Hair treating implement
AssigneeKao Corporation
InventorsHideo Kobayashi, Takehiko Tojo, Naohiro Kariya, Shingo Odajima
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Abstract
A hairdressing tool includes a slender hair holder having a hair inlet at one end thereof and made of a flexible material, a hair inserter for inserting hair in or through the hair holder, and a curler for rolling, curving or bending the hair held by the hair holder into a prescribed shape. A hairdressing method includes holding a prescribed amount of hair in or through a slender hair holder of a hairdressing tool, the hair holder including a flexible material and being capable of holding hair, and rolling, curving or bending the hair held by the hair holder by a prescribed curler possessed by the hair holder.
Claims17
A hairdressing tool comprising:
- a slender, circumferentially continuous tubular hair holder having a hair inlet at one end thereof and comprising a flexible material,
- a hair inserter for inserting hair in or through the hair holder, the hair inserter being capable of being introduced in the slender tubular hair holder to grasp hair and insert the grasped hair through the hair holder, and
- curling means for rolling, curving or bending the hair held in the hair holder into a prescribed shape by contracting at least the length dimension of the hair holder sufficiently to roll, curve or bend the hair held in the hair holder, wherein the curling means comprises a thread being threaded through the hair holder at several points along the length of the hair holder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.