US1352871A - Obson w - Google Patents

Description

0. W. BRENIZEH.

HAm CURLER.

APFLICATION FILED AUG-30,1919.

1,352,87 1 Patenteept. 14, 1921@ fig@ PATENTV OFFICE.

ORSON WQBRENIZ'ER, Oli" PHILADELPHIA, IPENNSYLVANIA.

To all/07mm t may concern Be it known thatl I, Orson` W. Baumann,

a citizenof the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county, of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, jhave invented certain `new and useful Improvements in HairCurlers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in hair curlers of the class, usually formed of a singlepiece of sheet metal, vwherein the curler comprises two arms having` normally diverging arms connected at their" adjacent ends and means to connect the free ends of the arms together whenV they are sprung toward each other, one arm being adapted to receive the hair to be curled and the arms being adapted to be sprung toward each other and their normally free (nds connected to confine the hair between them.

Hair curlers of this class have been objectionable because the flat sheet metal torn ing thev arm which received the hair has often cut the hair and because the connect ing means or the normally free ends of the arms has vnot been eiiective in holding the arms together at all times when in service.

One object of the invention is to overcome these objections, and a urther object thereof is to provide a stiff arm which will always remain straight for the reception of the hair while the other arm which is flexible may be bowed outwardly to accommodate the hair between them.

With the above and related objects in view, the invention consists in the novel construction and combinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention,

Figure l is a side view of a hair curler embodying my invention, showing the arms in the open position.

Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing the arms in the closed position when the curler is not in service.

Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the curler with the parts in the position shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a side view of the curler in service with hair upon one of the arms and the arms in the closed position confining the hair between them.

Fig. 5 is a transverse section through the curler, on line 55 of Fig. 2.

My im roved curler is preferably formed of a sing e piece of sheet metal, and, refer Specification of Letters Patent.

HAIR-CURLER.

Patented Sept. 14, 1920.

, `pplcation filed August 30, 1919. Serial No. 320,780. I

. ring to the drawings, it comprises two arms 2 and 3 which are connected at adjacent ends by a small bowed or loop portion 4. In the normal condition of the curler the arms 2 `and 3 diverge from their connected ends to present an open space between them, as shown in Fig. 1. y

The arm 2 is flatand flexible and, in the normal condition thereof it is bowed, as shown in Fig. rlhe arm 3 is stiii'ened by being shaped into concave-convex form in cross section, as clearly shown in Fig. 5, so

lthat it will always remain in the'straight condition shown in the drawings.

The free endo'f the flexible arm 2 has a hook 6 formed thereon which is adapted to embrace the free end of the stiil' arm 3 when the parts are in the position shown in the drawings, and the free end of the hook 6 is tapered or pointed so that it may enter the groove in the bottom of the stiff arm 3 and hold the free ends of the arms 2 and 3 together, as shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4. The free end of the stiff arm 3 is tapered to reduce the depth of the groove in the bottom thereof so that its free end may be readily passed into or from the hook 6 by pressing ythe free ends of the arms together and moving them laterally relatively to each other.

The operation of the curler is as "follows: The hair, illustrated at 7 in Fig. 4, to be curled is wrapped around the stili" arm 3 when the curler is in the open position shown in Fig. 1. The freeends of the arms 2 and 3 are then sprung toward each other, causing the flexible arm 2 to be bowed around the hair 7 while the stiff arm 3 remains straight, and the free end of the arm 3 is slipped into the hook 6 by a lateral movement of one or both of the arms relatively to each other. This done, the free ends of the arms are released and they are then held together by the engagement of the free end of the arm 3 with the hook 6 and the tendency of the parts to resume their normal position. When the arms 2 and 3 are thus held together, the side walls of the groove in the arm 3 prevent accidental lateral displacement of the arms from their engaging position; and the body of the hook 6, being opposite to the free end of the stiff arm 3, prevents accidental disengagement of the free ends of the arms by the widening of the space between them, and the consequent drawing of the body of the hook 6 toward the free end of the arm 3, The space be Y blefarmandfia stift arm, said arm-shavingtween the arms 2 and 3 is always widened by the outward bowing of the flexible arm 2, and, as a consequeneefnfthis,` .it is impossible to withdraw the free end of the arm 3 from the hook 6 by widening the space between the arms, the effect of this always being to draw the bodyxo'f .the hook `ftoward `or into engagement with the freeend of the arm 3. The resilient vqualities of the metal used in the curler are` such as toproducethe opera- A tions, hereinbefore described; and; the Inor- .f-

mal shape of therflexible arm 2 is such as to cause lit to'lie substantially iat 'against the connected adjacent endsand diverging fxiom their vconnected ends,Y the stiff'- arm causing the flexible arm to be bowed when hair is placed between the arms and the free ends of the arms are forcedtoward each other, and means for Connecting the free ends of said arms together when they are sprung toward 'each other.

Y 2. vA hair curler formed of a single piece of spring metal and comprising a flat flexible arm and an arm bent into concavo convex form in cross section to render it stiller .than the flexible arm, said arms hairing connected adjacent ends and ydivergng v from their connected ends, the :stiff arm vcausing the leXible arm tovbe bowed when 4, hair is placed between the arms andthe free ends -of the arms arev forced toward each other, and a hook formed on the freeend-of the flexible arm and adapted tofembracerthe free end of-.thestif arm and thereby be pre- Vented from being disengaged therefrom by the outward bowing of the `flexible arm. Y

In 'testimony .whereof I aix my signature hereto. Y

ORSON W. BREN'IZ'ER.

Images