US1653841A - Hair-waving pad - Google Patents

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Dec. 27, 1927. 1,653,841

H. W. CARLOUGH HAIR WAVING PAD Filed June 28. 1926 INVENTOR wm ifi ATTORNEY ilar structures now on the market in that.

Patented Dec. 27, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT oFFicE.

HOWABD W CABLOUGH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOB TO KEEN WAVING GOKPANY, INCORPORATED, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK. i

HAIR-WAVEG- PAD.

The invention relates in general to an improved form of combination pad for use in treating and protecting the hair While practising the art of permanent hair waving, which pads are commonly lniown as steam pads and the invention also relates to a method for using such pads.

In the art of permanent hair waving on a persons head, it is a usual practise to wrap a strand of hair A on a rod B; to protect the coiled hair with certain substances usually amixture of saline powders hereinafter referred to as a hair treating material and which material is most conveniently contained in a prepared pad known as a steampad., The coil ofhair thus protected by the steam pad is wetted, inserted in a tubular electric heater and subjected to a steaming "process. In accordance with the present practise, it is usualto wet the pad containing the hair treating material but difliculty has been experienced in preventing drippings from passing out of the heater and as these drippings become quite hot as the waving operation progresses there is danger of burning the head of the person whose hair is being waved.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a form of steam pad which will have all of the advantages inherent in simit can be formed as an envelope containing a-layer of material saturated with the hair treating substance and which will have the additional advantage of preventing drippings from the wetted material or incidental steam condensates from passing out of the heater on to the scalp of the person.

Broadly, this object is attained, first by providin so that t e cover sheet, which subsequently forms the envelop, can be held out of the water or lotion used for wetting the interior material containing sheet and, second, by the positioning of an absorbent pad or layer at the end of the pad which when in position forms the end part of the tube disposed adjacent the persons head.

Various other objects and advantages of v a booklike form of pad arranged the invention will be obvious from a cons deration of the referred method of practising the invention hereinafter described and from an inspection of the accompanying drawings and in part will be more fully set forth in the following particular description of one method and of one'form of apparatus for practising the method'and the invention also consists in certain new and novel operations and features of construc-- Fig. 3 is a perspective view with the pad in use on a coil ofhair and with parts of the tube formed of the pad shown in Figs. 1 and 2 broken away to show the rolled construction.

In the following description and in the claims, parts will be identified by specific names for convenience of expression but they are intended to be as generic in their application to similar parts as the art will permit.

The pad as particularly shown in Figs. 1 and 2 comprises one or more flexible layers of material, preferably cotton, assembled into a sheet 10 and im regnated with or containing compositions or treating the hair and which structure is of conventional and well known character. Positioned on one side of the sheet 10 when in the flat position shown in Fig. 1 is a rectangular sheet of paper 11, approximately twice the size of the area of the sheet 10 so as topro-- vide an extension or flap 12 projecting beyond one of the edges 13' of the sheet- 10.

The structure herein 'disclosed distin u-ishes from similar-structures in that the s eet-1 0 and along a medial line 16 thus permitting the dipping of the sheet into a bowl of water or other liquid without soakmg the paper envelop forming part. Whenwetted the paper sheet 11 is bent in reverse direction along the line 16 and into engagement with the wetted sheet 10 to form a pad resembling conventional forms of such structures except tionally wetted 7 material 17 as particularly shown in Fi 1.

- that care is taken that the that the outer aper envelop is not intenfore the pad is rolled into tubular form about the hair coil A.

Secured along the side of the paper to which the sheet 10 is secured is a strip of absorbent material referably cotton flannel 17. This is secured by means of a line of stitching 18 and is preferably disposed so as to extend slightly beyond the adjacent edge of the paper. It will be noted that in wetting the sheet'lO, the absorbent layer 17 was held out of engagement with the wetting material and in this way the dry absorbent v Help 17 is available and in condition to receive any surplus drip which may pass oil. the sheet 10 when the device is in use. It is herein su gested that the absorbent'material 17. an the sheet 10 be designed and positioned so that they overlap for a shortdistance when in use. This arrangement has a tendency to dry the sheet 10 along the edge 19 when in engagement with the absorbent The pad thus disclosed .and with the flap 12 engaging the adjacent side of the wetted sheet 10 is wrapped about the coiled hair .A as is usual in the use of such pads except end provided with absorbent material 17 be disposed adjacent the head of the person whose hair is being waved. When so positioned, a heater .C is positioned on the tube formed by the pad and the hair waving operation is performed as is usual in this art.

By means of a device of the class described, it is ossible to thoroughly saturate the part of t e ad which contains the hair treating material without soaking the paper envelop with resulting possibility of it de teriorating or tearing when an attempt is made to wrap' it about the coil of hair. When in position, the absorbent layer at the end of the tube has been found to be a sufiicient insurance against possibility of drip pings leaking off of the end of the pad adacent the persons head and there has thus been eliminated the possibility of accidentally burning the head of the person under treatment.

While I have shown and described, and b have pointed outin the annexed claims, certain novel features of my invention, it will be understood that various omissions, substitutions and changes in the form and details of the device illustrated and in its operation may be made by those skilled m t e art without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. A pad for use in covering a coil of banin practising the art of permanent hair waving comprising a sheetof paper adapted to be folded along a central line to formiopposite sides of an envelop, a layer of hair protecting material hingedly secured along one edge to the sheet of paper and along a line parallel to and adjacent said folding central line thereby to form in effect a book of three sheets comprising two outer paper sheets and an intermediate sheet.

2. A pad for use in permanent hair waving comprising an outer sheet, a layer of hair treating material secured along one edge to the sheet and otherwise free to swing away from the same whereby the layer may be wetted without wetting the sheet.

3. A pad for use in permanent hair waving comprising an outer paper sheet, a layer of hair treating material secured along one edge to the paper layer and otherwise free to swing away from the same whereby the layer may be wetted without wetting the paper layer and absorbent means carried by the paper layer adapted to engage one edge of the hair treating layer for absorbing any drip from the same when the pad is in use.

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4. A pad for use in ermanent hair wavmgcomprising a base ayer, a layer of hair treating material secured thereto and adapted to be wetted and a layer of absorbent material secured to the base layer and adapted to catch drip from the wet layer when the pad is in use.

5. A pad for use in hair waving comprising a layer of paper, a pad element carried by the paper layer and adapted to be swung away the pad element without wetting the paper and a layer of absorbent material secured to the paper at one edge thereof and adapted to be held therewith out of contact with the pad element while the same is being wetted. 6. a pad for use in hair waving comprismg a layer of paper, a pad element carried by the paper layer and adapted to beswung away from the same to permit wetting of the pad element without wetting the paper.

7 An article of manufacture constituting a fiat flexible pad adapted to be wrapped about a coil ofh air in the process of wav the hair, and compris' a layer of chemically treated material ida'pted to be wetted when pre ared for use, and a strip of flexile absor t, material for preventing dri from the pad while in use, said layer an from the same to permit wetting of strip being separable before the pad is applied to the hair whereby the strip of absorbent material may be temporarily re moved from the chemically treated layer while the latter is being wetted.

8. A pad for use in waving hair including means adapted to be Wetted, absorbent means for preventing drip from said pad while in use and means for securing said first two mentioned means to each other.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 14th day of June, A. D. 1926.

HOWARD W. CARLOUGH.

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