Improvements in Pins or Appliances for Use in Ourling or Frizzing the Hair.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Apr., 1896
Complete Specification Left. 23rd July, 1896-Accepted, 29th Aug., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pins or Appliances for Use in Ourling or Frizzing
the Hair.
We, JEREMIAH TAYLOR, of 112 Steelhouse Lane, Wolverhampton in the.
County of Stafford, Ironplate Worker, and WILLIAM ALLAN LLOYD-DAVIES,
of Melbourne House, Dudley Road, Wolverhampton, aforesaid, Surgeou, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to pins or appliances which are each provided with a pair
of arms or bars between which a lock or portion of hair is held while the hair is
curled or wound around the pair of arms by turning the appliance round and round,
each appliance being provided also with means by which when the lock or portion
of hair has been curled or wound around the pair of arms the latter are prevented
from turning or slipping out from the hair so that the hair remains wound upon
them through the night, or for any required length of time.
Such pins or appliances, as ordinarily constructed for the purpose, are unsightly
in use, as a considerable portion of each is exposed to view, and they are also
somewhat clumsy, and are liable to become accidentally detached from the hair.
In removing them, also, the hair is liable to be disarranged.
Now, the chief object of this invention is to construct pins or appliances for
the purpose aforesaid, which while very simple in character and thoroughly efficient,
are invisible or so nearly so as to be scarcely observed when fastened to the hair,
and are not so liable as the appliances usually employed for the purpose to become
accidentally detached therefrom, and are readily removable, without liability of
disarranging the hair.
According to this invention, the pair of arms or bars are pivoted to a slider
formed with eyes through which are passed, respectively, the two prongs of a hair
pin. The slider may thus be slid along the hair pin, but the ends or points of the
prongs are, preferably, flattened somewhat to widen them or are otherwiso shaped
to prevent the slider becoming accidentally detached from the hair pin.
When a lock or portion of hair is to be held by the arms and curled or wound
thereon, the slider is moved outwards along the hair pin so that the arms or a
sufficient length thereof may be clear of the hair pin, and when the hair has been
curled or wound upon the pair of arms the hair pin is pushed forwards within the
eyes of the slider, which thus act as guides therefor, and into the hair, and thus
by preventing the arms from turning securely prevents the hair from unwinding,.
and also retains the appliance in place.
When the applianco is thus fixed in place it is concealed or nearly so in the hair,
any portion which may be exposed being only the outer end or yoke of the hair
pin and the slider or a part thereof. The outer end or yoke of the hair pin may
conveniently be straight for most of its length, and join by very short curves into
the prongs.
To remove the appliance from the head, it may be simply drawn back out of
the hair, and no disarrangeinent of the hair results.
The pins or appliances constructed according to this invention, for the purpose
set forth, are also lighter and neater 'in appearance than the appliances usually
constructed for the purpose.
11000
Dated this 23rd day of A 1000.
STEPHEN WATKINS,
Wolverhampton, Agent for tho Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pins or Appliances for Use in Curling or Frizzing
the Hair.
We, JEREMIAH TAYLOR, of 112 Steelhouse Lane, Wolverhampton in the
County of Stafford, Ironplate Worker, and WILLIAM ALLAN LLOYD-DAVIES,
of Melbourne House, Dudley Road, Wolverhampton, aforesaid, Surgeon, 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 pins or appliances which are each provided with a pair
of arms or bars between which a lock or portion of hair is held while the hair is
curled or wound around the pair of arms by turning the appliance round and round,
each appliance being provided also with means by which when the lock or portion
of hair has been curled or wound around the pair of arms the latter are prevented
from turning or slipping out from the hair so that the hair remains wound upon
them through the night, or for any required length of time.
Such pins or appliances, as ordinarily constructed for the purpose, are unsightly
in use, as a considerable portion of each is exposed to view, and they are also some-
what clumsy, and are liable to become accidentally detached from the hair. In
removing them, also, the hair is liable to be disarranged.
Now, the chief object of this invention is to construct pine or appliances for the
purpose aforesaid, which while very simple in character and thoroughly efficient,
are invisible or so nearly so as to be scarcely observed when fastened to the hair,
and are not so liable as the appliances usually employed for the purpuse to become
accidentally detached therofrom, aud are readily removable without liability of
disarranging the hair.
According to this invention, the pair of arms or bars are connected at their
inner ends with a slider formed with eyes through which are passed, respectively,
the two prongs of a hair piu; and these arms are adapted to be opened out in
relation to one another at their outer ends for the purpose of engaging them with
a lock or portion of hair. The slider may thus be slid along the hair pin, but the
prongs are, preferably, flattened somewhat at or near their outer ends to widen
them, or other provision is made at or near such ends to prevent the slider becoming
accidentally detached from the hair pin.
In order that the invention may be clearly understood, we will describe a
convenient application thereof by reference to the accompanying drawings, of
which :-
Figure 1 is a plan or flat view. of a piu or appliance constructed according to
this invention, for the purpose set forth, the slider being in its backward position
along, the hair pin.
Figure 2 is a transverse sectiou, to au enlarged size, taken on line x of
Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a view of the opposite side of the pin or appliance to that shewu by
Figure 1, and shews the slider to be in its outward position in relation to the hair
pin, and the arms to be opened out for engagement with a lock of hair.
Figure 4 is a corresponding view to Figure 3, but shews the arms to have been
closed up and a leck, of hair wound thercaround.
Figure 5 shows the hair pin to have been pushed into the hair which has been
wound around the arms.
A is the hair pin (of the usual character) having prongs a and yoke b. B is a
slider, having eyes e through which, respectively, the prongs a of the hair pin are
passed. This slider may conveniently be formed of sheet metal (such as sheet
brass), as shewn, the eyes c being formed by simply curling over the side edges of 5

page_text: the metal. C are the arms, which are conveniently made of plain strips of flat
steel. These arms are pivoted to the slider B by means of a rivet d. The outer-
ends e of the prongs a are shewn as flattened. The purpose of flattening these ends
is that thereby the metal is widened, and the slider thus prevented from slipping
off the prongs. One of the prongs only may have its outer end flattened as in such
case the slider will be prevented from slipping off the prongs, but it is preferred to
flatten the outer end of each prong. Any convenient means may, however, be
adopted to form a projection from one or both of the prongs to prevent the slider
slipping off.
When a lock or portion of hair is to be held by the arms C and curled or wound
thereon, the slider B is moved outwards along the prongs a of the hair pin A until
it is stopped by the projecting portions of the flats e, as shown by Figure 3. The
arms C may then be opened out, as shewn by Figure 3, to engage them with a lock
of bair. After they have been engaged with the hair, by closing them up again
with the hair between them in the manner usual with appliances for the purpose, the
hair is wound around the pair of arms by turning the appliance round and round,
and then the hair pin A is pushed forwards within the eyes c of the slider B, which
thus act as guides therefor, and into the bair, which has been wound around the-
pair of arms C, and thus by preventing the arms from turning securely prevents.
the hair from unwinding, and also retains the appliance in place.
When the appliance is thus fixed in place, it is concealed, or nearly so, in the
hair, any portion which may be exposed being only the outer end or yoke of the
hair pin, the slider or a part thereof, and sometimes the binder ends of the pair of
arms.
To remove the appliance from the head, it may be simply drawn back out of the
bair, and no disarrangement of the hair results.
The arms or bars C may, more especially when the appliance is to be used for
curling the hair simply rather than for frizzing it, be made, if desired, half-round
in section, with their flat sides towards one another when closed up.
The pins or
appliances constructed according to this invention, for the purpose
Ect forth, are also lighter and neater in appearance than the appliances usually
constructed for the purpose.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we-
claim is :-
1. A pin or appliance for use in curling or frizzing the hair, which comprises a
hair pin or double-pronged device, a slider enguging with and capable of being
Blid along the prongs of such hair pin or device, and a pair of arms connected at
their inner ends with the slider and adapted to be opened in relation to one another
at their outer ends for the purpose of engaging them with a lock or portion of hair,.
substantially as described.
2. A pin or appliance for use in curling or frizzing the hair, which comprises a
hair pin, a slider engaging with and capable of being slid along the hair pin, and a
pair of arms connected at their inner ends with the slider and pivotally connected
at such ends with one another to admit of their outer ends being opened out in
relation to one another for the purpose of engaging them with a lock or portion of
hair, substantially as described."
3. A pin or appliance for use in curling or frizzing the bair, constructed.
substantially us described and shewn by the drawings herewith, for the purpose..
set forth.
Dated this 22nd day of Tule 1808
STEPHEN WATKINS,
Wolverhampton, Agent for the Applicants..