TONGS FOR HANDLING FALSE EYELASHES

• US 3,625,229 A
• Filed: 07/17/1969
• Issued: 12/07/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Victor Silson
• Original Assignee: Victor Silson
• Inventors: Silson, Victor
• Primary Examiner(s): Mancene, Lous G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lever, J. Q.
• Application Number:
  US04/842,637
• Time in Patent Office: 873 Days
• Field of Search: 132/31,32,32A 128/346,354 81/43
• US Class Current: 132/216
• CPC Class Codes: A41G 5/02 Artificial eyelashes; Artificial eyebrows

Abstract

A tongs having an integral molded hinge joining a pair of legs, each leg having a crosspiece at its outer end, the crosspieces being curved to grasp the lashes of a false eyelash and to exert an even pressure on all the lashes when the crosspieces flex under closing forces, the legs having interlocking tongue-andgroove elements to prevent relative sliding of the crosspieces.

Claims

1. A device for holding a false eyelash having a spine from which a plurality of lashes project, said device comprising a. an upper jaw;

b. a lower jaw;

c. means for moving the jaws toward each other;

d. an upper gripping surface on said upper jaw;

e. a lower gripping surface on said lower jaw movable into juxtaposition to said upper gripping surface when said jaws are brought together;

said upper and lower gripping surfaces defining between them, when in juxtaposition, a lash-receiving slot;

f. at least one gripping surface having an arcuate outer edge substantially equal in radius to the margin of a human eyelid, said outer edge defining an edge plane in which it is located;

g. the lash-receiving slot being so shaped that lashes extending into said slot from the spine of a false eyelash, when said spine extends along the arcuate outer edge, make an acute angle with the edge plane; and

h. said upper jaw being curved more than the lower, whereby said jaws first contact each other at their ends as said jaws are closed, and then flex slightly as further closing motion brings the jaws together.

2. A device for holding a false eyelash having a spine from which a plurality of false lashes project, said device comprising a. an upper jaw;

b. a lower jaw;

c. means for moving the jaws toward each other;

d. an upper gripping surface on said upper jaw;

e. a lower gripping surface on said lower jaw movable into juxtaposition to said upper gripping surface when said jaws are brought together;

said upper and lower gripping surfaces defining between them, when in juxtaposition, a lash-receiving slot;

f. at least one gripping surface having an arcuate outer edge substantially equal in radius to the margin of a human eyelid, said outer edge defining an edge plane in which it is located;

g. the lash-receiving slot being so shaped that lashes extending into said slot from the spine of a false eyelash, when said spine extends along the arcuate outer edge, make an acute angle with the edge plane; and

h. said upper jaw having a smaller radius or curvature than the lower jaw.