AN APPARATUS FOR CURLING HAIR
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Woodward, of Platt Street, in the
County of Middlesex, Office Clerk, for the Invention of "AN
APPARATUS FOR CURLING HAIR."
Sealed the 6th January 1854, and dated the 6th July 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Woodward
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 6th July 1853.
I, Jons WOODWARD, of Platt Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Office Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN APPARATUS FOR CURLING HAIR" to be as follows:-
I make a roll of leather or other suitable material and leave one end
open or unrolled. In the interior of the roll, or attached to the sides
thereof, is a strip or piece of elastic cord or web, one end carrying a
catch and the other a snap. The catch is so formed as not to drag
the hair. When the hair is to be curled the ends are placed on the
roll, which is then rolled over, and the hair is engaged round the roll
and between the folds or coils of the open end thereof. When all the
hair has been rolled round the body of the curler the clastic web is
drawn over the hair across the curler and is fastened by the snap.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Woodward in the Great Seal Patent
Office, on the 6th January 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOHN WOODWARD, of Platt Street, in the County of Middlesex, Office
Clerk, send greeting:
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seven-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Woodward, Her special
licence that I, the said John Woodward, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Woodward, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all tinies thercafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, 11SC,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN APPARATUS FOR CURLING HAIR," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John Woodward, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Woodward, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, that is to say:
My Invention consists in substituting for the ordinary methods of
curling hair an apparatus or curler formed out of a small sheet or piece
of leather, india-rubber, gutta percha, or other suitable material, one
cud of which is rolled round a core of quill, wood, or other light sub-
stance, and secured by stitching or cement. A piece of clastic braid is

page_text: passed through the core, having attached to one end a clasp, and to the
other end a bolt fitting into the clasp. The object of this clastic braid
is to keep the curler on the hair.
The Drawings hereunto annexed represent the manner in which I
form this apparatus or hair curler.
Figure 1, is a plan of the curler unrolled. A, is a slicet or picce of
leather or other suitable material, and B, a core which is secured to one
end of the piece A, by stitching or otherwise. C, is a piece of clastic
braid, which is passed through or attached to the core B, and has
secured to one end the clasp D, and to the other end the bolt E.
The bolt is formed with a double eye, as shewn in the detached view
in Figure 1, in order to prevent it from becoming entangled in the
hair. That portion of the piece of leather A, which contains the core
is then rolled up in the form of a volute to about the extent of the
dotted line a, a, as represented in Figure 2, a plan, and Figure 3, an
end view, when it is retained in that position by stitching the two ends,
or by other convenient means. An ordinary hook and eye may be
substituted for the bolt and clasp.
The manner of using this curler is as follows:-The ends of the hair
to be curled are laid between the rolled up portion and the free end of
the curler, and the hair is wound or curled round it. The ends of the
elastic braid are then brought over the hair and attached by the bolt
and clasp, as shown at Figure 4. When it is desired to release the
hair the bolt is withdrawn from the clasp and the curler is removed.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the
apparatus or curler for curling hair constructed in the manner herein-
before described, and represented in the Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Woodward, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of January, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-four.
JOHN WOODWARD. (L.S.)