Hair twisting apparatus
AssigneeHasbro, Inc.
InventorJohn D. Fishman
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Abstract
A hair twisting apparatus includes a housing, a jaw assembly on the housing and a trigger on the housing which is operable for twisting the jaw assembly to twist a group of hair strands received therein. The apparatus includes an elastic band on the jaw assembly for retaining first and second jaw elements thereof in gripping engagement on a group of hair strands during twisting thereof and a slidable shaft mechanism which is forwardly advanceable for moving the elastic band from the jaw assembly onto the terminal end portion of the group of hair strands for retaining the hair strands in a twisted condition.
Claims7
A hair twisting apparatus comprising a housing including a handle portion configured to be held in a hand of a user;
- a pivotable trigger on said handle portion, said trigger being biased toward an outwardly pivoted position on said handle portion;
- axially rotatable jaw means at a forward end of said housing for releasably grasping a quantity of hair;
- means for operatively coupling said trigger to said jaw means such that manually pivoting said trigger on said handle portion causes rotation of said jaw means about a twisting axis;
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- means for applying an elastic band to said quantity of hair after twisting thereof by passing said elastic band forwardly and outwardly over at least a portion of said jaw means and onto said quantity of hair.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.