Toilet – Hair device – Comb
Patent
1998-10-21
2000-04-11
Manahan, Todd E.
Toilet
Hair device
Comb
132275, A45D 2404
Patent
active
060477059
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to hair styling apparatus.
Presently, items such as hair grips, pins, scrunchies, elasticated bands and the like are used by ladies to style their hair and to keep the chosen style in place over a period of time. Decorative hair accessories are also sometimes used to enhance the selected style.
A device for waving hair is disclosed by GB-PS-240377. This device includes a pair of separable combs connected together by spring clips or rubber bands. The device is intended to be inserted in the hair whilst it is damp and allowed to remain in place until the hair is perfectly dry to create a waving effect. The spine of each comb of the device is straight, not curvilinear. Similar devices are illustrated in GB-PS-279268, U.S. Pat. No. 5,174,312 and U.S. Pat. No. 5,494,060. However, in each of these devices the connection between the comb-pieces is neither elasticated nor readily releasable.
The straight spines of the device of GB-PS-240377 limits the use of the device to the waving technique discussed above and the comb connections of the devices of the three other documents are cumbersome and inappropriate for day-to-day use.
The present invention sets out to provide styling apparatus which also acts as a decorative accessory and which overcomes or at least alleviates many of the problems discussed above.
According to the present invention in one aspect there is provided hair styling apparatus comprising two combs each having a curvilinear spine and joined together by two or more elasticated material ties each releasably connected to the spine of one or each comb by two or more spaced openings formed in the comb spine into which the ends of a like number of material ties locate for retention therein, the combs in use, being engaged in the hair with the elasticated ties stretched therebetween to constrain the hair to be styled.
In a preferred arrangement, three ties are provided, the connection points of these being substantially equi-spaced along the length of the respective spine.
The material ties are preferably decorative in nature.
Each opening may extend through the spine and may include inwardly extending protrusions shaped to impart resistance to withdrawal of an end of a material tie from the opening. The opening may be round, rectangular, elliptical or other shape. Alternatively each opening may include or be associated with a hook-shaped protrusion around which a looped end of a material tie or extension thereto can be retained. The extension may be elasticated.
Alternatively, a snap-on connector may be attachable to the or each comb spine, the respective tie ends being trapped between the opposed surfaces of the snap-on connector and the spine surface.
The connecting feature of each material tie may comprise a ball or barb of material, metal, plastics or the like, which is tied, crimped, fused or glued to one or each end of the material pieces. Other shaped members may be employed, e.g. conical or frustoconical member.
The invention will now be described by way of example only with reference to the accompanying diagrammatic drawings, in which:
FIGS. 1 and 2 are respectively front and side views of hair styling apparatus in accordance with the invention;
FIGS. 3 to 5 are details to an enlarged scale of connection features of apparatus in accordance with the invention;
FIGS. 6 to 13 are sectional views taken through the spines of combs which form part of apparatus in accordance with the invention;
FIGS. 14 to 17 are respectively front, sectional and rear views of alternative apparatus in accordance with the invention; and
FIGS. 18 and 19 are respectively side and end views of a barbed extension piece forming part of apparatus in accordance with the invention.
As will be seen from FIG. 1, the illustrated hair styling apparatus comprises a pair of combs 1 joined together by three elasticated material ties 2 of substantially the same length. The ties 2 may be covered with or carry decorative material or features.
As will be seen from FIG. 2, the teeth 3 of each comb are curvilinear.
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