A New or Improved Device to be used for Crimping, Curling, or Waving Hair
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Jan., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 31st Aug., 1897-Accepted, 18th Dec., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
," A New or Improved Device to be used for Crimping, Curling, or
Waving Hair."
I, MARY ALICE CAMPBELL, wife of Archibald Samuels Campbell of Corn Hill
House, Sherborne in the County of Dorset, do hereby declare the nature of this
Invention to be as follows:-
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My Invention has for its object to provide a device for crimping or curling or
waving hair by means of which the crimping, curling or waving can be effected
with great expedition and wita great efficiency. The usual mode of crimping,
curling or waving hair is, after damping it, to wind it upon crimping pins or
the like and allow it to remain upon these pins or the like for a considerable time,
say all night: By this means it is not possible to effect the crimping, curling,
or waving without the pins, or the like, being placed in position for a very con-
siderable time beforehand. According to my Invention I provide two pieces of
iron or other material which can be sufficiently heated and provided with means
whereby they can be forced towards each other so
to grasp between
them the hair which has been wound upon the crimping pins or the
like, as aforesaid. A convenient way of operating the two pieces of iron or
other material is to attach to each a handle which is curved outwards and then
inwards and jointed together like the blades of a pair of scissors; scissor-like
handles being provided, if desired, upon the outward ends of the said pieces of
iron or other material which should be flat on so shaped as to bear equally upon the
hair throughout their length and breadth. The pieces of iron or other material
are heated and are then applied to the air wound on the crimping pin or the
like which is compressed between the said pieces of iron or the like and after
a short application the pins or the like can be removed and the hair will be found
to have acquired in this short time the requisite crimped, curled or waved condition.
Hated this 7th day of January 1897
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX
47 Lincolns Inn Fields London WC.,
Agents.
A New or Improved Device to be used for Crimping, Curling, or
Waving Hair.
I, MARY ALICE CAMPBELL wife of Archibald Samuels Campbell of Corn Hill
House, Sherborne in the County of Dorset do hereby declare the nature of this
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page_text: invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly des
cribed and ascertained in and by the following statement; —
My invention has for its object to provide a device for crimping, or curling or
waving hair, by means of which, the crimping, curling or waving can be effected
with great expedition and with great efficiency.
The usual mode for crimping, curling or waving hair, is after damping it, to
wind it upon crimping pins or the like and allow it to receive upon the pins or
the like, for a considerable time, say all night. By this means it is not possible
to effect the crimping, curling, or waving without the pins or the like, being placed
in position a very considerable time beforehand.
According to my invention, I provide two pieces of iron or other material which
can be sufficiently heated and provided with means whereby they can be forced
towards each other so as to grasp between them the hair which has been wound
upon the crimping pins or the like as aforesaid.
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A convenient way of operating the two pieces of iron or other material, is to
attach to each a handle which is curved outwards and then inwards and jointed
together like the blades of a pair of scissors; scissorlike handles, being provided,
if desired, upon the outwards ends of the said pieces of iron or other material,
which should be flat, or so shaped as to bear equally upon the hair throughout
their length and breadth. The pieces of iron or other material are heated,
and are then applied to the hair wound on the crimping pins or the like,
which is compressed between the said pieces of iron or the like, and after
a short application, the pins or the like, can
will be found to have acquired in this short time, the requisite crimped, curled, or
be removed, and the hair
waved condition.
By making the handles, jointed in the middle, about six inches long, and the
pieces of iron about an inch square, and an eighth of an inch thick, a pair of
pincers is formed so convenient that anyone can crimp, or wave, or curl their own
hair with their assistance.
A is, the front view and B is a side view of the pincers.
The material used for this manufacture may be iron, bronze, or other metal,
but aluminium is the best material both on account of its lightness and the facility
with which it takes the heat.
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,
1. A pair of hair pincers which are to be used in crimping, curling; or waving
hair, as herein described.
Dated this thirtieth 1…….
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1000