IMPROVEMENTS IN CURLING TONGS OR IRONS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Carter at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th January 1883.
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CHARLES CARTER of 6 Station Road. Clapham Junction, in the County of
Surrey "IMPROVEMENTS IN CURLING TONGS OR IRONS
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This invention relates specially to one handed curling tongs or irons so that the
other hand of the operator is free to use the comb or other appliance to protect
the head from the heat of the tongs or irons during the curling operation.
For the purpose of my Invention I attach to or form one blade of the tongs or
irons with a handle and near where the blades aro jointed or from about where
they have their opening and closing motion I terminate the shank of the other
blade with a flattened or other shaped piece or I fit a button or appliance to it
I also affix a spring to the handle of the other leg and cause it to bear upon or
against the flattened piece or its equivalent to put the two blades into contact.
The operator in using my improved tongs or irons, after heating them, opens the
blade by a pinch of the handle and a pressure by the thumb on the flattened
piece, one blade is then arranged under and the other blade above the hair and
the flattened piece released, to permit of the spring acting to close the blades.
The curling tongs or irons can then be freely turned by the handle by one hand
only of the operator the other hand being free to manipulate the comb or other
appliance as described. In some cases I form the two blades by bending a "shaped
strip of metal and bend it as to form one handle and with a tongue piece by a
pressure on which the points of the blades can be opened.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Charles Carter in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th July
1883.
CHARLES CARTER of 6 Station Road Clapham Junction in the county of Surrey
IMPROVEMENTS IN CURLING TONGS OR IRONS
This invention relates specially to one handled curling tongs or irons so that the
other hand of the operator is free to use the comb or other appliance to protect the
head from the heat of the tongs or irons during the curling operation
For the purpose of my invention as represented in the annexed drawings
Figures 1 and 2 I attach to or form one blade A of the tongs or irons only with a
handle B and near where the blades are jointed or from about where they have
their opening and closing motion I terminate the shank C of the other blado D
with a flattened or other shaped piece E.
I affix a spring F to the handle B of the other leg A and cause it to bear upon
or against the flattened piece E or its equivalent to put the two bludes into
contact.
The operator in using my improved tongs or irons after heating them opens the
blades by pressure of the thumb on the flattened piece E one blade is then
arranged under and the other blado above the hair and the flattened piece released
to permit of the springy action to close the blades. The curling tongs or irons can
then be freely turned by the handle by one hand only of the operator the other
hand being free to manipulate the comb or other appliance as desired.
As a modified arrangement or construction I form the two blades A, D, by
bending a "shaped" strip of metal as to form a handle B with a thumbpicce E by
a pressure on which the points of the blades can bo opened.
Figure 4 shows the two blades A D affixed to a spring bow F the handle B
being attached to one portion and the thumb piece E to the other.
Figures 5 and 6 represent further modifications in which the two blades A. D
with the handle B are formed from one pioco of metal Pressure on the bowed
part F will open the blades: In Figure 6 the bent portion of the handle is inserted
in a wooden stock or handle for convenience.
Various other modified mothods of connecting the blades as to use one hand
only can be devised but the foregoing sufficiently describes the invention and the
means by which it is carried into effect I therefore Claim.
The exclusive manufacture and use of curling tongs or irons having one handle
only the blades being under control of a spring or its equivalent to close them as
described
Secondly I claim The particular constructions or arrangements of curling tongs
or irons shown in the annexed drawings.
In witness whereof I the said Charles Carter have hereunto set my hand and
seal this twentieth day of June. in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and eighty three