Hair curling device
AssigneeZip Clip, Inc.
InventorPeter R. Franzino
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Abstract
A hair curling spool holder includes two mating arcuate half sections pivotally joined and with spring biased finger grips biasing the half sections closed along a longitudinal line. Each of the sections has an elongated narrow portion with a tranverse groove at each end thereof to receive and cage the flanges of a heatable cylindrical spool and a centrally located narrow tranverse portion joining the elongated portion to respective finger grips. Pairs of internally projecting opposing prongs are spaced along the longitudinal line and the opposed pairs are adapted to provide frictional locking engagement with the wrapped hair and with each other to maintain the holder around the spool.
Claims14
A hair curling spool holder for releasable attachment about a heatable elongated cylindrical spool onto which hair is wrapped therearound with upstanding hair engaging nibs on its outer surface and an outwardly extending flange at each end, the improvement comprising a pair of mating half sections having a respective finger grip, each said section including an elongated narrow portion generally parallel to the longitudinal axis of an elongated spool and a centrally located narrow transverse portion joining said elongated narrow portion to its said finger grip, said half sections being pivotally joined together adjacent said finger grips adapted to open and close said narrow portions along a longitudinal line to be respectively removed from or closely encircle an elongated spool, said half sections having spaced open ends to substantially expose therethrough the ends of an elongated spool clamped therebetween, said holder having pairs of internally projecting opposing prongs spaced along said longitudinal line, said opposed pairs of prongs being connected internally of said elongated narrow portions of said sections for providing lateral locking engagement with each other to close said holder around an elongated spool and to engage the hair of a user without damage thereto.
A hair curling spool holder for releasable attachment about a heatable elongated cylindrical spool onto which hair is wrapped therearound with upstanding hair engaging nibs on its outer surface and an outwardly extending end flange at each end, the improvement comprising a pair of mating curved half sections having a respective finger grip and each section including an elongated narrow portion generally parallel to the longitudinal axis of an elongated spool and a centrally located narrow transverse portion joining said elongated portion to its said finger grip, said half sections being pivotally joined together adjacent said finger grips adapted to open and close said narrow portions along a longitudinal line to be respectively removed from or closely encircle an elongated spool, said holder half sections having spaced open ends and further including an elongated depression in the inner face thereof adjacent each end of said elongated portion with said depressions adjacent each pair of ends being in substantially longitudinal alignment with each other and forming an elongated groove for receiving a respective end flange of an elongated spool to cage same against lateral movement within said holder.
A hair curling spool holder for releasable attachment about a heatable cylindrical spool having a longitudinal axis and onto which hair is wrapped therearound with upstanding hair engaging nibs on its outer surface and an outwardly extending end flange at each end, the improvement comprising a pair of identical mating half sections each having opposite end portions, a finger grip adjacent one said end portion, each section including a body portion for encircling approximately one-half of a spool and a centrally located portion joining said body portion to its said finger grip, said half sections being pivotal along a pivotal axis adjacent said finger grips to open and close said body portions along a longitudinal line parallel to a spool longitudinal axis to be respectively removed from or closely encircle a spool, said longitudinal line being closely adjacent an outer surface of a spool, said pivotal axis being parallel to said longitudinal line and a longitudinal axis of a spool and being spaced remote from an outer surface of a spool, each said section having a plurality of spaced and projecting prongs spaced apart and along said longitudinal line, said sections when mated having said spaced prongs in interlocking relationship to provide lateral engagement therebetween to close said holder around a spool and to engage hair of a user without damage thereto whereby a spool with hair wrapped thereon is engaged by said holder and maintained in position on a head of a user, said holder when said half sections are engaged having generally round spaced open ends along longitudinal axis of a spool to substantially expose therethrough the ends of a spool clamped therebetween.
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