An Improved Fastener for Holding and Securing Ladies' Hair.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fastener for Holding and Securing Ladies' Hair.
WILLIAM FREDERICK PFAFF, 9, Waterloo Street, Weston-super-Mare, in the
County of Somerset, Hairdresser, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
An improved fastener for holding and securing ladies' hair, the said fastener
being constructed of extensible material such as celluloid, tortoise shell, vulcanite
and the like in such manner, that from a pointed end A it gradually enlarges
in the form of a spiral, of three or more curves B1, B2, 133, and terminates in
an end pointed and curved outwards C.
The fastener is used by inserting the outward point C into the hair and then
revolving it until the hair becomes tightly secured in the smaller curves.
24th February 1899.
An Improved Fastener for Holding and Securing Ladies' Hair.
WILLIAM FREDERICK PFAFF, Hairdresser, 9, Waterloo Street, Weston-super-
Mare, in the County of Somersetshire, do hereby declare the nature of this in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The object of my invention is the construction of three or more rings or
circumferences made into a spiral form with terminating ends or points of round
material, for the purpose of fastening, securing or adjustment of ladies hair.
This improved form of hair fastener or dilator is made of celluloid, tortoise
shell vulcanite, or any other material that will expand to its required size when
in use and contract to its normal form on its being released from the hair. The
end or inner terminal A of the spirally formed fastener, is pointed, and is then
made to curve in three or more rings B1, B2, B3 these rings are made in a wind-
ing form and terminates with an end C which is likewise pointed and is splayed
or turned outwards.
In the application of my invention for the object of securing, fastening or
adjusting ladies hair, the spirally made fastener will expand, and by a circular
movement works in a screw form, which fixes the hair it encircles, also by the
nature of the material from which the fastener is manufactured, and form of
construction, it is quite unnecessary to use pins string, or cord, or any additions
to the fastener, so as to render the hair securely fixed and adjusted. The out-
ward point or end of the winder, C is passed through the bulk of hair, a revolving
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page_text: movement is then made by the hand of the operator with the fastener, and in
making such revolutions the winder, or fastener traverses in a circular manner
until the entire bulk of hair, requiring to be secured or fastened becomes dense,
and tightly adjusted within the smaller curves or inner circle of the spirally
formed dilator.
Description of drawings refered to therein are those filed with the Provisional
Specification.
Fig. 1, is a plan of the hair, fastener.
Fig. 2, is a section of the hair fastener.
A, is the outer or commencing point of the fastener which is pointed and
splayed or turned outwards.
B1, B2, B3, are the several rings or circumferences of material forming the
hair fastener.
C, is the inner or finishing portion of the spirally formed material and is like-
wise pointed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. A specially constructed fastener that is expansive that by the movement of
the operator, traverses as a screw thereby fixing securely the material it encircles.
2. The specially formed fastener being capable of adjusting and securing
various bulks of hair without the aid or addition of any pins, string, or comb
or anything else beyond the fastener as shewn and described.
Dated the 24th day of April 1899.
WILLIAM FREDERICK PFAFF,
Applicant.