Improvements in Hair Curlers.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hair Curlers.
I, WILLIAM LOVE
County of London do
follows:-
Engineer of Alpha Works Penton Street N. in the
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
My invention consists firstly in the adoption of hard paper material or celluloid
cut out to a particular form and squeezed by mechanical pressure into such suitable
shell-like form as to enable the material to stand stiff in the parts required to be
rigid while leaving the parts required for bending flat and supple.
The particular form is obtained by cementing together for half their length two
flat strips of material leaving when joined a kind of fork at the free ends. The
part cemented together is cut & pressed into a shell-like form with a round
perforated head at the opposite end to the fork, which head is capable of being
bent on a neck left narrow and flat for that purpose. There is also a narrowed
part or neck between the shell and the double fork to enable the latter to be bent
back and tucked into the head where they are secured by small bulbs at the end
of the forks passing into a slot above the hole in the head.
These forks are in the operation of pressing also formed into a half round to
stiffen them.
To use the curler the end of hair is gripped in the fork & when rolled the end
of the fork is bent over and pushed through the slotted head at the opposite end of
the shell-like body.
Dated this 30th day of June 1896
WILLIAM LOVE,
Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hair Curlers.
I, WILLIAM LOVE Engineer late of Alpha Works, Penton Street N. in the
County of London but now of 42 Claremont Square N. in the said county 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:
My invention consists firstly in the adoption of flat sheet paper celluloid or like
pliant material cut to suitable forms and pressed into a shell-like or vaulted form
in the parts required to be stiff while the parts required to bend are left flat and
consequently supple. In carrying out my idea two sheets or strips of material
are cemented together for half their length. After being cut and pressed the
uncemented parts form a fork A to grip the end of the hair while the parts
cemented B form a stiff handle or back onto which the fork is fastened when the
curl is made. The fork prongs are stiffened equally by doming, while between

page_text: the fork & the handle, the material, being flat and. supple, forms a sort of flexible
binge enabling the fork to be brought over parallel to the "handle" and pushed
into a slotted eye C standing vertical to the back somewhat in the manner of a
safety-pin. The fork is further secured in the eye by a slight bulb D formed in
the cutting out..
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
A method of producing effective hair curlers from flat soft material through the
adoption of the vaulting or doming principle to the purpose of giving the necessary
stiffness where required.
WILLIAM LOVE,
Applicant.