Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 12th May, 1899
Complete Specification Left. 21st Dec. 4800
FREDERICK WILLIAM SCHROEDER, Engineer, and PATRICK WILLIAM MORAN,
Gentleman, both of 30, Maiden Lane, London, W.C., do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved appliance for waving or curling hair
of the following construction.
We stamp out of sheet metal, two bars of a trough-shaped cross section, the
sides of which are formed with corrugations in such manner that when the two
bars are placed together with their troughs facing each other, the projections
of the one bar fit between the projections of the other one.
pivotted together at one end, and on the same pivot pin are mounted two
The two bars are
straight wires.
In using this appliance the hair is first rolled up on the two wires, as in
hair curlers of known construction, the two trough shaped bars being opened on
their hinge; these bars are then closed down upon opposite sides of the coil of
hair so that the projections of the one bar press portions of the hair into the
recesses of the other bar, and thus impart to it a wavy form, the bars having their
free ends secured together by any suitable fastening, such as by a wire loop
attached to the end of the one bar and passed over the slightly hooked end
of the other bar, or by forming studs on the end of the one bar which are sprung
into corresponding recesses in the end of the other bar.
May 12th 1899.
FREDERICK WILLIAM SCHROEDER,
PATRICK WILLIAM MORAN.
We, FREDERICK WILLIAM SCHROEDER, Engineer, and PATRICK WILLIAM MORAN,
Gentleman, both of 30, Maiden Lane, Strand, in the County of London, England,
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 an improved appliance for waving or curling hair
of the following construction.
We stamp out of sheet metal, two bars of a trough-shaped_cross_section, the
sides of which are formed with corrugations in such manner that when the two
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page_text: bars are placed together with their troughs facing each other, the projections
of the one bar fit between the projections of the other one.
The two bars are pivotted together at one end, and on the same pivot pin
are mounted two straight wires.
This construction is shewn on the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1
shews the appliance in the closed position, Fig. 2 shews a cross section thereof,
and Fig. 3 shews it in the open position.
The two bars a a of trough shaped section are stamped out of sheet metal
so as to have serrations so arranged that when the two bars are pivotted together
and to the wires c c at one end d, the projections bb of the one bar are opposite
the spaces ee of the other bar. When closed together, the bars are secured by
a suitable catch, such as a wire loop fattached to the one bar and passed over
the slightly hooked end of the other bar, or the fastening may consist of studs
projecting laterally from the one bar, which are sprung into corresponding
recesses in the end of the other bar.
In using this appliance the hair is first rolled up on the two wires c c as in hair
curlers of known construction, the two trough shaped bars a being opened on
their hinge; these bars are then closed down upon opposite sides of the coil of
hair so that the projections b of the one bar press portions of the hair into the
spaces e of the other bar, and thus impart to it a wavy form, the bars having
their free ends secured together by the fastening f.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
clain is:-
An appliance for waving or curling hair, consisting of the combination of two
bars a a of trough shaped section having internal projections b b, arranged so
that the projections of the one bar are opposite the spaces of the other bar, the
said bars being pivotted together and to wires cc at one end, and provided at
the other end with means for securing them together, substantially as described.
Dated this 21st day of December 1899.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.