US 5,687,750 AGranted

Hair support structure

OwnerSilvano Belmonte, Jacqueline Joan Bray +1inventors

InventorsSilvano Belmonte, Jacqueline Joan Bray, Enzo Constantini

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Abstract

A hair support structure for use in fashioning a hairstyle on a woman's head, comprises a substantially loop-shaped base portion comprising a thin elongate curved main body element, which is preferably an elongate wire. A plurality of rib members are secured at their bottom ends to the base portion and extend upwardly and generally inwardly therefrom so as to be structurally interconnected one to another, adjacent their top ends, at an elevated reinforcing cross-member. Each of the rib members is spaced apart from adjacent ribs by a distance of at least about one centimeter, and also is unattached along its length between its top end and its bottom end, so as to permit the ready passage of fingers therethrough, for the purpose of winding hair around the rib members. Each of the rib members exhibits stiffness so that the hair support structure is self supporting.

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Dependent claims

A hair support structure for use in fashioning and maintaining a hairstyle on a woman's head while in place thereon, said hair support structure comprising:

a pre-formed substantially loop-shaped base portion comprising a thin elongate main body element;
and
at least four resiliently collapsible pre-formed rib members, each having top ends and bottom ends, and being permanently secured at their bottom ends to said base portion and extending upwardly and generally inwardly therefrom so as to be structurally interconnected one to another, adjacent their top ends, at an elevated reinforcing cross-member, and wherein each of said rib members is spaced apart from adjacent rib members by a distance of at least about one centimetre and also is unattached and fully accessible along its length between its top end and its bottom end, and wherein said base portion, each of said rib members, and said reinforcing cross-member exhibit stiffness so that said hair support structure is self supporting.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.