Improvements in Curling and Waving Pins.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Curling and Waving Pins.
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I, MONROE LEE Ross, of Artillery Mansions, Victoria Street, London, S.W.,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in pins used for waving and curling
hair, the object of the said invention being to provide a waving or curling hair
pin that shall obviate and do away with the present cumbersome and inconvenient
method of waving or curling hair by using rags, or paper strips and the like.
In order to carry out my invention I provide a length of wire, having an
eyelet at each end of the same. This said length of wire is bent double, in a
similar manner to an ordinary hair pin so that the two eyelets are opposite to
each other. I thread a piece of ribbon tape or any convenient similar material,
through one of the eyelets and pass the ribbon along the line of the wire and
through the other eyelet in such a manner that the ribbon assumes the same
shape as the hair pin leaving the two ends of the ribbon extending a convenient
distance beyond the ends of the hair pin, for the purpose of tying the ribbon
or tape as hereinafter described. In manipulating the hair for waving or
curling the said hair is plaited over and under each arm of the bent wire pin
and tape, until all the hair is plaited, when the ends of the ribbon or tape are
taken out of the eyelet and tied in a bow, and the pin is then drawn out from
the opposite end.
If preferred I make the hair pin of a flat plate of metal, and straight instead
of bent as hereinbefore described, this alternative plan being more adapted for
curling purposes.
The two ends of this said flat strip or plate are narrowed down to receive the
eyelets aforesaid, and the side edges are bent over until the flat plate assumes
a tubular shape with a slot running its whole length. I thread the ribbon
or tape through the eyelets, in such a manner that the said tape lies along the
inside of the tubular shaped plate or strip. The hair to be curled is wound
round the bent plate till the necessary amount of hair is so treated when the
ends of the ribbon or tape are withdrawn from the eyelets and the said ribbon
is pulled from out of its position in the bent plate through the space or slot
formed by the bent edges, and tied in a bow over the curled ringlet of hair,
and the curling pin or tube is then withdrawn from the curl in the same manner
as the aforesaid bent wire hair pin.
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Doted this 2nd day of November 1898.
REGINALD W. BARKER,
Applicant's Agent,
56, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.

page_text: Improvements in Curling and Waving Pins.
I, MONROE LEE Ross, of Artillery Mansions, Victoria Street, London, S.W.,
Gentleman, 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 improvements in pins used for waving and curling
hair, the object of the said invention being to provide a waving or curling hair
pin that shall obviate and do away with the present cumbersome and inconvenient
method of waving or curling hair by using rags, or paper strips and the like.
In order to carry out my invention I provide a length of wire, having an
eyelet at each end of the same. This said length of wire is bent double, in a
similar manner to an ordinary hair pin so that the two eyelets are opposite to
each other. I thread a piece of ribbon tape or any convenient similar material,
through one of the eyelets and pass the ribbon along the line of the wire and
through the other eyelet in such a manner that the ribbon assumes the same
shape as the hair pin leaving the two ends of the ribbon extending a convenient
distance beyond the ends of the hair pin, for the purpose of tying the ribbon
or tape as herein before described. In manipulating the hair for waving or
curling the said hair is plaited over and under each arm of the bent wire pin
and tape, until all the hair is plaited, when the ends of the ribbon or tape are
taken out of the eyelet and tied in a bow, and the pin is then drawn out from
the opposite end.
If preferred I make the hair pin of a flat plate of metal, and straight instead
of bent as hereinbefore described, this alternative plan being more adapted for
curling purposes.
The two ends of this said flat strip or plate are narrowed down to receive the
eyelets aforesaid, and the side edges are bent over until the flat plate assumes
a tubular shape with a slot running its whole length. I thread the ribbon
or tape through the eyelets, in such a manner that the said tape lies along the
inside of the tubular shaped plate or strip. The hair to be curled is wound
round the bent plate till the necessary amount of hair is so treated when the
ends of the ribbon or tape are withdrawn from the eyelets and the said ribbon
is pulled from out of its position in the bent plate through the space or slot
formed by the bent edges, and tied in a bow over the curled ringlet of hair,
and the curling pin or tube is then withdrawn from the curl in the same manner
as the aforesaid bent wire hair pin.
In order that this invention may he readily understood reference is made to
the accompanying drawings in which Fig. represents an elevation of a wire
pin, Fig. 2, a similar elevation shewing the ribbon or tape, threaded through the
eyes and in position ready for use, Fig. 3. shews the hair plaited as required
with the aforesaid hairpin and ribbon in place in the plaited hair, Fig. 4, being
the hair plait with the wire hair pin drawn away leaving the ribbon alone in the
hair plaits to be tied or dealt with as may be convenient. Fig. 5, is an elevation
of the modified form of curling or hair pin made of flat metal plate, Fig. 6, a
plan of the same, shewing a portion of hair curled round the curling pin, and
Fig. 7 is an elevation view of the said hair with the curling pin removed. In
these several views A is the wire curling or waving pin, B the ribbon threaded
through the eyelets C. D is the hair to be plaited. E is the curling or waving
pin of flat metal plate, with the side edges bent over at F.
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page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. The provision of a curling or waving pin, made of wire, and having an
eyelet at each end of the same, substantially as and for the purpose herein set
forth and described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
2. The provision of a curling or waving pin, made of flat metal or material,
bent into shape, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth and described
and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of May 1899
REGINALD W. BARKER,
Applicant's Agent,
Vulcan House,
56, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.