Improvements in Machines for Drying Hair.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 11th sec., 1890-Accepted, 17th Jan., 1891
CUMPLEIE STEVITTU
Improvements in Machines for Drying Hair.
I CHARLES KLEIN of No. 40 Baker Street in the County of Middlesex Court
Hairdresser do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to he performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
My invention consists of the improvements in machines for drying hair hereinafter
described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 of which is a side elevation of a machine for the said purpose constructed
according to my invention.
Figure 2 an end view of the upper part of the said machine looking in the
direction of the arrow Figure 1 and Figure 3 a longitudinal vertical section of the
said part. Figures 4 and 5 are details hereinafter referred to.
In the following description the several parts of the drawings are referred to by
the letters marked thereon. The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in
all the figures.
is a tubular metal casing mounted on a hollow pillar formed in two parts. h C
supported by a base d in which is an ordinary atmospheric gas burner e.
The part b
is capable of being slidden over the part c for the purpose of adjusting the height of
the casing and is secured in the position required by a nut f engaged with a
screw g carried by the part cand passing through a slot in the part b. i is a
ventilator in the said part band jjare handles by means of which the machine may.
be conveniently moved when required. The casing a is closed at one end and open
at the other end and is divided into two compartments by a transverse partition k.
In the compartment at the closed end of the said casing is a pair of bellows
provided with a bandle m which projects through a slot in the said end. In the
other compartment (hereinafter termed the front compartment) are branch pipes n
and o connected to the bellows and grids or openwork screens pq hingel atto
the casing a so as to be capable of boing raised into an upright position and a
perforated box s the interior of which communicates by means of a pipe with the
interior of the part of the tubular pillar on which the casing is mounted. The
grids or screens pq consist of parallel wires over the ends of which double strips of
metal are secured as shown in Figures 2 and 4 which latter figure is a plan view of
the screen p
The form of the pipes no in plan is shown in Figure 5. The open
end of the casing a is furnished with a hood and across the sid end is a tubular
rod v mounted on a wire w secured at its ends to the said casing. The upper part
of the front compartment is furnished with a door or lid hinged at y and carrying
a ventilator z the construction of which is similar to that of the ventilator i. The
broken lines in Figure 3 indicate the position of the door when open. The
machine herein before described is especially designed for use in drying the hair of
persons having long hair after it has been washed or dyed. The method of using the
said machine for this purpose and its action are hereinafter described.
The pipe of the burner e is connected to a supply of gas and the gas is ignited
at the said burner. The height of the casing is so adjusted and the machine is so
placed that the back of the head of a person whose hair is to be dried may rest
against the rod v. The lid is then raised and the screen is turned up and a
portion of the hair is laid along the screen q.
The screen p
is then turned down
to the position shown in the drawings and the remainder of the longer portion of
the hair is laid over the said screen and the lid is shut down. The hair supported
by the screens p q is now acted on by air heated by the burner e which air passes
up the tubular pillar be through the pipe t to the box s from the perforations in
which it issues passing into and through the hair on the screens p q and that on the
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page_text: head of the person and vaporizing the moisture on the said hair. In order to drive
the vapour out of the hair the bellows are at the same time worked the air from them
passing partly out of the turned up nozzle of the pipe n through the hair on the
screens and partly through the nozzle of the pipe o through the hair on the head of
the person whose hair is being dried. When it is required to lower the temperature
of the air passing to the perforated box s the ventilator i is opened and when the
quantity of vapour from the hair is considerable the ventilator 2 is opened.
If the hair to be dried be very long it may be laid along the screen 9 and then
be turned up. and laid along the screen p.
The machine herein before described beside being suited for drying hair while
growing on the head is also suited for use in drying tresses of false hair."
Although I prefer to combine bellows with the apparatus for the purpose herein-
before described they may be dispensed with where cheapness of the machine is an
object as the hot air passing through the machine will cause currents of cold air to
enter and pass through the hair on the screens.
My invention is not restricted to the precise details and arrangement of parts
hereinbefore described as these may be varied considerably without departing from
the nature of my invention.
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 !
claim is:
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First: A machine for drying hair consisting of a receptacle in which the hair
may be placed and exposed to the action of currents of both heated and cool air
which are caused to pass into or among the hair by the action of the machine.
Secondly-A machine for drving hair capable of application to the head of a
person whose hair is to be dried and consisting essentially of a receptacle for
receiving the longer portions of the hair and means for causing currents of both
heated and cool air to pass through the hair in the said receptacle and through or
onto the hair on the head of the said person.
Thirdly-The arrangement in machines for drying hair by means of currents of
air of grids or openwork screens for supporting the hair to be dried or portions thereof
while exposed to the action of the said currents of air substantially as hereinbefore
described.
Fourthly A machine for use in drying hair constructed and acting substantially
as herein before described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 9th day of December 1890.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.