Patent ID: 7337786

Claim:
A hair styling device for styling a person's hair through being wrapped about a portion thereof, the hair styling device comprising: a stretchable, relatively long body portion extending between two ends thereof, and a first end clasp member and a second end clasp member each at a corresponding one of the opposing ends of the body portion with a selected one of the first and second end clasp members having an open region therewith large enough to receive therein a part of the other to be at least in part positionable about that part of the other so as to each capture the other and to remain so positioned against at least a selected amount of force in any subsequently occurring tension between those members that tends to pull them apart, a selected one of the first and second end clasp members having a passageway therethrough into which a corresponding body portion end extends with that body portion end having a passage blocking object thereon and the passageway having at least a part of which that is sufficiently narrow to prevent the body end extending therethrough with a blocking object thereon from passing through that narrow part, wherein the selected one of the first and second end clasp members, as a capturable clasp member, has a capturable portion and a band fixation portion together having a common opening through each to form the passageway therein, the capturable portion having a passageway part extending outward to a greater distance at some location therein than does the passageway part in the band fixation portion to thereby form the narrow passageway part in the band fixation portions of the capturable clasp member, and with that remaining one of the first and second clasp members, as a capturing clasp portion, having a capturing portion with the open region therein and a band fixation portion together having a common opening through each to form a passageway therein that includes the open region, the capturing portion having a resilient wall about the open region except for a capturing portion opening therein but with the open region extending outward to a greater distance with the resilient wall thereabout than does the capturing portion opening, and the capturing portion having a passageway part also extending outward to a greater distance at another location than does the passageway part in the band fixation portion to thereby form the narrow passageway part in the band fixation portion in the capturing portion clasp member.