US2484050A

US2484050A - Combination curler and waver

Info

Publication number: US2484050A
Application number: US771895A
Authority: US
Inventors: Rivard Adelard Hormidas
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1947-09-03
Filing date: 1947-09-03
Publication date: 1949-10-11
Anticipated expiration: 1966-10-11

Description

Oct. 11, 1949.

A. H. RIVARD COMBINATION CURLER AND WAVER Filed Sept. 5, 1947* I N VEN TOR.

Adela m/H. 7-2 z'va: Mr

ATTCI RN EYS Patented Oct. 11, 949

. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE j2,4s4,050 I a COMBINATIQN CURLER WAVEB. Malaria Hormidas Rivard, Detroit, Mich. Application September 3, 1947, Serial No. 771,895

1 Claim. (01. 132-44) 1 My present invention relates generally to the plastic or of rubber, all of the aforementioned class of toiletry devices of the hair curling and materials having been used with equal success. waving typ and more specifically to an improved The end of the wave-form or tongue 2 may be combination curler and waver including a curling affixed to the mandrel in suitable manner, as by mandrel for the free ends of a strand of hair, fastening the end of the strap in the slotted taand a flexible and reversible waving form for the pered end 3 of the mandrel and firmly securing rooted portions of the strand, whereby the hand together the connected parts.

manipulated device may be utilized and fastened The wave-form or fiat flexible strap is provided in the hair to produce an outer set of artistic curls with a longitudinal series of spaced vent holes or and a similar set of waves nearer the scalp. perforations 3 to afford ventilation from within The combination curler and waver includes a the wrapped wave on the form, and the opposite minimum number of parts that may with facility side edges of the form are notched or scalloped, as be manufactured with low cost of production, and at 5 and e, to assist in retaining the wrapped hair the parts may be assembled with convenience, to On the form and holding the hai s in p ac a d constitute a device of this character that may be these two series of notches or serrations prefermanipulated with facility for artistic hair dressably terminate short of the free end of the form, mg to limit the width of the wave and permit the use The invention consists in certain novel features of the free end of the strap in attaching it to the of construction and combinations and arrangemandrel, as in Fig. 4. ments of parts as will hereinafter be described, n actual practice, after H po of e hair and more particularly set forth in the appended s been W pped about the mandrel to form a claim, curl, and the inner adjoining portion of the hair In the accompanying drawings I have illusas been Wrapped about the form to provide the trated a, complete example of a, physical embodiwave, the flexible and reversible strap is manipument of my invention in which the parts are comlated to form a loop as 7 in Fig- 4 and then the bined and arranged i accord t one mode 1 free end of the wave-form or strap is coupled or have devised for the practical application of the attached y a qu -detac able fastener to the principles of the invention. It will however be mandrel, for suspending a d etai ng the device understood that changes and alterations are con- Correct p n in the hair. templated and may be made in these exemplify- The flexible Wave-form, p, 01 on ue is reing drawings and mechanical structures, within versible for convenience in cu a d wav n the scope of my claim, without departing from the hair, and to this end a duplex or dual fastent principles f t invention, mg member is mounted on the mandrel for selec- Figure 1 is a plan view in extended shape of a 1Jive use by he free end of the wave-form. combined curler and waver in which my invention This dual fastener n ludes a buckle 8 fastened is embodied in or afiixed to a tapered end 9 of the mandrel, Figure 2 is an edge view of one of the devices. and a pair of buckling ops or soc e s H1 a d H, Figure 3 is a longitudinm Sectional View of t one at each side of the buckle, are selectively used device to receive the free end of the wave-form.

Figure 4 depicts the combination device in po- From this description, aken in connection with sition to form a curl and a Wave and as suspended my drawings, it W be ppar nt that the comin the hair; and Figure 5 is an end view showing binetien Curler and W v m y r ad ly be maniput dual fastening means fo t device lated for curling and waving the hair, and of In carrying out my invention I employ a 1. Course a number of the devices are utilized in a mg mandrel L of rubber or other suitable mate ha1rdressing operation; and further it will be aprial, preferably cylindrical in shape, about which paretlt that the devmes may be proquced in varithe free end of a strand or twist of hair is wound g SIZES and Shapes to t employed m the forms" to provide a curl, and to one end of the mandrel g z g m g a flexible flat plastic or spring metal strap 2 is o I 251 2 1 i gzg g g mver; 2 5 attached to form the wave-form about which the cure y e ers Patent is: or fii q of ham are wrapped to In a hair curler and wave former, the combinaprqvlde a wave adJPmmg the F The SPrap 2 tion which comprises a comparatively short cy- Whlch must be fiexlble t0 Permlt Its bendmg as lindrical mandrel about which hair is wrapped, a

shown in 4 is made of sp n m ta a suitable substantially flat wave form of flexible material 3 carried by and extended from one end of the said mandrel whereby the said wave form may be folded over either side of the mandrel, said wave form having a V-shaped outer end to facilitate inserting the end in holding means and having scallops in the edges, and also having perforations therethrough for providing ventilation from within with hair wrapped on said wave form, said wave form providing means for wrapping the roots of the hair adjacent the scalp, and a buckle including a plate with transverse straps on both sides thereof extended from the opposite end of the mandrel with the straps providing sockets positioned to receive the end of the wave form whereby the said wave form may be bent around in either direction and inserted in a socket on either side of the buckle plate and thereby tem- 10 Number porarlly held on either side of the curler by one of the said straps.

ADELARD HORMIDAS RIVARD.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS