Device and accessory for styling hair
AssigneeLJL, Inc.
InventorLois J. Sonstegard
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Abstract
A device for styling hair includes a flexible, relatively long body portion having a separating opening therein through which to receive a user's hair. This body portion has clasp portions extending from either end which can be closed into a corresponding clasp by the insertion of one portion in the other so as to prevent rotation of one with respect to the other, and to engage a detent arrangement therebetween. A suitable surface finish on a synthetic polymer material for the side members provides a desired coefficient of friction on that surface with respect to hair thereagainst. A styling enhancement maybe provided as part of the hair styling device.
Claims34
A hair styling device for styling a person's hair through engagement therewith, the hair styling device comprising:
- a hair holder comprising:
- a flexible, relatively long body portion extending between two ends thereof having a pair of side members over part of its length because of a separation opening extending through the body portion over that part of the length, and
- a first end clasp portion and a second end clasp portion each extending from a corresponding one of the opposing ends of the body portion, a selected one of the first and second end clasp portions having an insert stub with a radially asymmetric cross section and the other clasp portion having at least one resilient wall extending substantially along an insert direction that defines at least a portion of an opening therein with a cross section similar to the cross section of the insert stub but large enough to receive the insert stub therein, the wall and the insert stub each having at a side thereof a corresponding member of a detent pair comprising a projection member and a recess member that are against one another when the insert stub is sufficiently inserted along the corresponding extent directions into the other clasp portion through the opening;
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- an attachment accessory fastener supported by the hair holder at a selected position with respect thereto.
A hair styling device for styling a person's hair through engagement therewith, the hair styling device comprising:
- a hair holder comprising:
- a flexible, relatively long body portion extending between two ends thereof having a pair of side members over nearly all of its length because of a separation opening extending through the body portion over that part of the length;
- a first end clasp portion and a second end clasp portion each extending from a corresponding one of the opposing ends of the body portion in a corresponding extent direction substantially parallel to the direction the body portion extends from that end, a selected one of the first and second end clasp portions having an insert stub and the other clasp portion being an equatorial plane capture means in which the insert stub is positionable such that the equatorial plane capture means can rotate in multiple directions about the insert stub with the equatorial plane capture means having at least one resilient wall that defines at least a portion of an opening therein and the opening having a cross section similar to the cross section of the insert stub large enough to receive the insert stub therein but only after the insert stub stretches the wall in being positioned therein;
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- an attachment accessory fastener supported by the hair holder at a selected position with respect thereto.
A hair styling device for styling a person's hair through engagement therewith, the hair styling device comprising:
- a hair holder comprising:
- a flexible, relatively long body portion extending between two ends thereof having a pair of side members over nearly all of its length because of a separation opening extending through the body portion over that part of the length;
- a first end clasp portion and a second end clasp portion each extending from a corresponding one of the opposing ends of the body portion in a corresponding extent direction substantially parallel to the direction the body portion extends from that end, a selected one of the first and second end clasp portions having an insert stub and the other clasp portion being an equatorial plane capture means in which the insert stub is positionable such that the equatorial plane capture means can rotate in multiple directions about the insert stub with the equatorial plane capture means having at least one resilient wall that defines at least a portion of an opening therein and the opening having a cross section similar to the cross section of the insert stub large enough to receive the insert stub therein but only after the insert stub stretches the wall in being positioned therein;
- an intermediate clasp insert having a pair of clasping structures provided on corresponding sides thereof one of which approximates the shape of at least part of the first end clasp portion and the other of which approximates the shape of at least part of the second end clasp portion;
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- an attachment accessory fastener supported by the intermediate clasp insert at a selected position with respect thereto.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.