Improved Apparatus for Crimping, Waving, Curling, Frizzing, and otherwise Dressing Hair.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Mar., 1887
Complete Left, 5th Dec., 1887
Complete Accepted, 13th Jan., 1888
Improved Apparatus for Crimping, Waving, Curling, Frizzing, and
otherwise Dressing Hair.
I, WALTER EDWARD MOSER of A' Southwark Bridge Road, London in the
county of Surrey, Electrical Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The object is to provide simple convenient and efficient apparatus for crimping
waving curling frizzing and otherwise ornamenting or dressing hair mainly human
hair although the apparatus is applicable to the hair of goats and other animals and
to wigs.
The invention consists essentially in the combination of two combs fitted side by
side and movable as regards each other so that the width of the apertures between
the teeth may be varied. A modification which answers well in practice has one
comb secured to a handle, the second comb being attached to the first by pins secured
to the former and passing through slots in the latter.
When used for crimping waving or curling hair whether such hair be on the person
or in a wig or the like the apparatus is heated and the combs are drawn along the
hair or the hair is drawn and set between the teeth of the combs which latter are so
far closed as to hold the hair.
When hair is being frizzed or ornamented in like manner the apparatus may be used
cold.
For heating the apparatus, when heating is required, a spirit lamp or the like may
be used or it may be heated internally by gas or an electric current.
J. T. KING,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Improved Apparatus for Crimping, Waving, Curling, Frizzing, and
otherwise Dressing Hair.
1, WALTER EDWARD MOSER of A1 Southwark Bridge Road London, in the
County of Surrey Electrical Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object is to provide simple convenient and efficient apparatus for crimping
waving curling frizzing and otherwise ornamenting or dressing hair mainly human
hair although the apparatus is applicable to the hair of goats and other animals and
to wigs.
The invention consists essentially in the combination of two combs fitted sido by
side and movable as regards each other so that the width of the apertures between the
teeth may be varied. A modification which answers well in practice has one comb
secured to a handle the second comb being attached to the first by pins secured to
the former and passing through slots in the latter.
That my invention may
'be readily understood I have appended drawings of one
construction of apparatus under my invention where fig. 1 is a back view and fig. 2
an elevation. a handle having firmly secured thereto the metallic comb b, c second
metallic comb, d slots in the comb b, e pins secured to c and passing through the
slots dfspring within the handle a pressing against the tang g of the comb c
h finger pieces attached to the comb c. The blades may be curved instead of straight
as shown.
When used for crimping waving or curling hair whether such hair be on the
person or in a wig or the like the apparatus is heated and the combs are drawn along
the hair or the hair is drawn and set between the teeth of the combs which latter are
so far closed as to hold the hair.
When hair is being frizzed or ornamented in like manner the apparatus may be
used cold.
For heating the apparatus, when heating is required a spirit lamp or the like may
be used, or it may be heated internally by gas or an electric current.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
First. Apparatus consisting of a fixed and movable comb operating substantially
in the manner and for the purpose set forth.
Second. The combination of two combs free to slide one over the other substantially
in the manner and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this Third day of December 1887.