Clip Or Hairpin Patents (Class 132/276)
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Patent number: 11571055Abstract: This invention relates to an innovative hair claw clip, which includes at least a first body, a second bod, an automatic opening device and at least four sets of snap-fit structures as main components combined together. Said snap-fit structures are respectively arranged on the adjacent positions of the corresponding first rib of said first body and the second rib of said second body, said snap-fit structures can improve the service life and stability of the hair claw clip during the clamping operation and the opening operation. Moreover, through the new anti-slip structure design, the present invention can be held more firmly by the user, and the hair claw clip sandwiched on the hair will not be easily slipped from the hair even if the hair is not clamped tightly.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: TSORNG TA ENIERPRISE CO., LTD.Inventor: Jui-Ming Tu
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Patent number: 9763653Abstract: A length or strand of resilient material is formed into a continuous ring having multiple tissue-engaging portions for engaging and spreading eyeball tissue segments apart. The strand is formed with elongated straight sides joined by corner portions which are enlarged in directions transverse to the length dimension of each adjacent side. The corner portions constitute the tissue-engaging portions and have top and bottom sections and a connecting section that forms a gap for receiving the tissue. Each side of the ring extends from a bottom section of one corner to a top section of an adjacent corner. When the ring is deployed, the tissue is captured in the gaps at the corners of the ring and also is engaged along each side as that side transitions from a position situated below the tissue to a position situated above the issue.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Microsurgical Technology, Inc.Inventors: Boris Malyugin, Vaclav Dusek
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Patent number: 9445656Abstract: The present invention provides a hair accessory characteristic of Shore Hardness between 41 D and 60 D and made from a polymerized plastic mixture including acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) resin, thermoplastic rubber (TPR), defoamer, lubricant and optical brightener. The hair accessory which is bent and deformed under effect of a tensional stress does not induce white crease marks, cracks or complete breaks and is able to rebounds and returns to initial status after releasing of the tensional stress. The hair accessory with advantages including flexibility, rebound elasticity and plasticity does not compress or hurt a user's scalp and contributes to safety use when the user takes the hair accessory to comb her hairs.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2014Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Inventor: Shih-Ling Hsu
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Publication number: 20150114416Abstract: A hair clip having a rectangular base frame, with a plurality of prongs forming a unitary structure with the base frame, is disclosed. A weft clip frame is fixedly attached to, or forms a unitary structure with, the base frame. The weft clips which are attached thereto form a U-shape with a portion of said U-shape on either side of the rectangular base frame and extend over an uppermost extremity of the rectangular base, while the lower end of the rectangular base has openings of prongs for attaching hair thereto. The weft clips, in embodiments, hold the weft of a hair extension between the weft clip and rectangular base, such as in a portal of the weft clip opening only towards the top of the rectangular base.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2014Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventor: Chang Moo Lee
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Patent number: 8960202Abstract: A hair apparatus and hair retention method includes a spine having a longitudinal axis, wherein the spine includes a hole and a peg outwardly protruding from an edge of the spine and substantially along the longitudinal axis of the spine. The spine includes a plurality of protrusions outwardly projecting orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the spine. The hair apparatus further includes a first clip portion including a first connecting mechanism that non-integrally connects the first clip portion with the spine, wherein the first connecting mechanism is positioned at a first end of the first clip portion. The first clip portion includes a first attachment mechanism positioned at a second end of the first clip portion, wherein the first end is at an opposite end from the second end, and thereby the first connecting mechanism and the first attachment mechanism are positioned at opposite ends of the first clip portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2013Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Rust Innovations, LLCInventor: Connie Stewart
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Patent number: 8863761Abstract: A clipping device includes a first clip jaw, a second clip jaw and a spring unit. Each clip jaw has a retaining seat, a restricting slab, and a crevice formed between these. An edge surface of the retaining seat extends to form a flange. The spring unit is disposed in the retaining seats of the first clip jaw and the second clip jaw. The flange of the first clip jaw is movably disposed in the crevice of the second clip jaw, and the flange of the second clip jaw is movably disposed in the crevice of the first clip jaw. The flanges and crevices restrict the motion between the first clip jaw and the second clip jaw, such that the clipping device of the present disclosure does not need a traditional fixture shaft and encloses the spring unit within the first clip jaw and the second clip jaw.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2013Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Yumark Enterprises Corp.Inventor: Wen-Hsien Wang
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Publication number: 20140261529Abstract: A hair extension device can include single and dual clip member apparatuses. Hair extension tracks can be applied to the outer surface areas of an apparatus, along the upper edge of a clip member, allowing hair extensions to lie over the entire outer region of the clip. The entire outer surface areas of said clip member apparatuses can contain no holes or at least one row of holes at the top edge of a clip member, providing various means for attaching hair extension tracks. The natural hair can be secured to an apparatus by a row of comb-like teeth that point upward against the scalp when properly applied, providing complementary mating between that natural hair and the slots formed at the base of the comb-like teeth, or by placing the hair in between the apparatus. An apparatus can be opened and closed by snap-action lock.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventor: Tatiana M. Carvalho
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Publication number: 20140196739Abstract: An apparatus comprises a hair clip pocket that includes a first hair clip pocket panel located on a first side of the hair clip pocket, a second hair clip pocket panel located on a second, opposing side of the hair clip pocket, the second hair clip pocket panel including at least one slit, and an opening located between the first hair clip pocket panel and the second hair clip pocket panel. The hair clip pocket is configured such that a hair clip is selectively insertable into the opening through the at least one slit such that a portion of the hair clip is constrained by the hair clip pocket, and a portion of the hair clip extends outside the hair clip pocket through the at least one slit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2013Publication date: July 17, 2014Inventors: Jose A. Zephyr, Marie L. Zephyr, Wilise Zephyr
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Publication number: 20140166040Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a hair clipping device. The device has a first member in the form of an arm, and defines an inwardly facing surface. The device has a second member also in the form of an arm, movably connected to the first member and defines an inwardly facing surface. The device further has a bridge, the bridge has a frame portion made of a first material and an interior portion made of a second material. The interior portion is softer than the frame portion and provided with an increased frictional surface when compared to said frame portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: TUNG HING PLASTIC MANUFACTORY LTD.Inventor: Ka Chuen SZE
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Publication number: 20140048089Abstract: A hair apparatus and hair retention method includes a spine having a longitudinal axis, wherein the spine includes a hole and a peg outwardly protruding from an edge of the spine and substantially along the longitudinal axis of the spine. The spine includes a plurality of protrusions outwardly projecting orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the spine. The hair apparatus further includes a first clip portion including a first connecting mechanism that non-integrally connects the first clip portion with the spine, wherein the first connecting mechanism is positioned at a first end of the first clip portion. The first clip portion includes a first attachment mechanism positioned at a second end of the first clip portion, wherein the first end is at an opposite end from the second end, and thereby the first connecting mechanism and the first attachment mechanism are positioned at opposite ends of the first clip portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2013Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: RUST INNOVATIONS, LLCInventor: Connie Stewart
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Patent number: 8590544Abstract: A hair apparatus and hair retention method includes a spine having a longitudinal axis, wherein the spine includes a hole and a peg outwardly protruding from an edge of the spine and substantially along the longitudinal axis of the spine. The spine includes a plurality of protrusions outwardly projecting orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the spine. The hair apparatus further includes a first clip portion including a first connecting mechanism that non-integrally connects the first clip portion with the spine, wherein the first connecting mechanism is positioned at a first end of the first clip portion. The first clip portion includes a first attachment mechanism positioned at a second end of the first clip portion, wherein the first end is at an opposite end from the second end, and thereby the first connecting mechanism and the first attachment mechanism are positioned at opposite ends of the first clip portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2012Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Rust Innovations, LLCInventor: Connie Stewart
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Patent number: 8528573Abstract: A hair clip has a body of a resilient material and first and second claws. The body has a dome shape and includes an outer perimeter, inner and outer surfaces, and a body plane defined generally by the perimeter. The body also includes a body axis generally central to the body and oriented generally perpendicular to the body plane. The first and second claws are coupled to and extend from the body in a generally axial direction relative to the body. The first and second claws are spaced from and generally opposite one another across the body. The hair clip is movable between an open and a closed position. In the open position, the body protrudes from the body plane in an inward axial direction and the first and second claws are separated from one another. In the closed position, portions of the first and second claws overlap one another.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2011Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Goody Products Inc.Inventors: Stan Chudzik, Michael Defenbaugh
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Publication number: 20130186424Abstract: A device particularly useful as a decorative hair accessory and as a way to keep hair in a braided style includes two opposing sections, a male section and a female section which, when coupled together or closed, create a channel for receiving braided hair. The two opposing sections have protrusions or teeth which may be sized to help keep the device in position on the braid and to help keep the braid from unraveling. The exterior of the two opposing sections are formed so as to have the appearance of a row of individual beads. Alignment posts and locking mechanisms may be positioned along the length of the device to help maintain the device in a closed, aligned position and securely attached to the hair. Optionally, the device may include an opener with a tapered end to facilitate opening of the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2013Publication date: July 25, 2013Inventor: Jennifer Dean Zachery
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Publication number: 20130146083Abstract: Disclosed is a hair decoration member which comprising a fastening part and a sheathing part. The fastening part is formed of a flexible metal, and the sheathing part is formed of silicones or thermoplastic rubber and covering the outer surface of the fastening part. By the skidproof property of the sheathing part, the hair decoration member can be strongly attached to hair without making user feel uncomfortable.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2012Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: HAW YANG CO.,LTD.Inventor: CHING YAO YANG
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Patent number: 8453654Abstract: An apparatus for hair care comprising an elongate foam body having tapered ends. A flexible core embedded within the foam body. Clips attached to the foam body, clips haying an open position and a closed position. Wherein the foam body is configured to be placed underneath a user's existing natural hair and to be covered by the user's existing natural hair when secured in position by the plurality of clips. Wherein the flexible core is configured to be adapted to a contour of the user's head.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2011Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Inventor: Toni Munoz
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Patent number: 8307835Abstract: Three or more hairstyling clasps can be used to create a hairstyle effect on a person's hair. Each clasp has first and second generally strip-like portions. A lock of the hair is twisted and positioned between the first and second portions of a first clasp, and the clasp is closed to secure the first lock. A second lock of hair can be similarly twisted and positioned between the first and second portions of a second clasp and the clasp closed to secure the second lock. The two clasps are then fastened together by fastening a portion of the outside surface of the first portion of the first clasp to a portion of the outside surface of the second portion of the second clasp. Additional locks of hair can be twisted and secured within additional clasps in the same manner, and the additional clasps can be fastened to the other clasps in a daisy-chain-like manner.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2010Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Inventor: Pamela King
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Publication number: 20120260935Abstract: The present invention is a non-slip hair accessory that remains secured in the wearer's hair in the position the wearer placed it. The hair accessory includes a support, a hair-engaging strip and a means for adjusting the accessory in the wearer's hair. In one embodiment, the accessory is a flexible headband wherein the support is a fashion strip such as a ribbon or other flexible material, and the hair-engaging strip is attached to, or molded within, the fashion support strip. In another embodiment, the accessory is a hair clip having a decorative support arm, and a hair-engaging strip is attached to, or molded within, the support arm. The hair-engaging strip includes a plurality of parallel rows of uniformly spaced protrusions. In one embodiment, the hair-engaging strip has three rows of protrusions. In the preferred embodiment, the individual protrusions in the two edge rows are spaced an equal first distance from each neighboring protrusion in either edge row.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2011Publication date: October 18, 2012Inventors: Andre Lalonde, Sou Noeui Lau
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Publication number: 20120211021Abstract: A hairstyling device includes a flexible hollow main body having meshes or cellular through-holes and a central hole that penetrates through a center of the main body. The main body further includes first and second ends. The first end and/or the second end of the main body can be wound towards the central hole to form a ring-shaped hair tie, wherein the central hole allows insertion of a hair of a user. The hairstyling device can be placed on the hair of the user as a hair volumizer. Further, the through-holes of the main body allow insertion of different hairpins to create various hairstyles.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2011Publication date: August 23, 2012Inventor: Shih-Ling HSU
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Patent number: 8225802Abstract: Novel hair holding devices having first and second pivotally connected body members including hair gripping portions, and methods for improving existing such hair holding devices, in which the improvement involves providing the first and second body members with at least one elastomeric member for biasing the first and second body members into a closed position and for conforming to gathered strands of a user's hair when the hair gripping portions come into contact with gathered strands of a user's hair.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2010Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Inventor: Bruce A. Rogers
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Publication number: 20120167909Abstract: A hair apparatus and hair retention method includes a spine having a longitudinal axis, wherein the spine includes a hole and a peg outwardly protruding from an edge of the spine and substantially along the longitudinal axis of the spine. The spine includes a plurality of protrusions outwardly projecting orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the spine. The hair apparatus further includes a first clip portion including a first connecting mechanism that non-integrally connects the first clip portion with the spine, wherein the first connecting mechanism is positioned at a first end of the first clip portion. The first clip portion includes a first attachment mechanism positioned at a second end of the first clip portion, wherein the first end is at an opposite end from the second end, and thereby the first connecting mechanism and the first attachment mechanism are positioned at opposite ends of the first clip portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2012Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: RUST INNOVATIONS, LLCInventor: Connie Stewart
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Patent number: 8186364Abstract: A hair clip that opens and closes using an elastic band. The band holds the jaws in an open position (which eliminates the need for the levers) and the band also urges the jaws together to close the clip (eliminating the need for a metal spring). The clip has a length of material that is attached either across its top or around it. Because the jaws have no attached protruding levers for opening and closing them (like the ones in a traditional ‘butterfly’ clip), the length of material lays relatively smooth across the top of the clip, which not only hides the hinge and elastic band (improving the aesthetic appearance of the clip), it makes it possible to decorated the material or add a companies logo thereto.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2007Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Inventor: David Alan Silva
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Publication number: 20120090636Abstract: A hair dressing device includes a device body having two clamping arms for rolling up the hair of a person, the clamping arms each having a fixed end hinged together and a free end detachably fastened together by a retaining pin at the free end of one clamping arm and a retaining hole at the free end of the other clamping arm, and two hair clips respectively located on the two distal ends of the device body for securing the device body to the user's hair after the hair has been rolled up.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2010Publication date: April 19, 2012Inventor: KAI-MOU TSAI
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Patent number: 8151808Abstract: An elastic hair clip includes a clip frame composed of a first clip frame and a second clip frame, and a joint member. The first and the second clip frame respectively have one end integrally forming a joined end and another end forming an open end, respectively. A clipping strip is disposed between the first and the second clip frame, a little shorter than the first and the second clip frame and having one end formed integrally with the joined end of the first and the second clip frame. When the hair clip is used, the open ends of the first and the second clip frame are combined together by the joint member to make the first and the second clip frame properly curved for clipping hair with the help of the clipping strip.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2009Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Inventor: Jui-Ming Tu
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Publication number: 20120048291Abstract: A hair clip has a body of a resilient material and first and second claws. The body has a dome shape and includes an outer perimeter, inner and outer surfaces, and a body plane defined generally by the perimeter. The body also includes a body axis generally central to the body and oriented generally perpendicular to the body plane. The first and second claws are coupled to and extend from the body in a generally axial direction relative to the body. The first and second claws are spaced from and generally opposite one another across the body. The hair clip is movable between an open and a closed position. In the open position, the body protrudes from the body plane in an inward axial direction and the first and second claws are separated from one another. In the closed position, portions of the first and second claws overlap one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2011Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicant: Goody Products, Inc.Inventors: Stan Chudzik, Michael Defenbaugh
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Publication number: 20110315160Abstract: An ornament includes a substrate, a reflective layer formed on the substrate and capable of bright reflection, and a printed pattern layer provided on the reflective layer. The printed pattern layer includes a transparent patterned region to reflect light therethrough, and a non-transparent shielding region that shields the reflective layer. The transparent patterned region is brightened by the reflective layer, and includes a plurality of spaced-apart transparent pattern elements distributed in the non-transparent shielding region.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2010Publication date: December 29, 2011Inventor: Ching-Pang LIAO
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Patent number: 8066018Abstract: A hair clip includes two jaws each having a hand grip extended from one end and a connector disposed on a middle portion, and a coupling device having a spring member engaged with the connectors of the jaws for coupling the jaws and the coupling device together and for applying a spring biasing force to bias and force the lugs and one ends of the jaws toward each other, and for allowing the jaws to be forced away from each other and to engage with a hair of a user when the hand grips are forced and depressed toward each other by the user. The jaws each include an opening for anchoring the spring member to the jaws. An elastic member may resiliently couple the lugs of the spring member together.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2008Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Inventor: Shih Ling Hsu
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Patent number: 8038501Abstract: A figurine for displaying a locket of hair in a simulative manner wherein the locket of hair is releasbly secured within a hair clip and the hair clip is removably attached to the top portion of a figurine's head thus simulating the figurine having a tuft of hair. The figurine may have a simulative appearance of that of a young child or baby and serves as a keepsake memento for those who wish to preserve and display a child's first locket of hair in an non-time consuming, non-complicated, and non-damaging manner.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2008Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Inventor: Linda Eisen
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Patent number: 7984720Abstract: A bobby pin includes a left body and a right body respectively having plural ribs that are formed with plural teeth for engaging with each other to keep hair firmly clamped. The left and the right body have an opening device that is provided with a root member respectively, with a pivotal pin mounted with a compression spring and a torsion spring. In using, press inward the two bodies to keep the teeth engaged with each other for clamping hair. And, as long as the opening device is pressed, the two bodies can be immediately separated from each other for releasing hair.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2007Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Tsorng Ta Enterprise Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jui-Ming Tu
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Patent number: 7963289Abstract: A hair accessory made to increase the body and fullness of a ponytail or pig tails. The hair accessory includes a hinged pair of first and second portions movable between an open position and a closed position, each portion having a hinged end and an opposite end, inward facing teeth, and at least one fastener for releasably fastening the portions in the closed position.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2008Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Inventor: Leona King
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Patent number: 7950401Abstract: A hair holding device including hingedly connected first and second body members each including hair gripping portions adapted to be squeezed by a user whereby the hair gripping portions come into contact with gathered strands of a user's hair. The device further includes a friction-type adjustment mechanism coaxially arranged with respect to the hinge for causing the hair gripping portions to remain at a point at which the hair gripping portions are squeezed together by a user. Optionally, the device may include squeezable release handles or other release mechanism, as well as a torsion spring for biasing the hair gripping portions into either an open or a closed position.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2004Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Inventors: Bruce A. Rogers, David Livingston
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Publication number: 20110041867Abstract: A hair styling device includes a primary elongated member having a number of extensions, and having one or more ratchet teeth formed on each of the extensions for engaging with user's hair and for anchoring the first elongated member onto the hair of the user, a secondary elongated member having a coupling end pivotally coupled to the primary elongated member and having an engaging end for detachably anchoring the elongated members onto the hair of the user, the secondary elongated member also includes a number of extensions each having one or more ratchet teeth for engaging with user's hair and for anchoring the secondary elongated member onto the hair of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2009Publication date: February 24, 2011Inventor: Shih Ling Hsu
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Patent number: 7886750Abstract: Hair clip comprising two shells (1, 3) provided with claws (5, 7) which are at the front of the clip and pivot relative to one another around two shell hinges (8-12) which extend in the same axial direction (A) at the rear of the clip, from a closure position in which the claws (5, 7) are brought together or even intersect, in order to grip the hair trapped by the claws, to an opening position in which the claws are spaced apart against the deformation of a resilient return means (13, 131, 132) which tends to return the shells (1, 3) to the closure position, and comprising a support plate (17) which is designed to receive for example a jewel and two lugs (19-22) which support the support plate (17) above the two shells (1, 3) in the closure position.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2006Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Inventor: Hilaire Coral
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Publication number: 20110023904Abstract: The present invention provides a resilient hair clip that is basically an integral elastic hair clip body made of soft and tenacious material with features of relatively simpler structure and easier manipulation than that of conventional resilient hair clip. The resilient hair clip comprises an internal margin rim and an outer thick hoop integrally surrounds thereon. The internal margin rim encompasses an internal disk, a central hole, plural divergent slits formed outwardly from the central hole and plural convergent clipping fins disposed between adjacent divergent slits. For manipulation, the elastic hair clip body is firstly squeezed to let divergent slits deform to open more while hold the hairs or a bundle of hair to be clipped therein; and then release it to let the convergent clipping fins clip the hairs or a bundle of hair by resilience thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2009Publication date: February 3, 2011Inventor: Shih-Ling Hsu
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Publication number: 20110005547Abstract: An hair ornament includes a hairpin, which has an eyelet and two spiral spring wires extended from the eyelet and spirally intersected with each other, an ornament, and a connector, which has a front end fastened to the eyelet of the hairpin and a rear end pivotally connected to the ornament for enabling the hairpin to be biased relative to the ornament between an open position for insertion through the hair of a user and a close position to secure the ornament to the hair of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2009Publication date: January 13, 2011Inventor: Kai-Mou Tsai
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Publication number: 20100319722Abstract: A hair pin has an integral clip body. The clip body includes an outer frame and an inner clip. The outer frame has a first end and a second end with a gap, and a space connected to the gap. The inner clip has a first end with a bent portion and a second end with a gap, and a space connected to the gap. The second end of the inner clip is linked to bottom sides of the second end of the outer frame. By releasing the downwards pressed inner clip, hairs will be clipped between the inner clip and the outer frame by a restoring force of the clip body.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2009Publication date: December 23, 2010Inventor: Shih-Ling Hsu
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Patent number: 7827999Abstract: A bobby pin includes a clamping ribs unit and a hair fork. The clamping rib unit consists of a left and a right clamping rib member interspaced, and the left and the right clamping rib member have a press grip with a shaft hole and a guiding groove. The hair fork has two rods extending from a base member. A shaft stands on the base member, extending in the shaft hole of the press grips with a spring fitted around the shaft. In using, a user presses the two press grips to open the left and the right clamping rib member, with the rods of the hair fork shifted and located in the center of the bobby pin. Then the user inserts the left and the right clamping rib member in hair, with the press grips released to permit the left and the right clamping rib member closed up for clamping hair together with the hair fork.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2007Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Tsorng Ta Enterprise Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jui-Ming Tu
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Patent number: 7823594Abstract: This invention provides a flexible seamless hair clamp. More specifically, the flexible seamless hair clamp has a contiguous body portion. The contiguous body portion has a first leg member having a unitary first distal end and opposite thereto a first lever region, and a second leg member having a unitary second distal end and opposite thereto a second lever region. A curved bridging portion is disposed between and formed integrally with the first and second leg members proximate to the first and second lever regions. The bridging portion connects the first and second leg members in a manner such that each is oppositely juxtaposed with respect to each other and arranged to bias the distal ends into proximate contact with one another. Collectively, the first leg member, curved bridging portion and second leg member define a continuous concave surface within the contiguous body.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2007Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Goody Products, IncInventors: Michael Defenbaugh, Regina Hopper, Allison Hardin
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Publication number: 20100236566Abstract: A butterfly clip includes a body section, a first clip section and a second clip section. When pressure is applied to the body section to invert the body section from a concave orientation to a convex orientation, the first clip section and the second clip section secure a user's hair between the clips and the body section. Since there are two clip sections applying pressure against the body section, the butterfly clip securely remains in place in the user's hair. To release the butterfly clip, an opposing pressure is applied so that the clip sections move away from the body section.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2010Publication date: September 23, 2010Inventor: Barbara Carey Stachowski
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Publication number: 20100212685Abstract: The present invention relates to a head band and hair clip construction. More particularly the invention relates to a head band and hair clip construction that is made to accommodate different cover constructions (faces).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2009Publication date: August 26, 2010Inventor: Sandra D. Garza
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Publication number: 20100192967Abstract: A comb for a hair clip (10) which has a body within an upper side (20) and an under side (22), a plurality of attachment formations (38) formed in a straight line on the body, a plurality of teeth (24) which extend from the body and wherein each tooth has an elongate shaft which is attached to the body a leading end on the shaft which is opposite to the body, and a catch (60) formation which stands proud of the shaft and wherein a first set of teeth (24A) has an enlarging taper (50) towards the upper side on the leading end and a second set of teeth (24B) has an enlarging taper (52) towards the underside on the leading end.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2008Publication date: August 5, 2010Inventor: Richard George Gladwin
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Publication number: 20100180911Abstract: An elastic band includes an elongate elastic core, a sheath, and an elongate friction member. The elongate elastic core comprising a continuous loop and the sheath has an outer surface and surrounds the elongate elastic core. The elongate friction member is disposed in the sheath, such that at least a portion of the elongate friction member protrudes past the outer surface of the sheath.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2010Publication date: July 22, 2010Inventors: Sarah KRAFT, P. Chiu LAU
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Patent number: 7753058Abstract: A hair retaining clip including a first clip member, a second clip member, a hinge, an elastic member is disclosed. The first and second clip members each include a handle portion and a claw portion. The hinge is disposed between and pivotally connects the first and second clip members. An elastic member is disposed between and connects to the first and second clip members thereby biasing the claw portions of the respective first and second clip members together.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2005Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Goody Products, Inc.Inventors: Stan Chudzik, Michael Defenbaugh, Sarah Kraft, Ping Chiu Lau
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Patent number: 7735497Abstract: A hair clip is provided. The hair clip has a lower clip piece and an upper clip piece connected through a pivot connection with a hinge pin and coil spring. The upper clip piece has a bottom portion that defines a concavity portion for defining a hair holding space to hold hair in a bundled state. A finger is connected to the upper clip piece through a pivot connection and for holding hair in a bundled state. A guide loop is connected to a rear end portion of the finger through a pivot connection. The guide loop prevents hair from entering a joint portion defined by the finger and the upper clip piece.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2007Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Inventor: Chan Soo Kim
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Publication number: 20100139687Abstract: A hair clip includes two jaws each having a hand grip extended from one end and a connector disposed on a middle portion, and a coupling device having a spring member engaged with the connectors of the jaws for coupling the jaws and the coupling device together and for applying a spring biasing force to bias and force the lugs and one ends of the jaws toward each other, and for allowing the jaws to be forced away from each other and to engage with a hair of a user when the hand grips are forced and depressed toward each other by the user. The jaws each include an opening for anchoring the spring member to the jaws. An elastic member may resiliently couple the lugs of the spring member together.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2008Publication date: June 10, 2010Inventor: Shih Ling Hsu
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Publication number: 20100108089Abstract: An assemblage of components for decoratively retaining ones hair bundled together in a pony tail. The assemblage includes an elastically stretchable band for tightly circumscribing the bundled collection of hair and a decorative clip that detachably anchors it to the ponytail at a position in overlying relation with respect to the elastic band. The clip is an elongate elastically stretchable unit terminating at opposite ends in a respective one of a pair of connecting clasp portions. The clip has a decorative outer face and an inner face on the opposite side. A pin secured to the unit projects at a selected angle from the inner face and projects into the ponytail at a position above the elastic band extending there through and thereby securely retains the clip on the ponytail. The pin preferably has an enlargement such as a spherical ball thereon.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2008Publication date: May 6, 2010Inventor: Lisa O. Whyte
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Patent number: 7690388Abstract: Novel hair holding devices having first and second pivotally connected body members including hair gripping portions, and methods for improving existing such hair holding devices, in which the improvement involves providing the first and second body members with at least one elastomeric member for biasing the first and second body members into a closed position and for conforming to gathered strands of a user's hair when the hair gripping portions come into contact with gathered strands of a user's hair.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2004Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Inventor: Richard A. Rogers
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Publication number: 20100078036Abstract: The invention is a specialty hair accessory device with magnetic fastening properties adapted for magnetically coupling a person's hair in place to provide a desired hair style. In one embodiment, a hair accessory device comprises of a first member that includes magnetic properties and a second member that is coupled to the first member wherein both first and second members comprise of a curved body and a comb-like protrusion spaced out along the concave side of the curved body, and wherein the first and second members are adapted for magnetic coupling.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2008Publication date: April 1, 2010Inventor: Mohammed Naji
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Publication number: 20100065079Abstract: The presently disclosed technology teaches a hair accessory for receiving and restraining a bundle of hair, a method of making the hair accessory, and methods of styling hair and instructing others to style hair using the hair accessory. The hair accessory comprises a pair of opposing ductile metallic members. In one implementation, the ductile metallic members are generally rectangular and each has a pair of longitudinal ends. The ductile metallic members are covered by at least one backing member. The ductile metallic members are generally configured in an opposing relationship to each other with at least one closed end. The ductile metallic members may be separated from each other along a portion of their longitudinal lengths to define an opening for receiving a bundle of hair. The opposing ductile metallic members may also be closed about the bundle of hair to secure the hair accessory within a wearer's hair.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Inventor: Philis A. Harvie
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Patent number: 7665191Abstract: A fastening system includes a grommet having a grommet shank and two grommet cap ends secured to opposing ends of the grommet shank; a planar border having a base and integrally formed substantially parallel planar flexible peripheral first and second legs of substantially like length, the first leg having a first leg distal end with a first aperture and the second leg having a second leg distal end with a second aperture and an integral and peripheral first spike having a first spike pointed end, each of the first and second apertures being proportioned for slidable receipt of the grommet when the first and second apertures are aligned with each other; and an elongate securement leg integrally dependant from the base in a direction of the distal ends of the flexible legs, and including a securement leg distal end having a receiving surface for receiving first spike pointed end.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2007Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Inventor: Sheldon D. Gould
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Publication number: 20100018544Abstract: A convertible hairclip includes first and second parts each having an arcuate main section that has a pivotal portion on an end thereof and a coupling section on the other end thereof. The main section of each of the first and second parts further includes a clipping section between the pivotal portion and the coupling section. The pivotal portions are pivotably connected to allow the first part to pivot relative to the second part between an extended state and a folded state. The first and second parts are located in a common plane and together form a C-shaped hair band when in the extended state. The first and second parts are located side by side to form a hairclip when in the folded state with the coupling sections of the first and second parts engaged with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2008Publication date: January 28, 2010Inventor: Shih Ling Hsu