Patent GB-403704-A (GB)
Title: Hair-waving apparatus
IPC: A45D1/18
Filed: 1932-04-23
Abstract: 403,704. Hair waving appliances ; combs. ARTEMIS, E., Ferlach, Carinthia, Austria. April 23, 1932, No. 11771. Convention date, May 8, 1931. [Class 131.] A comb-like appliance for waving the hair in two planes at right angles to one another comprises a stacking of similar annular elements 3 attached to a handle 1, each of these elements being provided with a toothlike projection 5 so that a comb is formed along the stacking at one point of its circumference, a curling tube 16 which is both slidably and rotatably mounted within the stacking with considerable clearance and is provided with equally spaced and partly encircling ridges 17, a rod-shaped electric heater 12 within the curling tube, and an inner rotatable comb disposed in the space between the curling tube and the stacking and consisting of a rod 25 provided with teeth 26 having hookshaped ends 27. The annular elements 3 are provided with outwardly-extending lugs 4, of greater thickness than the elements, which are secured together by rods 10. The elements 3 may each be provided, as shown, with a single tangential tooth 5, with a pair of oppositelydirected tangential teeth, or with a single radial tooth. The handle 1 is formed with an extension 1a bearing against a ring 2 at the inner end of the stacking and provided with a screwed liner 20, the outer flanged end 20a of which bears against a shoulder on the end element of the stacking so that the handle 1 can be rotated relatively to the stacking. The inner end of the rod 25 of the inner comb is mounted on the inwardly directed flange 24 of a sleeve 23 rotatably and axially movable within the liner 20, and its outer end is attached to a spring-loaded disk 28. The curling tube 16 and the inner comb are rotatable simultaneously through substantially an angle of 180‹ by a pin 46 which passes through a transverse slot 43 in the extension 1a and the liner 20, is screwed into the sleeve 23, and is provided with a reduced end engaging a longitudinal slot 16a in the curling tube 16. The slot 43 is provided with oppositely-directed offset notches 44, 45. The curling tube 16 is also adapted to be moved axially, independently of the inner comb, by a pin 35 which passes through longitudinal slots 38, 37 in the extension 1a and the sleeve 23 respectively, and engages a ring 19 rotatably mounted between flanges 18 on the end of the curling tube. The slot 38 is provided with offset notches 39, 40, 41 at the centre and the two ends respectively. In operation, the pin 46 is first engaged in the notch 44 to move the inner comb longitudinally against the pressure of the spring 29 so that the hooks 27 of the teeth 26 of the inner comb are moved clear of the gaps between the elements 3, and the teeth 5 are then passed into the hair. The pin 46 is next returned to the slot 43, thus engaging the hooks 27 with the hair, and is then moved along the slot 43 into the notch 45 to rotate both the curling tube 16 and the inner comb, during which movement the hair is carried round by the hooks and enters the grooves between the ridges 17, with the result that the hair is waved in a plane at right angles to the length of the device. The curling tube is then moved longitudinally by the pin 35, when the hair is carried along by the ridges 17 thus forming a second wave at right angles to the first. The pin 46 is now moved back along the slot 43, when the hair is carried round by the ends 17a of the ridges 17, thus producing a third wave. The hair is then released by reversing the series of movements, and the operation is repeated along the length of the hair. The appliance may also be used to curl short hair by engaging the hooks 27 with the hair, holding the stack of element 3, and rotating the handle 1 to wind the hair about the tube 16. The Specification, as open to inspection under Sect. 91, describes a screw and nut device for moving the curling tube axially, and also a simpler form of the appliance which is adapted to produce waves in one plane only, the curling tube being omitted and the rod of the inner tube, which is provided with two opposed sets of hook-shaped teeth, being rotatably mounted about the rod-shaped electric heater. The hair may be dried by combing with either form of the appliance with the heater in operation. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.