Abstract: A hinge for a barrette, hairclip or the like has a base of rectangular configuration formed along its short ends with a pair of upstanding lugs forming cheeks between which the legs of a clip arm are retained. The legs have inwardly bent feet which are engaged between a pair of cleats extending along the long sides of the base and bent over these feet to swingably mount the arm.

Abstract: A method of making artificial strip and cluster eyelashes. The method includes the steps of knotting eyelash strands to a support. While still being supported, the strands are heated and bonded together along a line parallel to and adjacent the knots. After heating and bonding, the lash strands are severed from the knots along a line intermediate the knots and the heating and bonding line.

Abstract: Livestock feeding apparatus including a housing having a head insertion opening and a dosing device responsive to the presence of selected specimens of the livestock for presenting food within the housing. An animal may gain access to the food by inserting its head through the opening. A valve is mounted adjacent the head insertion opening for movement between a closed position in which the valve occludes the opening and an open position in which the valve does not occlude the opening. Mechanisms are provided for moving the valve to the open position when one of the selected livestock specimens is present and returning the valve to the closed position after a predetermined period of time has elapsed. The valve prevents an animal from loitering in feeding position with its head inserted in the opening.

Abstract: A hair processing shield to assist tinting, coloring and bleaching comprises a cylinder or tube of a clear polyolefin film. The tube is sized to fit over the head and cover the hair. The tube has longitudinal lines of perforations that are torn apart to form tabs. The tabs are then folded down to form pockets around portions of the hair pulled through the film and treated with a hair treating solution.This shield and hair treating procedure permits the hairdresser to segregate strands of hair for treatment, protects the head of the client and prevents drying or loss of the treating solution.

Abstract: A process for the waving or straightening of hair by treating with an alkaline bisulphite and or sulfite preparation followed by neutralizing with hydrogen peroxide is improved by using an aqueous neutralizing solution in which the hydrogen peroxide is present in a concentration of from 0.65 to 3.4% by weight and proportional to the concentration by weight of available sulfur dioxide in the waving/straightening solution used prior to neutralization. The process avoids certain disadvantages associated with the prior art.

Abstract: A method is provided for attaching a hairpiece to the head of a recipient having some natural hair. The hairpiece has a plurality of loops about which natural hair can be secured that are disposed on the hairpiece so as to be adjacent natural hair when the hairpiece is in position. At each of a plurality of loops, a first adjacent group of natural hair is pulled through the loop and held outwardly extended from the recipient's head under controlled tension. A second adjacent group of natural hair is then held outwardly extended from the recipient's head under controlled tension in an orientation such that the two groups cross against each other over the loop and the loop is snuggly disposed against the recipient's head. A line is tied about the two groups where they cross, and a flowable adhesive is applied to the knotted line.

Abstract: A manicuring case and supporting apparatus for storing manicuring implements and providing a base of support for a user's hand during use thereof. A container defines an interior cavity and includes a plurality of apertures in the top surface thereof. Each aperture is adapted to receive a bottle of polish or the like and is configured to preclude the bottle from being inadvertently dislodged irrespective of the orientation of the case. A supporting base depends upwardly from the top surface of the container. The supporting base includes an arcuate member which has a plurality of concave depressions disposed in the top surface thereof. The concave surfaces are substantially parallel to each other and provide a base upon which the user's hand can be disposed during use of the present invention.

Abstract: A cap constructed of foamed synthetic polymeric material which is impregnated with a hair revitalizing oil composition is placed over the scalp portion of a human head. An oil impervious film is placed over the exterior of the cap, and heat is applied to the cap for a period of time sufficient to allow the hair revitalizing oil composition to permeate and saturate the hair.

Abstract: A comb includes a hollow frame having a pair of fixed teeth at opposite ends thereof, and a cap having a depending body portion disposed within the hollow interior of the frame. A series of transversely extending open slots in one longitudinally extending side planar face of the body portion receives individually a series of axially rotatable rod-like teeth. Each one of the open slots is four-sided in cross-sectional shape, and the fourth side is open in the plane of the face. The depth of the slots is greater than the thickness of the teeth so that the teeth fit entirely within the slots. In one embodiment of the present invention, the teeth are made by rotating axially rod stock and moving a cutter having the configuration of the desired shape of the teeth into cutting engagement with the rod stock.

Abstract: A fountain comb in which a manifold backbone has communication with a reservoir through a screw cap and is angularly disposed relative to the reservoir which serves as a handle, the comb having a plurality of teeth extending from the backbone at right angles thereto with axial passages communicating with the manifold to supply fluid to the tips of the teeth, the latter being in arcuate array to conform to scalp contour, and a bumper sponge and a brush on the backbone of the comb for collecting, spreading and/or distributing fluid to the hair by methods known as streaking, tipping, straight and in circle brush painting around and within curls and the like.

Abstract: A pedicure easel is described including a first inverted U-shaped member which is adapted to be placed on a bathroom floor and extended upwardly therefrom. A second U-shaped supporting member is pivotally secured adjacent its forward end to the upper end of the first supporting member and is adapted to have its rearward end extended over the forward lip of a toilet bowl. A supporting foot plate is pivotally secured adjacent its rearward end to the second support member forwardly of the rearward end thereof and has its lower forward end detachably secured to the upper end of the first supporting member. The easel may be selectively folded from the position just described to a flat folded position. The foot plate has a central storage cavity formed therein adapted to receive an accessory tray which may be selectively secured to the opposite side edges of the foot plate during the use thereof.

Abstract: An assembly of a toothbrush detachably mounted to a hollow cylindrical housing in which dentrifice tube may be stored; with a hollow cap threaded to the housing in which a reel of dental floss is stored. The assembly, in disassembled condition, is stored in an enclosure. A coupling formed of a sleeve fitted with an internal thread serves to join the threaded neck of a dentrifice tube with the threaded neck of a supply tube.

Abstract: A suspension-type file folder is provided with an indicia tab molded unitarily with a plate or wing securing the tubular label-receiving window to a leaf of the file folder. The plate is molded unitarily with a pincer engageable with a male member of the adjacent leaf of the next folder to interconnect the file folders and prevent insertion of articles between them.

Abstract: A novel fingernail hone consists of a body of unglazed ceramic material having a honing or polishing surface in the form of a concave surface which is unglazed and of substantially spherical curvature. The ceramic material is preferably in the form of an elongated stick, preferably of cylindrical shape, with the concave unglazed surface in either or both ends. An alternate embodiment may include a sharpening or polishing notch in one end or extending longitudinally of the cylindrical surface of the ceramic stick.

Abstract: A hair styling brush consisting of a handle and a heating element, and an open ended tube having a number of rows of radially projecting teeth extending from its outer surface, each tooth having a substantially rectangular cross section and having a length from base to apex of from 1/4" to 3/8".

Abstract: A hair waving appliance disclosed herein enables hair to be reacted with a waving agent under the heated condition, the temperature and duration of the reaction being adjustable at the user's or beautician's choice. The waving appliance uses rather weak waving agents to assure a desired degree of permanent waving by generating mist at room temperature and supplying the same to hair. Particularly, the waving appliance is provided with a highly reliable support structure by which a controller containing many controlling elements therein is secured on a prop and rotatable within a limited range of angles with respect to a head supporting assembly.

Abstract: An aircraft of the heavier than air type which has wings that can be deployed from a collapsed launch configuration to an extended flight position by an on-board power source.

Abstract: The hair curler consists of a cage-like element having a spheroidal shape divided into two hemispheres along an equatorial plane. The two hemispheres are connected to one another in a manner permitting relative rotation by means of an inner core. One hemisphere is provided in its polar zone with a hairpin for resiliently clamping the base portion of a lock of hair and the two hemispheres present a crescent-shaped opening into which the lock clamped by the hairpin is inserted. A hair lock retainer is further provided in the crescent-shaped opening in the hemisphere opposed to the hemisphere carrying the hairpin, so that the hair lock, once it has been clamped by the hairpin and inserted into the opening, cannot escape from same.At the interior of the cage-like element there is arranged, aligned with the polar axis of the hair curler, an axial core connecting the two poles of the spherical cage, so that an annular chamber is defined between the inner walls of the cage and the outer surface of the axial core.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a feeder-watering trough for animals. The trough is designed with a centrally disposed portion having an inclined top surface. The centrally disposed portion is connected to an outer retaining wall by means of a bottom member. Feed or water is positioned in the area between the outer retaining wall and the centrally disposed portion so as to be conveniently located with respect to an animal utilizing the trough. The feeder-watering trough of the present invention is disposed on a central support which is designed to adjust the height of the trough. In another embodiment of the present invention, the area defined between the outer retaining walls and the centrally disposed trough may be subdivided into a plurality of sections, each section being designed to accomodate a single animal.

Abstract: The pet shelter of the present invention is adapted to be mounted over the basement window opening of a house. The shelter has a double swinging door which can swing inwardly and outwardly. A locking bar pivots from a vertical position to a horizontal position in retentive engagement with the swinging door. A flexible cord is attached to the lock bar and extends through a hold in the house wall to the interior of the house where it can be manipulated to raise and lower the locking bar for locking and unlocking the swinging door.