Improvements in or Additions to Hair Curlers.
Year: 1895

page_text: The decision of the Comptroller-General, of the 24th day of July 1895, allowed,
under Section 18 of the Patents, &c. Act, 1883, an Amendment of this
Specification.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Additions to Hair Curlers.
I, JOHN ERNEST HULBERT of the Firm of W. E. Peck and Company, of
Manchester House, Friday Street, London E.C., Merchant, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in, or additions to, instruments to be
employed in curling and frizzing the human hair, commonly known as hair curlers,
and has for its object, the employment of a cushioned or soft bearing as the axial
support or primary member upon which the hair is wound.
My invention consists in making the primary middle or bearing member of, or
covering it with, an elastic material such as india-rubber, gutta percha, balata or
any like soft substances.
In carrying out one form of my invention, I take an ordinary metal or other
middle bar, (preferably of a flat cross section) jointed to a frame of any well-known
construction, and I provide the same with, or thread, slip or fit thereon, a hollow
spindle or double-cone shaped sleeve of india rubber or the like with the holes in
the ends suitable for taking upon the middle bar or axis. This hollow sleeve,
which is preferably larger at the middle than at the ends, forms a cushion or soft
foundation or support upon which the hair to be curled is wound.
A second and external bar, coming outside, and following the contour of, the
cushion bar constitutes a nipping member, between which and the cushion, the ends
of a tuft of hair are gripped before being coiled or rolled up upon the cushion or
spindle.
By the axial bar being of a flat section, the rotation of the rubber sleeve threaded
thereon is prevented.
Instead of employing a hollow and elastic rubber sleeve of the form described,
I may employ a rubber faced bar or bars, as both the axial bar and the nipping
bar, or a sleeve or axis may be made of solid rubber, gutta percha or like material,
or it may be in the form of an inflated cushion, made of any suitable material.
When such hair curlers are in use, the user is not inconvenienced, when lying
down or otherwise, by the pressure of a hard substance upon the head.
Dated this 5th day of February 1895.

page_text: Improvements in or Additions to Hair Curlers.
1, JOHN ERNEST HULBERT, of the Firm of W. E. Peck and Company, of
Manchester House, Friday Street, London E.C. Merchant, 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 :--
My invention relates to improvements in, or additions to, "hair curlers" or
"curling pins" employed for curling and frizzing the human hair.
Ordinary hair curlers are hard and inflexible, and when in use are hurtful to the
head of the wearer, particularly when reclining.
The object of my improvements is an instrument free from hardness, and
comfortable to the wearer when in use.
In order to attain this object, I employ a soft cushion basis as the primary
support upon which hair to be curled is wrapped or wound.
The soft or cushioning material employed is india rubber, although balata,
gutta percha or like soft substance may be used with nearly the same advantage
as rubber.
Thus, the cardinal feature of my invention is an instrument having a soft cushion
basis, for securing a length of hair to be curled or frizzed.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in front elevation a curling
pin body part, provided with a cushion basis, or a soft material covering sleeve,
upon and around which, hair to be curled is wound or wrapped, according to one
form of my invention.
Figure 2 represents a side elevation of the same.
Figure 3 is an end view.
Figure 4 is a longitudinal vertical section of the body part, showing the fish-
bellied formation of the sleeve, through the hollow axis of which one of the
limb-members of curler frame passes.
Figure 5 shows a cross section of the curler upon the dotted line a Figure 4,
whilst Figure 6 shows an end view of the fore part of the said body of the
instrument.
Figure 7 shows a longitudinal section of the sleeve or cushion basis separately;
Figure 8 represents an elevation of the same, and Figure 9 is an end elevation
thereof, showing one of the open ends, whilst Figure 10 is a cross section of the
same.
The cushion or soft basis consists of a double cone-shaped and slipped-on india-
rubber sleeve a, with open and contracted ends a², of a size suitable for taking
upon, an axial and limb-member b, having a loop or stop 12, at one end, and
continued into a cranked part 6, of a second and tongue-limb member ³, penetrating
and passing through the walls of the rubber cushion at a³, adjacent to one of the
open ends a².
The said tongue member 63, through its flexibility is constrained to follow and
fall to the outside shape of the cushion basis or sleeve, whilst its free end 5, comes
up to, and bears upon the end 6, of the limb b.
Loose ends of a length of hair to be clipped are nipped between the spring
tongue-member and the outside surface of the yielding cushion covering or
facing a, prior to the rotation of the instrument for winding up the hair.
The said body part a as represented, may be provided with any construction of
frame and fastening in or securing means as may be desired.
Figure 11 shows the cushion or yielding body, with its supporting limbs, applied
to a carrier frame. Thus, a is the cushion, b, 3 are the supporting and spring
limbs, with a hinge or joint 62, whilst c is the frame, with a loop-catch end c².

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Figure 12 represents my improvement applied to another form of frame.
the cushioning pad, 6, 63 are the supporting and spring limbs, and c is the frame.
Figure 13 represents the said cushion basis, upon and around which the hair is
coiled, fitted within another form of frame.
Figure 14 is a side elevation of the same, with the joint part in section.
a is the cushioning basis or pad, with limbs b, b³, and outer frame c.
Figure 15 represents the leg members of a curling-pin-fitted-with-tubular-rubber
facings-made according to another form of my invention.
az-u, are the fucings, which are slipped upon the-leg-members-b, b³, between
which the hair is gripped, and around which it is wound when the said limb
members are clamped or otherwise fastened together within a frame.
Figure 16 represents the legs of a-eurling pin, with a facing on one-limb-only.
Figure 17 represents an inflated cushion basis, separately.
Figure 18 represents a solid cushion basis, made of soft india rubber or other
like soft material.
Figure 19 represents a like cushioned basis or sleeve as before referred to
in Figures 1 to 14, but with the bearing ends thickened or extended.
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 :-
First. In hair curlers, employing as the basis or support upon and around which
the hair to be curled is wound, a cushion or pad or facing of some soft material,
such as india-rubber, substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly. The improvements in the bases or body parts of hair curlers,
substantially as described and set forth in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 7th day of March 1895.
JOHN ERNEST HULBERT,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.