Elastic hair tie dispenser
AssigneeTIY Products, LLC
InventorJerritt K. Elliott
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Abstract
The present invention provides an elastic hair tie material and an elastic hair tie dispenser for dispensing varying lengths of elastic hair tie material. More particularly, the present Elastic Hair Tie Dispenser device has been configured with a flexible cover, a pivoting cutting blade actuator and cutting blade to conveniently dispense elastic hair tie material of varying color, cut to any desired length by the user of the dispenser, to be worn by women or men to restrain their hair in many varying different stylish configurations and for varying purposes, and wherein the dispenser is refillable by either winding hair tie material onto a spool rotatably housed within the dispenser or inserting a new coil of hair tie material sold separately.
Claims18
An elastic hair tie dispenser, comprising:
- two round transparent clamshell housing sections, including a first housing section and a second housing section, configured to be held together with fasteners, wherein when assembled the first and second housing sections form a dispenser housing, wherein the dispenser housing is configured to accept a centrally located spool and a cutting blade;
- two cutting slot sections, including a first cutting slot section formed in the first housing section and a second cutting slot section formed in the second housing section, wherein the two cutting slot sections form a cutting slot when the first and second housing sections are assembled;
- a cording orifice molded into the second housing section directly below the second cutting slot section;
- elastic hair tie cording material removably wound around the centrally located spool within the dispenser housing, wherein the elastic hair tie cording material is dispensable, through the cording orifice, to a desired length;
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- a pivoting blade actuator movably attached to the dispenser housing, wherein the pivoting blade actuator includes a removable replaceable cutting blade, spring back fingers, and an a pivoting orifice for pivotably mounting on the dispenser housing, wherein the cutting blade, responsive to the pivoting blade actuator being forced forward by a user, cuts the elastic hair tie cording material dispensed into any desired length by a user, and springs back to be in position to cut again.
A method for making an elastic hair tie dispenser, comprising the steps of:
- providing two round clamshell transparent housing sections, including a first housing section and a second housing section, configured to be held together with fasteners, wherein when assembled the first and second housing sections form a dispenser housing, wherein the dispenser housing is configured to accept a centrally located spool and a cutting blade, wherein a first cutting slot section formed in the first housing section and a second cutting slot section formed in the second housing section form a cutting slot when the first and second housing sections are assembled;
- providing elastic hair tie cording material removably wound around the centrally located spool forming a coil within the dispenser housing;
- providing a cording orifice molded into the second housing section directly below the second cutting slot section;
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- providing a pivoting blade actuator, wherein the pivoting blade actuator movably attached to the dispenser housing, includes a removable replaceable cutting blade, spring back fingers and a pivoting orifice for pivotably mounting on the dispenser housing, whereby when in operation, wherein the cutting blade, response to the pivoting blade actuator being forced forward by a user, cuts the elastic hair tie cording material dispensed into any desired length by a user, and springs back to be in position to cut again.
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