Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 6th July, 1886.
Complete Left, 8th Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 7th Apr., 1887.
W
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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 this
Invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of a hair pin the parts of which are constructed and
combined and operate in the manner herein after described.
In making a hair pin according to my invention I take a light elastic wire preferably
of steel and bend it at its middle so as to give it the general figure of an ordinary
hair pin. I will call this the body of my improved hair pin. The end of each arm
is bent into a circular figure and has an eyelet fixed in it. To the end of each of the
arms described a second arm is jointed. This second or jointed arm is connected to
the end of the first named arm by its inner end being bent into a circular figure the
said circular part being connected with the first named arm by the eyelet described.
But I do not limit myself to an eyelet joint. The said jointed arm is thus capable of
being turned either into the same line as or to make any angle with the first named
arm to which it is jointed. The two jointed arms cross each other one of the said
arms passing through and working in a slot in the other. Those faces of the jointed
arms which bear against each other have one of them a concave and the other a convex
figure so that in their normal position one of the said arms is pressed into the trough
of the other. By the elasticity of the bend in the body of the hair pin the jointed
arms are pressed together in whatever position they may be turned with respect to
the body.
My new or improved hair pin is used in the following manner. If it is wished to
form a curl the body of the hair pin is pressed between the thumb and finger when
the jointed arms separate. The hair to be curled is now introduced between the
separated arms. Pressure on the body of the hair pin being relaxed the jointed arms
close upon the hair and the hair pin is turned round and round so as to coil the hair
upon them. When the hair has been coiled sufficiently far the body of the hair pin
is turned so as to bring the coil of air within it. It will now lie flat against the head
and may be worn during the night without inconvenience.
When the hair has been held sufficiently long by the hair pin the body is turned
from off the coil of hair and the body being gently pressed between the thumb and
finger the jointed arms can be drawn out of the curl.
Dated this Sirth deve of Inly 1886
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: 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 my
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 of a hair pin the parts of which are constructed and combined
and operate in the manner herein after described.
In making a hair pin according to my invention I take a light elastic wire
preferably of steel and bend it at its middle so as to give it the general figure of an
ordinary hair pin. I will call this the body of my improved hair pin. The end of
each arm is bent into a circular figure and has an eyelet fixed in it. To the end of
each of the arms described a second arm is jointed. This second or jointed arm is
connected to the end of the first named arm by its inner end being bent into a circular
figure the said circular part being connected with the first named arm by the eyelet
described. But I do not limit myself to an eyelet joint. The said jointed arm is thus
capable of being turned either into the same line as or to make an angle with the first
named arm to which it is jointed. The two jointed arms cross each other one of the
said arms passing through and working in a slot in the other. Those faces of the
jointed arms which bear against each other bave one of them a concave and the other
a convex figure so that in their normal position one of the said arms is pressed into
the trough of the other. By the elasticity of the bend in the body of the hair pin the
jointed arms are pressed together in whatever position they may be turned with
respect to the body.
My new or improved hair pin is used in the following manner. If it is wished to
form a curl, the body of the hair pin is pressed between the thumb and finger when
the jointed arms separate. The hair to be curled is now introduced between the
separated arms. Pressure on the body of the hair pin being relaxed the jointed
arms close upon the hair and the hair pin is turned round and round so as to coil the
hair upon them. When the hair has been coiled sufficiently far the body of the hair
pin is turned so as to bring the coil of hair within it. It will now lie flat against the
head and may be worn during the night without inconvenience.
When the hair has been held sufficiently long by the hair pin the body is turned
from off the coil of hair and the body being gently pressed between the thumb and
finger the jointed arms can be drawn out of the curl.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in front elevation; Figure 2 in
plan and Figures 3 and 4 elevations of opposite sides of a hair pin for curling and
frizzing hair constructed according to my invention; Figure 5 represents the curling
pin with the jointed arms opened for gripping the hair and Figure 6 represents the
body part folded over the jointed arms for holding the hair upon and preventing the
uncurling of the hair from the said arms.

page_text: The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
drawing.
a is the body of the hair pin made of elastic wire bent into the general figure of an
ordinary hair pin, the end of each arm or limb of the said body being bent into an
eye or loop a; b, c are the arms jointed respectively to the ends of the limbs of the
body a the ends of the limbs of the body a and the ends of the arms b, c being jointed
together by eyelets d passed through the eyes of the said parts and rivetted as best
seen in the sectional part of Figure 6 but I do not limit myself to the jointing of the
arms and body together by eyelets. By jointing the arms b, c to the body a in the
manner described they may be turned from out of the body as represented in
Figures 1. 2. 3 4 and 5, or into the body as represented in Figure 6, or they may be
made to take any angle with respect to the said body. The jointed arms b, c cross one
another, the base of the arm c being slotted at e for the base of the other arm 6 to
work in (see Figure 2). The elasticity of the bend of the body a tends to separate
the two limbs of the body and as the two jointed_arms b, c cross each other they are
consequently pressed together by the said body. The face of the arm b is convex and
that of the arm c concave so that in their normal position, the arm bis pressed into the
trough of the other arm c (see Figure 2) in whatever position the said arms may be
turned with respect to the body a. By pressing together. the limbs of the body a
between the thumb and finger the jointed arms b, c may be opened or separated as
represented in Figure 5 for gripping the hair to be curled or frizzed.
In using the hair pin the arms b, c are turned from out the body a as illustrated in
Figures 1. 2. 3 and 4, or at any required angle to the body, and the said arms are
opened as illustrated in Figure 5. The hair to be curled is now introduced between
the separated arms b, c. Pressure on the body a being relaxed the jointed arms close
upon and grip the hair and the hair pin is turned round and round so as to coil the
hair upon the arms b. c. When the hair has been coiled sufficiently far the body a
of the hair pin is turned upon its joints at d, d into the position represented in
Figure 6 so as to bring the coil of hair upon the said arms within the said body,
thereby preventing the uncurling of the hair from the said arms. The hair pin will
now lie Hat against the head and may be worn during the night without inconvenience.
When the hair has been held sufficiently long by the hair pin the body a is turned off
the coil of hair and arms b, c and the said body being gently pressed between the
thumb and finger the jointed arms b, c can be drawn out of the curl of hair.
In using the pin for frizzing the hair the method before described for curling is
adopted but after a tight row of curls has been made instead of the curls being
retained in ringlets they are brushed out until they assume the required frizzy
condition.
.
The elastic body of the hair pin may be shortened and the arms be made in one
piece with the shortened elastic body, the curled hair being held upon the pin by a
jointed arm turning on the said body.
This modification of my invention is illustrated in Figures 7, 8 and 9 of the
drawing b, c are the arms of the hair pin by which the hair is gripped and upon
which it is curled and a is the shortened elastic body of a circular form. The body
and arms are made from one piece of wire. The bases of the arms b, c cross one
another the parts being flattened where they cross as represented. By compressing
the circular body a the arms b, c can be opened or separated. To the body a an arm f
is jointed or connected. The upper end of the jointed arm is hooked at 3 and can
be made to engage with the two parts b, c of the curling pin and prevent the uncurling
of the hair from the said pin. This arm may either turn upon a joint pin f* as
represented in Figure 7 or a loop at the end of the arm may be engaged with an
eyef in the elastic body a the said eye f being made from the same piece of wire
as the body a and armis b c.
In using this hair pin the hooked end f³ of the jointed armis turned from off the
curling pin b, c and the two parts of the said curling pin are separated and the hair
gripped and coiled upon them in the manner herein before described and after
sufficient hair has been coiled upon them the hooked end of the arm fis engaged with

page_text: the end of the curling pin as represented in the drawing and the uncurling of the hair
from the said pin prevented.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention ;-
First A hair pin for curling and frizzing hair consisting of the elastic body a to
the ends of the limbs or branches of which the ends of the curling arms or curling pin
proper b, c are jointed, the said arms being pressed together by the elasticity of the
said body and capable of being turned into or out of the said body or placed at any
angle with the said body, the said hair pin being used and the several parts acting
substantially as herein before described and illustrated in Figures 1. 2. 3. 4. 5 and 6
of the accompanying Drawing.
Secondly The modification of the hair pin herein before described and illustrated
in Figures 7. and 9 of the drawing in which the jointing of the arms is dispensed
with and the arms and body are made of one piece of wire.
Dated this Seventh day of March 1887.
WILLIAM LORD BALLIN HINDE.