Method for beading hair

• US 5,687,751 A
• Filed: 01/18/1996
• Issued: 11/18/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Beadwear Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Beadwear Incorporated
• Inventors: Villani, Anthony
• Primary Examiner(s): Mancene, Gene
• Assistant Examiner(s): Philogene, Pedro
• Application Number:
  US08/588,425
• Time in Patent Office: 670 Days
• Field of Search: 132/212, 132/270, 132/200, 132/273, 132/330, 132/332, 132/271, 66/117, 66/118, 606/148, 606/139, 606/144, 606/205, 606/208, 606/206, 219/143, 219/129, 223/50, 223/105, 223/99, 119/801, 119/808, 29/433, 29/241
• US Class Current: 132/200
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 2002/008 for threading hair strands through hair or objects, e.g. beads
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 8/008 Ornaments specially adapted for being attached to small strands of hair
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 8/34 Hair-braid holders; Hair-plait holders
• CPC Class Codes: D04D 1/04 by threading or stringing pearls or beads on filamentary material
• CPC Class Codes: F16G 11/101 deforming the cable by moving a part of the fastener

Abstract

In accordance with the present invention there is disclosed a method for beading hair using a tool comprising a shaft having a needle tip at one end, a center section having bifurcated equal parts which form a convex section of the shaft having an aperture therethrough, and a second end having a tab serving as a bead stop and a hanger for the tool. In the method of the invention, beads are threaded over the needle tip and along the shaft to the tab. Hair is passed through the aperture in the shaft, and then one or more beads are slid upwardly along the shaft over the hair. A free end of the hair is then pulled backwardly through the aperture, leaving the bead(s) mounted on the hair.

Claims

1. A method of mounting beads onto hair with a hair beading tool comprising a shaft having a first end and a second end, said first end adapted for passage of one or more beads thereover, said shaft having an orifice therethrough between said first and second ends, said orifice adapted for passage of a band of hair therethough comprising the steps of:

passing at least one bead over said first end of said shaft and beyond said portion of said shaft having said orifice therein;

extending one or more hair strands through said orifice in said shaft;

pressing at least one bead towards said first end of said shaft over said hair; and

pulling a free end of said hair back through said orifice.

2. The method of mounting beads onto hair in accordance with claim 1, wherein said tool includes a stop positioned along said shaft beyond said orifice from said first end towards said second end, and wherein said at least one bead is passed over said orifice and along said shaft to said stop.

3. The method of mounting beads onto hair in accordance with claim 1, wherein said orifice in said shaft is defined by bifurcated first and second parts of said shaft and said pressing step further comprises the step of compressing said bifurcated parts towards one another to permit the passage of said at least one bead thereover.

4. The method of mounting beads onto hair in accordance with claim 1, wherein said shaft is a single molded part.

5. The method of mounting beads onto hair in accordance with claim 1, wherein said orifice is defined between a first shaft portion and a second shaft portion having ends joined to one another, said first and second shaft portions defining a generally convex center section of said shaft.

6. The method of mounting beads onto hair in accordance with claim 1, wherein said orifice has the shape of an acute ogive at a top and a bottom end thereof.

7. The method of mounting beads onto hair in accordance with claim 1, wherein said at least one bead is pressed towards said first end of said shaft until it passes beyond said free end of said hair.