IMPROVEMENTS IN HAIR CURLING IRONS to be as follows:-
Year: 1885

page_text: I WILLIAM LORD BALLIN HINDE of Nos 15 and 16 Oxford Street Birming.
ham in the County of Warwick Brush Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HAIR CURLING IRONS to be as
follows:-
"
My invention consists in constructing hair curling irons in the following manner.
I take a piece of steel wire of a length somewhat greater than twice the length
of the curling iron to be made. I curve the said wire at its middle by a semi-
circular curve so as to make two parallel or nearly parallel branches. At or about
the middle of each branch I make an oblique bend inwards. the parts of the
branches between the bends and their ends being in lines parallel to the lines of
the parts between the bends and the semi circular curve. The bent parts of the
arms cross each other and the parts between the said bends and the ends of the
branches lie parallel against one another and constitute the acting parts of
the curling iron that is the parts between which the hair is held and around
which it is curled.
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The branches may be flattened where they cross and one of the acting arms
may be made concave so that the other may lie in it. The wire may also be
flattened at the semi-circular-curve.
The elasticity of the wire causes the acting parts to press against one another
with sufficient force to hold firmly the hair held between them. The part between
the acting parts and the semi-circular curve constitutes the handle of the curling
iron. In using the curling iron the handle is grasped tightly. By this means its
sides are pressed together and the acting parts separated. After the introduction
of the hair between the acting parts the pressure on the handle is relaxed when
the two acting parts close upon and grasp the hair and the curling of the hair is
effected as usual that is by turning the curling irons.
The two branches may be jointed between the crossing parts and the base of the
handle so that the instrument may be doubled or folded so as to diminish its length
when not in use to about one half its normal length the acting parts folding into
the parts constituting the handle.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

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I WILLIAM LORD BALLIN HINDE of Nos 15 and 16 Oxford Street Birmingham
in the County of Warwick, Brush Manufacturer 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 :-
My invention consists in constructing hair curling irons in the following manner.
I take a piece of steel wire of a length somewhat greater than twice the length
of the curling iron to be made. I curve the said wire at its middle by a semi-
circular curve so as to make two parallel or nearly parallel branches. At or about
the middle of each branch I make an oblique bend inwards the parts of the
branches between the bends and their ends being in lines parallel to the lines of
the parts between the bends and the semi circular curve. The bent parts of the
arms cross each other and the parts between the said bends and the ends of the
branches lie parallel against one another and constitute the acting parts of
the curling iron, that is, the parts between which the hair is held and around
which it is curled.
The branches may be flattened where they cross and one of the acting arms may
be made concave so that the other may lie in it. The wire may also be flattened
at the semi circular curve.
.
The elasticity of the wire causes the acting parts to press against one another
with sufficient force to hold firmly the hair held between them. The part between
the acting parts and the semi circular curve constitutes the handle of the curling
iron. In using the curling iron the handle is grasped tightly. By this means its
After the introduction
sides are pressed together and the acting parts separated.
of the hair between the acting parts the pressure on the handle is relaxed when
the two acting parts close upon and grasp the hair and the curling of the hair is
effected as usual that is by turning the curling iron.
The two branches may be jointed between the crossing parts and the base of the
bandle so that the instrument may be doubled or folded so as to diminish its length
when not in use to about one half its normal length, the acting parts folding into
the parts constituting the handle.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in front elevation and
Figure 2 in side elevation a folding hair curling iron made according to my
invention the acting arms or branches being closed or in their normal position;
Figure 3 represents in front elevation and Figure 4 in side elevation, the said
curling iron with the acting arms or branches opened for gripping the hair;
Figure 5 represents in front elevation and Figure 6 in side elevation the acting
arms doubled or folded into the handle part so as to diminish the length of the
curling iron to about one half of its normal length; Figure 7 represents the
concave or hollow acting arm and Figure 8 the solid or convex arm of the curling
iron detached from the handle part. The same letters of reference indicate the
same parts in the several Figures of the drawing.
a, a is the handle part of the curling iron made of a piece of steel wire bent
or doubled at its middle by a semi-circular curve a³ so as to form two parallel

page_text: branches. By the elasticity of the wire the branches of the handle are made to
separate thereby causing the acting arms b, c to press against one another with
sufficient force to hold the hair held between them as represented in Figures 1
and 2. The semi-circular bend a of the elastic handle a, a is flattened as repre-
sented. The two acting arms b, c of the curling iron are jointed at b³, c³ to the
ends of the elastic handle a, a. The lower ends of the arms b, c where they join
the elastic handle a, a are bent obliquely at d, d³ and the said bent parts cross
each other the bent part d of the concave arm b having a slot e in it through which
the bent part d' of the other arm c works as represented in Figures 1. 2. 3 and 4.
The bent part d in which the slot e is made is flattened and the bent part d' of the
other arm is reduced in diameter to pass through the slote in the part d. The
elasticity of the handle a, a causes the acting arms or branches b, c to close upon
one another so that the convex arm or branch c lies in the concave arm or branch b
as represented.
In using the curling iron the parts are unfolded into the extended position
represented in Figures 1 and 2 and the arms b, c are heated. The elastic handle is
then grasped tightly. The sides of the said handle are thereby pressed together
and the acting arms or branches b, c separated as illustrated in Figure 3. After
the introduction of the hair between the open acting arms or branches b, c the
pressure on the handle a, a is relaxed when the acting arms or branches b, c close
upon and grasp the hair. By the turning of the curling iron, the hair is coiled
upon the heated arms b, c and maintained in that position until the hair has taken
the required figure as is well understood.
After the use of the curling iron it is folded or doubled as illustrated in
Figures 5 and 6, the acting arms or branches b, c folding into the handle a, a.
When the curling iron is in its folded position Figures and 6 its length is
diminished to about one half of the normal length of the curling iron.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim
as my invention of "Improvements in hair curling irons
"
The combination of the elastic handle a, a, a³, made by flattening and doubling
a piece of steel wire at its middle, with the acting arms or branches b, c, d, d¹
and e of the curling iron, the said arms crossing one another and being jointed to
the ends of the elastic handle, whereby the curling iron when not in use may be
folded or doubled so as to diminish its length to about one half its normal
length substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawing.
Dated this Savanteenth day of July 1886