Hair styling doll head having color change hair crimper

• US 6,736,692 B1
• Filed: 05/30/2003
• Issued: 05/18/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mattel Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Mattel Incorporated
• Inventors: Patean, Nicolae G., Hoyos-Zermeno, Laura
• Primary Examiner(s): Ackun, Jacob K.
• Application Number:
  US10/448,964
• Time in Patent Office: 354 Days
• Field of Search: 446/97, 446/268, 446/296, 446/319, 446/321, 446/394, 446/472
• US Class Current: 446/296
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/44 Dolls' hair or wigs; Eyelashes; Eyebrows wigs, eyelashes, eyebrows for humans A41G
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 33/30 Imitations of miscellaneous apparatus not otherwise provided for, e.g. telephones, weighing-machines, cash-registers savings boxes A45C1/12; toy ticket punches G07B9/02

Abstract

A doll head is supported by a body portion and includes a quantity of posable thermochromic reactive hair strands. A crimper includes a pair of liquid receiving heads and crimping dies allowing the crimper to assume a desired temperature and impart a desired crimp to the poseable hair strands while simultaneously imparting a desired temperature to achieve color change of the crimped hair. The crimping dies are removable from the heads of the crimper to facilitate straightening of the hair using underlying flat thermally conductive plates on the interior surfaces of the crimpers heads.

Claims

1. A hairplay toy comprising:

a doll head;

a quantity of posable doll hair upon said doll head, said posable doll hair having a first color at a first temperature and a second color at a second temperature;

a crimper having first and second crimping heads and means for moving said crimping heads between open and closed positions;

first and second liquid-receiving cavities within said first and second crimping heads; and

first and second crimping dies secured to said first and second crimping heads,

said crimper operative to enable a user to squeeze a portion of said doll hair between said crimping dies and thereby impart a crimp and color change to said portion of said doll hair.

2. The hairplay toy set forth in claim 1 wherein said crimping heads include first and second thermally conductive plates in thermal communication with said first and second liquid-receiving cavities.

3. The hairplay toy set forth in claim 2 wherein said first and second crimping heads and crimping dies include first and second removable attachment means for removably securing said crimping dies.

4. The hairplay toy set forth in claim 3 wherein said first and second thermally conductive plates and said first and second crimping dies are each formed of metal.

5. The hairplay toy set forth in claim 4 wherein said crimper is operative in an alternate configuration having said crimping dies removed from said crimping heads.