US1283357A - Hair-drier. - Google Patents

Description

IVI. THOMPSON.

HAIR DRIER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.28, 191s.

1,28S 357, Patented 001;. 29, 1918.

IN vawwm MAY TWWMP$0M MAY 'rnomrson, or Los ANGELES, cnmro A HAIR-DRIER.

My object is to make an improved hair drier and my invention consists in the novel features claimed.

Another object of this invention is to prm vide a hair drier which, when in use, will protect the eyes and the face from the rays of the sun while the hair is being dried.

herein shown, described and Figure 1 is a perspective showing a hairdrier embodying the principles of my invenr tion in use.

Fig. 2 is a perspective of the hair drier.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional detail on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

The inner section 1 is cut to the desired shape from buckram and is preferably sized with water-proof material. The lower section 2 is preferably green. thin porous muslin and the upper section 3 is preferably white mosquito netting. A wire 4 extends all the way around the edges of the section 1' and the edges of the lower and upper sections 2 and 3 are wrapped around the wire more or less. The frame thus constructed has an inner edge 5, an outer edge 6, and meeting edges 7 and 8. The inner edge 5 forms a substantially circular opening, said opening being eccentric to the outer edge 6. The frame when not in use is adapted to lie flat and when in its flat position the edges 7 and 8 are substantially sixty degrees apart and the lines are radial, so that when the edges are drawn together the frame is dished or frusto-conical.

" When flat the frame is circular on its outer edge and the opening is circular and eccentric to the outer edge. A piece of good mus. lin is folded upon itself with its edges overlapping the edge 5, one edge of the muslin belng on top and the other edge beingunder and said edges are secured to the edge 5 by stitching 9, thus producing a flexible annular loop 10 extending inwardly all the way around from the edge 5. An elastic cord 11 is inserted through'the loop, the ends 12 and 13 of the cord extending from the/ends of the loop. A and 15 is secure their inner ends and a similar pair of-tapes Specification of Letters Patent.

(pair of tapes or ribbons 1t to the edges 7 and 8 near.

Patienttid @ct. so, was.

Application filed march as, 1918. serial No. 225,332.

or ribbons 16 and 17 is secured to the edges 7 and 8 at their outer ends. A binding 18 extends all the way around the edge Bend the edges 7 and 8 to the ends of the loop 10, said binding covering the wire 4; and the edges of the sections 1, 2 and 3. The section 1 of buckram provided with the wire ed@ 4 makes a frame stifi' enough to support the hair, and the sections 1, 2 and 3 are porous so as to.allow a circulation of air through the frame.

The haig drier thus constructed is placed around ahead above the ears and eyes with;

the hair extending upwardly through the opening 19 and surrounded y 10 and the elastic cord 11.

loop The ends the flexible- '12 and 13 of the cord are drawn together as tightly as desired and tied and then the tapes or ribbons 14, 15, 16 and 17 are tied and the hair is spread out backwardly and rlaterally over the frame.

tends outwardly from the head all the way around and holds the hair away from the neck and shoulders. Air will circulate freely through the spread out hair and up-.

without my hair drier is .very trying on the eyes and on the skin, especially in the case of persons having skin sensitive to the sunlight. My hair drier will allow the hair to The frame exbe dried quickly, while at the same time protecting the user from the sun. Thus I have produced a hair drier, the main frame of which is circular when fiat with a circular eccentric opening, and there being a slot from the centraf opening to the outer edge out on radial lines about sixty degrees apart.-

The device is in effect a sunshade or crownless .hat which protects the face and neck from the sun and at the same time exposes the hair to the sun and air.

In a companion application I have shown, described and claimed an alternative construction.v

Various changes may be made in the deirit of my invention as claimed.

a1m: p 1. A hair drier comprising a stiff porous frame having a circular opening for a head,

a soft loop extending inwardly from the.

frame around said opening, and an elastic cord in the loop and having ends projecting fromthe loop.

2. A hair drier comprising a. section of buckram, a wire extending all the way around the edgetof the section of buckram, binding securing the Wire to the 'buokram; thus producing a frame having an opening for a head; a soft annular loop extending from the frame around the opening, and an elastic cord in the loop.

3. A hair drier comprising a section of buckram, a Wire extending all the Way around the edge of the section of buckram, binding securing the wire to the buckram, thus producing a frame havin an opening for a head and'separated on a line extending from the head opening to the outer edge, a

: soft annular loop extending from the frame around the opening from one side of the line of separation to the other side, an elastic cord in the loop; the ends of the cord extending from the ends of the loop; and

tapes secured to the edges formed by the 5. In a hair drier, a frame adapted to lie flat and having a substantially circular outer edge and a substantially circular opening; there being a slot extending from the opening to the outer edge of considerable width; and means for drawing the edges formed by the slot together to dish. the frame,

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

AY THOMPSON.

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