HAIR CURLING IRON AND DRUM

FER ET ROULEAU A FRISER

English Abstract

"Hair curling iron and drum"
A B S T R A C T
The present invention provides a hair curling iron with a
barrel which may be inserted into a curling drum and with a
retaining clip for retaining the barrel in this position,
and also provides a hair curling drum which can receive and
locate the barrel of a curling iron. Hair may be curled by
putting the curling drums in position in the hair, and then
heating and reheating them as often as necessary using the
hair curling iron. The advantage is a considerable saving
in labour.
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Claims

C L A I M S
1. A hair curling iron comprising a handle and a barrel,
characterized in that the barrel is adapted to be
inserted axially into a hair curling drum, and in that
a retention menas is provided for retaining the barrel
in this position.
2. A hair curling iron according to claim 1 in which the
retaining means is a retaining clip.
3. A hair curling drum suitable for use in combination
with a hair curling iron, the drum being adapted to
receive the barrel of a hair curling iron and being
provided with locating means for locating the barrel
centrally along the axis of the drum.
4. A hair curling drum according to claim 3 in which the
locating means comprises a collar at each end of the
drum.
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Description

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ElAIR Cl~I,ING IRON AND DRUM
BACKROUND OF T~ INVENTION
The present invention relates to hair curling devices.
One well-known device for use in curling hair is a curling
drum. The device comprises a cylindrical drum, and a
cover or sleeve which i5 a snap fit on the drum. In use
the drum and sleeve are heated in a heatin~ apparatus.
When they have ~een heated, they are brought to the hair,
the hair is curled around the drum, and the sleeve is
fitted over the drum to retain the hair in the curled
configuration. As the drum and sleeve gradually cool
down, they warm the hair which then retains the curled
configuration upon subsequent removal of the drum and
sleeve.
There are a number of disadvantages with hair curlin~
drums. The principal disadvantage is that the operation
of curling the hair i5 laborious for the hair dresser, and
lengthy for the person whose hair is being curled.
Additionally, the results may not always be as desired.
These disadvantages arise because the drum and sleeve
cannot usually store sufficient heat to effect complete
curling. Thus the hair dresser must remove the cooled
drum, and replace it with a heated drum, and this cycle of

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removal an~ replacement must ~e carried out repeatedly
which is very laborious. Further~ore, during re~oval and
replacement, some o~ the hairs which were curled around
the drum being removed may escape bein~ curled around the
replacement drum, and vice versa. Additionally, in the
final cycle of the operation, the hair may become
overcurled.
A second well-known device for use in curling hair is a
curling iron. This device comprises a perforated barrel,
10 a housing at one end Of the barrel which serves firstly as
a handle for the device, and secondly contains an
electrically powered mechanism for generating a stream of
hot air which is blown axially through the perforated
barrel, and a retaining finger extending from the housing
1~ along the length of the barrel, In operation, the c~rling
iron is connected to a power supply by meanS Of an
electrical lead, is brought to the hair, the retaining
finger iS withdrawn from the barrel, the hair is curled
around the barrel, the retaining finger is restored to its
operational position to keep the hair in the curled
configuration on the barrel, and the device is activated
to blow hot air through the barrel to curl the hair. The
curling iron may be provided with a number of different
barrels, each of a different diameter, which may be
rea~ily substituted one for the other, depending on the
required diameter of curl.

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Hair curling irons suffer from certain disadvantages. If
a large number of curling irons are used simultaneously,
then this requires considerable expenditure on curling
irons, and al~o means that the person whose hair is being
S curled mUst bear the not inconsiderable weight of a large
number of these appliances attached to their head. If
only one curling iron is used, then the operation may be
quite time consuming, because the curling iron must be
used sequentially on different parts of the hair.
The object of the present invention is to provide an
improved hair curling apparatus.
SUM~5ARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention provides a hair curling iron in which the
barrel is adapted to be inserted axially into a hair
curling drum, and in which a retention means is provided
for retaining the barrel in this position.
The invention also provides a hair curling drum adapted to
receive the barrel of a hair curling iron and provided
with locating means for locating the barrel centrally
along the axis of the drum.
In operation the hair curling drum and sleeves are put in
position in the hair in the traditional manner (but they

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may be cold). Then the barrel of the hair curling iron
according to the invention is inserted into a particular
hair curling drum, retained in position by mez.ns of the
retaining means, and operated to heat the hair curling
drum in situ until the hair curling drum reaches the
desired temperature, and the barrel is then withdrawn and
the operation repeated in respect of a different curling
drum.
The principal advantage of the invention relative to the
use of traditional curling drums is that the laborious
removal of cooled curling drums and replacement by heated
curling drums is eliminated. The principal advantage of
the invention relative to the traditional curling iron is
that only one appliance is required. Other advantages
will become apparent from the description which follows.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Figure 1 is a top plan view of the curling iron, and
of the curling drum for use with the curling iron; and
Figure 2 is a side view of the curling iron.

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_ETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERREO EMB(:)DIMEN~rS
Referring to the drawings, the curling iron comprises a
cylindri~al housing 1, a cylindrical perforated barrel
extending co-axially from one end of the housing, a
retaining clip 3 ~ounted on the housing and extending from
the housing a short distance along the barrel, a heating
mechanism 4 (shown by dashed lines in Figure 2 on'y)
located within the housin~ for generating a high volume
stream of hot air which may be blown along the ~arrel and
out through the perforations to give an even heat
distribution about the barrel, and a power supply lead S
for the heating mech~nism. The curling drum laO iS made
of a very heat resistant plastics material. The curling
drum 100 includes a projeCting collar 101 at each end
thereof so as to receive and locate the barrel 2 within
the drum loo. The collars lOl are each provided with
apertures 102 for receiving the retaining clip 3.
In operation the curling drums 100 are put in posi~ion,
and the curling iron according to the invention is used
sequentially for each of the different drums. It will be
appreciated that the curling iron may be used in relation
to curling drums 100 of different diameters, but that the
collars of the drums are all of the same diameter.
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Representative Drawing