US1788835A - Hairdressing article - Google Patents

Description

Jan*. 13, 1931. I... L. HURST 1,788,835

- mun DRESSING ARTICLE Filed Oct. 25; 1929 J; v 2 FIG. I. v 3 7 4 l 4 g I 7 6 5 I f FIG; 2. w 2 1 V FIG. 3. F'lG. 4.

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INVENTOR Patented Jan. 13, 1931 UNITED LILLIAN L.. miner, or sANaosn, CALIFORNIA.

HAIRDRESSING ARTICLE Application filed October 25, 1929. Serial No. 402,487.

My invention relates to improvements in a hair dressing article, and the primary object thereof is the provision of means for waving, curling, pressing and dressing hair that is efiicient, simple of structure, inexpensive to manufacture and readily applied, for the purposes mentioned, by the novice as well as by the professional.

With the foregoing and further objects Y and purposes in view which will appear as the description proceeds, my invention resides in the construction, arrangement and employment of parts hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the preciseembodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of What is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a bottom perspective view of the present hair dressing article;

Figure 2 is a perspective view of its upper side; o

Figure 3 is vice, closed;

Figure 4 is an edge view thereof, partly closed;

Figure 5 is a view approximately on line 55 of Fig. l; V i

Figure 6 is a medi an longitudinal sectional view a bottom plan View of the de- Figure 7 is a top plan view of a portion of the frame or rigid element of the device;

Figure 8 is a plan view of a portion of the tongue or resilient element; and V Figure 9 is a sectional view approximately i on line 9-9 of Fig; 7. V

Referringv to the drawings in detail, throughout which like reference characters designate like parts: r

The niimerals land 2 designate the frame element and tongue element, respectively, of the present hair dressing article. The frame element- 1,.which is preferably substantially non-flexible and for which purpose it is provided with upwardly projecting flanges 3 extending along its side edges, is bowed longitudinally and has its forward [end portion narrowed transversely, the ex tremity'thereof being doubled back to form a comparatively flat loop l, the function of which will become apparent as the description continues,and has its opposite end portion provided with a transversely extending slot 5 and portions of the element intermedi- 5 ate said slot and the terminus .ofsaid end portion doubled together (see Figs. 7 and 9) to forma bearing-6, more or less cylindrical in cross section, for rotatably supporting the looped end 7 of the tongue element 2.

The element 2, which is preferably formed of sheet spring steel to impart" thereto the proper resiliency, is also bowed or arcuated longitudinally, but which arcuation is considerably more acuteythan thearcuation or 5 bowing of its cooperable frame element 1, whereby when its looped end 7 is pivotally mounted on therbearing (Sand it is caused to bear against the lower sideof the frame .ele-

ment 1 at 8 its free end 9 will be in spaced ,70

relation to, the loop 4 (see Fig.4). V

The elements 1 and 2 are considered to be in closed position when the degree of ar'cuation of the tongue 2 is reduced to correspond substantially to the radius or arcuation of the lower side of the frame element by spring pressingit thereagainstuntil its free'endE) may be entered in the loop 4 (see Fig.6). The loop 5 is intended to have sufficient play on thebearing 6 to permit the free end' 9 of the tongue element 2 to be. moved transversely in' either direction relative to the frame element 1 (see brokenlines Fig. 3)

ino'rder to. permit it beinggentered in, or removed from, the'loop 4;. I

In applying my improved hair dressing article for the purposes set forth, the tongue element is slipped alongthe scalp [ofth'e subject underneath a selected divisionofthe 7 hair. v The framefelement l is then pressed down on said hairto pinch it tightlyjbetween said elements, the free end ofthe tongue element is then caused to enter and engage the loop 4 for temporarily lockingsaid elements together with the hair bound firmly therebetween. 'lj'he hair on either side of the device maythen-be combed out, waved,'puff,ed, or

treated or'dressed in any manner desired. Any number of thea'rticles, found des rable, may be employed for dressing the hair of a subject. The devices. may be removedat any time desired after dressing the hair, by disengaging the free end of the tongue element from the loop 4 and drawing the tongue from underneath the hair.

lVhat I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A'hair dressing article of the character described, comprising, a frame element, and a tongue element pivotally supported thereby, said frame element having upwardly pro-V jecting flanges extending longitudinally along the side edges thereof.

2. A hair dressing article of the character described, comprising, a frame element bowed upwardly longitudinally intermediate its ends and having upwardly projecting flanges on its side edges, and a cooperable flexible tongue element having one endpivoted on said frame element, said tongue element bowed longitudinally.

3. In a hair dressing article of the character described, a comparatively broadframe element arcuated longitudinally and having spaced flanges extending longitudinally thereof, and a relatively narrow resilient tongue element having one end pivoted to one end of said frame element, the free end of said tongue element being movable relative to said frame element for engaging it with a loop on one end of said frame element for removably locking registering ends of said elements together.

4. In a hair dressing article of the character described, a frame element formed of an oblong strip of flat metal and having an upwardly projecting flange extending longitudinally thereof, said element being arcuated longitudinally, and a tongue element formed of a relatively narrower oblong strip of 'r 'silient metal having one end formed into a loop for pivotally connecting it to one end of said frame element and whereby said tongue element may be rotated into bearing engagement with the lower side of said frame element.

- 5. In a hair dressing article of the char? one end pivotally mounted to rotate on a bearingon one end of said frame element,

1 whereby "said tongue element may be moved into operable position along the lower side of the frame element for binding hair therebetween, andmeans on the freeend of one of said elementsengageable with the free end of the other element for removably locking said free ends toge'ther.

In testimony of the foregoing being my own, I have hereunto affixed my signature this 14th day of October, 1929.

LILLIAN L. HUB-ST.

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