Improvements in Hair Curling, Crimping, or Waving Pins.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 24th Nov., 1894-4ccepted, 29th Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hair Curling, Crimping, or Waving Pins.
We EDWARD MORGAN GASKELL of No 50 Weaman Street Birmingham 'in
the County of Warwick. Commission Agent and SAMUEL LAWRENCE of
No. 1 Rhyl Place, Berners Street, Lozells near Birmingham aforesaid, Tool
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
The said invention consists in constructing and arranging or combining in the
manner hereinafter described the parts of hair curling crimping or waving pins.
A hair curling crimping or waving pin constructed according to the said invention
consists essentially of three light metallic bars or strips jointed together at one end
so that they may be opened from or closed upon one another in a manner resembling
the opening and closing of a fan.
For convenience of description we will call the three strips the upper the middle
and the lower strip respectively. The middle and lower strips are straight and
the upper strip which is somewhat longer than the other two is bent at each end at
right angles. The extreme end of one of the bent parts of the upper strip is
connected by means of a joint pin to one end of the middle and lower strips. The
other bent end of the upper strip is notched or slotted for the purpose hereinafter
described. The middle bar or strip is made preferably of cylindrical wire its ends
being flattened. The upper and lower bars or strips are made from sheet metal
and are trough shaped, the concave sides of the said bars being turned towards
each other. When the three light bars or strips are closed upon one another the
middle one occupies the trough of the lower one and the upper one which is
parallel to the others is at a short distance from them and the whole of the parts
thus closed upon one another constitute a rectangular loop or frame. When closed
upon one another the turned down end of the upper bar or strip covers and snaps
upon the free end of the lower one and the closed position of the parts is preserved
with sufficient force to prevent the accidental opening of the parts.
In using the pin hereinbefore described for curling hair the parts are opened out
and the ends of the hair to be curled are laid across the trough shaped lower bar.
The middle bar is shut down upon the hair, which is thereby forced into the trough
and gripped and held firmly. The bars thus holding the hair are then turned or
rotated so as to coil the hair upon them. When sufficient hair has thus been coiled
the upper bar is shut down upon the coil of hair and by the snapping herein-
before referred to of the turned down end of the said upper bar upon the end
of the lower bar the coiled hair is secured in position. By the application of a
gentle pressure to the turned down end of the upper bar it may be liberated
from the lower bar and the coil of hair liberated by turning the middle and
lower bar on which it is coiled. The curled hair may be crimped or waved by
combing and brushing.
Dated this 7th day of March 1894.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in Hair Curling, Crimping, or waving Fins.
We EDWARD MORGAN GASKELL, of No. 0 Weaman Street, Birmingham
in the County of Warwick, Commission Agent, and SAMUEL LAWRENCE, of
No. 1 Rhyl Place, Berners Street, Lozells, near Birmingham, aforesaid, Tool
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
The said invention consists in constructing and arranging or combining in the
manner hereinafter described the parts of hair curling, crimping or waving pins.
A hair curling, crimping or waving pin constructed according to the said invention
consists essentially of three light metallic bars or strips jointed together at one end
so that they may be opened from or closed upon one another in a manner resembling
the opening and closing of a fan.
For convenience of description we will call the three strips the upper, the
middle and the lower strip respectively. The middle and lower strips are straight
and the upper strip which is somewhat longer than the other two is bent at each
end at right angles. The extreme end of one of the bent parts of the upper strip
is connected by means of a joint pin to one end of the middle and lower strips.
The other bent end of the upper strip is notched or slotted for the purpose herein-
after described. The middle bar or strip is made preferably of cylindrical wire.
its ends being flattened. The upper and lower bars or strips are made from sheet
metal and are trough shaped, the concave sides of the said bars being turned
towards each other. When the three light bars or strips are closed upon one
another the middle one occupies the trough of the lower one and the upper one
which is parallel to the others is at a short distance from them and the whole of the
parts thus closed upon one other constitute a rectangular loop or frame. When
closed upon one another the turned down end of the upper bar or strip covers and
snaps upon the free end of the lower one and the closed. position of the
parts is preserved with sufficient force to prevent the accidental opening of
the parts.
In using the pin hereinbefore described for curling hair the parts are opened out
and the ends of the hair to be curled are laid across the trough shaped lower bar.
The middle bar is shut down upon the hair which is thereby forced into the
trough and gripped and held firmly. The bars thus holding the hair are then
turned or rotated so as to coil the hair upon them. When sufficient hair has thus
been coiled the upper bar is shut down upon the coil of hair and by the snapping
herein before referred to of the turned down end of the said upper bar upon the end
of the lower bar the coiled hair is secured in position. By the application of a
gentle pressure to the turned down end of the upper bar it may be liberated from
the lower bar and the coil of hair liberated by turning the middle and lower bars
on which it is coiled. The curled hair may be crimped or waved by combing and
brushing.
Instead of the lower bar snapping into the upper bar on the closing of the parts
together the engagement may be effected by the snapping of the middle bar into
the upper bar as hereinafter more particularly described.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in elevation a hair curling,
crimping or waving pin constructed according to the said invention, the parts
being opened out ready for use; Figure 2 represents the same closed; Figure 3 is
a cross section on the line x, x Figure 2 together with a portion of the same drawn
to a larger scale; Figures 4 and 5 are cross sections on the lines y, y and z, z
(Figure 2) respectively.

page_text: Figures 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 represent modifications hereinafter described.
The same letters, of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of
the drawing.
We will first describe the arrangement Figures 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
a is the upper bar, trough shaped in cross section, the ends a³, a³ of which are
bent at right angles to the longer part a.
To the bent end a² the middle bar and
lower bar c are jointed by the joint pin d. The middle bar b is preferably elliptical
in cross section and the lower bar c is trough shaped in cross section as will
be best seen by reference to Figure 5. Although we prefer to make the middle
and lower bars of the figure in cross section represented in Figure 5 yet we do not
limit ourselves thereto as the middle bar may be cylindrical as represented in
Figure 8; or the said middle and bottom bars b, c may be semi-cylindrical their flat
faces either meeting in a horizontal plane as represented in Figure 9 or in a
vertical plane as represented in Figure 10. The end of the bent part a³ of the
upper bar a is notched or has projections a, a on its inner face forming an elastic
seat in which the end of the middle bar bis sprung by pressure for the purpose of
fixing the parts of the curling pin in their closed positions.
Instead of the projections a, a for holding the parts in their closed positions,
the extreme end of the bent part a³ of the upper bar may be turned outwards as
represented in Figures 6 and 7 so as to form at its end a fork like elastic clip a³
for the middle bar to engage with for holding the said middle bar as will be best
understood by referring to the cross sectional part of Figure 7.
In using hair curling, crimping or waving pins made according to the said
invention the bottom and middle bars c, b are opened out as represented in Figures 1
and 6 and the ends of the hair to be curled are placed between the said bottom
and middle bars. The two bars are then closed together so as to grip the ends of
the hair between them and the closed bars are then turned so as to coil the hair
upon them. When a sufficient length of hair has been coiled on the said bars, the
upper bar a, a, a³ is closed upon them so as to secure the coil of hair upon the
said bottom and middle bars. When the hair has been kept in its coiled up
position for a sufficient length of time, the upper bar a, a² a³ is by gentle
outward pressure released from the middle bar and the hair is uncoiled and
liberated from the bottom and middle bars
C,
b.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that we claim
as the said invention ;-
The improvements in hair curling, crimping or waving pins hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing the said improvements
consisting in the combination of three light metallic bars hinged together at one
end and secured by a spring clip or snap fastening at the other end one of the
said bars being bent near its ends at right angles so as to constitute with the
two other bars, when closed, a rectangular frame substantially as described and
illustrated.
Dated the Twenty-third day of November 1894.
EDWARD MORGAN GASKELL.
SAMUEL LAWRENCE.