparted to the hair by holding the wet hair in a wound state and naturally drying it. In addition to the case where curls are applied to the tip of the hair, the present invention can be applied to cases where the hair is curled in a wavy shape and where the hair is spirally curled.

[0022]

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION According to the hair holder of the present invention,
You can easily and surely give a beautiful curl

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a first embodiment of a hair holder according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a graph showing evaluation results of tubular bodies formed of various flexible materials.

[Fig. 3] Fig. 3 is a view showing a usage mode of the hair holder according to the first embodiment of the present invention, wherein (a), (b), (c) and (d) respectively show winding of a hair bundle. It is a perspective view showing a turn procedure one by one.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a second embodiment of the hair holder according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a third embodiment of the hair holder of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing a fourth embodiment of the hair holder according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing the outline of another embodiment of the hair holder according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 hair holder 2 tubular 21 and 22 openings 23,23A, 23B sheet 24 side edge 3 hair bundle

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A tubular body formed of a sheet so that a hair bundle can be inserted from an opening at one end toward an opening at the other end, and the tubular body is substantially stretchable in its longitudinal direction. Hair retainer that does not have the property. 2. The hair holder according to claim 1, wherein the sheet of at least a half circumference portion of the cross section of the tubular body has a Taber stiffness of 0.4 mN · m or less over the entire length in the longitudinal direction of the tubular body. Ingredient 3. The hair holder according to claim 1, wherein the tubular body is stretchable in the lateral direction. 4. The cylindrical body is formed by folding one sheet into two along the longitudinal direction and joining side ends along the longitudinal direction to each other. The hair holder according to any one of claims. 5. The tubular body is formed by joining two sheets together at their side end portions along the longitudinal direction,
The Taber stiffness of at least one of the sheets is 0.
The hair holder according to any one of claims 1 to 3, which has a viscosity of 4 mN · m or less. 6. The tubular body is formed by folding one stretchable sheet in two along its longitudinal direction and joining side ends along the longitudinal direction to each other. The hair holder according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the formed side end portion does not have elasticity. 7. A cylindrical body formed of a sheet is provided, which is provided with a means through which a hair bundle can be inserted through an opening portion at one end and a closure portion at the other end, and the cylindrical body extends in the longitudinal direction thereof. A hair holder that has substantially no elasticity.