Curling iron with stepped barrel
AssigneeNorthridge Trading Company
InventorLouis H. Zusser
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Abstract
A curling iron, having a single stepped barrel having a different diameter at each step, to enable a hairdresser to perform lift operations for providing body and gentle curvature to the hair, and curl operations for curling the ends of the hair, without changing curling irons. The iron can also be effectively used to make a number of different size curls in the same strand of hair. The barrel sections of different diameter sizes are arranged substantially tangent to one another, instead of being concentric, so that the clamp which clamps hair against the barrel section can function without large steps therein which might snag on hair and also permits hair to be smoothly slid from one barrel section to the next.
Claims7
A curling iron comprising:
- a body having a handle at one end and an elongated stepped barrel apparatus at the other end;
- a heating element in said stepped barrel apparatus;
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- a clamp device pivotally mounted on said body, said device having a handle at one end near said body handle and a clamping apparatus near said stepped barrel apparatus;
- said stepped barrel apparatus having a small plurality of discrete barrel sections each of substantially different diameter spaced along its length, the barrel section closest said handle having the largest diameter and each successive barrel section having a successively smaller diameter, and said clamping apparatus extending along the length of said stepped barrel apparatus to overlay at least a portion of each barrel section.
A curling iron for curling hair, comprising:
- a body handle having forward and rearward ends;
- a stepped barrel apparatus including a first barrel section of first diameter extending forwardly from said forward end of said body handle and further including a second barrel section of a second diameter smaller than said first diameter, extending forwardly from the forward end of said first barrel section, the surface of said second barrel section being substantially tangent to the surface of said first barrel section along an imaginary first tangent line;
- a clamp apparatus with handle and clamping ends, said clamp apparatus pivotally mounted to said first barrel section near the rearward end of said first barrel section so that said clamping end can move against and away from said barrel section, said clamping end having a first clamp portion which can lie against said first barrel section and which has an inside surface concavely curved to nest against said first barrel section and extend less than 180.degree. thereabout, and said clamping end having a second portion which can lie adjacent to said second barrel section and which has an inside surface concavely curved to nest against said second barrel section and extend less than 180.degree. thereabout, said first and second clamp portions being substantially tangent to each other along an imaginary second tangent line which is substantially coincident with said first tangent line when said clamping end moves against said barrel sections;
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- a heating element means in said stepped barrel apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.