Device for clasping hair
OwnerG. Craig Colclasureinventor
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Abstract
A device for clasping hair comprises a comb member that includes a base portion having a facing surface and a plurality of teeth extending in spaced, generally mutually parallel relation from the base portion. A clasp member having a clasp surface includes a loop for embracing at least one of the teeth of the comb member in sliding relation to thereby mount the clasp member on the comb member with the facing and clasping surfaces in tightly confronting relation. At least one of the facing and the clasping surfaces is contoured to diverge from the other of the surfaces and define a region having a generally V-shaped cross-section therebetween when in confronting relation.
Claims7
A device for clasping hair comprising:
- a comb member including a base portion having length, width and thickness, said length and width of said base portion being greater than said thickness thereof and defining a facing surface of substantial area, said comb member further including a plurality of generally mutually parallel teeth extending from said base portion in the direction of one of the major dimensions with surfaces of said teeth in continuous, generally coplanar relation to said facing surface;
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- a clasp member including a clasp portion having length, width and thickness, said length and width of said clasp portion being greater than said thickness thereof and defining a clasping surface of substantial area, said clasp member further including means for slidably receiving and embracing at least one of said teeth by movement of said clasp member relatively to said comb member in the direction of said one major dimension, at least a substantial part of said clasp portion lying to one side of said embracing means in the direction of said one major dimension whereby, with said tooth slidably received by said embracing means, said clasping surface is positioned in confronting relation to said facing surface;
- said embracing means further limiting the space between said surfaces when said tooth is slidably received thereby and accordingly more tightly embracing said tooth when said surfaces are urged apart,
- at least one of said facing surface and said clasping surface being contoured to diverge from the other of said surfaces, with said divergence increasing in the direction of said one major dimension from the location of said embracing means to a location remote from said embracing means, to thereby define a region between said surfaces having a generally V-shaped cross-section,
- whereby a material such as hair may be positioned between said teeth and laid adjacent said facing surface of said comb member and thereafter said clasp member may be mounted on said comb member by slidably receiving said tooth in said embracing means until said clasping surface and said facing surface are in said confronting relation with said material confined therebetween in said region and further until said surfaces are urged apart by said material to cause the embrace of said tooth by said embracing means to tighten.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.