Hair curler device

• US 4,577,647 A
• Filed: 11/01/1984
• Issued: 03/25/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Goody Products Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Mercury Foam Corporation
• Inventors: Hostettler, Fritz, Fenster, Larry A.
• Primary Examiner(s): McNeill, Gregory E.
• Application Number:
  US06/667,330
• Time in Patent Office: 509 Days
• Field of Search: 132/39, 132/43 R
• US Class Current: 132/219
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 2/18 Flexible curlers A45D2/20 takes precedence

Abstract

An improved hair curler device of a resilient outer sheath and a deformable shape retaining inner core embedded securely within the outer sheath; compositions for embedding deformable inner member within said outer sheath and an improvement in the outer envelope shape and texture for obtaining satisfactory hair curling properties.

Claims

1. A hair curler device having an outer skin of predetermined frictional characteristics, a resilient foam sheath of a foamed material and a bendable core element having anchoring means for binding the same to the resilient foam sheath, wherein the anchoring means consist of adhesive securement or transversely positioned elements disposed within and transversely to the longitudinal axis of said hair curler device and embedded in said hair curler foam sheath.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the transverse elements affixed to said bendable core element comprise bristles, sheets, rods, bars or films disposed along said bendable core element at interspersed intervals thereof of a pre-selected transverse length.

3. The hair curler device as disclosed in claim 1 wherein the bendable core element at the ends thereof has enlargements for further securement of the bendable core element in said hair curler device at ends thereof.

4. The device as disclosed in claim 1 wherein the foam sheath ends of the hair curler device are enlarged for securement of additional anchoring means within said enlarged portion thereof of the bendable members thereof.

5. The hair curling device as described in claim 1 wherein the bendable core element adhesive securement is by a primer carried on said bendable core element.

6. The hair curler device as disclosed in claim 1 wherein the hair curler device is of polyurethane foam having a skin coefficient of friction in the range from 5 to 9 on a scale from 0 to 10.

7. The hair curler device as disclosed in claim 1 where the bendable core element has attached thereto securement means for chemically interacting with said foam and for anchoring said core element to said foam sheath.