improvements in means or Appliances for Curling, Frizzing, or Waving Hair.
Year: 1885

page_text: improvements in means or Appliances for Curling, Frizzing,
or Waving Hair.
We WILLIAM Bown, of 308 Summer Lane Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, and GEORGE CAPEWELL. of 17 Victoria Place, Potters
Lane, Aston near Birmingham aforesaid, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of
our said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPLIANCES FOR CURLING,
FRIZZING, OR WAVING HAIR to be as follows:-
Our improvements relate to appliances for curling, frizzing, or waving hair, or
other like purpose, which are generally used hot, our object being to simplify
the construction, and which improvements consist in making them out of sheet
steel or other metal, tubing, or wire, and by suitable tools forming them into the
desired shape for the purpose required-In carrying our improvements into effect,
we form the parts which, when put together make the complete appliance of
blanks of sheet metal, tubing, or wire, and bend or shape them into the desired
form, providing T or cross pieces, or projections on one of them in a convenient
position, fitting in holes or recesses in the other part, to form the axis or joint,
without a loose rivet being added-The parts are suitably shaped, when desired,
so as to admit of wood or other handle or handles being fitted to them; and the
ends which are intended for curling, frizzing, or waving the hair may be kept
apart or closed when desired by the introduction of a suitable spring catch, spring
or springs, formed out of or secured to either of the parts.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in Means or Appliances for Curling, Frizzing,
or Waving Hair.
We WILLIAM BOWN of Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manufacturer
and GEORGE CAPEWELL of Aston near Birmingham aforesaid do hereby declare
the nature of our said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPLIANCES
FOR CURLING FRIZZING OR WAVING HAIR "and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
Our improvements relate to appliances for curling, frizzing or waving hair or
other like purpose which are generally used hot, and consist in making them out
of sheet steel or other metal, tubing, or wire and by suitable tools forming them
into the desired shape for the purpose required.
In carrying our improvements into effect we form the parts which when put
together make the complete appliance of blanks of sheet metal tubing or wire and
bend or shape them into the desired form providing T or cross pieces or projections
or one of them in a convenient position fitting in holes or recesses in the other
part to form the axis or joint without the use of a loose rivet-The parts are
suitably shaped to admit of a wood or other handle or handles being fitted to them
-the end for curling frizzing or waving the hair being kept apart or closed when
desired by a suitable spring catch, spring or springs formed out of or secured to
either of the parts.
But in order that we may be fully understood as to the nature of our improve-
ments we will describe the drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figure 1. represents a longitudinal section of our improved curling tongs or
appliances, Figure 2. also a longitudinal section but with the lever A. extended to
take in the hair for curling or frizzing, and Figure 3. an elevation of the same-
The body B is formed by preference out of sheet metal or steel cut out and pierced
as at Figure 4. and bent into the form shown at Figure 1. by suitable press tools,
the Tor cross pieces or lugs C on the lever A shown detached at Figure 5. working
in the holes in the ears D. of the body B thereby forming the axis or joint for the
lever A to work on-This lever A may be made of tube sheet metal or wire or a
combination of the same-The Spring E Figure 6. is connected to the end of the
body B. by a screw or rivet as shown at F. or may be formed in one piece with
the body if preferred-The spring E keeps the appliances in a closed position as
at Figure 1. When used for curling or frizzing the appliance is held by the
handle G. in one hand and by pressing on the button H. the lever A is extended
as at Figure 2 permitting the hair to be inserted and curled frizzed or waved
as desired by releasing the lever which by the force of the spring E brings the
lever A and body B. together and confines the hair during the operation of curling
or otherwise.

page_text: By our improvements it will be seen that these appliances may be used with
one hand only leaving the other free and the construction is also very much
simplified.
Having now described our improvements we wish it understood that we do not
purpose confining ourselves to the precise details herein described and exhibited
as they may be varied without departing from the spirit of our invention but what
we claim and desire protected by Letters Patent is
The improvements in means or appliance for curling waving or frizzing hair
substantially as herein described and exhibited.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicants.