US1897246A - Hair device - Google Patents

Description

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HAIR DEVICE Filed Jan. 12, 1952 2 5 ari 4/ INVENTOR.

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Patented Feb. 14, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HEN RY EISLER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIG-NOR- TO EMETH FINANCIAL CORPORATION, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK HAIR DEVICE Application filed. January 12, 1932. Serial No. 586,125.

This invention relates to devices for dressing womens hair, and more particularly to improvements in devices of the type disclosed in my Patent No. 1,8445% of February 9, 1932, and adapted to support the hair at the back of the head in a neatly formed roll or uif. P It has been found that in the case of long or longbobbed hair, and especially in the state of transition from a short bob to a long one, women frequently experience considerable difficulty in so dressing the hair at the nape of the neck or back of the head as to prevent unsightly stray loose ends or scraggy locks.

My invention aims to overcome this ditficulty by the provision of a very simple and inexpensive device which may be worn in the hair to give it an attractively curled appearance, and it has for an object to provide an easily manipulated device comprising a resilient bow-shaped member and a pliable member between which the hair ends may be firmly and tightly clamped so as to facilitate the subsequent rolling of the hair on the device.

Other and further objects and advantages of my invention will appear from the following description thereof, it being understood that modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

The accompanying drawing illustrates a preferr d embodiment of the invention, in which Figure l is a plan view of the device;

Fig. 2 is an end elevation thereof;

Fig. 3 is a plan view showing the parts spread or opened for engagement in the hair; and.

Fig. at is an enlarged sectional View, partly broken away, taken on the line l4t of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing, 10 indicates an arcuate or bow-shaped resilient member made of celluloid or other suitable material. 11 is a pliable member somewhat longer than the resilient member and preferably composed of a pliable metal core 12 having a flexible covering 13 of rubber or fabric.

The member 11 is secured to member 10 at points adjacent the ends of the latter by rivets or other suitable fastening means 14. The extremities of the member 11 extend outwardly beyond the ends of member 10 to provide two pliable end portions 15 which are adapted to be bent inwardly to hold and secure the device in place in the hair in the manner described in my former application.

Relatively thin washers or spacers 16 are preferably inserted between the opposed faces of members 10 and 11 at their points of connection so as to slightly space the members apart at these points, as seen in Fig. 1, and thus prevent the hairs from being so tightly bound or clamped in the ends of the device as to be likely to be injured or torn out when removing the device from the hair.

The member 11 is capable of being conformed substantially to the curvature of the inner face of the arcuate member 10, as illustrated in Fig. 1, and in this position is held tightly in contact therewith by the resilient pressure of said arcuate member 10. In use, the resilient member 10' is flexed upwardly, in the direction of the arrows of Fig. 1, to permit of separation of said members. The pliable member 11 is then downwardly drawn to provide a space between the members as shown in Fig. 3, in which space the ends of the hair may be inserted. After the hair has been inserted the pliable member is moved or pushed back against the inner face of the arcuate member which is thereupon allowed to spring back to its normal arcuate form, indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 3, thereby firmly clamping and holding the ends of the hair in between said members.

The device is then turned or rotated axially to form the hair into a roll, whereupon the pliable ends are bent inwardly and under to fasten the device in the hair, it being understood that in use the device is intended to be worn in the hair to support the roll and to give the hair a neatly dressed appearance.

What I claim is:

.1. A hair device of the character described comprisin a bow-shaped resilient member of relatively %xed curvature, and a pliable member fastened to the bow-shaped member at points adjacent the ends of the latter, said pliable member being normally maintained in uxtaposed position along the curvature of said bow-shaped member and being readily separable therefrom by flexing said bowshaped member to decrease its curvature.

2. A hair device of the character described comprising a bow-shaped resilient member, of relatively fixed curvature, and a pliable member fastened to the'bow-shaped member at points adjacent the ends of the latter and capable of being conformed substantially to the curvature of the inner face thereof for clamping hair between the opposed faces of said members, when said resilient member is in its normal bowed shape, said members being readily separable when said bow-shaped member is flexed into a bow of decreased curvature. i

3. A hair device of the character described comprising a bow-shaped resilient member of relatively fixed curvature and a pliable member fastened to the bow-shaped member at points adjacent to the lends of the latter said pliable member being capable of being conformed substantially to the curvature of the inner face of the bow-shaped member and being held in engagement with said face by resilient pressure of said bow-shaped mem-' ber, said pllable member being readilysepar able from said bow-shaped member upon flexing the latter into a bow of decreased curvature.

4. A hair device of the character described compr sing a bow-shaped resilient member of relatively fixed curvature, and a pliable member fastened to the bow-shaped member at points adjacent to the ends of the latter, said pliable member having free end portions which extend outwardly beyond the ends of the bow-shaped member, the portion of the pliable member which extends between the points of attachment being adapted to be conformed substantially to the curvature of the inner face of the bow-shaped member and being held in engagement, with said face by."

resilient pressure of saidlbow-shaped memher, said pliable memberbeing readily separable from said bow-shaped member upon flexing the latter into a bow 'ofdecreased curvature; I 1

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York this 11th day of January, A. D. 1982; a

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