Hair curler for Z-shaped texture

Abstract

A hair-curling device for creating curls. The device comprises in combination: two cylindrical bodies, an elastic band, and connection cap. Each of the bodies is a smoothed surfaced cylindrical tapered hollowed body, each with or without perforations along the length. The bodies are secured together with an elastic band that has spherical ends. One end of the band is secured into slots on the wide portion of the bodies, thereby creating a hinge to keep the bodies together as the stylist wraps the trees of hair. The opposite end of the elastic band is secured into a slot on the connection cap. After the tress of hair has been wrapped, a cylindrical protrusion on the connection cap is secured into the narrow end of one unit of the bodies that is opposite the other unit of the bodies in which the elastic band has been extended across.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]This invention relates to hair styling, specifically the use of curlers used in shaping / texturing hair with or without the use of chemicals.DESCRIPTION OF PRIOR ART[0002]Many devices have been devised to texture hair, with the most common being the use of cylinder shaped devices. There are also examples of the use of flat panels that hair is pressed between. As a part of these devices, numerous mechanisms have been employed to secure the shaping devices to other curlers, the head, or hair while the hair is being set or “permed”.[0003]Current hair curlers and attachment mechanisms have a tendency to be complex in design, especially when the use of multiple curlers is needed for texturing hair. This leads them to be difficult to place on the head, difficult to remove, and can be damaging to the hair during the application, perming, and removal processes.[0004]The earliest example of a device that produces a Z-shaped curl that I could find is U.S. Pat. No. 7...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

[0010](a) To provide a curler which can be attached to another like curler that allows common skills and techniques to be used in wrapping a tress of hair.

[0011](b) To provide a curler that allows the wrapped tress of hair to be easily removed by pushing it off the curler rather than unwrapping it.

[0013](d) To provide an attachment device that allows the tress of hair to expand as the hair reacts to the chemicals.

[0015](f) To provide a device that is less expensive to manufacture and produce.

[0016]Further objects and advantages are to provide a curler design which is easy to use to produce the desired texture, which is inexpensive to manufacture, which can be used singularly to simplify the removal of the hair for other textures, and which allows close placement to the hair root. Still further objects and advantages will become apparent from a consideration of the ensuing description and drawings.

Problems solved by technology

Current hair curlers and attachment mechanisms have a tendency to be complex in design, especially when the use of multiple curlers is needed for texturing hair.

This leads them to be difficult to place on the head, difficult to remove, and can be damaging to the hair during the application, perming, and removal processes.

This device shows clearly how the hair is to be wrapped, but the fixed nature of the device makes it difficult to wrap the hair and it is also not designed for the use of chemical perms.

U.S. Pat. No. 4,216,787 to Moea (1980) could produce the z-shaped curl, but it would be very difficult to wrap the hair around the curlers, and would not get close to the hair root.

U.S. Pat. No. 6,401,725 to Beal (2002) could also be used to create the Z curl, but the coupling mechanism does not allow for a hinged action that would be needed.

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