Patent GB-420168-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in means for winding hair around a curler preparatory to permanent waving
IPC: A45D6/02
Filed: 1933-05-27
Abstract: 420,168. Hair curling appliances. JACKSON, L. MELLERSH-, 28, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London.-(Beauty Utilities, Inc. ; 107, Beechwood Road, Summit, New Jersey, U.S.A.) May 27, 1933, No. 15411. [Class 131] An appliance for winding hair on a curler comprises a power-driven device adapted to be moved in a helical path about the curler and provided with means for gripping and tensioning the hair and pressing it against the curler. The appliance comprises a handle 130, Fig. 4, in which is rotatably mounted a barrel 70, Figs. 4 and 4a, provided with an internal helical groove 71 adapted to be engaged by a tooth 88 on a latch 89 pivotally mounted in a nut 90. The tooth 88 is normally held below the surface of the nut by a spring 92a, but is pushed out, to engage the groove 71, when the heel 97 of the latch 89 is engaged by the end of the curler 1, which is pushed over a pilot rod 81 fixed to the handle 130. The pilot rod 81 and the bores of the curler 1 and the nut 90 are of non-circular section so that the curler and the nut are prevented from rotating. The barrel 70 is rotated through a flexible shaft 100, a hand-operated clutch 121, 122, a pinion 118 on the clutch member 120 and a ring gear 101 which is keyed to a cylindrical member 110 attached to a block 105 secured to the barrel 70. The shaft 100 is rotated by a motor mounted in the base of a stand, from a pivoted arm on which the appliance is suspended by a cord attached to a counterweight sliding in the hollow vertical limb of the stand. The barrel 70 has attached thereto at its front end a head 16, Figs. 4a, 5, and 10, carrying a member 40 which tensions the hair and guides it to a presser foot 10 coacting with the curler 1. The guide member 40 is attached to the head 16 and has a hair guiding groove 41 formed therein, the mouth of the groove being provided with a row of comb teeth 65, Fig. 10. The flanges of the groove 41 are recessed to receive a tensioning roller 48 of sponge rubber carried by an arm 50 pivoted to the head 16, the roller being passed against the bottom of the groove by a spring-loaded plunger 55 which bears against the heel 56 of the arm 50. The roller 48 is journalled in a cradle 60 pivoted at 61 to the arm 50, a spring 62 being mounted between the front end of the cradle and the arm. The roller 48 may be replaced by a non-rotatable pad. The presser foot 10 comprises a hollow block provided with a face 11 shaped to press the hair against the curler, the foot being pivoted at 12 to one arm 13 of a lever 14 pivoted at 15 to the head 16. Springs 29 are situated between the arm 13 and the interior of the foot 10, in order that the foot may be selfaligning. The foot 10 is pressed against the curler by a spring-loaded plunger 20 acting on the heel 24 of the lever 14, but can be raised out of contact therewith by pressure on the arm 17 of the lever. A flat brush carried by a member swivelled to the foot 10 may be arranged to bear upon the hair as it is fed from the groove 41 to the curler beneath the face 11 of the foot 10. The hair may be covered by a binding 200, Fig. 5, of tape or the like as it is wound on the curler, the tape being supplied either from a reel mounted on the barrel 70, or from a package 340, Figs. 4 and 4a, of folded tape contained in an arcuate casing 347 attached to the barrel 70. The tape passes from the supply through a slot in a flange 202, Fig. 10, over a guide bar 205 attached to the foot 10, down through a slot 208 between the bar 205 and a plate 207, and up over the diagonal edge of the plate 207 to a groove 210 in the foot 10. The groove 210 is provided with a flange 211 at its outer end and with a wire guide finger 212, Fig. 5. A knife 215 co-operating with a ledger plate 216 is provided to sever the tape in the slot 210 when the winding is complete. The barrel 70 is provided with a pivoted curved guard 230, Figs. 4<a> and 10, beneath which the free end of the hair is placed until wound. In operation, the root of the tress is tied to the end of the curler 1, the presser foot 10 being temporarily elevated, and the barrel 70 is pushed over the curler, during which operation the curler is impaled on the pilot rod 81 and the nut 90 is pushed along the barrel. When the nut contacts with the end wall 98 of the barrel, the end of the curler enters the recess 96 in the nut, and the tooth 88 is forced into engagement with the groove 71. The roller 48 is next temporarily lifted, and the hair laid over the end of the curler and placed in the groove 41 of the guide 40, the end of the tape 200 being wound around the curler beneath the initial coil of the hair. The motor is then started, when the barrel 70, the presser foot 10 and guide 40 are moved in a helical path over the curler, which is held stationary by the pilot rod 81.