Improvements in and relating to Hair Waving and Curling Devices.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Feb., 1899-Accepted, 25th Mar., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Hair Waving and Curling Devices.
I, MARY ELIZABETH THOMPSON, (widow of Charles DeWitt Thompson), residing
at No. 923, Broadway, in the City, County, and State of New York, United States of
America, Manufacturer of Hair Goods, do hereby declare the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:—
My invention relates to devices adapted to transform for a certain length of time
straight human hair into waved or curled hair without encumbering it more than
a minute or two with any rigid or metallic body. Heretofore various forms of
hair clamping pins, wood or paper rolls have been used upon which human hair has
been interlocked or wound, and most generally clamped thereto.
The objects of my invention are to provide simple forked devices upon which
hair can be given the desired wavy or curly form, said device being also provided
with an eye at the crotch of its two branches and with an elongated eye above the
ends of said branches. I attain these objects by the devices illustrated in the
accompanying drawings in which :-
Figure 1 represents a front view of a hair waving or curling pin constructed in
accordance with my invention and carrying a piece of narrow ribbon to retain a
coil of hair.
Figure 2 is a front view of a similar pin carrying a piece of narrow ribbon or
tape to be used to retain a strand of hair in a wavy or coiled form.
Figure 3 represents a similar pin and a piece of narrow ribbon, encompassed to-
gether by a strand of hair.
Figure 4 represents the strand of hair freed from the pin and retained in a
wavy form by the ribbon passing through its folds.
Figure 5 is a front view of a hair waving and curling pin showing its upper eye
of slightly modified form.
Figure 6 shows a similar pin but having the crotch-end provided with two coiled
loops constituting eyes to temporarily retain pieces of ribbon.
Figure represents a hair coiling pin made of sheet metal, having each branch
bent in the form of a concave trough, the two together nearly resembling a cylin-
der, a piece of narrow ribbon being shown connected with one of the branches.
Figure 8 represents a strand of hair bent in a coil and retained in said form by
a piece of ribbon passed through said coil with either one of the pins, shown in
the other figures.
Figure 9 is a front view of a hair waving and coiling pin in which the crotch-
eye is omitted.
In said drawings B represents a hair pin having two branches & substantially
parallel with each other connected at the top or crotch by a loop bent to form an
eye c through which a piece of ribbon D can be passed when it is desired to retain
the hair in the form of a coil. Each branch b has formed therein
e through
adjacent to its end a slot closed at both ends to constitute eyes
The point
which the ribbon 1) can be threaded and temporarily retained.

page_text: of each branch & beyond the eye is smoothly rounded so as to readily pass through
the hair of a person without tangling it, while a strand of it is passed back and
forth between the branches of the pin and around each branch, and therewith
around the ribbon retained by the three or four eyes with which each pin is pro-
vided.
With the pins shown in Figures 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 9, either a zig-zag wavy coil,
or a substantially round coil can be obtained, but when it is desired to obtain a
true round coil the sheet metal pin shown in Figure 7 is preferred as it is a sub-
stantially true cylinder, but it has an eye at each end of each branch to receive one
or two ribbons to secure the coil of hair, which may be wound upon it.
When the pin shown in Figure 9 is used, the operator, after placing the ends of
the ribbon through the eyes e must retain the crotch of the pin and the loop of
the ribbon between her thumb and forefinger, while the hair is passed in zig-zag
form around each branch of the pin and of the ribbon.
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. A hair waving and coiling device consisting of a body looped upon itself and
thereby having two branches with an eye adjacent to the crotch of said branches,
and an eye in each branch adjacent to the pointed end thereof, substantially as
described.
2. A hair waving and coiling device consisting of a body looped upon itself.and
thereby having two-branches, each branch having an eye adjacent to the pointed
end thereof and also an eye adjacent to the crotch of said branches, substantially as
described.
3. A hair waving and coiling device consisting of-a-body-looped-upon itself and
thereby having two branches, each branch having an eye adjacent to the painted
end thereof and said ends smooth and rounded, substantially as shown and described.
Dated the 21st day of February 1899.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.