US1861972A - Head protector for hair waving - Google Patents

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June 7, 1932. METZ 1,861,972

HEAD PROTECTOR FOR HAIR WAVING Filed Dec. 26, 1931 Z IN ENTOR W vawi TTORNEY Patented June 7, 1932 UNITED STATES PAT E-NT- ounce JOHN METZ, OF HOLLIS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOB TO TI-IE NESTLE-LE 1VIUR COMPANY, OF

NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF OHIO j HEAD PROTECTOR FOR HAIR WAVING Application filed December 26, 1931. Serial No. 583,247.

In the art of permanent waving of growing hair on the head it is the universal practice to employ means for protecting the head in order to prevent excessive heat, aswell as heated vapors and hot liquid, which reaches the temperature of boiling-water, from reaching the scalp of the subject whose hair is being subjected to the waving process, in which it is customary to use electric-heaters for the coiled hair-strands, around which latter it is usual to wrap absorbent-material which is saturated with a lotion. My present invention relates to this class of head protectors and my improvements provide a simplified form of device, when its peculiar and novel functions are considered, and one that can be quickly handled and applied by the hair-waving operator.

One of the important advantages of my improved device is that while it is spring-actuated with a normal tendency to close into gripping relation with an interposed object, the spring-actuated means is housed within the device itself and does not present any ex traneous parts or projections which might interfere with the operators quick manipulation of the device, or would be liable to catch in the hair when being applied and removed from the hair. Another advantage possessed by the device, is that while its spring action normally tends to close the device in operative position, yet before applying it, it may be set and held in wide open position, ready to be easily snapped into gripping operative position when required, by manually squeezing the device. There are other advantages pos-' sessed by my device and which will appear from the detailed description and illustrations herein set forth.

I have illustrated a type of my improved device, in the accompanying drawing, wherein;

Figure 2, shows an enlarged viewof the parts shown in Fig. 1, the protector clip being in vertical cross-section on the plane indicated by line 22, in Fig. l.

Figure'3, shows a top-plan view of the protector clip in closed position of disuse.

Figure 4, shows an underside view of the protector clip in the position shown in Fig. 2, and in partial horizontal section, as indicated by line 44, in Fig. 2, and looking in the direction of the arrows in said Fig. 2.

' Figure 5, showsan underside view of the protector clip, asshown in Fig. 4, but in wideopen position and wit-h a portion of one clipmember being' broken away.

Figure 6, shows a perspective view of the coiled-spring detached.

Referring. to the drawing, in which like numerals of reference designate like parts throughout, 1 and 2, indicate a pair of duplicate clip members or plates which are hinged together at one end by means of the rivet 3, so that the members are relatively movable edgewise in order to close and open with respect to each other, in gripping and releas-' ing an interposed object. These members are made of suitable heat-insulating material,

such as bakelite, fibre or other well known materials adaptable for'this purpose, and

their peripheries are formed on similar extended arcs, 'so thatfwhenclosed in gripping positions, they together form a substantial circular outline. The inner edges of these members are indented or notched at their centers as indicated at 12 and 13, respectively, so that when the members are in gripping position on the hair-strand, they provide a circular opening 16, as indicated in Fig,

4; while in generaloutline kidney-shaped.

A circular recess or cavlty 4, is formed on the members are the inner face of the section or plate 1, at

one end thereof, and the recess is concentric with the pivot 3, which the recess surrounds. A circular raised part or boss 5, is formed,

at the center of the recess around the pivotal axis. A coiled spring 6, is seated in the recess i, with the central opening of the spring fitting around the boss 5. The respective ends of the spring are bent outwardly with respect to the plane of the coil and at right angles thereto, but in opposite directions, as indicated at 7 and 8, in Fig. 6. The prong or bent end 7, is anchored in a hole 10, in the bottom of the recess, as shown in Fig. 4, while the other prong 8, is fixed in a hole 11, in the face of the plate 2, as indicated in Fig. 2, and the construction and arrangement in such that the coiled-spring acts tonormally forcibly close the members into gripping positions and the force of the spring action is increased when the members are drawn .apart into wide open positions, as shown in Fig. 5, as such movement serves to pull the ends of the coiled-spring towards each other and thereby wind up the spring and increase its tension.

In order to limit the closing range of movement of the members 1 and 2, on each other and at a point beyond its gripping function, a stop 17, is arranged on the upper face of the member 2, so that it is engaged by the inner edge of the member 1, as indicated in Fig. 3.

In order to hold the clip members in wide open positions against the action of the spring, I provide friction means between the opposing faces of the two members, which comes into play when the members are opened widely. The means consists in a rounded projection or hump 18, on the inner face of, member 2, which moves or snaps into a rounded depression 19, formed on the inner face of member 1, and when these parts come together, the member are held open, as indicated in Fig. 5, thereby enabling the hairwaving operator to readily manipulate the device and to quickly place it in operative position, by merely squeezing the members together, whereupon it will be snapped by the spring into gripping position around the hairstrand 14, which is shown as wound on a curling rod 15. f

The pivot 3, being tubular in form, its ends are bent or swaged to provide external flanges which serve to rivet the members together, at the same time permitting them to be swung or turned on the pivot, with the necessary freedom of movement.

It will be noted that the spring-actuating means is completely housedwithin the protecting clip and that there are no external projections thereof; that the structure presents a smooth exterior except for the rounded and flat flanges of the hinge member 3, and the rounded stop and friction locking means.

I wish to be understood as not limiting my invention to the specific constructions herewith shown, as it is manifest that various modifications may be made in the several parts thereof, without, however, departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A head protecting clip comprising superimposed members connected together and relatively movable edgewise so as to close and open with respect to each other to grip and release an interposed object, and interior spring-actuated means tending normally to close said members into gripping positions and located between the opposing faces of said members and housed thereby.

2. A head protecting clip comprising superimposed members connected together and relatively movable edgewise so as to close and open with respect to each other to grip and release an interposed object, and a coiled spring interposed between said members with its respective ends attached to said respective members so that the spring is tensioned when said members are in open posi-. tions and tends to forcibly close said members into gripping positions. 7

3. A head protecting clip comprising superimposed members pivoted together and relatively movable edgewise so as to close and open with respect to each other to grip and release an interposed object, and a spring arranged between the opposing faces of said members and located around said pivotal axis, the respective ends of said spring being connected to the, said respective members and acting to normally close said members edgewise with respect to each other and to be under tension when said members are opened.

4. A head protecting clip consisting in superimposed sections connected together and relatively movable edgewise so as to close and open with respect to each other to grip and release an interposed object, the inner face of one of said sections being provided with a recess, a spring located within said recess and having one end connected with one of said sect-ions and the other with the other section so that the spring is put under tension when said sections are opened and acts to normally close said sections into gripping positions.

5. A head protecting clip consisting in superimposedmembers pivoted together and relatively movable edgewise so as to close and open with respect to each other to grip and release an interposed object, one of said members having a raised part extending around the pivotal axis, and a spring placed around said raised part, the respective ends of said spring being connected to said respective members and acting to normally close said members into gripping relation with each other and to be under tension when said members are opened.

6. A head protecting clip comprising superimposed members pivoted together and relatively movable edgewise so as to open and close with respect to each other to grip and release an interposed object, one of said members being provided with a recess and the other member being provided with a raised part of less width than said recess and takin into the same, and a spring located within said recess and around said raised part, the respective ends of said spring being connected to the respective members and acting to normally close said members into gripping relation with each other and to be under tension when said members are opened.

7. A head protecting clip comprising superimposed members pivoted together and relatively movable edgewise so as to close and open relatively to each other to grip and release an interposed object, one of said members being provided on its face with a recess surrounding the pivotal axis and the other member being provided on its inner face with a raised part surrounding said pivotal axis and projecting into said recess, and a spring arranged within said recess and around said raised part and having its respective ends connectedto said respective members so that the spring is tensioned when the members are opened and tends to forcibly close them into gripping positions.

8. A head protecting clip comprising superimposed members connected together and relatively movable edgewise so as to close and open with respect to each other to grip and release an interposed object, the inner face of one of said members being provided with a recess, and a coiled-spring located within said recess and having one end connected with one of said members and the ther with the other said member and tending normally to forcibly close said members into gripping positions.

9. A head protecting clip comprising superimposed members connected together and relatively movable edgewise so as to close and open-with respect to each other to grip and release an interposed object, spring-actuated means tending normally to close said members into gripping relation, and a stop located on one of said members and engaged by the other to limit the range of closing movement of said members.

10. A head protecting clip comprising superimposed members connected together and relatively movable edgewise so as to close and open with respect to each other to grip and release an interposed object, springactuated means tending normally to close said members into gripping relation, and friction means arranged between said members for holding said members in wide open positions against the action of said spring actuated means.

11. A head protecting clip comprising superimposed plates pivotally connected together at their ends by means of a member having its respective ends overturned or flanged to retain the plates together and said close the plates into gripping relation with respect to each other.

' JOHN METZ.

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