An Improved Instrument or Appliance for use in Dressing the Hair.
Year: 1890

page_text: Late of Application, 21st July, 1890-Accepted, 23rd Aug., 1890
MELETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Instrument or Appliance for use in Dressing
the Hair.
I, CHARLES FELDER, of 506 Broad Street, in the City of Newark, County of
Essex, State of New Jersey, United States of America, Manufacturer, my Post Office
address being 2 Commercial Street, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America,
do hereby declare the nature of my invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The object of this invention is to crimp and curl the hair in the operation of hair-
dressing with greater facility and convenience and to reduce the cost of manufacture
and to secure greater neatness and a better finish in the arrangement and construction
of detail parts.
The invention consists in the improved implement for hair-dressing purposes and in
the arrangements and combinations of parts of the same substantially as will be
hereinafter set forth and finally embodied in the clauses of the claim.
Referring to the accompanying drawing, in which like letters indicate corresponding
parts in each of the several figures,
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved hair-dressing implement;
Figure 2 is a similar view showing certain modifications in the construction of
the same;
Figures 3 and 4 are detail views of a certain recessed or slotted bar on which the
comb and curling tong are arranged,
Figures 5 and 7 are detail plans and Figure 8 a perspective view of the comb plates
adapted to be secured to the longitudinal bars and illustrating modified constructions
thereof;
Figure 6 is a section taken on line x, Figure 1, and
Figure 9 is a longitudinal section showing another modification.
In said drawings, a indicates a bar which may be a single piece extending from end
to end of the implement or be in sections connected at the centre by a handle b. The
central handle is of the oblong, bulbous character illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 and
is arranged at the centre of the longitudinal bar for convenience of use, in connection
with the appliances at opposite ends thereof, in combing and curling or crimping
the hair.
At one end of the handle bar is secured a comb-plate c. This may be of the form
of construction shown in Fig. 8, in which the back edge of said comb-plate is turned
or bent over the said longitudinal bar and thus secured in position, but, for neatness
of construction and economy of manufacture, 1 prefer to longitudinally slot or cut the
bar as by a saw or milling-tool, as will be understood upon reference to Figures 1, 2, 6
and 9, and arrange the comb-plate in the slot thus formed.
I prefer to curve the interior outline of the slot as at d, in Figures 1,
and 9 so
that, at the extremity of the curling-bar, the slot terminates before extending out
through the extremity of the bar to form an unsightly notch in said extremity, as will
be understood.
Within said slot is permanently and rigidly fastened the metallic comb-plate, c,
the back edge of which is formed on a curve corresponding with the curve of the
groove.
I may employ pins or rivets, e, or a lug such as f, Fig. 7, to hold the comb-plate in
position but I prefer to press the jaws g, g, Fig. 6, together against the said comb-
plate by dies, rollers, or other tools and thus hold said plate in position without such
fastening means as will detract from the finish of the device.

page_text: This means of fastening the comb-plate may be employed in connection with a sum
curling-comb as in Fig. 9.
At the opposite end of the longitudinal bar is hinged a curling tong, h, which
co-operates with the end of said bar in curling the hair in a manner common to the
ordinary curling-tongs.
The said tong consists of a concavo-convex plate arranged longitudinally parallel
with the bar, a, the said har resting in the concavity of the tong h.
At the end of the hinged tong nearer the handle the same is provided with a raised
finger piece i. By pressing down on said piece the tong turns on its pivot or fulcrum, j,
the concaved portion is raised from the bar, a, to receive the hair between.
The bar is slotted or recessed, as at K, near the pivotal or fulcrumal part of the
hinged tong and within the slot is arranged a spring, 1, consisting of a spirally twisted
wire arranged on the pivot, j, and having oppositely bearing arms one of which presses
on the bar and the other on the prong so as to hold the laiter normally closed against.
the bar, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
By the use of the curling-tongs and curling-comb combined in one implement, the
The user is
person dressing her hair can do so with greater convenience and ease.
provided, in the one instrument, with a comb to first prepare the hair for curling,
then at the other end with curling tongs which are brought into play by reversing
the instrument or turning it end for end.
The tongues produce the curls, when heated in the usual way; then by a return
movement of the device, the comb may be brought again into play and also employed
as a curler or crimper to subdue .or tone down the curls first made and to impart to
the adjacent shorter hairs a wavy appearance, thereby producing a beauty of effect
heretofore unattainable by any single implement.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven
tion, and what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what
claim is :-
1. The hair-dressing implement herein described consisting of a handled rod or ba
having a comb at one end and a concavo-convex curling tong secured on the other
the parts being arranged and combined substantially as and for the purpos
set forth.
2. The improved hair-dressing implement herein described, combining therein
bar, a, having a comb-plate secured at one end and at the other having a concav
curling tong hinged thereto and held close thereto by a spring, substantially
set forth.
3. The improved hair-dressing instrument combining therein a longitudinally slotte
bar and a metallic comb-plate rigidly fixed within the slot thereof, substantially as a
for the purposes set forth.
4. The improved curling-comb, combining a slotted bar and a metallic comb-pla
arranged in the slot thereof and having the extremities of the inner edge of said pla
flush with the peripheral surface of said bar, substantially as set forth.
5. The combination of the bar, a, having a longitudinal slot, a concavo-convex pla
pivoted on said bar and a spring arranged in the slot, coiled around the pivot a
bearing oppositely on the concavo-convex plate and the bar, substantially
set forth.
LUSTE
gith day
CHARLES FELDER.
Haseltine, Lake & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.