Hair twining apparatus
AssigneeMattel, Inc.
InventorJurgis Sapkus
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Abstract
A hand-held, hand operated hair twining apparatus having a pivotal trigger member actuable to pivot a shaft member through a ratchet mechanism, the shaft member supporting a disc housing, configured for retaining a gear mechanism therein, the housing supporting first and second hair clamp members rotatable relative to the housing by means of the gear mechanism. Actuation of the trigger member with the housing restrained rotates both clamp members and the filaments of hair therein to twist the filaments into strands. Actuation of the trigger member with the housing released interchanges the positions of the clamp members in a direction opposite to the twist to produce a twine.
Claims13
In the hair twining apparatus, the combination comprising:
- handle means configured for being hand held;
- trigger means pivotally coupled to said handle means, said trigger means being spring biased in one direction for manual operation against the force of the bias;
- a shaft coupled to said handle means;
- a clutch disposed around said shaft;
- means operably engaging said clutch for twisting a plurality of groups of hair filaments into strands and intertwining said strands into a twine upon actuation of said trigger means;
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- first and second unitary members rotatably received on said shaft, said first unitary member having a gear operably engaging said trigger means as a first portion thereof and a part of said clutch as a second portion thereof, and said second unitary member having another part of said clutch as a first portion thereof and a drive gear member as a second portion thereof, said drive gear member being a part of said means for twisting and intertwining.
In a hair twining apparatus, the combination comprising:
- handle means configured for being hand held;
- trigger means pivotally coupled to said handle means, said trigger means being spring biased in one direction for manual operation against the force of the bias;
- shaft means coupled to said handle means;
- gear means on said shaft means coacting with said trigger means for rotation in response to actuation of said trigger means;
- housing means on said shaft means;
- clutch means on said shaft means intermediate said gear means and said housing means;
- first and second spaced hair clamp means supported by said housing means, said clamp means being configured for gripping first and second groups of hair filaments;
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- means within said housing means coacting with said clutch means for enabling concurrent rotation of said first and second hair clamp means upon actuation of said trigger means with said housing means rotationally restrained for twisting the filament groups into strands, and for enabling interchanging of the positions of said first and second clamp means relative to said handle means upon actuation of said trigger means with said housing means unrestrained for twining said strands.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.