Accessory holder for hair accessories and personal items
OwnerMonique M. Costanzainventor
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Abstract
A combination storage and toy apparatus for holding a plurality of personal items such as annular elastic hair ties, hair clips, brushes, and combs, wherein said placement of said personal items is creative, playful, and educational in activity and skill without violence or frustration. The apparatus has an elongated hollow body and a flat decoratively shaped base. The entire outer length of the body may receive numerous personal items with or without being attached to the base. The storage/toy apparatus has provisions for conveniently storing additional items down the hollow receiving end of the tube opposite the base wherein said items may be held visible. Adding, subtracting, and identifying personal items placed make for an education toy apparatus.
Claims2
a. In combination, a plurality of annular elastic hair ties and accessories and an article holding and storing hair ties and accessories, each hair tie comprising a length of material sized and shaped such that, when removed from the article, the hair tie may encircle long human hair in a desired position, an accessory may be placed and wore in the same fashion, the article comprising an elongated hollow annular tube connected to a flat decorative base, the tubular portion of the invention includes a receiving portion extending generally from an end of the tube opposite the base, or without a base with two accepting ends, receiving, but not limited to, a plurality of hair ties, bracelets, hinge-type clips, and headbands along the entire length of the tube, the hair tie receiving portion of the tube having a cross sectional dimension larger than the internal diameter of the hair tie or accessory, whereas hair ties and accessories fit over the receiving portion of the body in its natural configuration and self-retains against the body of the tube free from obstruction, or are attached to a hair tie, which would inhibit placement and removal of any accessory at any place along the tube, each hair tie or accessory encircling the receiving portion of the tube typically adjacent to each other, whereby you can place numerous hair ties, accessories, and other miscellaneous items.
- b. The combination as set forth in claim 1-a wherein the article further comprises one or two hollow accepting portions which receives but not limited to, brushes, combs a blow dryer tip, office supplies, appliances, flowers, water, currency, gadgets of appreciate caliber, food, hairpins, clips, such as fastenable, Velcro®, snap, and jaw-types with hinges, may be placed in their natural configuration and contained in place by the durability of the present invention, in the hollow end of the annular tube opposite the base, having a hollow cross sectional dimension size larger than the diameter of a hair clip or accessory, removal is the reverse process as it is to place the accessory, whereby the accessories are removed free from harm to itself and other accessories attached or unattached on the inside or outside of the tube with the help of the tube being see-through and clearly visible.
- c. The combination of set forth in claim 1 and 2 wherein the article further comprises a base assembly for further provision of accessory storage, or has no base, but yet has two receiving ends to accept such accessories as headbands, ribbons, bracelets and other forms of jewelry, whereby the articles are places and removed with ease and obvious visibility in that they rest on the base assembly, which is flat and of applicable diameter to accommodate said items, the outer edge of the base assembly can be used to have jaw-type clips latch on to the ledge and maintain the durability of the embodiment, or accessories that rest on the holding portion of the apparatus where they are maintained by the lips on either end of the apparatus,
- d. wherein said holder means, containing said items or not, may be attached or placed to said figure or figures, wherein the combination of said items and holders form a decorative storage means for said items and are held visible,
- e. placement and removal of said hair accessories received and removed in, on, around, and/or over the entire embodiment, including but not limited to, said structures;
- tubes, rods, arches, squares, rectangles and other upright structures.
a. In combination, a toy comprising of a three dimensional embodiment having a hollow tube constructed as a play thing,
- b. personal items,
- c. enables the user to sort accessories on the apparatus using eye/hand coordination,
- d. the activity of organizing,
- e. counting accessories for a tactile learning activity,
- f. a plurality of holder means arranged and constructed as a receptacle for said or unsaid personal items, wherein said held items are visible,
- g. means for accessing inside the tube above said items for storing said or unsaid above personal items therein,
- h. wherein said holder means, containing said item or not, may be attached to said figure, and wherein said attaching is creative, playful, educational in activities and skill, and wherein the combination of said figure and holders form a decorative storage means for said items,
- i. whereby the apparatus may be fabricated in a sundry of materials, including but not limited to plastic.
- Conclusion, Ramification, and Scope
- Accordingly, the reader will see that storing accessories on my accessory holder can be done easily and conveniently, can be removed just as easily and without damage to the accessories, and can store just about anything the consumer deems fit. In addition, when the standard method of accessory storage is used accessories get lost or damaged giving the consumer no other choice but to purchase additional accessories. Furthermore, my accessory holder has the additional advantages in that:
- it permits the economical production of accessory holders in a variety of colors without requiring the manufacturer to use a separate facility for the compounding of color mixture needed in the production of colored accessory holders;
- it provides an invitingly desirable design so that adults, teens and children of all ages may be inclined to store their accessories on it;
- it permits a distinct visual on an accessory or personal items being stored because the accessory holder is generally transparent and accessories are held in place on the outside perimeter of the said invention making the accessories immediately visible to the eye;
- to provide an accessory holder that can have multiple attached or fit structures added for additional storage provisions without potential hazards and losing or damaging attachments;
- to provide a stable, yet durable, holder that can be placed in a plurality of locations including the bathroom, dresser, table, office, and is convenient and appealing to travel with;
- to provide a holder that is multifunctional and universal from being an accessory holder to a vase or centerpiece to even turn into and educational toy. For example, eye and hand coordination—sorting accessories by color and/or design, tactile skills by using hands to place accessories or personal items in a desired position in or on my accessory holder;
- Although the description above contains many specifications, these should not be construed as limiting the scope of the invention but as merely providing illustrations of some of the presently preferred embodiments of this invention. For example, the holder can have another shape, such as oval, octagonal, triangular, etc.;
- the embodiment can be made from different materials such as steel or wood;
- the tube connected to the base assembly can rotate and spin instead of being stationary, etc.
- Thus, the scope of the invention should be determined by the appended claims and their equivalents, rather than by the examples given.