US2164623A

US2164623A - Hairpin holder

Info

Publication number: US2164623A
Application number: US184050A
Authority: US
Inventors: Alfred E Posner
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1938-01-08
Filing date: 1938-01-08
Publication date: 1939-07-04
Anticipated expiration: 1956-07-04

Description

Patented July 4, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Hamm HOLDER Alfred E. Posner, Dorchester, Mass.

Application January 8, 1938, Serial No. 184,050

1 Claim.

The present invention relates to a hair pin holder 'for holding a bunch of hair pins on the Awrist and is principally used for a hair dresser particularly in dressing hair.

It is common practice in many beauty parlors, for 'the hair dresser, either in waving or setting the hair to givethe patron a handful of hair pins, which the patron hands to the operator as they are needed. While this is unobjectionable in many respects, still it is not wholly desirable to have the patron do even this little part in the hair dressing. In some shops an assists aids in doing various things and also serves to hand the operator the hair pins When needed. However it is readily seen that this necessitates extra help. Attempts have been made to substitute other means for making hair pins readily available, but for the most part these have been cumbersome and actually do not save much time for even merely picking up the pins from a table or tray nearby the place where the operator is working.

In the present invention the applicant has overcome these objects in that the pins are not only readily picked up by the device on the operators wrist where it is placed but also they are readily removed by the operator in such a position that they may be applied easily to the hair.

In the present invention the operator uses a specic type of magnet which is shapedin a convenient fashion and which is applied to the wrist in such a way that the operator merely needs to place the wrist over the box or tray containing the hair pins which are readily picked up and in a position to be used immediately.

In the present invention it is assumed that the hair pins used are made of magnetic material, that is material which is responsive to magnetic ilux so that they may be picked up by a magnet. Magnets for picking up articles are of course not new, but the present invention resides in the specific construction of the article of manufacture which makes the device particularly useful in the present application.

Other merits and advantages of the present invention will be more clearly understood from the description and drawing annexed to the present specification, in which:

Figure 1 shows a plan view of the device.

Figure 2 shows a section on the line 2-2 of Figure 1, and

Figure 3 shows a detail of the shape of the magnet used in the invention.

In the gures there is used a magnet I of the permanent magnet type indicated in Figure 3 which has .a substantial semi-circular outer contour and an inner contour oi' a horse-shoe shape forming two

poles

2 and 3 across which the hair (o1. ris-.367)

pins may be held. In fact it will be noted that the magnet faces 2 and 3 are sufilciently far apart so that the pins will be held not only across the

end pole elements

2 and 3 but also across the

prongs

4 and 5. This is accomplished by having the space between the pole faces 2 and 3 substantially the same width as that across the

prongs

4 and 5. A band of non magnetic metal such as copper or the like extends around the end of the magnet from one side to the other side as indicated in Figure l and Figure 2 by the numeral 6. This band is substantially U shaped in section and has as indicated in Figure 1 a face of a disc or plate shape as indicated by 1 in Figure 1 which covers the entire opening in the center of the magnet and extends substantially over the sides oi the magnet holding in place on one side the wrist strap 8 of leather or other material, which is likewise larger in area where it is held to the magnet as shown at 9 in Figure 1. A screw 20 i0 or other similar means is used to clamp the two plate members 1 of the band together and hold the leather strap tightly in place against the magnet. In this way the magnet is entirelycovered and oiers no place for the pins to catch and prevent their easy removal.

In the operation oi the device. the operator has the article applied to his wrist like a wrist watch. He dips his wrist into the pin tray and the pins lay on flat on the magnet across from pole to 30 pole or prong to prong in .generally the same direction. The operator removes them by merely plucking them off oi the holder, the top ones being plucked off iirst .until they all are used up.

If the pins in the tray are all faced in the same direction, they will be picked up in the same manner by the magnet and the operator therefore does not need to look at the holder or the pins as he takes them in his hands. A suftlcient number oi' pins may be picked up at once so that the operator is not compelled to reach to the tray but very few times even during a type of hair dressing in which a. great many pins are used.

Having now described my invention, I claim:

Means for holding hair pins comprising a horse shoe magnet, a non magnetic member having two opposed plates positioned over the inner periphery ofthe horse shoe substantially covering the same with a portion extending around the open end of the horse shoe substantially in line with the pole faces of the horse shoe magnet and joined to the said plates, a strap inserted between .the iace of the horse shoe magnet and one ot ALFRED E. POSNR.