Improvements in Hair Curlers.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hair Curlers.
LAVINIA LENTON, Trimmings Manufacturer, Eagle Street, Coventry, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A hair pin which may be used for curling the hair, and bent into any form
without breaking or destroying it, and having no sharp points and the prongs
covered with a fibrous material will not hurt the head when in use.
I make this said curling pin in the following manner:
Taking a fine wire (plated tin or silver) I continuously wind it round a reel
forming a skein of it and join the begining and finishing ends together.
I then place the two looped ends of the wire skein upon two hooks of a spinning
wheel and wind a silk, cotton, or the like material around the said skein or series
of wires, 10 more or less, binding them firmly together and covering them with
the said fibrous material.
I have now what appears to be 8 inches (more or less of silk covered millinery
wire with this difference, the ends of wire are not sharp being formed into loops
and the silk, cotton or the like does not ravel being tightly secured by my method
of manufacture. This short length of flexible covered wire I then form or hend
into a two pronged hair pin or curler.
Natal thi. 1411 Jaw of W1800
LAVINIA LENTON.
Improvements in Hair Curlers.
LAVINIA LENTON, Trimmings Manufacturer, Eagle Street, Coventry, 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:
1
The object of my invention is to make a hair curling device of wire, which has
no points to hurt the head, and will not break when bent into various forms, and
has no raveled ends of fibrous material.
I make the said hair curling device in the following manner. Taking one
end of soft fine wire (free from steel) preferably tinned or plated silver I con-
tinuously wind it round a reel several times making a skein or ring of it (usually
5 times) but always more than once to prevent breakage and the two ends of wire
I twist or tie together.
This said skein or ring of wire I put on the hooks of a spinning wheel (such as
now used for making the silk covered millinery wire now in use) and winding

page_text: a fibrous material such as silk, cotton or the like around the series of 10 wires I
cover and bind them closely together in the centre thereof until I have made about
6 inches of covered silk wire the two ends being left uncovered and each composed
of fine loops of wire, these said loops prevent the silk from slipping off the said
two ends of wire and the two points or ends of the single wire are fastened
together and buried beneath the wound silk and the finishing end of the said
silk is fastened with gum or the like.
Refering to the accompanying drawings Fig. 4 is a view of the said length
of wire partly covered. Bis the series of wound wires, or wire ring, C is the two
single ends of fine wire ready to be fastened together and covered. A is the end
of the winding silk in process of covering.
Fig. 1 is a view of Fig. 4 finished and bent into the old hair pin shape.
Fig. 2 is the two prongs of the said hair pin bound together with silk or the
like, in the centre thereof.
Fig. 3 is two lengths of covered wire as shown in Fig. 4 bound together in the
centre with silk or the like and the four ends thereof, not bound together.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is-
1. In a hair curling device a series of wires covered with a fibrous material
and the ends or points of the wire buried beneath the said material during the
process of manufacture.
2. The method of making a hair curling device by continuously recling or
winding a wire several times round a reel, folding and covering the same as
herein specified and according to Fig. 4 of the accompanying drawings.
3. The various methods of shaping or forming a hair curling device and binding
the prongs together with a fibrous material as specified and according to Fig. 2 &
3 of the accompanying drawings.
1000