US2832356A - Art of hair curling - Google Patents

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April 29, 1958 R. cs. REED 2,832,356

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ART OF HAIR CURLING Filed May 23, 1957 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 ART OF HAIR CURLING Robert G. Reed, Marshfield Hills, Mass.

Application May 23, 1957, Serial No. 661,101 Claims. (Cl. 132-34) nited States Patent 0 2,832,356 Patented Apr. 29, 1958 2 Fig. 10 is a front view of the member with a unit attached thereto;

Fig. 11 is a similar view illustrating the catching of the ends of a tress in the member;

Fig. 12 is a like view illustrating a partly rolled tress, and

Fig. 13 is a view of a tress held against unrolling by the unit.

In the embodiment of the invention shown in the drawings, there is shown a rotatable member generally indicated at 10 and having a hub 11 and a pair of fingers 12 disposed in parallel with the axis of the member Ill and of a section that is ar-cuate with respect thereto.

. The fingers 12 are diametrically opposed to provide a pair of open-ended slots 13. A pin 14 is threaded into the hub 11 eccentrically thereof to lie in parallel with One particular objective is that of ensuring the better formation of curls by utilizing a sheet of separate wool fibres that are naturally curly and that naturally carry lanolin.

Another objective is that of providing a rotatable member and unit that enables the tresses to be quickly and easily formed into rolls and in which a further objective is that of providing a device by which the rollforming member may be rotated in either direction.

These objectives are attained by providing a rotatable member having fingers in parallel with the axis and arcuate with respect thereto. These fingers are spaced apart to enable a tress to be inserted therebetween, and they house an eccentric parallel pin which detachably receives the tubular part of a unit preferably carrying a sheet of individual wool fibres and elastic means by which, after a tress has been wound about the fingers and the rolled tress and the unit have been slipped therefrom, the tress may be held in its roll form during the interval required to ensure that the curls are fully enough formed.

A suitable device for rotating the member to wind hair therearound may conveniently comprise a shaft to which the member may be attached and which has a rack and pinion drive, with a spring in control thereof to provide a change in the direction of shaft rotation depending on whether the spring is being compressed or released.

In the accompanying drawings, there is shown an illustrative embodiment of the invention from which these and other of its objectives, novel features, and advantages will be readily apparent. In the drawings:

Fig. l is a side elevational view of a rotatable hair holding and curling member in accordance with the invention attached to a device for rotating it in either direction;

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the rotatable member on an increased scale;

Fig. 3 is a front'end view thereof;

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a unit for use with the member;

Fig. 5 is an elevation of the elastic;

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary plan view of the unit with the elastic secured thereto;

Fig. 7 is a side view of the member rotating device;

Figs. 8 and 9 are cross sections taken along the indicated lines 8-8 and 9-9, respectively, of Fig. 7;

said axis and partly within the segment defined by one of the fingers 12.

A unit, generally indicated at 15, consists of a tubular element 16, whose bore is dimensioned to receive the pin 14 so that the unit 15 may be quickly and easily attached to and removed from the member 10. The element 16 may be plastic and has a radially disposed, flexible rib 17 of substantial length to which are secured by one of their endsand in approximately side-by-side relationship;

a multiplicity of wool fibres thus to provide a wool sheet indicated at 18.

An elastic member 19 is shown as having an anchor 20 and an aperture 21 shaped and arranged to be caught in ribapertures 22 and 23, respectively. When the elastic 19 is thus attached to the unit 15, it is so tensioned as to be detachably secured with its release tab 24 exposed at one end of the unit 15.

With a unit 15 attached to the member 10, the user gathers a tress, suggested at 25, and places their ends transversely through the slots 13 of the member 10. The hairs of the tress 25 are spread relatively uniformly along the sheet 18 thus to ensure maximum contact with the wool fibres. The member 10 is then turned, in one direction or the other, to curl the tress 25 about the fingers 12. The unit 15 and the wound tress 25 are then slid together from the member 10. The user then disengages the tab end of the elastic 19 and pulls it over the wound tress and disposes its aperture 21 over the opposite end of the element 16 where it is caught in the annular groove 26. The wound tress is thus securely held during the curl-forming interval. It will be understood that when a wound tress is removed from the member 10, the unit 15 is replaced bya like unit, there being one used for each curl to be formed.

While the member 10 may be manually rotated to wind a tress thereabout, means for rotating the member 10 in either direction afford substantial advantages and the device, generally indicated at 27 and detailed in Figs. 7-9, is well adapted to meet all requirements.

The device 27 consists of body sections 28 and 29 interconnected as at 30 to rotatably support the shaft 31 with one end exposed for entry into the socket 32 in the hub 11 of the member 10 formed with keys 33 for entry into the shaft grooves 34, thus to provide a positive connection between the shaft and its hub.

The body sections 28 and 29 also rotatably support the shaft 35 with its axis at right angles to that of the shaft 31. The shaft 35 carries a pinion 36 and a bevel gear 37 meshing with the bevel gear 38 on the shaft 31.

An arm 39 is pivotally connected to the body sections as at 40, and it carries a rack 41 arcuate with respect to the pivoted connection 40. The rack 41 meshes with the pinion 36 and extends through the body with its free end having a transverse stop pin 42 thus to limit the extent to which the arm 39 may be swung away from the body by the U-shaped spring 43 shown as having human hair automatically set up a heating and curl-setting action, which, together with the natural oils in the wool, together with a tightening and curling eifect of my machine,preduces a quick and lasting hair-curling action.

From the foregoing it will be appreciated that the invention -makes possible the winding of tresses into rolls :withmaximum easeand convenience. The wound tresses result in attractive curls to the formation of which the intimate relation of the wool and human hairs makes an important contribution.

I claim:

1. An article of manufacture, constituting a hair curling unit, comprising a pin including an external longitudinal rib, an elastic element anchored at one end tosaid rib, and wool arranged as a sheet of separate fibres securedat one end to said rib, said other end of said element being in the form of a loop exposed at the other end of said element at one end of said sheet so that after a tress of hair is wound with the wool sheet around said pin it may be stretched lengthwise ofand over the wound tress and its loop passed over said pin.

2..An article of manufacture, constituting a hair curling unit, comprising a pin including an external longitudinal rib, an elastic element anchored at oneend of-said rib and having its other end in the form of a loop, and wool arranged as a sheet of separate fibres secured at one end to said rib, the loop end of said element being exposed at the other end of said sheet asaaese so that after a tress of hair is wound around said pin incontact with the wool fibres, said element may be stretched lengthwise and over the wound tress and its loop passed over said pin, the end of said pin receiving said looped end having an annular recess.

3. An article of manufacture, constituting a hair curling unit, comprising a pin including an external longitudinal rib, an elastic element anchored at one end of said rib and having its other end in the form of a loop, means detachably holding said loop end exposed at one end of said pin, wool arranged as a sheet of separate fibres each secured at one end to said rib, and adapted to be woundin association with a tuft of hair to be curled about said pin.

4. A hair curler comprising a rotatable hub including a pair of opposed fingers extending in parallel with the axis of rotation and of a section arcuate with respect thereto, and an element comprising woolarranged as a sheet of separate fibres joined at one end detachably and eccentrically connected'to said hub and extending outwardly between said fingers.

5. -A hair curler comprising a rotatable hub including a pair of opposed fingers extending in parallel with the axis of rotation and of a section arcuate with respect thereto, anelement comprising a member whose length is approximately equal to'the length of said fingers and which is detachably and eccentrically connected to said hub, andwool arranged as a sheet of separate fibres joined at one end to said member.

References Cited'in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 519,189 Leonard May 1, 1894 563,785 Morley July 14, 1896 576,244 Williams Feb. 2, 1897 2,378,872 Stone June 19, 1945 2,606,564 'Butterfield Aug. 2, 1952

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