Improvements in Devices for Curling or Crimping Hair.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 4th May, 1888.
Specification Accepted, 8th June, 1888
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by MARK CAMPBELL, of Chicago, Illinois, United States
of America.]
Improvements in Devices for Curling or Crimping Hair.
1, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake, and Co., Patent Agents
Southampton Buildings in the county of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature
of the said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The invention consists in the combination and operative arrangement of part
hereinafter set forth and pointed out in the appended claims.
The device is particularly intended for use in the work of curling, crimping
frizzing or otherwise manipulating hair, wherein heat is employed for giving
permanent or substantially permanent form thereto.
The accompanying drawing illustrates the most desirable form for such purpose,
but the details of construction shown may be varied to any practical requirements
present in the work to which, it is generally adapted.
The invention comprises a cylinder, tube casing or jacket fixedly carried by a
suitable handle; a core movably carried by the said cylinder, tube, casing or jacket
interiorly thereof; and a compressing jaw or blade which works upon the exterior
surface of the said outer member; or alternatively, a core fixedly carried by said
bandle; a cylinder, tube casing or jacket movably carried by the said coro; and a
compressing jaw or blade operatively arranged as above set forth.
The relative arrangement of the said cylinder, tube casing or jacket and the core is
such that one of the said members is movable with reference to the member. which is
fixed to the bandle so that the core may be exposed for the purpose of heating the
same and afterward covered by the outer member preliminarily to using the device in
the work of manipulating hair between the adjacent surfaces of the said two members
a space is provided within which the air circulates for the purpose of limiting.or
graduating the effects upon the outer member of the radiant heat from the core.
The essential feature of construction in the device in so far as the said two members
are concerned, is the operative location of the core within the outer member, as
is, herein described, whereby the core may be exposed and covered for the purposes
set forth, without separating the same from the said outer member as is the case in
known devices of the same general character.
One of the leading advantages attained by thus constructing and operatively
arranging the said members is the fact that the difficulty and danger arising from

page_text: inserting a heated core into the outer member after the hair is curled or otherwise
arranged thereon is obviated, it being obvious that in my device the core is securely
and readily stored within its outer covering before the manipulation of the hair
is attempted.
In the accompanying drawing.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of my said invention showing the core B which is
longitudinally movable, in its normal position within the cylindrical jacket A which is
fixed to the handle C.
Figure 2 is a side elevation of the device showing the said core projecting from the
outer member, its position being such as it would occupy when being heated.
Figure 3 is a side elevation of the device, showing the manner in which the core B is
exposed when the outer member is adapted to move instead of the core.
Figure 4 is a longitudinal sectional detail of the device showing the construction of
the core and outer member, the core being longitudinally movable, as shown in
figures 1 and 2.
Figure 5 is a transverse sectional detail of the core and outer member, takon on
the line XX of figure 1.
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Referring to the several figures of the drawing in which like letters denote similar
parts C is the handle of the device preferably formed of spring wire to one end
of which is fixed a cylinder A as shown in figures 1, 2, and 4, or a core B, as shown
in figure 3. The said core is provided with a stop b, preferably in the form of
a "projecting portion as shown in figure 4, the cylinder A being provided with
a similar reverse projection a, or its equivalent, which are the means which I
preferably employ for securing the said members together.
a is a continuous space provided between the adjacent surfaces of said core and
cylinder, adapted to permit a current of air to circulate between the said members
when the core is heated and in its operative position, its purpose being to prevent the
cylinder from becoming too hot and thereby damaging the hair.
c is the free end of the handle C, which forms a compressing jaw or blade which
bears upon the cylinder A for securing the hair upon said cylinder, the handle C
being given such form as is best calculated to exert a constant tension of the said jaw
or blade toward the cylinder.
The core and cylinder are preferably fitted to each other loosely so as to enable the
movable member to be thrown into the position shown in figures 2 and 3 by
a forward or jerking movement of the hand which grasps the handle C, and to be
returned to its normal position by simply holding the device in a vertical position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me' by my 'foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:
First. In curling and crimping devices the combination of a handle; a heating core
..and a cylinder tube casing, or jacket operatively located exterior of said core the
arrangement of said parts being such that either the core or the outer member
is fixed to the handle, and the other member is capable of movement longitudinally
thereof for a distance sufficient to expose the core substantially as shown and for the
purpose set forth.
Second. In curling and crimping devices the combination with a heating-core and
a bylinder, tube casing or jacket operatively located exterior thereof on an air
circulating space interposed between said members substantially as shown and
described.
Dated thin 1
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HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.