US789686A - Device for waving the hair. - Google Patents

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No. 789,686. PATENTED MAY 9, 1905.

M. G. DUNLAP.

DEVICE FOR WAVINGTHE HAIR. APPLICATION FILED mac. 2, 1904.

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MABEL GORDON DUNLAP, OF NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO FRANK MOSS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DEVICE FOR WAVING THE HAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 789,686, dated May 9, 1905.

Application filed December 2, 1904. $erial No. 235,256.

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Be it known that I, MABEL GORDON DUN- LAP, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Rochelle, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for aving the Hair, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object the production of a device over which the hair may be woven or plaited, so as to be shaped thereon into a temporary wave or undulation which will modify the severity of its straight lines when not naturally curly. 7

My device comprises a rigid shaping member and asoft, flexible, and preferably elastic covering member for the same. The hair is woven around the two members when the latter is placed over the former. The shaping member is then removed and the hair remains shaped or woven around the soft flexible member until its final removal is deemed desirable.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective of a female head, showing the appearance of the hair when one of my devices is in place, but concealed by a rosette or other appropriate ornament. Fig. 2 is a perspective of the covering member in position with the rigid shaping member removed and showing the hair plaited around the covering member. Fig. 3 is a perspective of the parts with a short thin strand of hair plaited thereon. Fig. 4 is a perspective of the ends of the device, showing the use of the concealing rosette or ornament. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the rigid member with a portion of its top cut away to show the part underneath. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the covering member, and Fig. 7 is a transverse section of the same on the plane of the line 7 7 in Fig. 6.

In the drawings, 20 is the rigid shaping member of my device. It is made of any suitable size, shape, or material; but the preferred form is that shown in the drawings, being U-shaped and comprising two pins 21 and 22 and a cross-piece or head 23. In size it should be about the length of an ordinary hair-pin or slightly larger, and it may be made of any material, such as horn, hard rubber,

or celluloid, which is'readily shaped and provided with smooth surfaces. Toward their. extremities each of the pins 21 and 22 is provided with a shoulder, as 24 and 25, the

purpose of which will presently be described. 5 5

Beyond the shoulder each pin is made smaller, as shown at 26 and 27. The cross-piece or head of the pin 23 is provided with a transverse groove 28.

The covering member 30 comprises a strip 31 of soft elastic flexible matcrialfor instance, dental rubber-of such a size that when it is expanded it will stretch over and cover the shaping member 20. It is also provided with reinforcing-strips 32 33, one at each end, each suitably apertured, as at 34 35, and with means, as the snap-fastening 36 37, by which its free ends can be secured together.

A rosette 40 or some similar ornament is secured to the flexible member 30 near one of its extremities, so as to conceal the device when in place.

The manner ofusing the device is as follows: The covering member 30 is first placed over the shaping member 20. This is accomplished by inserting, for instance, the end 26 through the hole 34 until the piece 32 rests against the shoulder 24. The piece 31 is then stretched in contact with the pin 21 and passed into the groove 28 in the cross-piece 23. It is then stretched along the pin 22 and the end 27 inserted through the hole 35, so that the piece 33 rests against the shoulder 25. The snap-catch, composed of the members 36 and 37, is then brought into play and the ends 32 5 and 33 joined together, as shown in Fig. 3. The hair is then woven or plaited around the device in any suitable manner and allowed to remain in that position for a few minutes, so as to set or shape itself. The rigid shaping 9 member is then removed from the device. This is accomplished by slipping the piece 31 out of the groove 28, slipping the piece 33 from the end 26, and the piece 32 from the end 27. The covering member then contracts, assumes the form shown in Fig. 2, and where the concealing-rosette 40 or similar means is employed scarcely anything can be seen of the rest of the device on the head of the wearer. By its own elasticity the covering member is I held in the .groove 28 and prevented from slipping ofl. that end of the shaping member, and after the shaping member is removed the heretofore loosely-woven hair is by the same elasticity compacted or drawn together into a mass much shorter than the shaping member and securely held in this position as long as desired. With the covering member elastic the hair may be woven, as in Fig. 3, and the operator need not be so careful to weave it so tightlyin the first place, because it will, as before stated, be squeezed together or compacted by the elasticity of the covering member.

The groove 28 serves to prevent the covering member from slipping off the shaping member while the hair is being woven, a very likely accident and one which would compel the operator to begin all over again.

It is obvious that modifications may be made in the elements of this device without departing from the scope of the invention.

What 1 claim as new is- 1. A device for waving the hair, comprising a rigid U-shaped shaping member, an elastic covering member, means for holding the ends of the covering member upon the extremities of the pins of the shaping member, and means for preventing the covering member from slipping off the head of the shaping member.

2. A device for waving the hair, comprising a rigid U-shaped shaping member, an elastic covering member, and means for holding the covering member at or near the extremities of the pins of the shaping member, there being provided also a groove in the head of the shaping member for receiving the covering member and prevent it slipping off the shaping member.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MABEL GORDON DUNLAP.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM R. BAIRD, FRANK Moss.

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