An Improved Hair Waver.
Year: 1897

page_text: An Improved Hair Waver.
I, ALEXANDER DONALD, 17. Wellington Street, Dundee, in the County of Forfar,
Scotland, Photographer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to an improved hair waver, and the object of my improve-
ments is to provide a simple, safe and efficient waver, that will not in any way
injure the hair, rendering the process of waving easy and convenient, and doing
away with the heated irons or tongs and wavers made of twisted wire employed by
many persons to the great injury of the hair.
My improved hair waver consists of a piece of wire, stronger than that commonly
used for ordinary insertion hair pins, bent in a U shaped form. About a quarter of
an inch from the end of each stem a simple bend or curve is made the bend or curve
on one stem being in an upward direction and the bend or curve on the other stem
being in a downward direction, the plane of the stems being horizontal.
When bent in this manner, if the extremities be passed the one over the other
by means of the forefinger and thumb, the stems overlap and remain together, firmly
securing the hair when woven on the waver.
I may also form at the extremity of each stem a bulb for the purpose of aiding
the fingers in passing the stems over one another.
Dated this 11th day of March 1907
An Improved Hair waver.
I, ALEXANDER DONALD of 17 Wellington Street, Dundee, in the County of
Forfar Scotland, Photographer, 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 hair wavers, and the object of my improvements is to
provide a safe, simple, and efficient waver, that will not in any way injure the hair,
rendering the process of waving easy and convenient, and doing away with the
heated irons or tongs, and wavers made of twisted wire, employed by many
persous to the great injury of the hair.
I attain this object by means of the hair waver as afterwards described, and as
illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which :—
Figs. 1, 2, 3 shew various views of a hair waver without bulbs on the extremities;
Figs. 4, 5, 6 are views similar to Figs. 1; 2, 3 respectively, but shewing the waver
with bulbs on the extremities ;
Figs. 1 and 4 are each a plan of a waver, with the stems apart, the plane of the
stems being horizontal;

page_text: Figs. 2 and 5 are elevations of a waver with the stems apart, shewing more
prominently the bends;
Figs. 3 and 6 shew a waver as in Figs. 1 and 4 respectively, with the extremities
passed the one over the other, and held together by means of the simple bends.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
The following description is applicable to the waver with or without bulbs :-
A piece of round wire, with or without bulbs at its extremities, considerably
stronger than what is commonly used for insertion hair pins, is bent to a U shaped
form.
About a quarter of an inch from the end of each stem, a, a simple bend, b, is
made, the bend on one stem being in an upward direction, the bend on the other
stem being in a downward direction, the plane of the stems being horizontal.
If the two extremities be now brought together and the one passed over the other
by means of the forefinger and thumb, they are held together by the simple bends b,
firmly securing the ends of the hair at c, Figs. 3 and 6, the hair being woven on
the stems in the usual manner.
The bulbs & Figs. 4, 5, 6, are for the purpose of aiding the fingers to pass the
stems one over the other.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
(1.) As an improved article of manufacture a hair waver constructed with
simple bends on the extremities, Figs. 1, 2, 3, substantially as and for the purpose
described.
(2.) As an improved article of manufacture a hair waver constructed with
simple bends and having bulbs on the extremities, Figs. 4, 5, 6 substantially as and
for the purposes described.
ALEXANDER DONALD.