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US 6,581,611 B2Granted
Hair fashion accessory
AssigneeHair Blast, Inc.
InventorStaccy Eve Sartena
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Abstract
A fashion hair accessory comprises a claw-type hair clip formed of hinged-together clip elements with interleaved tines, combined in a novel manner with purely decorative article of elongated, flexible character. To particular advantage, the claw clip is provided with decorative openings in its body portion, and a decorative article, such as a flexible chain, is secured through the decorative opening of the clip body and dangles freely and flexibly from the clip.
Claims4
A hair fashion accessory which comprises
- (a) a claw clip adapted for attachment to the hair of a user,
- (b) said claw clip having a pair of elongated claw clip elements connected for pivoting movement about a hinge axis and each having a plurality of tines spaced apart in a direction of said axis positioned to be received in spaces between tines of the other claw clip element,
- (c) each of said claw clip elements being formed with openings in a body portion thereof, adjacent each end of said body portion, and
- (d) a decorative article movably attached to said clip element,
- (e) said decorative article comprising an elongated flexible pendant element connected to said clip element and extending freely and flexibly therefrom,
- (f) said elongated flexible pendant element being connected to one of said claw clip elements by means of a connecting ring passing through one of said openings thereof,
- (g) said connecting ring is a latch ring formed with a gap and having a spring retractable locking pin for closing said gap.
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A hair fashion accessory which comprises
- (a) a claw clip adapted for attachment to the hair of a user,
- (b) said claw clip having a pair of elongated claw clip elements connected for pivoting movement about a hinge axis and each having a plurality of tines spaced apart in a direction of said axis positioned to be received in spaces between tines of the other claw clip element,
- (c) each of said claw clip elements being formed with openings in a body portion thereof, adjacent each end of said body portion, and
- (d) a decorative article movably attached to said clip element,
- (e) said decorative article comprising an elongated flexible pendant element connected to said clip element and extending freely and flexibly therefrom,
- (f) said elongated flexible pendant element being connected to one of said claw clip elements by being passed through one of said openings thereof,
- (g) said elongated flexible pendant element having first and second parts, wherein one of said parts is passed through one of said openings and secured to the other of said parts,
- (h) said first and second parts are secured by being knotted together.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.