US 5,682,909 AGranted

Hair clip

AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Yasuda Corporation

InventorMasahiro Yasuda

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Abstract

A hair clip includes a base plate (1) secured to an ornamental cover and a pair of hooking arms (13) extending from the base plate, in which each arm has an extension protruding from an outer edge at the base portion of the arm. The extensions (13c) come into a sliding contact with an engaging part (4b) of a hair retainer (4) when it is moved towards its closed position. A shackling member (15) is provided for holding the hooking arms (13) at their overlapping position even after the arms have been unlatched. The hair clip further has a restoring member (14) which urges the shackling member (15) to return to its another position where the arms are freed, when the hair retainer (4) is opened such that the engaging part (4b) can no longer be latched by the hooking arms (13). Such a mechanism makes easier the unlatching of the hair clip, which is simple in structure and easy to manufacture and assemble.

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Dependent claims

A hair clip comprising:

a relatively elongated base plate having first and second ends, a pair of hooking arms on said base plate first end capable of overlapping each other, each hooking arm having a base portion adjacent said base plate, a relatively elongated hair retainer having first and second ends, said hair retainer second end being rotatably connected to said base plate second end, said hair retainer further having at the first end thereof an engaging part releasably latchable by said pair of hooking arms, a relatively elongated spring board interposed between said base plate and said hair retainer and mounted on one of said base plate and said hair retainer, said spring board being shaped so as to urge the hair retainer toward its open state as long as the engaging part is latched by said pair of hooking arms, releasing means for releasing said hair retainer from said base plate, said releasing means comprising:
clampable members each protruding outwardly from each said hooking arm base portion so as to come into a contacting relationship with said engaging part, said clampable members being shaped such that when said first end of said base plate is pressed toward said first end of said hair retainer when is in its latched position, said hooking arms are caused to overlap each other to take a releasing position, shackling means operably associated with said hair retainer and said spring board and shaped to hold said hooking arms in their overlapping state even after they have taken said releasing position, and restoring means operably associated with said hair retainer and said spring board and shaped to urge said shackling means toward a free position for releasing said hooking arms as said hair retainer is rotated away from said base plate toward its open state in which said engaging part is no longer latched by said hooking arms.

A hair clip comprising a relatively elongated base plate including a pair of brackets at one end and pair of ledges at the other end, a relatively elongated hair retainer rotatably connected to the brackets at one end, said hair retainer having an engaging portion at the other end and movable between hair clamping and unclamping positions, a pair of hooking arms projecting inwardly from the inside of the ledges, each hooking arm including a leg portion having a free end with said free ends being capable of overlapping, said leg portions having opposed hooks, clampable means projecting laterally from each leg portion and spaced above said hook, said clampable means not overlapping when said arm free ends overlap, a relatively elongated spring board interposed between said base plate and hair retainer and mounted on one of said base plate and said hair retainer, said spring board being operative to urge said hair retainer away from said base plate, and means operably associated with one of said spring board and said retainer for temporarily holding said free ends in overlapping condition until said engaging portion moves out of contacting relation with said clampable means and below said hooks, each clampable means being equipped with a wedging contour facing said hook, said temporarily holding means including tongue means extending longitudinally of one of said hair retainer and spring board and having a free end, and a shackling member at said free end.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.