US1394943A - Hair-dressing appliance - Google Patents

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R. s. M. SCH ROEDER HAIR DRESSING APPLIANCE.

APPLICATION FILED MAYBI, 192i- Patented 00a 25, 1921..

UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

HAIR-DRESSING APPLIANCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 25, 1921.

Application filed May 31, 1921. Serial No. 473,579.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUTH SOPHIA MARIA SCHROEDER, a citizen of Sweden, with an application for U. S. citizenship pending, residing at Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have invented. certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-Dressing Appliances, of which the following is a specification.

Mv invention relates to toilet accessories and has particular reference to marcelling or waving the hair. Its object is to provide a forming device on which the strands or looks of hair may be set in curls, spirals or helical formations arranged in a plurality of intersecting planes, and together producing a pleasing wavy efiect that is distinguished from ordinary hair curling and attaining that variety in formations which has heretofore been accomplished more or less expensively with the aid of expert hair dressers. And the invention consists in the novel device hereinafter described in detail, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a front view of the upper portion of a womans figure showing my invention in use to produce one of a number of varieties of formations.

Fig. 2 is a side view of my device in operative size and with its parts in inactive or normal positions.

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the same parts in expanded and operative adjustment, including friction coverings.

Fig. 4 is an edge view of the parts set as in Fig. 3.

In the several views 2 represents the device as a whole, which may be made of any suitable material of the moderate degree of elasticity required for the purposes hereinafter shown, such as spring wire, celluloid and a variety of ornamental, non-corroding and non-rusting materials from which haircombs, and hair ornaments are made. My improvement is embodied in the form of substantially a cross with arms 3 and 4t joined by an arm 5 at right angles thereto and a pair'of arms, levers, spring-clamps or grips 6 and 7, formed by making ten sub stantially right angle bends whereby the arms 3, 4: and 5 are made double, U-shaped or in the form of expansible and contraotible 100 s as will appear by comparing Figs. 2 an 3. The first and the last bends-8 and -9are caused to cross each other in normal position and form an angle, which when closed, as in Figs. 1, 3 and 4: has expanded the loops 3, a and 5 and tightened them against the windings of hair thereupon, somewhat stretching the strands of hair in their curved condition so that when the de vice is removed or released that condition will be retained or preserved.

The legs or arms 6 and 7 have their tips bent in opposite directions to form lugs 10 and 11 on which are mounted balls or enlargements 12 and 13 which when crossed over each other together with the bends 10 and 11, form under the spring tension in the arms 6 and 7 a friction-grip hold or clasp adapted to hold the hair at the end of its windings. To produce, say, five alternating directions of curlings or windings the latter may begin, for instance, on the arm 4, then be crossed over diagonally to the arm 3, then after one or more windings on the latter be crossed over diagonally, at right angles to the first diagonal, to and on the arm 5 and finally wound on one of the arms 6 or 7 before the companion arms are brought to form a grip to hold the ends of said windings. The variations made by crossing from one arm to another and by the suggested diagonal crossings, may be'varied in an indefinite number of ways, the general effect always being, however, to make frequent breaks in the ordinary continuous curl strand. The latter may also be made on the present device by confining the windings to the alined arms 3 and l or 5 and 67. The parallel bars or runs of each of the arms 3, 4 and 5 are shown as straight, but are not necessarily confined to that simple form, the arms being adapted for curved and laterally expanded parts thereof for the purpose of producing a still greater variety of undulations.

In Figs. 3 and 4 the legs 6 and 7 are shown provided with friction coverings 14 and 15 to increase the friction-hold at the end of the windings, or that part of the latter which are held between said legs 6 and 7 in Fig. 1. The hair on the head of Fig. 1 is shown dressed with one of the varieties of wavy formations to be produced by the present invention. Large and small windings of straight curls in a single strand of curls will be produced and stretched or expanded by making the windings only on the arm 5 and one of the arms 6 and 7, only the larger ciroles or turns on the arm 5 being in the latter case expanded. Fig. 1 shows, for the sake of greater clearness, only one diagonal crossover instead of the two diagonal cross-overs at right angles to each other referred to.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent.

1. In a device of the class described, the combination with an expansible and contractible spring loop, of a pair of arms or levers normally in angular relation to each other which when brought together expand said loop, and means for holding together said arms or levers.

2. The combination with a plurality of expansible and contractible arms forming loops, of arms or levers inclined away from each other at their junction with said loops, said arms or levers when brought into substantially parallel relation expanding said loops, and means for holding said arms or levers in said relation.

3. The combination of a series of arms and levers forming substantially a cross and made of spring material into the form of U-shaped or loop-shaped arms terminating in said levers in angular relation to each other, and friction holding means von the ends of said levers for interlocking said ends.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name. 7 a

' RUTH S. M. SCHROEDER.

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