Contacting Prongs Patents (Class 132/284)
  • Patent number: 10226811
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a hair clip. The clip has a first leg portion and a second leg portion formed from a wire, the wire configured by bending such that the first and second leg portions are biased toward each other and at default lie in contact or at least adjacent to each other, and substantially parallel to each other, for securing hair therebetween. The wire is provided with a first coating of a paint material on an entire surface of the wire. Each of the first and second leg portions forms an outwardly facing surface and an inwardly facing surface, the first and second leg portions being provided with a second coating of an anti-slipping material only over the inwardly facing surface and on the first paint material coating such that the outwardly facing surface of the first and second leg portions is free of the anti-slipping coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Tung Hing Plastic Manufactory Ltd.
    Inventor: Ka Chuen Sze
  • Patent number: 9416803
    Abstract: A clip for holding items such as folding currency and credit cards that includes a pair of spring arms joined to a base plate with a top and a bottom integrally joined to the spring arms opposite the base plate and extending inwardly therefrom with an aperture formed in the top and a corresponding detent formed in the bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Geraghty, LLC
    Inventors: Ronald M. McGarity, Mark McGarity
  • Publication number: 20140102473
    Abstract: The presently disclosed embodiments, as well as features and aspects thereof, are directed towards a back pin hair fashioning device comprised of a lower prong and an upper prong joined by a hinge aspect. The lower prong may comprise a smooth length that defines a curve which approximates the curve of a user's head. The upper prong may comprise a plurality of undulations defined by a series of peaks and valleys and, overall, defines a curve that has a radius that is substantially equivalent to the radius of the curve defined by the lower prong. The overall length of the back pin hair fashioning device may be approximately 80 mm. When inserted into a user's hair, portions of the hair are captured in the spaces defined by the undulations. Advantageously, after insertion, a single back pin hair fashioning device may maintain and secure a hairstyle desired by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Inventor: Teresa Mosley
  • Patent number: 6012467
    Abstract: A threading device that is used to create a wrapped ponytail look. The device is a somewhat U-shaped pin of narrow resilient material wide in the middle and narrow at the open end. After the hair strands are wrapped, the device is used to thread the ends of the wrapped hair strands through the inside of the ponytail to hold it in place, after which the threader is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: Nandi, Inc.
    Inventor: Martha Kelsey
  • Patent number: 5778905
    Abstract: A hairpin which gives hair the appearance of greater volume and thickness by using a support member which protrudes from the side of the lower leg of the hairpin at an acute angle and which extends substantially parallel to the legs of the hairpin. Hairs being held between the legs of the hairpin are elevated by the support member to a position above the upper leg of the pin and away from the scalp, thus giving the appearance of fuller, thicker hair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Inventor: Helen Koshaba Adam
  • Patent number: 5682908
    Abstract: 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 second row of longitudinally spaced harness loops alternatively arranged between the first row of longitudinally spaced pin holes and the second row of longitudinally spaced pin holes. In one embodiment, the pin has one rod section inserted through the first row of longitudinally spaced pin holes and second row of longitudinally spaced pin holes and one row of the first row of longitudinally spaced harness loops and second row of longitudinally spaced harness loops. In another embodiment, the pin has two parallel rod sections with one rod section inserted through the first row of longitudinally spaced harness loops and the other rod section through the second row of longitudinally spaced harness loops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Inventor: Kuo-Hua Chou