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US 2006/0124149 A1Published application
Hair clip
AssigneeLinshell Holdings Limited
InventorsShelley-Anne Salisbury, Lindsey Walker
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Abstract
A hair clip comprises a body, jaws mounted on the body and a jaw opening arrangement to allow the jaws to be opened single handed. The jaws have tines and are mounted at spaced positions on the body so as to be pivotable at the positions to resiliently grip hair in the tines. The spacing of the pivot positions on the body enables a body to be used which can be decorated or hollow to enhance the aesthetics of the hair clip.
Claims22
A hair clip comprising a body portion;
- jaw portions attached to said body portion;
- and a jaw opening arrangement to allow said jaw portions to be opened single handed;
- said jaw portions having tines and being hingedly and resiliently connected to said body portion to urge said tines together for gripping hair, wherein said jaw portions are connected to said body portion at hinge positions defining laterally spaced axes, said jaw opening arrangement comprises handle portions extending from said jaw portions away from said tines to allow said jaw portions to be opened by urging said handle portions about said axes and said body portion includes a recess for receiving hair gripped by said tines.
A hair clip comprising a body portion;
- jaw portions attached to said body portion;
- and a jaw opening arrangement to allow said jaw portions to be opened single handed;
- said jaw portions having tines and being hingedly and resiliently connected to said body portion to urge said tines together for gripping hair, wherein said jaw portions are connected to said body portion at hinge positions defining laterally spaced axes, said body portion comprises a base portion to which said jaw portions are connected and at least one decorative cover portion, and at least one said decorative cover portion is removable in use to enable different cover portions to be connected to said base portion.
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A hair clip comprising a body portion;
- jaw portions attached to said body portion;
- and a jaw opening arrangement to allow said jaw portions to be opened single handed;
- wherein said jaw portions have tines and are hingedly and resiliently connected to said body portion to urge said tines together to a closed position for gripping hair, said jaw portions are connected to said body portion at hinge positions defining laterally spaced hinge axes, and said jaw portions and said body define an outer hair clip surface which is substantially cylindrical when said jaw portions are in the closed position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.