Improvements in Means for the Attachment of Ornamental Hair.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION,
Improvements in Means for the Attachment of Ornamental Hair.
I, EDWIN MOORE, of Priory Road, Aston, near the City of Birmingham, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to improvements in means for the attachment of orna-
mental hair and consists as follows:-
The desire frequently happens with ladies to augment their own supply of hair,
and in so doing the difficulty presents itself of attaching the additional supply
in a concealed manner and yet to be perfectly safe.
This my invention is intended to meet these difficulties in an easy but effectual
manner.
In carrying out my invention I first provide a band of silk or other suitable
material, and preferably of a doubled or once folded shape. Within and around
such folded baud I now attach the tresses or pluits &c. of hair in. any suitable
inanner. This band upon its exterior edge, is now provided with eyelets, or loopa
or the like by which it may now be readily attached to a hair fastener of the kind
described and shown in Specification No. 16445 of 1894. In some cases I may
combine with and provide upon the hair fastener as shown and described in the
said Specification No. 16445 of 1894, similar suitable means whereby the hair
may be directly attached thereto, but the detachable means I prefer.
By these means false tresses of hair may be readily and easily attached and
worn without exposure, and without fear of self detachment.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for the Attachment of Ornamental Hair.
I, EDWIN MOORE, of Priory Road, Aston, near the City of Birmingham, Manu-
facturer, 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 improvements in means for the attachment of orna-
mental hair, and consists as follows:-
The desire frequently happens with ladies to augment their own supply of hair,
and in so doing the difficulty presents itself of attaching the additional supply
in a concealed manner and yet to be perfectly safe,

page_text: This my invention is intended to meet this difficulty in an easy but effectual
manner.
In carrying out my invention I first provide a band of silk or other suitable
material, and preferably of a doubled or once folded shape. Within and around
such folded band I now attach the tresses or plaits &c. of hair in any suitable
imanner. This band upon its exterior edge, is now provided with eyelets, or loops
or the like by which it may be readily attached to a hair fastener of the kind
described and shown in Specification No. 16445 of 1894. In some cases I may
combine with and provide upon the hair fastener as shown and described in the
said Specification No. 16445 of 1894, similar suitable means whereby the hair
may be directly attached thereto, but the detachable means I prefer.
In order to more clearly explain this my invention I have appended hereunto
an illustrative drawing upon which are figures and numbers of reference, similar
numbers referring throughout the several views to the same thing or part.
Fig. 1, shows the false hair the one end of which is woven into or attached to
a cord or the like.
Fig. 2, shows a band to which the hair is to be secured.
Fig. 3, is an enlarged sectional view of the band.
Fig. 4, shows the external view of the band with the hair attached.
Fig. 6, shows the band and hair combined with and attached to a hair fastener
described in Specification for Letters Patent No. 16445 of 1894.
7, is the false hair whose on ends are woven into or otherwise suitably secured
to a cord 8, of sufficient length for the purpose required. 9, is a band, preferably
of silk, which is doubled as shown in Fig. 3. Within and around such band I
stitch the cord 8, which latter may be continued for more than one round, around
the band 9, so as to give an increased body or profusion of hair.
10, is a hair fastener of the kind described and shown in Specification for
Letters Patent granted to me, under number 16445 of 1894, the chief feature of
which is that by pulling the cords 11, the band is gathered up and contracted in
diameter so as to embrace or close tightly upon the hair which has been placed
within it. To such a fastener I now secure the band 9, by the cord 12, through
holes 13, or other easy suitable means. It will be readily seen that instead of
the band 9, being an independent piece to the fastener the upper part at 14 may
be made to accommodate the cords 11, or in other words the lower part of the
band of the hair fastening 10, may be modified and made in shape like that shown
in Fig. 3, to which the hair may be secured. The separable arrangement however
permits of a change at will of the fastening, which may be of a more or less
ornamental character if desired.
By these means false long tresses of hair may be readily secured upon shorter
natural hair, or naturally thin or scauty hair may be augmented to any desired
extent without exposure, and without fear of self detachment.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
The combination of a hair fastening of the kind described and shown in
Specification for Letters Patent No. 16445 of 1894 of a cord 8, having hair 7,
attached thereto all substantially as set forth and shown, and for the purposes
specified.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent, 12, Cherry Street, Birmingham.
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