An Improved Appliance for Waving Hair.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Waving Hair.
I, WILLIAM WATSON, of Market Square, Lancaster, Hairdresser, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
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My invention relates to an improved hair waver of the kind in which the hair
is passed alternately under and over the pins or members of the waving appliance.
One of the chief objections to the appliances heretofore in use for waving ladies'
hair consists in their being manufactured of metal or an alloy which renders them
liable to corrosion by contact with secretion's from the head and hair.
They are also made only of one uniform size although the locks of hair requiring
to be waved vary greatly in length and thickness. Moreover not being of curved
shape they do not lie closely and comfortably against the head.
The object of my invention is to obviate these disadvantages and further to
provide a hair waver having a fastening device which effectively retains the hair
in position thereon and at the same time serves as a guard or protector to cover
the points or extremities thereof.
The improved waving appliance constructed according to my invention consists
of two or more pins or members connected together at one end but open or separate
at the other. These connected members may be made in a single piece or in a
number of sections suitably secured together. They are composed of some sub-
stance other than metal which nevertheless possesses the requisite degree of
resiliency. I prefer to employ whalebone vulcanite or ebonite for this purpose.
One of the features of my invention consists in making these pins or members
of curved shape so that they may conform to the shape of the head and thereby
minimize the discomfort of the wearer.
For retaining the hair in position when it has been woven upon the pins I
employ a securing device composed of rigidly connected caps so arranged that they
can be slipped over the extremities of the pins or members thereby holding them
firmly and serving as a guard or protector upon their points.
I cause my improved appliances to be manufactured in various sizes appropriate
to the waving of tresses differing in length and thickness.

page_text: I, WILLIAM WATSON, of Market Square, Lancaster, Hairdresser, 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:
My invention relates to an improved hair waver of the kind in which the hair
is passed alternately under and over the pins or members of the waver.
One of the chief objections to the hair waving appliances heretofore in use for
waving ladies' hair consists in their being manufactured of metal or an alloy
which renders them liable to corrosion by contact with secretions from the head
and hair.
They are also made of one uniform size although the locks of hair requiring to
be waved vary greatly in length and thickness. Moreover not being of curved
shane they do not lie closely and comfortably against the head.
The object of my invention is to obviate these disadvantages and further to
provide a hair waver having a fastening device which effectually retains the hair
in position thereon and at the same time serves as a guard or protector to cover
the points or extremities thereof.
The improved hair waver constructed according to my invention comprises two
or more pins or members connected together at one end but open or separate at
the other. These connected members may be made in a single piece or in sections
suitably secured together. They are composed of some substance other than metal
which nevertheless possesses the requisite degree of resiliency. I prefer to employ
whalebone vulcanite or ebonite for this purpose.
One of the features of my invention consists in making these pins or members
of curved shape so that they may conform to the shape of the head and thereby
prevent discomfort. to the wearer.
For retaining the hair in position when it has been woven or plaited upon or
twisted around the pins I employ a securing device composed of caps coupled
together and so arranged that they can be slipped over the extremities of the pins
or members, thereby holding them firmly and serving as a guard or protector for
their points.
In order that my invention' may he clearly understood and readily carried into
effect I will proceed to describe the same more fully with reference to the
accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 is a view of the connected pins or members of my improved hair waver.
Figure 2 shows the aforesaid securing device separately.
Figure 3 is a view of the hair waver with the securing device in position on the
ends of the pins.
Figure 4 shows how the hair is twisted around and secured in position upon the
said waver.
a, a¹ are the two pins or members of the hair waver which are connected to ether
by the portion a². 6, 61, are the caps of the securing device which are connected
by a portion 62, and are adapted to firmly grip the extremities of the corresponding
members aa¹ when in position thereon as shown in Figure 3.
The hair having been twisted woven or plaited alternately under and over the
pins a a¹ in the usual manner, the securing device is slipped over the extremities
of the said pins and retains the hair in position as shown in Figure 4 until it is
desired to remove the waver.

page_text: I cause my improved wavers to be manufactured in various sizes appropriate
to the waving of tresses differing in length and thickness.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
A hair waving appliance comprising the curved connected pins and the securing
device substantially as described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 13th day of October 1897.
HASELTINE LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.