Frizzing, or Crimping Hair.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Apr., 1886.
Complete Left, 6th Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 8th Feb., 1887.
Frizzing, or Crimping Hair.
We WILLIAM BOWN, of Summer Lane, Birmingham, in the county of Warwick,
Manufacturer and GEORGE CAPEWELL, of 31", Whitehead Road, Aston, near
Birmingham aforesaid, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
Our improvements consist in forming a spring-bow or jointed handle of any desired
metal or material and pivoiting thereto a pair of grips or tongs in such a manner that
when the handle is depressed or extended the said grips or tongs are made to open or
close as desired for the purpose of curling waving or frizzing, after which operation
the said tongs or grips may be folded into the handle thereby forming a very compact
article-The folding parts of the appliances are kept or held in position when opened
or closed by a spring joint slide or suitable catch or catches with or without springs,
either in connection with the pivotted joint or the bow shaped or jointed end of the
handle which may be covered with any non-conducting material in the form of a loose
handle as desired.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicants.
Improvements in Means or Appliances for Ourling, Waving,
Frizzing, or Crimping Hair.
We WILLIAM BOwn of Summer Lane Birmingham in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, and GEORGE CAPEWELL of 31 Whitehead Road, Aston near
Birmingham aforesaid Machinist do hereby declare the nature of our said invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPLIANCES FOR CURLING WAVING, FRIZZING OR
CRIMPING HAIR 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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Our improvements consist in forming a spring bow, or jointed handle of an
desired metal or material, and pivotting thereto, a pair of a grips or tongs in such
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page_text: manner that when the handle is depressed or extended, the said grips or tongs are
made to open or close as desired for the purpose of curling waving or frizzing after
which operation the said tongs or grips may be folded into the handle thereby forming
a very compact article-The folding parts of the appliances are kept or held in
position when opened or closed by a spring joint, slide, or suitable catch or catches,
with or without springs, either in connection with the pivotted joint; or the bow
shaped or jointed end of the handle which may be covered with any non-conducting
material in the form of a loose handle as desired.
But as our invention will be best understood by referring to the Drawings hereunto
annexed we will describe the same aided by the figures and letters marked thereon.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figure 1. represents a curling Tong constructed according to our improvements
shown in an extended position ready for use-A A' is a spring or jointed handle
which is connected or jointed to the lever B. at a. and also to the body C. at b. The
lever B works on the fulcrum c. and the expanding or extension of the lever B for
permitting the insertion of the hair for curling waving or frizzing is effected by
pressing the side A' into the position as shown in dotted lines-the removal of the
pressure causing the lever B to close down into the position shown on the hair-After
use the curling tong proper, formed by the lever B. and body C can be folded into the
handle A. A as shown at Figure 2. by means of the joints a. b. thereby forming a
very compact article-Figure 3 is a sectional view of the jointed part showing pro-
jections d. d. on the side of the handle A, which projections, on the opening of the
curling tongs from the folded position Figure 2 to the extended position Figure 1,
snap into holes or recesses formed in the body C. so as to firmly hold the parts in
position-It will be obvious that this may be effected by a slide or other suitable
catch or catches.
Figure 4. represents our improved curling tong provided with convenient covering
DD for the handles of any suitable non-conducting material for the purpose of
keeping the handles cool while curling waving or frizzing.
Having now described our invention and the manner of giving effect to our
invention we wish it understood that what we claim and wish protected by letters
patent is
The combined folding appliances for curling waving or frizzing hair substantially
as herein described and exhibited.