US 5,740,820 A · Hair rollers with enhanced hair rolling and setting features

Abstract

A hair roller includes an elongated body, a hair clip, and an elastic anchoring element. The body has an annular shape around which hair can be wound for styling person's hair. The hair clip has a hair-engagable blade portion and a lever portion. The blade portion is disposed along an exterior side portion of the body and has an arcuate shape conforming to the shape of the body. The lever portion is attached to and extends from the blade portion for actuation by a finger of a user. The roller also has structure mounting the hair clip to the body to undergo pivotal movement along an arcuate path between a closed position adjacent to the body and an opened position angularly displaced from the body such that a portion of the hair is retained between the blade portion of the hair clip and exterior side portion of the body when the hair clip is moved to the closed position in response to a bias imposed on the hair clip and is released from between the blade portion and exterior side portion of the body when the hair clip is pivotally moved toward the opened position in response to the user actuating the lever portion of the hair clip. The elastic element is made of a stretchible material which is extendable longitudinally along the body so as to extend over and thereby anchor thereon the hair wound about the body. The roller also may have a heat retaining member disposed in an interior chamber of the roller body.

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Dependent claims

A hair roller, comprising:

(a) an elongated body having an annular cross-sectional shape around which hair can be wound between a pair of opposite ends of said body for styling a person's hair;
(b) a hair clip having a hair-engagable blade portion disposed longitudinally along and overlying an exterior side portion of said body and of curved cross-sectional shape conforming to said annular cross-sectional shape of said body;
(c) pivot means mounted at a first of said opposite ends of said body for mounting said hair clip to said body for undergoing pivotal movement relative to said body along an arcuate path between a closed position adjacent to said exterior side portion of said body and an opened position angularly displaced from said exterior side portion of said body such that a portion of the hair is retained between said blade portion of said hair clip and said exterior side portion of said body when said hair clip is at said closed position and is released from between said blade portion of said hair clip and said exterior side portion of said body when said hair clip is pivotally moved toward said opened position;
and
(d) said hair clip having a lever portion extending from said pivot means beyond and away from said first of said opposite ends of said body for facilitating engagement by a finger of a user to cause pivotal movement of said lever portion through an arc wholly outside of said first end of said body and thereby pivotal movement of said hair clip from said closed position to said open position.

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A hair roller, comprising:

(a) an elongated body having an annular cross-sectional shape around which hair can be wound between a pair of opposite ends of said body for styling a person's hair, said body having a plurality of elongated ridge elements defined on an exterior surface of said body protruding outwardly therefrom and extending in a helical direction about said body and spaced apart from one another in an axial direction along said body;
(b) a hair clip having a hair-engagable blade portion disposed longitudinally along and overlying an exterior side portion of said body and of curved cross-sectional shape conforming to said annular cross-sectional shape of said body;
and
(c) means for mounting said hair clip to said body for undergoing pivotal movement relative to said body along an arcuate path between a closed position adjacent to said exterior side portion of said body and an opened position angularly displaced from said exterior side portion of said body such that a portion of the hair is retained between said blade portion of said hair clip and said exterior side portion of said body when said hair clip is at said closed position and is released from between said blade portion of said hair clip and said exterior side portion of said body when said hair clip is pivotally moved toward said opened position.

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A hair roller, comprising:

(a) an elongated body having an annular cross-sectional shape around which hair can be wound between a pair of opposite ends of said body for styling a person's hair;
(b) a hair clip having a hair-engagable blade portion disposed longitudinally along and overlying an exterior side portion of said body and of curved cross-sectional shape conforming to said annular cross-sectional shape of said body;
and
(c) means for mounting said hair clip to said body for undergoing pivotal movement relative to said body along an arcuate path between a closed position adjacent to said exterior side portion of said body and an opened position angularly displaced from said exterior side portion of said body such that a portion of the hair is retained between said blade portion of said hair clip and said exterior side portion of said body when said hair clip is at said closed position and is released from between said blade portion of said hair clip and said exterior side portion of said body when said hair clip is pivotally moved toward said opened position, wherein said mounting means includes a female socket defined in one of said opposite ends of said body and a base pivotally mounted to one of said opposite ends of said hair clip and having a male plug attached to and projecting outwardly from said base and being of a size relative to said female socket to insert into and mateably fit within said female socket and thereby mount said base to said one end of said body.

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A hair roller, comprising:

(a) an elongated body having first and second opposite ends, a sidewall defining an interior chamber and having an annular shape around which hair can be wound for styling a person's hair, and an end wall mounted to said first opposite end of said body, said sidewall extending between and connected to said first and second opposite ends and having a plurality of spaced apart openings defined therethrough providing communication from said interior chamber to the hair wound around said sidewall;
(b) a hair clip having a hair-engagable blade portion and a lever portion, said blade portion being disposed along and overlying an exterior side portion of said body and having an arcuate shape conforming to said annular shape of said body, said lever portion attached to and extending away from one of a pair of opposite ends of said blade portion for actuation by a finger of a user;
and
(c) means for mounting said hair clip adjacent one end of said blade portion thereof to said second end of said body to undergoing pivotal movement relative to said sidewall of said body along an arcuate path between a closed position adjacent to said exterior side portion of said sidewall of said body and an opened position angularly displaced from said exterior side portion of said sidewall of said body such that a portion of the hair is retained between said blade portion of said hair clip and said exterior side portion of said sidewall of said body when said hair clip is at said closed position and is released from between said blade portion of said hair clip and said exterior side portion of said sidewall of said body when said hair clip is pivotally moved toward said opened position in response to the user actuating said lever portion of said hair clip;
(d) means engaging said hair clip and said body for biasing said hair clip to pivotally move from said opened position to said closed position relative to said sidewall of said body in response to the user releasing said lever portion of said hair clip;
and
(e) an elastic hair-anchoring element made of a stretchible material and being attached to and extending outwardly from said end wall, said elastic element being extendable longitudinally along said sidewall of said body between said first and second opposite ends thereof so as to extend over and thereby anchor thereon the hair wound about said sidewall of said body.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Hair rollers with enhanced hair rolling and setting features

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Hair rollers with enhanced hair rolling and setting features

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