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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7044141 | Hair clip A hair clip includes a pair of hair retainers for retains hair therebetween. The first hair retainer is provided with a hinge ledge cover connecting inner side edge portions of the outside hinge ledges of the first hair retainer located at the second end portion sid... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6192894 | Hair clip A hair clip includes a pair of hair retainers for retaining hair therebetween and a pivotal shaft for pivoting the hair retainers. Each hair retainer has a pair of opposing hinge ledges at one end portion thereof. The hinge ledges of one of the hair retai... | 02/27/2001 |
| 5960800 | Hair clip A hair retainer is pivoted to one end portion of an ornamental cover. At a top portion of the hair retainer, a releasing mechanism is provided to unlatch engaging arms provided at the other end portion of the ornamental cover from a pair of engaging porti... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5787905 | Hair clip A hair clip includes a pair of hair retaining members pivoted by a hinge portion and urged toward their closed position by a coil spring wound around a shaft. Each of the hair retaining members includes a comb-like hair retaining portion extending in one ... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5709231 | Hair clip A hair clip includes an elongated base plate having first and second ends, a pair of hooking arms on the base plate first end capable of overlapping each other, and an elongated hair retaining portion having first and second ends. The hair retaining porti... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5682909 | Hair clip A hair clip includes a base plate (1) secured to an ornamental cover and a pair of hooking arms (13) extending from the base plate, in which each arm has an extension protruding from an outer edge at the base portion of the arm. The extensions (13c) come ... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5638836 | Hair clip A hair clip has a base plate (1, 101) having comb-tooth-shaped lugs (4, 104), and also has a hair retainer (2, 102) connected to the base plate. The hair retainer has one end engageable with and disengageable from one end of base plate. The lugs (4, 104) ... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5596998 | Hair clip A hair clip includes a base plate having at one end portion a pair of hooking arms, and a hair retainer having one end portion rotatably connected to the other end portion of said base plate. The hair retainer further has at the other end portion thereof ... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5445170 | Hair clip A hair clip includes a base plate (1) secured to an ornamental cover and a pair of hooking arms (13) extending from the base plate, in which each arm has an extension protruding from an outer edge at the base portion of the arm. The extensions (13c) come ... | 08/29/1995 |
