Improvements in Hair Curlers.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 9th Jan., 1890-Accepted, 1st Mar.,
1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hair Curlers.
JAMES GREGORY and JAMES GREGORY Junr. trading as James Gregory & Son
Fishing Tackle Manufacturers Trent Works, Hylton Street, Birmingham do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
Our invention consists of a piece of wire about 3 inches in length of any pliable
substance or material the centre of which is made thicker than the ends by paper,
pulp or any other substance suitable, the thick part being divided into two parts,
flat on the sides where they touch each other, and rounded on the outside. One part
is immovable being secured to the afore mentioned wire. The other part is also
fastened to wire of a much shorter length this latter part is hinged to the other part
by means of wrapping with silk, thread or any other material or may be secured by
metal. This is to allow the hair being placed between the two parts to start the curl,
when the two parts are brought together making a perfectly round curler. The
whole is covered with various shades of thread plaited or may be composition stamped
to represent hair. To prevent the thread from fraying at the ends of curler, they
are bound or wrapped with silk or thread same colour as curlers & varnished. We
reserve the right to use the rouni curler without being divided and using a metal
clip to take the hair under, which is joined to the curler by means of claws or
wrapping with silk.
Dated this 8th day of Auril 1889.
JAMES GREGORY.
JAMES GREGORY, JUNR.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hair Curlers.
We, JAMES GREGORY and JAMES GREGORY Junr. trading as James Gregory &
Son, Fishing Tackle Manufacturers, Trent Works, Hylton Street, Birmingham, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
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This invention has reference to what are known as Gregory's Patent Hair
Curlers" for curling natural or artificial hair which consist of a strip of flexible
substance usually covered by thread or other material and provided with a clip fixed
at one end to about the centre of the said strip. In using the said hair curlers the
ends of the hair are, as is well known, placed between the clip and the strip, the hair
is then rolled thereon and the ends of the strip bent back so as to prevent the hair
from coming loose.
The objects of this invention are to render the said strip more flexible and lasting in
woar and to enable a larger curl to be formed thereon and to render the said clip less
liable to become detached from the strip.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a side view of a hair curler constructed
according to this invention; Fig. 2 is a plan of the same; Figs. 3 and 4 shew the
internal parts. of the same, and Fig. 5 shews the clip of the same separately and
Fig. 6 is a separate view of the metal strip part of the same; Fig. 7 is a side-view,
Fig. 8 a top view, and Fig. 9 a view of the underside of another form of our improved
hair curler; Fig. 10. shews the strip of the same partly pulled to pieces to show the
interior, and Fig. 11 is a separate view of one of the paper strips of the same ;

page_text: Fig. 12 is a side view and Fig. 13 a top view of a further modification of our
invention.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
Figures of the drawing.
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Referring firstly more particularly to Figs. 1 to 6 both inclusive, A is the flexible
strip and B is the metal clip fixed at one end to one side of the strip A. The flexible
strip A consists of a piece of flat metal wire marked c about three inches in length or
it may be of any other pliable substance or material the centre of which has a bulge
or swell formed of paper, pulp or other suitable substance. In the example shown
this bulged part is formed from a taper strip of paper g (see Figs. 3 and 4) which
is rolled round the wire c the coils being glued or otherwise stuck together. The
wire c with its bulge fare covered with plaited thread or other suitable substance as
usual the ends of the curler being bound or wrapped with silk or thread and varnished
so as to prevent fraying. The metal clip B between which and the bulge the ends
of the hair are held to start the curl is preferably made of the form represented by
Fig. 5 where it will be seen to be provided with a shoulder at each side and near
one end, the part 2 beyond these shoulders is preferably cross grooved or otherwise
roughened. The clip B is secured to the strip c by wrapping silk or other material
round the part 2 and the strip c, or by the part 62 being woven in underneath
the covering of the curler. The shoulders 61 61 will then prevent the clip being
withdrawn.
In the example illustrated by Figs. 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 the metal clip B is
secured to the strip A in the usual manner by claws b which are folded down to the
other side of the strip and the strip A consists of a flat copper or other metal wire c as
in the examples illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 but having at each side a
strip of paper of the full width of the strip A these strips of paper being marked
respectively. The wire c and the paper strips d dare secured together by
the usual woven outer covering as in the example above described. A metal cup
or clipe is then closed on each end of the strip A as shewn so as to prevent the
ends of the outer covering fraying out.
In the example illustrated by Figs. 12 and 13 the bulged or thick part of the
curler is divided into two parts marked respectively ff which are flat at those
sides where they touch each other and rounded on the outside. The part fis
immovable being secured to the wire c as in the example illustrated by Figs. 1,
2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 but the other part f¹ has a short wire core inside one end of
which is secured to the wire c by means of wrapping with silk thread or any
other material or by any usual metal clip. The part 1 serves the same purpose as the
clip B the ends of the hair being held between it and the part to start the curl.
By forming the bulge or swell f on the flexible strip A in combination with
the clip B as above described we are enabled to form a larger curl than when
employing a parallel strip as heretofore and by using paper at each side of the
strip the same is rendered more pliable and lasting in wear.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. In a hair curler, and in combination, the flexible strip A having a central
bulge or swell and a clip B or f¹ fixed thereto for the purpose and substan-
tially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, and
by Figs. 12 and 13, of the accompanying drawing.
2. A hair curler consisting of the flexible strip A and the clip B fixed thereto
the said strip A being formed of a narrow flat wire or metal strip c and having
a central paper or other bulge which with the stripe is covered by the outer
woven covering which also secures the clip B to the strip A, substantially as
herein before described and illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 and by Figs. 12
and 13 of the accompanying drawing.

page_text: 3. In hair curlers of the kind herein referred to the improvements in securing
the clip to the flexible strip thereof consisting in forming shoulders 66 near one
end of the clip which engage with the outer woven covering for the purpose and
substantially as herein before set forth.
4. In hair curlers of the kind berein referred to, making the flexible strip thereof
on which the hair is rolled of a narrow wire or metal strip covered or partly
covered by paper underneath the outer woven covering substantially as herein--
before set forth.
5. A hair curler consisting of the flexible strip A and clip B fixed thereto the
said strip A being formed of a narrow flat wire or metal strip c between the
two strips of paper d'd which latter are surrounded by the outer woven covering
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by Figs. 7, 8, 9 and 10 of
the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 8th day of January 1800
JAMES GREGORY.
JAMES GREGORY, JUNR.