Improvements in Hair Curlers.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 8th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 13th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hair Curlers.
We, OLIVER GRIFFITHS GOODMAN, of Caroline Street, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer, and FREDERICK COTTRILL, of Studley, near
Redditch, in the County of Worcester, Needle Manufacturer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows
Our invention relates to improvements in instruments or apparatus employed in
curling or frizzing the human hair, and called hair curlers, and our said invention
has for its object, a simpler and more efficient instrument than has heretofore been
employed..
Our said invention consists in the first part, of an improved construction of
frame, and in the second part, in means for securing or locking the ends of the hair
gripping and curling bars.
In carrying out the said improvements, we take a frame or a bar with turned-up
ends, or with the ends directed and turned inwards to an extent about equal to one
half the depth of the hair to be evolved around two central bars, which are jointed
to one of the said terminal ends, whilst the other terminal end is forked or
bifurcated, and wherein the free and unhinged ends of the bars take, and are
there jambed by downward pressure applied to them.
Thus, the curling bars, which are preferably flat in cross section, are disposed
side-by-side in their broader directions, and hinged collectively by a rivet to the
extremity of one of the turned-up terminal ends, whilst the extreme terminal ends
of the said flat curling bars are, or may be, formed with a slight lead for jambing
the same between the branches of the other turned-up terminal end of the frame
bar, although the space between the branches of the forks may if necessary be
slightly taper, or may be slightly contracted towards their ends or entrance so that
the ends of the curling bars need not be shaped, and after passing between the
bifurcated branches, make a definite or yielding lock.
In use, the curling arins are opened out, and the terminal ends of a lock of hair
to be curled are then placed between them and the said bars closed and the hair
locked.
Then by rotating the whole instrument upon its axis, the said length or lock of
hair is wound around the said bars, which are then finally locked in position
parallel to the frame bar and at a distance from it, by pressing the ends of the
curling bars forcibly between the branches of the locking end of the frame of the
instrument.
Dated this 28th day of March 1893.
OLIVER GRIFFITHS GOODMAN,
FREDERICK COTTRILL,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hair Curlers.
We, OLIVER GRIFFITH'S GOODMAN, of Caroline Street, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer, and FREDERICK COTTRILL, of Studley, near
Redditch, in the County of Worcester, Needle Manufacturer, 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:―
Our invention relates to improvements in instruments or apparatus employed in.
curling or frizzing the human hair, and called hair curlers, and has for its object a
simpler and more efficient instrument then has heretofore been employed.
Our said invention consists in the first part, of an improved construction of
frame, and in the second part, in means for securing or locking the ends of the hair
gripping and curling bars.
In carrying out the said improvements, we take a frame or a bar with turned-up
ends, or with the ends directed and turned inwards to an extent about equal to one
half the depth of the hair to be evolved around two central bars, which are jointed
to one of the said terminal ends, whilst the other terminal end is forked or
bifurcated, and wherein the free and unhinged ends of the bars take, and are there
jambed by downward pressure applied to them.
Thus, the curling bars, which are preferably flat in cross section, are disposed
side-by-side in their broader directions, and hinged collectively by a rivet to the
extremity of one of the turned-up terminal ends, whilst the extreme terminal ends
of the said flat curling bars are, or may be, formed with a slight lead for jambing
the same between the branches of the other turned-up terminal end of the frame
bar, although the space between the branches of the forks may if necessary be
slightly taper, or may be slightly contracted towards their ends or entrance so that
the ends of the curling bars need not be shaped, and after passing between the
bifurcated branches, make a definite or yielding lock.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents a hair curling instrument or a
hair curler constructed and arranged according to our invention, with the curling
bar members, between which the hair is clamped and held and around which the
hair is rolled, open.
Figure 2 represents an edge view of Figure 1.
Figure 3 represents a front elevation of the said hair curler with the same
closed, or with the jointed bar members locked to one of the terminal ends of the
frame bar.
Figure 4 represents a cross section upon the dotted lines A B Figure 3,
Figure 5 is a topside plan of Figure 3 and
Figure 6 is an elevation of the locking end of the instrument.
Figure 7 represents the instrument in use.
a is the frame bar, having angle shaped ends a', a², to the terminal end of the
former of which, the inner ends b, c, of curling bar members b, and c, are jointed
in common by a rivet or rivets d. The onter ends 62, c², of the said bar members b
and care chisel pointed or flattened, and take within a gap a³, formed between the
branches a', of the end a², and which gap has a lead a and a slight inner enlarge-
ment a, so that the ends of the bars after passing through the lead, slightly open
out and thereby make a more positive lock.
Figure 8 represents a modified form of our invention. In this arrangement a is the
frame bar, with an angled end a² and a bifurcated lock a³. b, c are curling bar
members with plain outer ends b, c, and cranked inner ends b¹, c¹, jointed at d, to
the plain end a¹, of the bar a.
In use, the curling arms are opened out, and the terminal ends of a lock of hair
to be curled are placed between them, the said bars closed and the hair locked.
Then by rotating the whole instrument upon its axis, the said length or lock

page_text: of hair is wound around the said bars, which are then finally locked in position
parallel to the frame bar and at a distance from it, by pressing the ends of the
curling bars forcibly between the branches of the locking end of the frame of the
instrument.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
First. A hair curler consisting of two curling bar members jointed at their inner
ends to one end of an angle ended frame bar, whose other end has a bifurcated lock
with which the outer ends of the said curling bar members engage, substantially as
described and set forth in Figures 1 to 7.
Secondly. A hair curler consisting of two curling bar members which are cranked
at their inner ends and jointed to the plain end of a frame bar, whose other end is
angle shaped and has a bifurcated lock for receiving the outer ends of the curling
bar members.
Dated this 7th day of December 1893.
OLIVER GRIFFITHS GOODMAN,
FREDERICK COTTRILL,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants..