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DESCRIPSION
WIG AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME
Technical Field
[0001] The present invention relates to a wig wherein a part of a wig base
is detachable from the wearer's head while the wig is worn and a method
of making the same, and especially to a wig wherein a front side of a wig
base is detachable from the head and a method of making the same.
Background Art
[0002] A wig is constituted with a wig base made of a net material or
artificial skin with hair attached thereto, and, by wearing on the wig
wearer's head, the hair amount as a whole is increased, thereby the wig
wearer can make desirable hair style even when the wig wearer's own
hair becomes thin.
[0003] There are a whole head wig and a partial wig among wigs wherein
the whole head wig covers the whole head having a periphery along the
pre-determined hairline of the wearer's forehead, both side heads, and
rear head portions, and wherein the partial wig is worn covering only a
necessary portion of a head. Especially as methods to fix the partial wig, a
method to clip the wig wearer's own hair with a hairpin attached to the
wig and a method to directly bond the wig and the wearer's own hair with
an adhesive or a double-stick adhesive tape are known. Although it is
relatively easy to wear and take off a wig by these wearing methods, since
such methods are too weak in fixing, and the fixing strength may be
weakened by vigorous movement or sweating, it does not adapt to long
term wearing. Therefore, it is now possible to keep wearing a wig for a
certain period of time to be in the state of so-called keep wearing by a
method to form a base with head hair by twisting and knitting the hair
growing around the wig wearer's head, and to sew it to the wig base by
knotting with sewing thread to this base, or a method to knot the wearer's
own hair inserting through a slit provided to the periphery of a wig base.
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Since such fixing methods cause pretty large strength of fixation between
a wig and a head, and possibility is low for a wig to move or come off even
by vigorous movement, the wig wearer feels no anxiety.
[0004] However, since it is difficult for the wearer to wear or take off a
wig by these wig wearing methods, the wearer can't help but wash
wearer's own hair keeping the wig on the head. Therefore, the scalp and
own hair inside the wig wearing region can not be directly washed cleanly,
and further since there is no clearance between the own hair and the fixed
portion of the wig, there may be some cases in which soil and fat of scalp
and hair, or shampoo remain in the fixed portion, making the wig wearer
feel nasty, and causing head skin itchy. Also, the wig wearer can not fully
wash scalp and own hair inside the wig wearing region, and hence can not
feel to have really washed nor feel agreeable.
[0005) In such circumstances to be considered, Patent Reference 1
discloses an open and close type wig capable of washing own hair without
any restriction to hairstyles. The open and close type wig comprises a
looped fixed portion with no artificial hair attached thereon and an open
and close portion connected to both ends of the fixed portion, wherein the
open and close portion is constituted with a front cover portion adjoining
a forehead upon wearing on the head and a lid portion covering an almost
whole head.
[Patent Reference 11 Japan Patent Laid Open H11-93011 A (1999)
Disclosure of the Invention
Problems to be Solved
[0006) The wig disclosed in Patent Reference 1 has plural sets of
connecting members, wherein one set of the connecting members is
provided with the fixed portion, and wherein another set of the connecting
members is provided with a peripheral portion of the lid portion
corresponding to the fixed portion. Therefore the wig wearer can open the
rear head side of the lid portion toward the front by disconnecting the
connecting members provided to the peripheral portion of the lid portion
and the fixed portion, and can take care of the wearer's own scalp from
the rear head side. However, the wig disclosed in Patent Reference 1 has
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a forehead side of the open and close portion adjoining the wig wearer's
scalp. Therefore, the wig wearer can not always keep clean the own
forehead, and can not help but rely on a specialist such as hair dressing
technicians.
[0007) It is an object of the present invention, with reference to the
above-mentioned problems, to provide a wig and a method of making the
same with which the wig wearer him- or herself, even anyone without
relying on a hair dressing technician, can easily detach a part of the wig
temporarily from scalp, and wash or take care of scalp and the wearer's
own hair growing thereon.
Means to Solve Problems
[00081 In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a wig with hair
attached to a wig base is characterized in that the wig base includes a
first base and a second base, wherein the first base has a front portion, a
left side portion, a right side portion, a back portion and a top portion,
and the first base is formed in a convex shape similar to a wig wearer's
head shape so as to cover a wig wearing region, the second base is
extended in the direction of the left and right side portions from the back
portion on the reverse side of the first base along its outer periphery, and
a part of the second base is fixed on the reverse side of a back edge portion
of the first base. Especially, it is characterized in that the back portion of
the second base is fixed to the reverse side of the back periphery of the
first base, and the left and right side periphery of the first base and that
the left and right side portions of the second base are detachable by
attaching parts.
[0009) In the above-described configuration, the peripheries of the left
side, the right side and the back portions of the first base are preferably
withdrawn slightly from the peripheral edge toward the top portion, for
example, inward by about 2 to 4 mm, of the wig wearer's wig wearing
region. In other words, if the outer peripheral edge of the second base is
formed slightly protruding from the reverse side of the left and right side
of the first base, for example a knitted portion is formed by about 2 to 4
mm, the second base can be fixed on the wig wearer's head by hooking the
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wig wearer's hair to the knitted portion.
The second base is formed in a linear or belt-like shape, and
preferably extends from the back edge portion of the first base along the
both left and right side edge portions to the vicinity of the front edge, for
example, to the turning point. The left and right side portions of the first
base are preferably fixed detachably from the left and right side portions
of the second base by using an attaching part.
[0010] If the linear or belt-like second base has a narrow width, a pedestal
is formed protruding inward from the inner edge of each of the left and
right side portions the second base, The left and right side edge portions
of the first base may be fixed with respective attaching parts detachably
to each of pedestals.
[0011] A method of making a wig of the present invention comprises: a
step of forming a first base provided with a front portion, a left side
portion, a right side portion a back portion and a top portion in a convex
shape resembling the wig wearer's head shape so as to cover the wig
wearing region, a step of forming a peripheral second base extending in
the direction of left and right side portions from the back portion on the
reverse side of the first base along its outer periphery, and a step of fixing
the back edge portion of the first base and the second base with the
second base faced the back edge portion, the left side edge portion and
right side edge portion on the reverse side of the first base. Preferably, it
also includes a step of providing attaching parts such as, for example,
hook-and-loop fasteners so that the left and right side periphery of the
first base is detachable from the left and right side portion of the second
base facing the reverse side of the left and right side periphery.
Effect of the Invention
[0012] According to the wig of the present invention, the wig wearer can
easily open a part of a wig base from a forehead portion, roll up backward
a part of the wig base including a front portion of the wig base, and take
care of or wash scalp covered with the wig base and own hair growing on
the scalp. Moreover, the wearing state can be returned to the similar
state before caring by the wig wearer him- or herself.
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[0013] According to the method of making a wig of the present invention,
the wig can be made which is capable of opening a part of a wig base from
a forehead portion, washing or taking other care, and forming a hair style
similar to that before caring.
Brief Description of the Drawings
[0014] Fig. 1 is a left side view schematically illustrating a wig in
accordance with the embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a plan view schematically illustrating a first base
comprising a part of the wig base shown in Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a plan view schematically illustrating a second base
comprising a part of the wig base shown in Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a view schematically illustrating a manufacturing
process of a first base shown in Fig. 2.
Fig. 5 is a view schematically illustrating a manufacturing
process of a second base shown in Fig. 3.
Fig. 6 is rear side views, respectively, schematically illustrating
methods of fixing the first and the second bases.
Fig. 7 is a view schematically illustrating the state of wearing the
wig shown in Fig. 1.
Fig. 8 is a left side view schematically illustrating a modified
example of the wig of the present invention.
Fig. 9 is a left side view schematically illustrating a modified
example of the wig of the present invention.
Explanation of Marks and Symbols
[0015]
1: Wearer's own hair
2= Male pattern
2a: Staple
3= Peripheral line for manufacturing a first base
3a: Shaved point
3b: Imaginary outer peripheral edge line
4, 4a, 4b, 8, 8a, 8b: Net member
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5: Belt-shaped net member
5a: Shaved end portion
6a, 6b, 8d: Sewing thread
7: Peripheral line for manufacturing a second base
7a: Outer peripheral line
8c: Outer peripheral edge portion
8e: Inner peripheral edge portion
9: Lace tape
10, 20, 30: Wig
11: Wig base
12: First base
12a: Front portion
12b, 12c, 13b, 13c, 23b, 23c, 33b, 33c: Side portion
12d, 13a, 23a, 33a: Back portion
12e: Top portion
12f, 12g: Shaved portion
12A: Front edge portion
12B, 12C, 13B, 13C: Side edge portion
12D: Back edge portion
13, 23, 33: Second base
14: Hair
15: Reinforcement portion
16: Net portion for exposure prevention
16a, 16b: Hook-and-loop fastener (Attaching parts)
17: Knitting portion
18, 33d: Pedestal portion
19: Sewn region
Best Modes for Carrying out the Invention
[0016] Hereinafter, explanation is made of the best modes for carrying out
the present invention, referring to the drawings.
Fig. 1 is a left side view schematically showing a wig 10 in
accordance with the embodiment. Fig. 2 is a plan view schematically
showing a first base 12 constituting a part of the wig base 11 shown in Fig.
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1. Fig. 3 is a plan view schematically showing a second base 13
constituting a part of the wig base 11 shown in Fig. 1. The arrow marks in
the figures indicate the wig wearer's forehead direction. The wig 10 of the
present invention is constituted by attaching numerous strands of hair 14
to the wig base 11. Only a part of hair 14 is shown in Fig. 1.
[0017] The wig base 11 includes a first base 12 shown in Fig2 and a
second base 13 shown in Fig 3, thus formed for a partial wig. The first
base 12 has a front portion 12a, a left side portion 12b, a right side
portion 12c, a back portion 12d, and a top portion 12e, as shown in Fig. 2,
so as to cover a wig wearing region, and is formed in a shape similar to
the wig wearer's head shape. The peripheral second base 13 is, as shown
in Fig. 3, formed extending from the back portion 12d respectively in the
directions of the left side portion 12b and the right side portion 12c along
the outer periphery of the first base 12 on the reverse side of the first base
12, approximately in a horse shoe shape as a whole. The second base 13 is
partially fixed on the periphery of the back portion 12d, that is, on the
reverse side of the back peripheral portion 12D of the first base 12. Here,
the wig wearing region is referred to as a dehaired portion where hair is
depilated, or to a thin hair portion where the number of the wearer's own
hair growing on scalp is smaller compared with the whole, depending on
the wig wearer's hair state.
[0018] Explanation is further made concretely of the wig base 11 shown in
Figs. 1 to 3.
A first base 12 is formed in a convex shape bulging to the shape
similar as much as possible to the shape and size to cover the wig
wearer's wig wearing region, preferably by patterning the wearer's head,
to the shape similar as much as possible to the shapes of the wearer's
forehead, head top, left side and right side. The first base 12 is
hypothetically divided to a portion 12a covering a forehead with front hair
attached thereon, a top portion 12e corresponding to the head top and
defining a central region of the first base 12, a left side portion 12b
adjoining the left end of the top portion 12e, a right side portion 12c
adjoining the right end of the top portion 12e, and a back portion 12d
adjoining the back end of the top portion 12e and forming a part of a
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periphery with the front portion 12a, the left side portion 12b and the
right side portion 12c, and the outer edge connecting these constitutes the
outer shape of the wig. In Fig. 2, the borderlines of the hypothetical
division are shown by a one dot chain line. The portions adjoining,
respectively, the front portion 12a, the left side portion 12b and the right
side portion 12c on the outer periphery of the first base 12 are shaved
portions 12f and 12g, more or less sunken. The left and right shaved
portions 12f and 12g are positioned diagonally forward by about 45
degrees frontward from the center of the top portion 12e, and correspond
to the shaven portion supposed to be on the wig wearer's head. The curved
line connecting the left and right turning points 12f and 12g constitutes a
hairline of a front portion 12a.
[0019] Here, with regard to the first base 12 as shown in Fig. 2, the whole
periphery of the front portion 12a, the left side portion 12b, the right side
portion 12c, and the back portion 12d may be provided with a
reinforcement portion 15 on its surface or reverse sides, and with a net
portion 16 for exposure prevention in the outer direction, thus unified as
a whole as the first base 12. The width of the periphery of the front
portion 12a, the left side portion 12b, the right side portion 12c, and the
back portion 12d is about equal to that of the reinforcement portion 15.
Here, these peripheries are defined as the front periphery 12A, the left
side periphery 12B, the right side periphery 12C, and the back periphery
12D.
[0020] The second base 13 extends peripherally along the outer edge of
the reverse side of the first base 12 so as to be along the left and right
side
peripheries 12B and 12C of the first base 12 from the back periphery 12D,
and is formed belt-like in a U-shape, especially a horse shoe shape, with
the back portion 13a, the left side portion 13b and the right side portion
13c. Here, the left and right side portions 13b and 13c extend, as shown in
the figure, to the border between the left and right side peripheries 12B
and 12C and the front periphery 12A in the first base 12, that is, from the
back periphery 12D to the neighborhood of the front edge of the left and
right side peripheries 12B and 12C in the first base 11. If the length of
extension of the left and right side portions 13b and 13c is short, then the
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left and right side edges of the wig base 11 are not partially fixed to the
wig wearer's head when the second base 13 is fixed on the wig wearer's
head, and the wig may possibly not preferably float up.
[0021] The second base 13 is formed belt-like so that its back portion 13a,
the left side portion 13b, and the right side portion 13c have a certain
width. The width is preferably about equal to that of the reinforcement
portion 15 provided to the first base 12, for example, a width of about 1 to
3 cm. In the embodiments shown in Figs. 1 to 3, as described later,
attaching parts such as hook-and-loop fasteners 16a and 16b are fixed,
respectively, facing the reverse sides of the left and right side peripheries
12B and 12C of the. first base 12 and the surface sides of the left and right
side peripheries 13B and 13C of the second base 13. Here, though
illustration is omitted, loosening of the second base 13 can be prevented
by forming a bordering portion attaching another narrow belt-like net
member different from the net member constituting the second base on
the periphery of the second base 13. The bordering portion may be a part
of the knitting portion 17 mentioned below. The knitting portion 17 hooks
the wig wearer's hair, capable of fixing the second base 13 to the wig
wearer's head.
[0022] Further, attaching parts 16a and 16b are respectively fixed so that
the left and right side peripheries 12B and 12C of the first base 12 are
detachable from the left and right side peripheries 13B and 13C of the
second base 13. That is, the left and right side peripheries 12B and 12C of
the first base 12 and the left and right side peripheries 13B and 13C of
the second base 13 are provided, respectively on the facing sides, with a
pair of fixed attaching parts 16a and 16b. Here, as the attaching parts, for
example, buttons or hook-and-loop fasteners 16a and 16b constituting a
pair with concave and convex shapes, and an adhesive tape capable of
repeated adhesive many times can be used. In case to use hook-and-loop
fasteners 16a and 16b, a convex hook-and-loop fastener 16a may be
provided to the first base 12, and a concave hook-and-loop fastener 16b
may be provided to the second base 13, or vice versa. The hook-and-loop
fasteners 16a and 16b are respectively fixed to parts or whole of the left
and right side peripheries 12B and 12C and the left and right side
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portions 13b and 13c on the region where the first base 12 and the second
base 13 can face. The hook-and-loop fastener 16b may be fixed, as is
illustrated, only to about the central portion of the left and right side
peripheries 12B and 12C, with its front edge apart by the pre-determined
distance from each front edge of the left and right side peripheries 12B
and 12C. The front and the back edges may also be close to the front and
the back edges of the left and right side peripheries 12B and 12C. The
hook-and-loop fastener 16a is fixed on the reverse side of the first base 12
so that it can face the hook-and-loop fastener 16b fixed on the surface side
of the second base 13. It is likewise in case that the attaching part is
adhesive tape.
[0023] The second base 13 shown in Fig. 3 has a knitting portion 17 in
each periphery of the back portion 13a and the left and right side portions
13b and 13c, that is, on the back periphery 13A, the left side periphery
13B and right side periphery 13C. As for the knitting portion 17, as shown
in Fig. 1, the outer periphery of the second base 13 protrudes by the
pre-determined length on the reverse side of the first base 12 along its
outer edge. Therefore, in a wig 10 shown in Fig. 1, the knitting portion 17
of not only the first base 12 but also the second base 13 has hair 14
attached thereon. The knitting portion 17 is for putting on the wig base
11 to the wig wearer's head, and for fixing the second base 13 to the wig
wearer's hair. The outer edge of the second base 13 may not protrude from
the outer edge of the first base 12 as shown in Fig. 1, but may be, for
example, about on the same line with the outer edge of the first base 12 or
rather more inside, but in such cases hair is not attached on the second
base.
[0024] Here, the peripheries of the left side portion 12b, the right side
portion 12c and the back portion 12d of the first base 12 are positioned
inside by the pre-determined length, preferably about 2 mm to 4 mm,
from the periphery of the wig wearing region of the whole wig 10, and the
second base 13 preferably protrudes partly from inside. This is because
the wig wearer's own hair grows on the periphery of the wig wearing
region, and for knitting the own hair and fixing the wig 10 with the
knitting portion 17 of the second base 13.
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[0025] Explanation is made of a method of making the wig 10 shown in
Fig. 1.
First, a first base 12 is made. Fig. 4 schematically illustrates a
making process of the first base 12. Fig. 4(A) is a side view of a male
pattern 2 used for making the first base 12. Fig. 4(B) is a plan view of the
male pattern 2 of Fig. 4(A), wherein the peripheral line of the male
pattern 2 is omitted. The male pattern 2 is formed with plaster so as to
have the wig wearer's head shape. In the male pattern 2, as shown in Figs.
4(A) and 4(B), a peripheral line 3 for making the first base to be an outer
peripheral line of the region on which the first base 12 is to be worn is
drawn. Since the peripheral line 3 for making the first base corresponds
to peripheral lines of a front portion 12a, a left side portion 12b, a right
side portion 12c, and a back portion 12d, it does not agree with a whole
peripheral line of the wig 10 shown in Fig. 1. That is, while the peripheral
line toward the front portion from a shaved point 3a corresponding to the
shaved portions 12f and 12g shown in Figs. 1 and 2 agrees with the
peripheral line of the front portion 12a in the first base 12, the peripheral
line toward the back portion from a shaved point 3a is drawn inside by
the pre-determined distance from the whole peripheral line of the wig 10.
The imaginary outer peripheral line 3b shown by a dotted line in Fig. 4(B)
corresponds to the whole peripheral line of the wig 10 toward the back
portion from a turning point 3a. Here, the peripheral line 3 for making
the first base is drawn inside by, for example, 3 mm from the imaginary
outer peripheral line 3b.
[0026] Thus, on the male pattern 2 on which the peripheral line 3 for
making the first base is drawn, two net members 4 are overlapped as the
material of the first base 12, and, as in the side view of Fig. 4(C), the two
net members 4 above and below are fixed with a staple 2a to the whole
male pattern 2. The net member 4 used here has the pre-determined fiber
diameter and mesh number, made of polyester of, for example, fiber
diameter 100 micrometer and mesh number 60 strands/inch. Thereafter,
the head shape pattern is formed on the net member 4 by applying a
solution of, for example, the two component mixed type thermosetting
urethane resin diluted with an organic solvent such as methylethylketone
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to the net member 4, and drying at 100 degreeC for 8 hours.
[0027] Then, after cooling the male pattern 2, the upper net member 4b of
the two net members 4 is detached from the male pattern 2, a belt-shaped
net member 5 is half bent along the length direction as the material of an
exposure-preventive net member 16 on the lower net member 4a fixed to
the male pattern 2, as in the plan view of Fig. 4(D), the shaved end
portion 5a is turned outside of the peripheral line 3 for making the first
base, and the whole periphery of the turned end portion 5a is attached by
sewing thread along the peripheral line 3 for making the first base. In Fig.
4(D), the outer periphery of the male pattern 2 is omitted. Here, as the
belt-shaped net member 5 to be used, a net member of, for example, fiber
diameter 50 micrometer, mesh number 70 strands/inch, and 1 cm width,
with a smaller fiber diameter and higher mesh number than the net
member 4 is used.
[0028] Thereafter, the upper net member 4b is fixed to the male pattern 2
while positioning so that the upper net member 4b overlaps on the lower
net member 4a. In that state, after the upper and the lower net members
4b and 4a are tacked with a dress pin, the temporarily tacked net member
4 is detached from the male pattern 2. And then, the outer periphery and
its vicinity of the upper and the lower net members 4b and 4a are sewn
with sewing thread 6a all along the periphery, and the upper and the
lower net members 4b and 4a are unified by sewing with sewing thread 6b
the portion inside by the pre-determined distance, for example, 2 cm from
the outer periphery all along the outer peripheral line. Out of the lower
net member 4a, the inner region portion of sewing thread 6b shown in the
plan view of Fig. 4(E) is cut out, and the upper net member 4b is left over
uncut.
By passing the above-mentioned steps, the first base 12 is
provided with a reinforcement portion 15 comprising a double overlap of
the upper net member 4a and the lower net member 4b inside by the
pre-determined distance from the outer periphery, the other regions
including a top portion comprise only of the upper net member 4b, and the
outer periphery of the reinforcement portion 15 is provided with an
exposure-preventive net 16. Here, though the first base 12 is made using
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two net members of the same fiber diameters and mesh numbers in the
explanation above, the first base may be made using net members of the
different fiber diameters and/or mesh numbers.
[0029] A second base 13 is made next.
Fig. 5 is a view schematically illustrating the making steps of a
second base 13. Fig. 5(A) is a side view of the male pattern 2 used for
making a second base 13. When the second base 13 is manufactured,
similarly like the male pattern 2 used for making the first base 12, the
male pattern 2 formed with plaster to the wig wearer's head shape is used.
However, as shown as a side view in Fig. 5(A), the outer peripheral line 7a
corresponding to the outer periphery of the left and the right side portions
13b and 13c extending to the shaved point from the back portion 13a in
the second base 13 is drawn. The outer peripheral line 7a corresponding
to the imaginary outer peripheral line 3b shown by a dotted line in Fig.
4(B). Here, a peripheral line 7 for making the second base may be drawn
as an outline of the second base 13.
[0030] Thus, on the male pattern 2 on which the peripheral line 7 for
making the second base or the outer peripheral line 7a is drawn, two net
members 8 are overlapped as the material of the second base 13, and, as
in the side view of Fig. 5(B), the two net members 8 above and below are
fixed with a staple 2a to the whole male pattern 2. The net member 8 used
here has the pre-determined fiber diameter and mesh number, made of
polyester of, for example, fiber diameter 130 micrometer and mesh
number 85 strands/inch. Thereafter, as in the case of making the first
base 12, for example, the solution of a two component mixed type
thermosetting urethane resin diluted with an organic solvent such as
methylethylketone is applied, and dried at 100 degreeC for 8 hours,
thereby the head shape is formed on the net member 8.
[0031] The male pattern 2 is cooled, the upper net member 8a and the
lower net member 8b are tacked with dress pins, and the mutually tacked
net members 8 are detached from the male pattern 2. Then, first, the
upper net member 8a and the lower net member 8b are unified by sewing
with sewing thread 8d the outer peripheral portion 8c of the upper net
member 8a and the lower net member 8b, and thereafter the upper net
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member 8a and the lower net member 8b are cut out approximately along
the outer peripheral portion 8c so as to form the inner peripheral portion
8e of the second base 13. Illustrating the cut out state of the upper net
member 8a and the lower net member8b is a plan view of Fig. 5(C).
Next, as shown in a plan view of Fig. 5(D), a belt-shaped lace tape
9 of the pre-determined width is half bent along the length direction,
wrapping the whole peripheral portion of the unified net member 8, and
the end of the lace tape 9 and the net member 8 are sewn.
By passing the above-mentioned steps, the second base 13
provided with a hemming portion made of the lace tape 9 on the outer
periphery of the U-shaped net member 8 can be made.
[0032] Here, as the material for the second base 13, a net member 8
different in a thread diameter and a mesh number from the net member 4
used as the material for the first base 12 is used. The net member as the
material for the second base 13 preferably has the larger thread diameter
and mesh number than the net member 4 as the material for the first
base. This is because the second base 13 better has stiffness and the
shape is stabilized, since it is knitted directly in the head own hair, and
functions as the basis to fix the first base 12.
[0033] To the left and right side edge portion 12B and 12C of the first base
12, the left side portion 13b, and the right side portion 13c of the second
base 13, hook-and-loop fasteners 16a and 16b are fixed to face each other
as a left and right pair of clippers. Here, a convex type hook-and-loop
fastener 16a is fixed to the first base 12, and a concave type hook-and-loop
fastener 16b is fixed to the second base 13. For fixing hook-and-loop
fasteners 16a and 16b, an adhesive may be used for bonding, but fixing by
sewing may as well do using thread material.
[0034] Thereafter, the back portion 13a of the second base 13 is provided
to the reverse side of the back edge portion 12D of the first base 12, and
the pre-determined regions of the back edge portion 12D and the back
portion 13a are fixed by either sewing or bonding. Figs. 6(A) to (C) are
back views schematically illustrating the way to fix the first and the
second bases 12 and 13. In case of fixing by sewing, it is more preferable
that the sewn region 19 is an ellipsoid, as shown in Fig. 6(B), extending to
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the left and right, or a trapezoid, as shown in Fig. 60, so that the left
and right sides zoning the sewn region 19 approach as they extend
upward than that the sewn region 19 is a rectangle, as shown in Fig. 6(A),
so that the left and right sides zoning the sewn region 19 extend up and
downward to cross the peripheral portion of the wig base 11. This is
because it is easier to roll up the first base 12 from the forehead portion
side. Also, upon sewing, the work can be performed efficiently if the
attaching parts 16a respectively provided on the reverse side of the left
side edge portion 12B of the first base 12 and on the reverse side the right
side edge portion 12C of the first base 12 are mutually hooked to the
attaching parts 16b respectively provided on the left and right side
portions 13b and 13c of the second base 13. Here, the region where the
back portion 13a of the second base 13 is fixed to the first base 12, that is,
the region of hatched line in Fig. 2 preferably has length of 5 to 6 cm, for
example, in the range of about 45 to 60 degrees with the center at the top
of the top portion 12e. If the sewn region is narrower than this preferred
range, then it is easy to partially detach the first base 12 from the second
base 13, but it is not easy to position the first base 12 again to the second
base 13, and hence it unpreferably takes time and labor. On the other
hand, if the sewn region is larger than the preferred range, then it is not
preferable because the range of scalp is narrower which the wig wearer
can take care of by rolling up of the first base 12.
[0035] A wig 10 is completed by attaching hair 14 of the pre-determined
number of strands at each pre-determined zone in the first base 12 of the
thus made wig base 11. If the outer edge of the second base 13 protrudes
out of the outer edge of the first base 12, then the exposure of the second
base 13 can be prevented by attaching hair 14 also in the protruding
region, that is, the surface side of the knitting portion 17. Here, the
explanation above is for the case where both the first base 11 and the
second base 12 are made of a net member, but each base may be artificial
skin, or their combination.
(0036] Explanation is next made of a method of using the thus made wig
10.
Fig. 7 is a view schematically illustrating the state of wearing the
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wig 10 shown in Fig. 1.
First, among the wig wearer's own hairs 1, the user's own hairs 1
near the region where the wig base 11 is worn are bound at the
pre-determined interval to make the wearer's own hair bundles. Using
the wearer's own hair bundles, the second base 13 of the wig 10 is fixed to
the wig wearer's head. The methods of fixing are as following. As a first
method, a plurality of the wearer's own hair strands are properly bundled,
and knotted to a knitting portion 17 of the second base 13. As a second
method, the neighboring bundles of the wearer's own hair bundles formed
at intervals are first mutually knotted with a thread member, and
anchors are formed in, for example, U-shape at the pre-determined
interval along the outer periphery of the wig wearing region of the wig
wearer's head. The second base 13 is fixed to the wig wearer's own hair 1
by knotting the anchor and the knitting portion 17 of the second base 13.
As a third method, a plurality of insertion holes, though not shown, are
formed in the second base 13 along a left side portion 13b, a back portion
13a, and a right side portion 13c, each wearer's own hair bundle is
inserted into each insertion hole, and the inserted wearer's own hair
bundles are knotted. Thus, using wearer's own hair bundles, the second
base 13 is fixed to the wig wearer's head. Any of the above-mentioned
methods may be used to fix a wig on the user's scalp, but it should be
noted that the wearer's own hair is not knotted to the first base 11.
[00371 Thereafter, by applying an adhesive such as a medical adhesive
over whole or at spots or by adhering a double-stick tape on the reverse
side of a front edge portion 12A of the first base 12, and by pressing the
front edge portion 12A and the left and right side edge portions 12B and
12C of the first base 12 from the surface side where hair is attached, the
front edge portion 12A is bonded to scalp with the adhesive applied to the
front edge portion 12A of the first base 12, or with the adhered
double-stick tape, as well as a pair of attaching parts 16a and 16b are
mutually hooked. After the wig 10 is thus worn on a head, the hair (self
hair) 1 growing on the wig wearer's head and the hair 14 attached to the
wig base 11 are mixed by lightly brushing with a combing brush or others
to form a desired hair style.
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[0038] It is described below that, upon thus wearing a wig 10 on the wig
wearer's head, the wig wearer's scalp can be maintained clean and
sanitary without taking off the whole wig 10.
The wig wearer unlocks the hooking of a pair of attaching parts
16a and 16b provided to the left and right of the first and the second bases
12 and 13, respectively, of the wig base 11 at home or else. In this case, for
example, if an adhesive has been applied to the front edge portion 12A of
the first base 12, the adhesive is dissolved with the pre-determined
solvent to separate the front edge portion 12A of the first base 12 from the
scalp. In case to use a hook-and-loop fastener as the attaching parts 16a
and 16b, by pinching with a finger and rolling up the shaved portions 12f
and 12g of the first base 12 while inserting a pin for detaching between
the first base 12 and the scalp, hooking of the attaching parts 16a and 16b
of the first and the second bases 12 and 13 can be easily detached.
Therefore, hooking of the attaching parts can be easily unlocked without
facing a mirror by the wig wearer.
[0039) Thus, by unlocking the hooking of the attaching parts 16a provided
to the left and right side edge portions 12B and 12C of the first base 12
and the attaching parts 16b provided to the left and right side portions
13b and 13c of the second base 13, it is possible to roll up the first base 12
covering the wig wearer's head and to take care of the scalp covered with
the first base 12 and the wearer's own hair. In this case, since the first
base 12 is rolled up backward of the wig wearer, the hair 14 attached to
the first base 12 and the wearer's own hair 1 of the head can be washed
together without particular segregation. There is no wig member
interfering the care from the head top to the forehead side of the wig
wearer. Therefore, the wig wearer can take care elaborately by him- or
herself the scalp of the front or the top of the head.
[0040] Following such care, the wig wearer faces a mirror, applies an
adhesive to the reverse side of the front edge portion 12A of the first base
12 or the pre-determined front portion of scalp, overlaps next the left and
the right side edge portions 12B and 12C of the first base 12, respectively,
to the left and the right side portions 13b and 13c of the second base 13
fixed on the head, and makes a attaching parts 16a fixed to the first base
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12 and a attaching parts 16b fixed to the second base 13 face one another.
Next, by pressing the front edge portion 12A and the left and the right
side edge portions 12B and 12C of the first base 12 from the surface side,
the front edge portion 12A of the first base 12 is bonded to the scalp with
the adhesive, as well as a pair of attaching parts 16a and 16b are hooked
to one another, and the hair 1 of the wig wearer's head and the hair 14
attached to the wig base 11 are mixed by lightly brushing with a combing
brush or others to form a desired hair style.
[0041] Thus, when the wig 10 shown in Fig. 1 is worn on a head, by
detaching the left and the right side portions 12b and 12c of the first base
12 from the second base 13, and rolling up backward the first base 12, it is
possible to directly touch and take care of the scalp in the wig wearing
range. Therefore, the wig wearer can wear a wig as if continuously.
[00421 Modified examples are explained next.
A first modified example differs in that, in the wig base shown in
Figs. 1 to 3, attaching parts such as hook-and-loop fasteners 16a and 16b
are not fixed to a first and a second bases 12 and 13. A double-stick
adhesive tape or else is used as attaching parts, and since adhesiveness of
the double-stick adhesive tape weakens every time as the left and the
right side edge portions 12B and 12C of the first base 12 and the left and
the right side portions 13b and 13c of the second base 13 are detached, it
is necessary to peel off the double-stick adhesive tape and bond a new
double-stick adhesive tape.
[00431 A second modified example differs in that, in the wig base shown in
Figs. Y to 3, a stopper as attaching parts is fixed only to a first base 12.
The reverse sides of the left and the right side edge portions 12B and 12C
of the first base 12 have the pedestal portions of stoppers, and the base
portion of the stopper is knotted and fixed with a thread member or
others to the pedestal portion. When such a wig is worn on the wig
wearer's head, after fixing the second base 13 to the wig wearer's head as
mentioned before, an adhesive is applied to the front edge portion 12A of
the first base 12 or the pre-determined region of scalp, the first base 12 is
covered on scalp, the comb teeth of the left and the right stoppers are
inserted into the wig wearer's hair, and the left and the right side edge
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portions 12B and 12C of the first base 12 are fixed to the head via the left
and the right side portions 13b and 13c of the second base 13 with the
stoppers.
[0044] A third modified example differs in that, the second base is not
belt-shaped as shown in Figs. 1 to 3, but is linear so as to extend
preferably to the vicinity of the front edge of the left and the right side
edge portions in the direction of the left and the right side portions 12b
and 12c from the back portion 12e along the outer edge of the first base 12
on its reverse side. Fig. 8 is a left side view schematically illustrating the
third modified example of the wig of the present invention. Identical
marks are assigned to the identical or corresponding members. As shown
in Fig. 8, the second base 23 is made in the form of the first base line
having a width of several mm with a back portion 23a fixed by sewing of
the pre-determined length to a back edge portion 12D in the first base 12
and a left side portion 23b and a right side portion 23c extending in the
left and right side direction from the back portion 23a. The range where
the second base 23 is fixed by sewing or else to the first base 12 is the
same as the case of the wig 10 shown in Figs. 1 to 3, which is the region
shown by hatched lines in the figures. The second base 23 is provided to
the reverse side of the first base 12, slightly inside of its outer edge. In
this case, a pedestal portion 18 of a stopper is preferably provided as in
the second modified example in the left and the right side edge portions
12B and 12C of the first base 12.
[0045] In order to fix the wig 20 with regard to this third modified
example to a head, the wearer's own hair of the head is first knitted to the
second base 23 properly using a thread member, and the second base 23 is
fixed to the head, and, as in the case of the second modified example, an
adhesive is applied to the front edge portion 12A of the first base 12 or the
pre-determined region of scalp, the first base 12 is covered on scalp, the
comb teeth of the left and the right stoppers are inserted into the wig
wearer's hair, and the left and the right side edge portions 12B and 12C of
the first base 12 are fixed to the head via the left and the right side
portions 23b and 23c of the second base 23.
[0046] A fourth modified example is the modification without using a
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stopper or else in the third modified example but a hook-and-loop fastener
or a double-stick adhesive tape can be used. Fig. 9 is a left side view
schematically illustrating the fourth modified example of the wig of the
present invention. Identical marks are assigned to the identical or
corresponding members. As shown in Fig. 9, the second base 33 is made in
the form of the first base line having a width of several mm with a back
portion 33a fixed by sewing of the pre-determined length to a back edge
portion 12D in the first base 12 and a left and a right side portions 33b
and 33c extending in the left and right side direction from the back
portion 33a. In the left and the right side portions 33b and 33c is provided
a pedestal portion 33d facing the edge portion of the first base 12. To the
pedestal portion 33d is fixed a hook-and-loop fastener as the not
illustrated attaching parts. In this case, the not illustrated hook-and-loop
fastener is also provided to the left and the right side edge portions 12B
and 12C of the first base 12.
[0047] When the wig 30 in accordance with the fourth modified example is
to be fixed on the wig wearer's head, the wearer's own hair on the head is
first knitted into the second base 33 properly using a thread member, and
the second base 33 is fixed on the head. By applying an adhesive over
whole or at spots on the reverse side of a front edge portion 12A of the
first base 12, covering scalp with the first base 12, and by pressing the
front edge portion 12A and the left and right side edge portions 12B and
12C of the first base 12 from the surface side, the front edge portion 12A
of the first base 12 is bonded to head skin with the adhesive, as well as a
pair of clipping parts are mutually hooked. Thus, the wig 30 can be worn
on the head.
[0048] In the above-mentioned modified examples, only the back edge
portion of the first base and the back portion of the second base are fixed,
and since the left and the right side edge portions of the first base and the
left and right side portions of the second base are pinched with attaching
parts, or the left and right side edge portions of the first base are stuck
with attaching parts to scalp over the left and right side edge portions of
the second base, clipping with attaching parts can be unlocked.
[0049] Therefore, the type to fix a rear head side and to open and close a
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forehead side like the present invention, different from the type to fix a
forehead side and to open and close a rear head side like Patent Refereiice
1, has the following merits for use.
[00501 First of all, in the type to open and close a rear head side, since it
is
necessary to unlock the attaching parts where a fixing part and an
opening and closing part comprising a so-called wig base are provided
from a side head to a rear head portions, and it is not possible to
specifically see the attaching parts itself provided on the rear head side
and the rear head portion, it takes time and labor to hook the attaching
parts upon re-wearing and to firmly fix the opening and closing part at
the pre-determined position of the fixing part. By contrast, in the type to
open and close a forehead side, since there is no attaching parts provided
at a rear head side, such time and labor are not required.
[0051] Secondly, in the type to open and close a rear head side, since the
front side of the wig base stays fixed to the head, it mismatches with the
fact that a hairline retreats from a front to a top. That is, since the front
side tends to be dehaired or thin haired, necessity is high for a wig wearer
to take care of scalp, but it can not be freely done. By contrast, in the type
to open and close a forehead side, the scalp of the front side can be always
taken care of.
[0052) Thirdly, in the type to open and close a rear head side, since the
hair attached to the wig and scalp, especially the wearer's own hair on the
rear head side, separate by wearing and detaching the wig, it is necessary
to entangle and fit in the hair attached to the wig and the wearer's own
hair so that wearing of the wig is not visible, and it takes time and labor
to rearrange hair style. By contrast, in the type to open and close a
forehead side, it is possible to take care of the wearer's own hair of the
rear and the side head portions and the wearer's own hair attached to the
wig together, and it does not take time and labor to rearrange hair style.
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