US278944A - Hair-crimping tool - Google Patents

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(No Model.) W. A. HAUGE.

HAIR GRIMPING TOOL. No. 278,944. Patented June 5,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

XVI'LLIAM A. HAUCE, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

HAIR-CRIVMPING TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,944, dated June 5, 1883,

Application filed March 20, 1883.

To all whom it 72mg concern.-

Be it known that I, W'ILLIAu AUeUs'rUs HAUCE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, inthe county of Clarke and State of Ohio, have invented newand useful Improvements in Hand Crimping-Tools, of which the following is a specification.

Hy invention relates to hand crimping-tools in which the crimping-jaws are operated by handles pivoted like and operating like the handles of shears to open and close the crimping-jaws with one hand; but as hitherto man ufactured the jaws have been made of corrugated ShGGtIIOII or other metal, and have tended to seriously injure the hair by an excess of heat, and also required to be frequently heated.

The object of my improvement is to avoid this destructive injury to the hair by making the crimping-jaws of non-metallicheat absorbing and retaining material, and fastening the shear-handles thereto, as hereinafter specifically set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of a hand crimping-tool embracing my invention, and Fig. 2 a

sectional view of the crimping-tool on the line w of Fig. 1.

In the drawings, A A are the crimping j aws, made of non-metallic heat absorbing and re taining material such as that used inthe manufacture of crockeryand fluted on the meeting faces, as shown.

B B are the handles, made of metal and similar in construction and in operation to the common shears .but the parts which would be cutting-blades in shears are here widened flattened clips D, having holes through which screws or rivets a av a are driven to fasten them to the crimping-jaws, holes being made in the latter for that purpose. These handles, being flat and broad at their connections with the jaws, give afirm, strong, and rigid connection, thus insuring that the fluted surface of one crimping-j aw shall always fit that of the other in the process of crimping, as is well under- (N0 model.)

stood. But the most important point of my invention is in the selection of the non-metallie heat absorbing and retaining material for the jaws. I, prefer to make them of the same material as that used in the manufacture of crockery-ware, stoneware, fire-clay, or of wood.

If of fire-clay, they may be heated by direct contact with fire or flame; but usually it is only necessary to hold the jaws above a 'gasjet or lamp-chimney; or they maybe brought to a most desirable temperature by plunging made thick, so as to cause them to retain the heat longer, and yet they are of no greater cubic surface than those made of corrugated sheet metal. 7 p

Of course the tool may be used in laundry work, or wherever a crimper is used, if de sired, as well as for the hair; but my main objectwas to produce a crimping-tool harmless to the human hair.

I claim A crimping-tool consisting of crimpingjaws made of non-metallic heat-absorbing ma terial, fluted on their meeting faces, and oper ated bypivoted handles secured thereto, sub stantially as described, for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. I

WILLIAM AUGUSTUS HAUCE.

Witnesses:

JAS. Jormsos, Jr. GEO. S. DIAL.

It is hereby certified that the name of the patentee of Letters Patent No. 278,944, granted June 5, 1883, for an improvement in Hair-Crimping Tools, was erroneously printed and Written William A. Hauce instead of Withmn A. Hmwe; that it appears fi om affidavits filed in the Patent Office that the correct name is William A. Hance;

and that this correction should be read in the said Letters Patent to make the same conform to the record of the casein the Patent Office.

Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 3d day of July, A. D. 1883.

[SEAL.] M. L. JOSLYN,

Acting Secretary of the Interimz Countersigned:

E. M. MARBLE,

Commissioner of Patents.

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