Improvements in Apparatus for Curling and Waving Hair.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 29th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 12th Mar., 1890-Accepted, 12th Apr., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Curling and Waving Hair.
I THOMAS SINGLETON of Bank Top Works, Darwen in the county of Lancaster,
Machine Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to combine the indent with the V or diamond point,
for securing the legs or prongs of the pin, and producing an efficient, durable, and
neat apparatus.
Instead of only using one end, of diamond or angle shape, I make both ends the
same shape, to form a double diamond frame, thereby I am enabled to fasten the legs
or round pointed prongs to the lower end of the frame, with one pin and one joint,
and to secure the ends of the said prongs in the V or diamond shape at the opposite
end, thus making a much stronger and rigid apparatus. I also overlap the end of
one of the fingers, to form a space between the fingers when the lapped part is fixed
to the other finger, and attached to the frame with a pin, to prevent cutting the
hair, and to be more easily released.
The curling apparatus may be painted or coated with suitable substances to prevent
rusting.
In forming a space between the two fingers or prongs, I place a small washer, or
form a pin with a collar out of solid; or the legs may be cranked, so as to leave a
space between them, and so dispense with washer.
The fingers are slightly bent or circular to form a space to prevent cutting the
hair, and to enable the more easily removing of the same.
I lengthen the frame say one quarter of an inch to put the rivet at the extreme
end and the legs when brought down will be secure in the frame, at the same end
as the pin; whilst the indent of the frame will not be required to secure the fingers
in the V or diamond end, as the legs are secured at the end where the joint is formed,
by bulging out of the fingers separately or jointly.
In the diamond or V pointed frame, the legs are held in position by the angle
of the frame, instead of the recess.
The legs of the curler may be round or concave, so as not to break or injure the
hair.
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of May 1889.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Curling and Waving Hair.
I, THOMAS SINGLETON, of Bank Top Works, Darwen in the county of Lancaster,
Machine Maker, 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 :-
This invention relates to further improvements upon my former Patent
No. 13,451/84 and its objects are to produce a more efficient, durable, rigid, and
neat apparatus for curling and waving hair by using a double diamond shaped

page_text: frame to secure the legs or prongs and to enable me to bold the legs or prongs by
the indentation mentioned in my former Patent or by the angles of the frame or by
abutting against the diamond end of the frame the other end being secured by a
pin or rivet to the frame as hereinafter described and illustrated.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of my improved hair curling pin.
Fig. 2. is a side elevation of Fig. 1, showing fingers or prongs distended.
Fig. 3. is a front elevation of my improved hair curler showing prongs or fingers
thrown back.
Figs. 4 and 5 are front elevations of my improved hair curler, showing modified
forms of prongs or legs.
Fig. 6. shows details of modifications of pin, collar, and washer, also solid pin.
Fig. 7. shows plan of hair curler in operation.
Fig. 8 shows view of apparatus with cranked legs and without washer or collar.
Instead of only using one end of diamond or angle shape, I make both ends the
same shape, to form a double diamond frame A, thereby I am enabled to fasten the
legs or prongs B, to the lower end of the frame, with one pin F, and one joint C,
and to hold the ends of the said prongs in the V or diamond D at the opposite end,
thus making a stronger and more rigid apparatus.
To form a space between the fingers or legs B, I overlap the end of one of the
ngers B; when the lapped part E is fixed to the other finger, and attached to the
frame A, with a pin F, it prevents them from cutting the hair, and they are more
easily released.
I place a small washer, or form a pin with collar out of solid, or instead of the
washer, the legs may be cranked see Fig. 5, so as to leave a space between them.
The fingers B are slightly bent or circular to form a space see Fig. 4, to prevent
cutting the hair, and to enable the more easily removal of the same as before
described.
Fig. 8 is another form of frame, say one quarter of an inch longer to put the
rivet or pin F at the extreme end, and the legs B when brought down will be
secure in the frame A, at the same end as the pin, whilst the indent of the frame
(as shown in my former patent No. 13451 year 1884) will not be required to secure
the fingers in the V or diamond end, as the legs are secured at the end where the
joint is formed by bulging out of the fingers separately or jointly.
In the diamond or V pointed frame, the legs are held in position by the angle of
the frame, instead of by the recess or indent.
My apparatus may be made of any suitable metal.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I am aware that
it has heretofore been proposed to joint the prongs and frames of hair curling pins
by a rivet passing through the prongs and ends of the frame, and I make no general
claim to this method of construction but what I claim is :-
1. The construction of a double diamond frame, with legs abutting and fastening
against the end of the frame, as and for the purposes such as shown and described.
2. The construction of a double diamond pointed frame, with legs pivotted within
the frame, and kept apart by the washers or their equivalents in the manner and
for the purposes such as shown and described.
3. The general arrangement and construction of the hair curling and waving
apparatus such as shown and described.
Dated this 28th day of February 1890
JOHN E. WALSH,
Agent for the Applicant.