Abstract: A hair styling apparatus (10) is disclosed as including a heating barrel (20) and a protecting sleeve (28) which covers part of the heating barrel, the protective sleeve including a wall (30) with a helical slot (32) allowing a tress of hair to be received through the slot to contact the heating barrel.

Abstract: The present invention features an electric, hair-curling apparatus. The hair curler is designed to prevent the heated wand from coming into unwanted contact with other surfaces and parts of the body. Its purpose is to prevent accidental injuries or burns to the body surfaces of a user or to furniture, etc. The electric hair-curler is fabricated having many insulative ribs that are periodically spaced apart and located along a longitudinal axis of the wand. These ribs are operative in shielding the heated surface of the wand from contact with unwanted surfaces, including parts of the user's body. Having a sinusoidally-shaped or undulating periphery, the ribs allow hair to easily flow into the interstitial wells between the ribs; hair flowing into the wells is free to contact the wand surface. The ribs are also designed with a wide, circumferential portion that is positioned substantially flush with the wand surface at the section of contact with the clamp.

Abstract: A shield for protecting the facial skin of a person using a heated curling iron that provides two pairs of sleeves cooperatively carried on the heating element and the clamp member of the curling iron so that the portion of hair to be curled may be wound about the heating element between spaced apart sleeves. The shields or presence of the sleeves shields and protects the heating element from contacting the skin of the user.

Abstract: A heat generating curling implement includes a generally cylindrical body member about which hair may be wound and containing two heat radiating U-shaped plates with interlinking base portions with a positive temperature coefficient heating element sandwiched between the inside surfaces of the interlinked base portions. Each plate has two heat radiating legs. All legs extend substantially in the same direction. The legs of both plates partially co-extend. The interlinking base portions do not contact one another. An electrode pin is in electrical contact through a contact plate to one of the radiating U-shaped plates. The electrode pin does not extend through the PTC element and does not extend through the base portion of the radiating plate. An electrode ring surrounds the electrode pin and is electrically insulated therefrom and electrically connected to the other radiating U-shaped plates through a second contact plate.