Toilet – Methods – Artifcial hair structure making or attaching
Reexamination Certificate
2000-10-13
2004-02-17
Manahan, Todd E. (Department: 3732)
Toilet
Methods
Artifcial hair structure making or attaching
C132S053000, C132S056000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06691714
ABSTRACT:
TECHNICAL FIELD
This invention relates to a wearer's own hair utilizing type wig in which the hair growing on the wearer's head is pulled up through the wig and blended with false hairs attached to the wig, and more particularly to a wearer's own hair utilizing type wig in which a plurality of wearer's own hairs can be pulled up evenly and easily.
RELATED ART
Conventional wigs, in general, are formed by attaching a number of false hairs to a wig base which defines an overall configuration, i.e., outline of the wig. Among them, the so-called wearer's own hair utilizing type wigs are of the type in which a plurality of holes or meshes are formed in a wig base and the wearer's own hair is pulled up and out through those holes or meshes and blended with the false hair of the wig. A typical example of a conventional wig of this type is shown in FIG.
35
.
A wearer's own hair utilizing type wig
70
in
FIG. 35
employs a net base
71
composed of a coarse net member. The wig
70
is known to employ a net shape of cross meshes such as a diamond shape, a rectangular shape and the like. Such a vertical and horizontal cross arranged net base
71
has a number of false hairs
72
(
FIG. 35
shows only a part of the false hairs) preliminarily attached thereto. As a material of the false hair, human hair, or artificial hair composed of synthetic fiber is used in general. In this specification, hair materials composed of humans' hairs or synthetic fibers attached to a wig are referred to as “false hairs”.
In the case where the wearer's own hair utilizing type wig is attached to a wearer's head, the wearer's own hair H is pulled up through a space of the net base
71
using a hairdressing brush, then the wearer's own hair H thus pulled up and out are blended with the false hairs
72
. By doing so, the wig can be attached to the wearer's head utilizing the wearer's own hairs.
However, when the above wearer's own hair utilizing type wig
70
is attempted to be attached to the wearer's head, much of the wearer's hair is pressed against the net base with the underside of the vertical and horizontal net base
71
and therefore, much of the wearer's own hair H pressed downward is kept secured by the net base
71
. Even if the hairs H are tried to be pulled up and out using the hairdressing brush, they are not easily pulled up and out of the net meshes with the result that much of the wearer's own hair H is left non-utilized. Moreover, when the tips of the teeth of the comb enter the mesh, they are readily caught by the mesh. The result is that the net base
71
is torn off or broken by undue force required for withdrawing the brush.
Furthermore, in the case of the conventional wig base in
FIG. 35
, the net member must be vertically and horizontally disposed in order to maintain the curved state. Accordingly, it is essentially required for the conventional wig base to be equipped with a peripheral edge framed member
73
. That is, the peripheral edge of the wig base must be reinforced by the peripheral edge framed member
73
which defines the configuration and size of the wig. This peripheral edge framed member
73
is normally trimmed, in order to prevent the shape from being deformed, such that its peripheral edge portion is comparatively thick and rigid, by means of a wide cloth tape, polyurethane resin coating or the like. As a result, the wig
70
must be attached to the wearer's head with the wearer's own hair H being pressed with the net member and the peripheral edge framed member
73
. The peripheral edge framed member
73
acts very adversely when the downwardly pressed wearer's own hair H is pulled upward. Moreover, since the wearer's head is somewhat compressed tightly by the peripheral edge framed member, the perspiration from the scalp is prevented.
A more vital disadvantage of the peripheral edge framed member which is an essential component part of the conventional wearer's own hair utilizing type wig is that the peripheral edge framed member is readily discovered by a third party. In the case where the wearer's own hair utilizing type wig is designed as a partial wig or hairpiece in
FIG. 35
, this partial wig exhibits a shallow bowl-like configuration. Therefore, when such a partial wig is placed on the wearer's head, the peripheral edge framed member
73
is laterally arranged, particularly at the forehead portion of the wearer's head, along the hairline. Since the peripheral edge framed member
73
is arranged in a laterally crossing direction at the forehead portion of the wearer's head, generally over a half length of the full circumference of the wearer's head, it is very easy to be discovered. In addition, since the wearer's own hair H grown at the forehead region is pressed by the underside of the peripheral edge framed member
73
, the hairline does not mix evenly with the wig
70
, thus the front edge of the wig
70
is floated, providing an unnatural look. This further enhances the easy discovery of the peripheral edge of the wig. Moreover, since the false hairs
72
attached to the peripheral edge framed member
73
are greatly different in hair flow direction from that of the wearer's own hair H depending on hair style, it is difficult to blend the false hair
72
with the wearer's own hair H. As a result, the false hair
72
and the wearer's own hair H must be blended by proving a curl thereto using a permanent instrument such as an iron, a drier or the like. Therefore, it requires much time and labor to obtain a desired hairstyle.
The presence of the peripheral edge framed member can also create a problem with the wearer's rear head portion. Because the wearer's hair in the rear head region is pressed by the peripheral edge framed member
73
, the peripheral edge
74
of the wig
70
is floated. This causes the generation of a step between the false hairs
72
of the wig and the wearer's own hair H, and the border appears as a step-like stripe along the peripheral edge
74
. Hence, the fact of wearing a wig is visually recognized.
It is, therefore, an object of the present invention to provide a wearer's own hair utilizing type wig, in which much of the wearer's own hair can easily be pulled up and out in which the hair volume can be increased, as a whole, by blending the wearer's own hair with the false hairs of the wig and evenly effectively utilizing the wearer's own hair.
The second object of the present invention is to provide a wearer's own hair utilizing type wig, in which the peripheral edge of the wig is not easily visually recognized by eliminating the peripheral edge framed member and the bowl- or cap-like wig base such as a net or artificial skin.
The third object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing the above-mentioned wearer's own hair utilizing type wig.
The fourth object of the present invention is to provide a rib comprised of a core material composed of an elastic rigid material and a thermally-contracting tube covering the core material which is designed such that false hairs can easily be attached thereto.
The fifth object of the present invention is to provide a wearer's own hair utilizing type wigO which is equipped, as a part thereof, with a rib comprising the core material and the tube.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
In order to achieve the objects, a wearer's own hair utilizing type wig according to the present invention comprises a hair-secured frame having no perimeter, the hair-secured frame including a skeleton-like framework and a plurality of false hairs fixed to the skeleton-like framework, the skeleton-like framework including at least one rib curved in such a manner as not to form an outline of the wig, for attachment, the wearer's own hair being pulled up through a space of the hair-secured frame and blended with the false hairs secured to the skeleton-like framework.
According to a
Imai Sakiko
Isobedate Yoshihiko
Kojima Shinkichi
Sugai Katsuo
Yaguchi Toshio
Aderans Co., Ltd.
Manahan Todd #E.
Westerman Hattori Daniels & Adrian LLP
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