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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5890497 | Hair binder A hair binder including a cord member, and a quick-release hook for joining the ends of the cord member, the quick-release hook including a male member and a female member injection-molded from plastics and respectively fastened to the ends of the cord me... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5873377 | Hair clip improvement A hair clip of the present invention has two securing holders deviced to secure a torsion spring therein, having securing trenches to retain two projecting parts of the spring and has two clipping elements each provided with two holded connecting protrusi... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5857469 | Barrette with system of modularized ornamental appendages A clasp is affixed to the underside of a barrette body. The barette body supports a reusable adhesive tape on its upper surface. At least one ornamental appendage includes a smooth surface attractive to the adhesive tape, wherein the ornamental appendage ... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5842482 | Spring hinge for hairstyling devices A hairstyling device includes, according to the invention, two jaws hinged together by hinge means including a hinge pin and a coil spring wound in a spiral around the pin. The spring is contained in an opaque casing attached to the first jaw, and incorpo... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5842484 | Hair fashion accessory A new hair fashion accessory for holding hair in place while at the same time enhancing the appearance of the wearer. The inventive device includes an elongated member having a first surface and a second surface, a clip attached to the first surface for s... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5842485 | Curved toothed hairclip The hairclip of the invention comprises two elongate branches hinged together at their first ends about a transverse hinge axis, with retaining lugs or a retaining spring for selectively and separably fastening them together at their second ends. Each bra... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5839452 | Hair ornament A hair ornament which is made entirely of natural materials.... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5832938 | Hair style having ponytail strands woven into curls and tool therefor A method for effecting a curled hair style includes weaving the strands of at least one ponytail through the hair foundation proximal to the ponytail, and then raising portions of the strands away from the foundation to establish respective curled segment... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5803096 | Hair clip A hair clip includes two bristle members pivotally connected by a pin. Each bristle member includes a grasp section and a bristle section, and an elastic member is mounted around the pin to bias the bristle sections of the two bristle members toward each ... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5785065 | Hair barrette with replaceable ornaments A hair barrette includes a reversible snap-on connecting device for attaching, replacing and/or adding one or more ornamental appendages to a hair clamp, The novel connecting device is structurally capable of rapidly, repetitively and selectively performi... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5771908 | Hairclip The hairclip has an elongated central body. Adjacent one end, the body has a slot therein. A flexible but non-elastic band has a loop at each end. One loop engages in the slot. The length of the body and band are such that, when the slot end of the band i... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5769101 | Hair bundling core and method of using the core A hair bundling core structure comprises an elastic cylinder for letting a hair bundle to pass therethrough, which cylinder is split by a rift, and a hair fastening pin connected to a lower end portion of the elastic cylinder by an attachment member at a ... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5762076 | Wire clip for barrette A barrette for holding hair having an improved wireform latch in which the barrette includes a top plate having upstanding pivots and upstanding receptor hooks, and the wireform being a semirigid wire in a frogleg shape which is put in tension parallel to... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5699814 | Curved toothed hairclip A curved toothed hairclip comprises two elongate branches hinged together at their first ends about a transverse hinge axis and separably fastenable together at their second ends. Each branch has curved teeth extending laterally from the first lateral edg... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699815 | Hair clip A fastener part 6 on one end of a base plate 1 includes clip arms 7 having enough length to deform flexibly to release a clip plate 2 from the base plate 1, and extending from the base plate 1 toward an axis part 3 on the other end of the base plate 1, so... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5697387 | Interchangeable decorative article The invention consists of a removable flexible material cover for an article of fashion such as, hair barrettes, jewelry, and belt buckles. The cover comprises one or more pieces of said flexible material, with at least one piece of material being a shape... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5694956 | Hair slide assembly The invention relates to a hair slide assembly for holding together and decorating hair. The assembly is provided with a carrier to which is attached a decorative part, which carrier and decorative part within the assembly, when in use, are positioned at ... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5682908 | Hairpin A hairpin including a base plate, and a pin, wherein the base plate has a first row of longitudinally spaced pin holes and a second row of longitudinally spaced pin holes at two opposite ends, a first row of longitudinally spaced harness loops and a secon... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5666982 | Barrette mount A barrette mount includes a clamping member articulated to a main body and an attachment device for locking the clamping member to the main body. The attachment device includes a pair of lateral operating lugs projecting from the main body and each includ... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5647485 | Display system for hair swatches A swatch display system and a swatch cassette for use with a display for selling coloring product. The swatch cassette comprises a cassette insert formed to removeably hold and display horizontally a swatch, and a bezel for removeably holding the cassette... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5605166 | Hair clip A hair clip which includes a base plate, which has a center opening, two retaining notches at two opposite ends of the center opening, a plurality of downward teeth around the center opening, a pair of first downward lugs, a pair of second downward lugs, ... | 02/25/1997 |
| 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 |
| 5595199 | Hair container A hair container utilizing a sheath for enclosing strands of hair which extend into the sheath. The sheath includes a flexible wall portion which forms a chamber having an opening to the same in order to permit the strands of hair to extend into the sheat... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5590670 | Braid tip A device for covering the end of a hair braid, having a hollow sleeve, open at its upper end and closed at its lower end, and having a W-shaped insert, which may be used to secure the end of the hair braid by wrapping the braid end around the lower middle... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5573018 | Hair barrette with replaceable ornaments An ornamental hair barrette provides a mechanism allowing for rapid replacement, removal or addition of alternate ornamental appendages without requiring the wearer to remove the barrette from the wearer's hair each time the ornamental appendages are repl... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5566690 | Hair clip A hair clip for fastening a hairdo, having a clip body made of flexible material and defining an open space for passing the hair, permitting the hair to be arranged into a hairdo; and a fastening device integrally made on two opposite ends of the clip bod... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5558106 | Hair clip combination device A hair clip combination device including a base, which has an insertion hole at one end and a retainer rod at an opposite end, a holder member shaped like the receptacle of a flower and fastened to the base by a screw, which has a bottom coupling groove, ... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5549127 | Spring fixing structure for a hairgrip A spring fixing structure for a hairgrip includes a pin having an oval head and a plurality of annular projections in an intermediate portion engaging a wound coiled portion of a spring forcibly interposed between two ears of two hairgrip bodies after the... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5533533 | Foldable hair clip with a comb A foldable hair clip with a comb is disclosed which comprises: (a) a clip plate, which has an inner surface provided with a pair of comb pivot seats, a pair of clip strip seats near one end thereof, and a stud button near another end; (b) a clip strip, wh... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5526830 | Multisensory decorative hair bow A multisensory decorative hair bow, or bow (10), for providing an audible message such as music, spoken words, or sound effects upon the activation of an acoustic element (22). The bow (10) is designed to adorn a wearer by placement in the person's hair. ... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5495861 | Hair bundling device A device for holding hair in a bundle comprises a body member configured in a generally spiral manner from proximate a main axis of the device to an opening for receiving hair. Portions of the body member that are radially adjacent to each other with resp... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5335680 | Hair clip A hair clip including a first comb member having a forward end and a rearward end and a plurality of teeth extending therefrom, a first comb member having a forward end and a rearward end with a plurality of teeth extending therefrom, and a flexible band ... | 08/09/1994 |
| 4896685 | Baby bow hair fastener A decorative baby hair piece has a decorative adornment of embroidered ribbon attached to a lace backing element or a large bow without the backing element and a hair lock attached with glue to the decorative adornment. The hair lock includes two elongate... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4425926 | Integral hair clip and method of manufacture An improved hair clip of unitary construction, which assembles as it is being fabricated by means of a progressive die so that no separate assembly operations are required. The hair clip includes two facing hair engaging jaws on one end, a pair of curved ... | 01/17/1984 |
| 4378814 | Hair curling device The subject invention relates to a new and improved roller to produce curls in a strand of hair. More particularly, an improved hair roller is disclosed which includes a longitudinally extending body having an irregular cross section. In use, a strand of ... | 04/05/1983 |
| 4343321 | Hair clip A hair clip having a general "U" shape is provided with an arc segment on each of its two arms. The concave portions of the arc segments face one another. The arms are connected by a hinge portion. One of the arms is reinforced to control in which arm fle... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4103693 | Hair arranging accessory A hair arranging accessory in the form of a flattened annulus or band of semirigid sheet material can be opened to receive a strand of hair and compressed to grip the strand. An inside surface portion of the annulus is provided with a gripping surface to ... | 08/01/1978 |
| 4011639 | Clip A clip of the sort disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 2,795,233 is further provided with two impressed slight bends respectively proceeding from the two roots of the slots between the center leg and the two outer legs to the outer end of the integral base portion... | 03/15/1977 |
