An Improved Instrument for Curling and Frizzing Hair.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Mar., 1890-Accepted, 26th Apr., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Instrument for Curling and Frizzing Hair.
I, WILLIAM LORD BALLIN HINDE, of Oxford Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire,
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 has reference to hair curling, and frizzing instruments of the kind
described in the Specification of John Careless No. 2115 A.D. 1881, the said instru-
ment consisting of three light bars or strips of metal jointed together at one end
two of these bars or strips forming a compound curling bar for holding the end of
and coiling the lock of hair, and the third or locking bar or strip being so formed
that it can be temporarily connected to and parallel with the compound curling bar
to prevent the hair beoming uncoiled until required.
The object of this invention is to so form the said third or locking bar that it can
be more readily locked against or unlocked from the compound curling bar than
heretofore and so that it cannot possibly become entangled with the hair.
I will describe my invention by referring to the accompanying drawings on which
Fig. 1 represents in side elevation and Fig. 2 in plan the said improved instrument
constructed according to this invention the parts being represented in the positions
which they occupy when holding a lock of hair coiled on the compound curling
bar; Figs. 3 and 4 respectively represent in plan and side elevation the same parts
ready to receive the hair to be curled; Figs. 5 and 6 represent the said instrument
with the hair curled upon the compound curling bar and the third bar unlocked
therefrom; and Figs. 7 and 8 shew the same with the locking bar temporarily
locked to the other two bars to prevent the coil of hair becoming uncurled.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the Figures of the
drawing.
The said three bars are marked respectively a b and c of which a is the locking
bar and b and c together form the compound curling bar the three bars being hinged
together by a rivet at d. Each of these bars is by preference of a flat section.
According to this invention the locking bar a is not hooked at its outer end as
heretofore but its ends are made plain and it is formed of a bow shape as shewn its
ends lying in about the same plane but its intermediate part being raised therefrom.
It is by preference made of steel and tempered to form a spring so that when in its
normal condition its outer end e will project a short distance across the bars b and c
(see Figs. 4 and 6).
When the hair has been coiled, twisted or wound upon the bars b and c as usual,
the locking bar a has to be pulled outwardly sideways to bring it parallel with the
bars b and c and when released it will be maintained in this position (see Figs. 1, 2, 7
and 8) by its elasticity causing its outer end e to bear against the compound curling
bar b, c.
By merely turning the bar a upon its joint d sideways through a short space, its
outer end e will be free of the bars b, c, (see Figs. 5 and 6) and the instrument can
be removed from the hair.
By making the locking bar a of the shape above described and illustrated by
the accompanying drawing the instrument can be more quickly fixed to or removed
from the hair and the bar a cannot become entangled therewith.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improvement in instruments of the kind herein referred to for curling and

page_text: frizzing hair, herein before described and illustrated by the accompanying drawing,
that is to say, making the locking bar of the said instrument in the form of a bow
spring which by its elasticity will be pressed and maintained at its outer end against
the compound curling bar when turned and placed parallel therewith for the purposo
and substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated.
Dated this 22nd day of March 1890.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.