Making Patents (Class 132/56)
  • Patent number: 9976250
    Abstract: The present invention is a device that provides an expeditious method to invert or turn inside-out and to reform or turn back to the proper side glove appendages, which consists of a base that has numerous openings, one of which accepts a guide. The guide is defined as an asymmetrical cylinder having two (2) opposing ends. One end has a concave configuration and above and adjacent to the other end are a couple of grooves that circumscribe the guide with a couple of flexible elements fitted therein. The latter end is fitted into one of the openings in the base, to be securely mounted therein without using threaded means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Inventor: Gregory J. Smith
  • Wig
    Patent number: 8925559
    Abstract: A wig having a body with an inside surface for engaging a user's head and an outside surface. The outside surface has hair strands projecting therefrom. The body is placeable in an operative position on the user's head to cover at least a portion of the user's scalp so that the projecting strands give the appearance of natural hair. Through securing structure, the body is reconfigured to allow at least a part of the body to be borne against the user's head with a selectively variable pressure with the body in the operative position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Ecoco, Inc.
    Inventor: Aaron Tiram
  • Patent number: 8590543
    Abstract: A hair extension kit may be packaged in such a way that patterns may be readily printed onto the hair using a standard printer. The hair extension may be removable from the kit to easily accessorize a girl's or doll's hair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Goff, Joy Lyn Burns, Paul Tsu-Peng King, Craig Stock, Eric Edward Skifstrom, Carolyn Holden Buse, Natalie Repp Zigal, Thomas Earl Washington, Abimael Cordova
  • Publication number: 20130125913
    Abstract: A Method for Fabricating Hair Extensions on a Woman Utilizing a Mesh-Based Foundation includes a Sheet of Mesh, a Hair panel, a Lace Panel, and a Hair parting, In one embodiment, a plurality of connection points or anchors are formed through the method of melting synthetic hair strands around a plait four stem braid, made of a woman's own natural hair and synthetic hair fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: LUCINDA ELLERY, Inc.
    Inventor: LUCINDA ELLERY
  • Patent number: 8360075
    Abstract: A hair weaving apparatus and method for making and using same. The present invention comprises various embodiments for making a hair weave tract extension apparatus and a method of making and using said apparatus. Embodiments are described and shown herein for making and using a hair weave tract apparatus with attachment means comprising a crimped flexible band and, and with attachment means comprising a crimped flexible band with a single bladed comb. It is an object of this present invention to provide a hair weave tract extension that is easy to attach to the natural hair, is less damaging to the natural hair and remains more securely attached to the natural hair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Inventor: Queen Esther Winn
  • Publication number: 20120073592
    Abstract: A system and method for creating personalized human hair extensions from a weft of human hair, saturated with heat protectant and ironed into a generally smooth, continuous surface for applying a desired design using hair color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Inventors: Jesse Koenig, Sondra Koenig
  • Patent number: 8136534
    Abstract: A method and device for enclosing a portion of hair such that it is not mussed or damaged, yet is aesthetically pleasing. A flexible and elastic elongated material having a cavity therein receives the hair, and the device is unfurled to a desired length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Inventors: Andrea D'Assis, Dale Anderson
  • Patent number: 8133247
    Abstract: A multi-part tool assembly for harvesting and implanting follicular units, comprising an outer cannula having an open, tissue-piercing distal end, and an inner cannula coaxially positioned in a lumen of the first cannula, the second cannula having an open, tissue-coring distal end sized to engage and retain single hair follicular units. An obturator may be positioned in the lumen of the second cannula, wherein at least one of the first cannula, second cannula, and obturator are movable relative to the other ones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Restoration Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohan Bodduluri, Paul K. Hsei
  • Publication number: 20110005544
    Abstract: Hair additions and their methods of construction are set forth. A hair addition according to one embodiment includes a plurality of hair strands having upper and lower ends, at least two threads coupling the upper ends together, and two layers of polyurethane sandwiching the hair strand upper ends and the at least two threads. The two layers of polyurethane form a strip, and at least one clip is coupled to the strip. It may be desirable for a diameter of the strip to be no more than 25%-50% greater than a diameter of the hair strands. A method of formation includes: aligning a plurality of hair strands; coupling an end of the hair strands together using thread; sandwiching the coupled end of hair strands and the thread between two layers of polyurethane; curing the two layers of polyurethane; and coupling at least one clip to the cured polyurethane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Inventor: Teresa Lane
  • Publication number: 20100305699
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a structure of a natural or artificial hair for a hair transplant and, more particularly, to a processed structure of a natural or artificial hair for transplantation, comprising: a number of fixing cut parts formed lengthwise on the outer circumferential surface line of a lower end part of a natural or artificial hair to be transplanted to a scalp of a person, that is, on the outer circumferential surface line of an insertion part to be inserted inside the scalp, the fixing cut part cut perpendicular to the outer circumferential surface line of the insertion part and formed along the outer circumference surface of the insertion part while having a predetermined angle toward the center of the hair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Youn Sung Kim
  • Publication number: 20100043814
    Abstract: A cosmetic hair assembly has a shaped piece of wig netting or mesh holding a plurality of cosmetic hairs attached to a correspondingly shaped layer of biomimetic microstructure adhesive (BMA) with tiny synthetic seta for adhesion to human skin. The wig netting is dimensioned slightly larger than the BMA layer to leave a slight overhanging part to facilitate removal from the skin by peeling back the overhanging part. A comb with peeler in the form of hooked portions can be used to peel back the wig netting. In another embodiment, an individual cosmetic hair assembly has a hair shaft attached to a substrate portion attached to a BMA layer, wherein the substrate's edges provide engagement surfaces to facilitate removal by peeling back the BMA layer. An applicator in the form of a thin water-soluble transfer sheet can hold a number of cosmetic hair assemblies until they are ready to be applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventor: Miles M. HAMANO
  • Publication number: 20090235943
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a moisture-permeable material for wigs superior in moisture permeability, helping to suppress sweatiness when worn, and allowing easy attachment. A moisture-permeable material for wigs formed in a three-layer structure, including: a core material made of a porous polyurethane; a net layer provided on a side of the core material to be brought into contact with a head and formed of synthetic fibers or natural fibers; and a fiber layer which is laminated on the other side of the core material, which is formed of the synthetic fibers or the natural fibers, and in which artificial hairs or natural hairs are to be planted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2006
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Inventors: Katsuo Sugai, Sanae Sakuma, Takaya Yamaguchi
  • WIG
    Publication number: 20090165810
    Abstract: A hair material for a wig is preliminarily curled and then bound to a wig base to thereby orient the curled hair in a definite direction. A folded part (10c) of a hair material (10) is penetrated from one side of a filament (15) to the other side under a wig base (12) so that a first loop (17) is formed in the inner side of the folded part (10c). A curved part (10d) is inserted though the first loop (17) so that a second loop (19) is formed in the inner side of the curved part (10d). A part (10b) of the hair material is inserted through the second loop (19). Next, the hair material parts (10a, 10b) are pulled in directions opposite to each other and tied with the filament (15) to (20). Thus, the hair material (10) is bound to the filament (15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Sotokawa, Katsuo Sugai, Yutaka Shirakashi, Toshihiko Sato, Akemi Irikura
  • Publication number: 20090126749
    Abstract: An artificial hair and a wig using the same are provided which have such feeling as appearance, tactile and texture and preferable physical properties similar to natural hair, wherein an artificial hair 1 has a sheath and core structure comprising a core portion 1B and a sheath portion 1A covering said core portion 1B, and by making the core portion 1B of a polyamide resin, especially a semi-aromatic polyamide resin, and the sheath portion 1A of a polyamide resin having a rigidity for bending lower than the core portion 1B, especially a linear saturated aliphatic polyamide resin, the rigidity for bending, for example, can be made to have a value close to that of natural hair, and further its variation behavior depending upon humidity can be controlled quite similar to natural hair, thereby the wig made of it as a material has natural feeling, so that the wig having an excellent appearance can be offered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Yutaka Shirakashi, Takayuki Watanabe, Osamu Asakura, Akemi Irikura, Kazumi Il, Mutsuko Watanabe, Hiromi Kojima, Fumitaka Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20080314402
    Abstract: An artificial hair bundle (10) is made up by mixing a first artificial hair made of a polyester resin (1, 2) and a second artificial hair made of a polyamide resin (5, 6), and the first artificial hair (1, 2) is made of polyethylene terephthalate and polybutylene terephthalate, having a cross-sectional size and bending rigidity similar to those of natural hair, wherein the bending rigidity is in the range of about 6.5 to 7.8×10?3 gf·cm2/strand at humidity 40%, and the first artificial hair (1, 2) suppresses bundling of the second artificial hair (5, 6), and the first and the second artificial hairs (1, 2, 5, 6) behave similarly to natural hair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Yutaka Shirakashi, Takayuki Watanabe, Osamu Asakura, Akemi Irikura, Kazumi Il, Mutsuko Watanabe, Hiromi Kojima, Nobuyoshi Imai
  • Publication number: 20080264435
    Abstract: A wig including a base portion is disclosed. The base portion includes an inside surface and an outside surface, the inside surface defining a concave cavity and the outside surface having a plurality of elongate fibers projecting outwardly therefrom, and the base portion further includes an attachment area that may be substantially concealed. The wig further includes an auxiliary portion having a body. A plurality of elongate fibers project outwardly from the body. The auxiliary portion is adapted to be removably affixed to the attachment area of the base portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventor: Freeda Kugel
  • Publication number: 20080245384
    Abstract: A hair extension, a clasping mechanism, and a method of using the hair extension are provided herein. The hair extension may include a hair extension body formed of a plurality of strands of hair, and a clasping mechanism attached at an end portion of the hair extension body, the clasping mechanism having a first engaging part and a second engaging part disposed adjacent to one another, each of the first and second engaging parts being securely fixed flat on the hair extension body, the clasping mechanism being closable by folding the end portion of the hair extension body over to couple the first and second engaging parts together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventor: Cheryl Richman
  • Publication number: 20070199571
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a detachable hairpiece and a method for making the same. This is accomplished by providing a uniquely shaped foundation on and through which hair extensions are woven, and which is held securely to the wearer's head by an elastic band by corresponding button snaps or other attachment means incorporated into both the band and the foundation. The hairpiece may also be held in place by a headband which is coupled to the hairpiece. The hairpiece of the present invention is easy to put on, comfortable to wear, and gives the wearer endless options as to the appearance of their hair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Applicant: ProNatural Hair, Inc.
    Inventor: Marilyn McCulloch
  • Patent number: 7036517
    Abstract: An applicator for replacement hair strands, having hair embedded with one end in a U-shaped thermoplastic element, has a matrix having a recess for receiving the U-shaped thermoplastic element of the replacement hair strand. The applicator also has a stamp movable into the recess of the matrix. An actuating and heating device is provided into which the stamp and the matrix are inserted. The recess of the matrix is penetrated by a channel extending transversely to the movement direction of the stamp. The channel receives a magazine provided with receiving and storing spaces for replacement hair strands. The actuating and heating device has a step-by-step advancing device for the magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: BEGE Privatstiftung
    Inventor: Gerhard Ott
  • Publication number: 20040250829
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a supplying unit for supplying artificial hairs onto one surface of a base and a needle movable in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the base. The needle pierces the base in a stretched condition to draw out the artificial hairs toward the opposite surface of the base. The base is supplied to a top surface of a conveyor table movable on a two-dimensional plane in perpendicular directions, movement thereof being controlled to be done at a predetermined pitch in a predetermined order, so that the base becomes stretched. In this stretched condition, the artificial hairs are transplanted. After hair-transplantation, the stretched condition is released. This prevents needle holes, formed by hair-transplantation, from being connected with each other to form a continuous slit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventor: Kohki Fukuyama
  • Patent number: 6830054
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a hairpiece includes attaching a plurality of hair wefts to an elastic band. The hair wefts are individually stitched to the elastic band leaving small gaps between adjacent hair wefts. In this fashion the elastic band can still expand after the hair wefts are attached. In a preferred embodiment, some of the hair wefts are double thickness to provide enhanced hair body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Inventor: Stacey Ross-Kuehn
  • Patent number: 6733856
    Abstract: A double eyelid forming tape or string that can form an eyelid with a clear fold easily and safely in a simple manner, and a method of manufacturing the same. An article of manufacture for forming a fold in an eyelid of a user is constructed by applying an adhesive layer on a narrow tape member, which is resiliently stretchable so as to return to its original unstretched state after being stretched, and providing holding portions having no adhering property on the surfaces at both ends thereof for holding by fingertips of the user. A fold in the eyelid of the user is formed by pressing the stretched tape member on the position of the eyelid where the user wants to form a fold in a state where both ends thereof are held and stretched, adhering the tape member thereon with the adhesive layer, and releasing the stretched tape member. Therefore, when the tape member under a tension resiliently contracts, it breaks into the eyelid and forms an eyelid having a fold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Inventor: Hideyuki Nojiri
  • Patent number: 6691714
    Abstract: This invention relates to a wearer's own hair utilizing type wig in which the wearer's own hair is pulled up through a space in the wig and blended with false hairs at the time for attaching the wig to the wearer and in which the wearer's own hair can be effectively and evenly utilized, thus enabling to provide an abundance of hair as a whole. Particularly, the wig (1, 2, 3) comprises a hair-secured frame (10, 20, 30) which includes a skeleton-like framework and false hairs (15) attached to the skeleton-like framework.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Aderans Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Yaguchi, Yoshihiko Isobedate, Katsuo Sugai, Sakiko Imai, Ryuji Yamakawa, Shinkichi Kojima
  • Patent number: 6513535
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a hair accessory includes attaching a plurality of hair strands including at least one of natural hair and synthetic hair to a support member and wrapping the hair support around at least one resilient member shaped substantially in a circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Celebrity Signatures International, Inc.
    Inventor: Teresa Lane
  • Patent number: 6499491
    Abstract: A hair styling device for twirling locks of hair together including a main body, and at least two hair grabbers for respectively grabbing separate locks of hair. Each of the hair grabbers is connected to respective hair twisters, and each of the hair twisters rotates respective locks of hair to form twists of hair. The device further comprises a hair twist rotator body connected to each of the hair grabbers. The hair twist rotator body is connected to and rotatable relative to the main body. Rotation of the hair twist rotator body cables the twists of hair to form a cord of hair. The hair grabbers are substantially stationary relative to the hair twist rotator when the hair twist rotator rotates relative to the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignees: Kennedy/Matsumoto Design Associates, Spectrum Associates
    Inventors: Melvin R. Kennedy, Jose Longoria
  • Patent number: 6494212
    Abstract: For providing a widely usable ornamental hair enriching equipment easy to rake out original hairs and capable of use for a multiple of heads, the ornamental hair enriching equipment comprises a support member made in a manner that an ventilation member with fine meshes is wound on a slightly stiff tape member, fastenings of reversible comb-like clips disposed on the back surface of the support member, a plurality of parallel elastic linear members comprising inside elastic bodies made of hard resin or steel material with adequate elasticity and stiffness, and formed to have a circular arc with a large curvature so as to fit to the curved surface of a general human head, and ventilation members made of tubes with fine meshes, and fitted outside the elastic bodies to engage integrally therewith, supported by the support member at one end of each of them, and disposed on the support member at predetermined intervals, and artificial hairs implanted on at least the elastic linear members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Artnature Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Yamakoshi
  • Patent number: 6446634
    Abstract: Disclosed is an automated wig manufacturing system. A two-dimensional thin wig base (11) of fabric material woven by resin fiber, for example, is supplied to above a conveyor table (21), whereas an artificial hair (30) is supplied to the underside of the base. The base is subjected to tensioning rollers (23) so that it is placed on the table in a stretched condition. A reciprocating needle (41) penetrates the stretched base to engage the artificial hair, which is pulled above to thereby transplanted on the base. The hair transplanting operation in such a manner is repeated at different points, as the table is moved in predetermined direction(s) with a predetermined pitch. After the hair transplanting operation is completed, the base is released from being stretched, thereby allowing shrinkage of the base due to its material shrinkability. The base with the artificial hairs transplanted is then formed into a three-dimensional configuration to provide fittability to a human head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Hiroshi Hochi
    Inventor: Kohki Fukuyama
  • Patent number: 6354303
    Abstract: For providing a widely usable ornamental hair enriching equipment easy to rake out original hairs and capable of use for a multiple of heads, the ornamental hair enriching equipment comprises a support member made in a manner that an ventilation member with fine meshes is wound on a slightly stiff tape member, fastenings of reversible comb-like clips disposed on the back surface of the support member, a plurality of parallel elastic linear members comprising inside elastic bodies made of hard resin or steel material with adequate elasticity and stiffness, and formed to have a circular arc with a large curvature so as to fit to the curved surface of a general human head, and ventilation members made of tubes with fine meshes, and fitted outside the elastic bodies to engage integrally therewith, supported by the support member at one end of each of them, and disposed on the support member at predetermined intervals, and artificial hairs implanted on at least the elastic linear members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: Artnature Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Yamakoshi
  • Patent number: 6343606
    Abstract: An advantageous method for producing a wear resistant synthetic hair comprises mixing a monofilament nylon 6 mat having a diameter of about 0.09 mm with about 0.55 by weight titanium dioxide, and about 0.37% by weight calcium carbide, and heating the composition to a temperature of about 150° C. A toupee made from this synthetic hair has about 49-57 denier, a strength of about 6-8 grams per denier, an elongation of about 35-48%, and almost zero percent shrinkage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2002
    Inventor: Klaus D. Salzsieder
  • Patent number: 6298861
    Abstract: A wig stopper including a bent, counter-bendable, component that is obtained by processing a single elastic thin sheet to bend and impart a counter-bendable characteristic thereto. The wig stopper further includes a number of hair-fastening components, each having a base end part provided on the longitudinal side of the upper end of the bent, counter-bendable, component. Also, a tip end part is extended to the longitudinal side of the lower end of the bent, counter-bendable, component such that the hair-fastening components are arranged in a comb-tooth fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: Aderans Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Kageyama, Masataka Itoh
  • Patent number: 6257244
    Abstract: An adjustable hairpiece includes a hairpiece network with a flexible perimeter member having network ports, for fitting around the head of a wearer, the perimeter member having a forward segment and two side segments; two longitudinal guide lines each having network ports, the longitudinal guide lines having guide line forward ends secured to the forward segment and extending rearwardly, the longitudinal guide lines being laterally spaced apart from each other and defining a hairpiece top region and two hairpiece side regions; a flexible network draw line having a draw line middle segment located substantially between the longitudinal guide lines and dividing the network draw line into two draw line half segments, each half segment extending from the draw line middle segment across the top region forwardly and rearwardly in a spaced and repeating spiral crossing sequence while spiraling through ports alternately in the forward segment and in the given longitudinal guide line on the corresponding side of the h
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Inventor: Raymond F. Williams
  • Patent number: 6109275
    Abstract: A hair twisting device which has a pair of hair gripping holders which grip two wisps of hair, and which are rotatably mounted within a housing. The housing contains a worm gear which will rotate the hair holders with respect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Inventor: Gabriel Mendezmonsanto
  • Patent number: 6109274
    Abstract: The invention is a method of attaching commercial hair to a wearer's head. The method includes the steps of gathering several strands of the wearer's natural hair into a first tuft; feeding the first tuft through a hole in a first linking attachment member; gathering several more strands of hair into a second tuft and feeding it through the hole in the opposite direction. Then the hair is secured in the linking member by crimping. Next, further strands of natural hair are added to the first tuft creating a third tuft, which are fed through a hole in a second linking attachment member creating a securing base of hair between and with the linking members. Then the commercial hair is attached to the securing base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Inventor: Jacqueline Donovan Ingersoll
  • Patent number: 6105584
    Abstract: An adjustable hairpiece includes a flexible perimeter member for fitting around the head of a wearer; a hair mounting structure; a draw member extending across at least one point on the perimeter member; a draw string member fastener for securing the draw member to the flexible perimeter member at any one of several longitudinally distributed points along the draw member; and several hairlike strands connected to the hair mounting structure. The hairpiece preferably additionally includes first and second laterally spaced apart guide lines connected to and extending between two spaced apart points on the perimeter member, where the draw string member includes a first draw string line wrapping around the first and second guide lines in a spiral fashion in one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Inventor: Raymond Williams
  • Patent number: 5970991
    Abstract: A chignon maker utilizing a cylindrical sleeve open at both ends. A captive rubber band surrounds one end to elasticize it. In use, the wearer pulls the cylindrical sleeve over her pony-tail so as to completely enclose the pony-tail with the elasticized end positioned at the base of her pony-tail. The wearer then twists the sleeve along with the enclosed pony-tail in an action similar to the action of wringing a towel. Subsequently, the wearer wraps the twisted sleeve in a spiral fashion around the base of her pony-tail thereby forming a chignon. The chignon is secured in place by tucking the non-elasticized end of the sleeve into the base of the pony-tail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Inventor: Priti Srivastava
  • Patent number: 5957139
    Abstract: Threads of hair are embroidered in loops on a flat, flexible base, for example, a textile base, in an area bounded by a desired wig contour. Individual threads or tufted multiple threads are embroidered in loops. Thereafter, the embroidered area is removed from the base along with the wig contour by cutting or punching. The flexible wig is glued onto a doll's head, cut to length and combed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: INTERLEGO AG
    Inventor: Peter Bolli
  • Patent number: 5921253
    Abstract: A method and device for making a weft of a weaving for wigs is disclosed. The method and device makes the weft mechanically, thus uniformly forming wig strands supported by the weft. Both the wig strands, forming the warps of the weaving, and the weaving yarns, forming the weft of the weaving, are made of the same material, such as human hair or synthetic resin material, so that there is no heterogeneity between them and this allows wearers of wigs to have a soft and comfortable feeling. Such weft is made by using an automatic machine without applying any bonding agent on the weaving or sewing the weaving using a sewing machine. Therefore, wigs can produced in commercial quantity while conserving labor cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Inventor: Ho-Taeg Jeong
  • Patent number: 5875788
    Abstract: Provided herein is a process for producing bundles of fibers useful for testing of various physical properties of said bundles. The bundles include fibers attached to one another at one of their ends by various means, said means employed being selected dependent upon the type of physical testing intended for the fibers. The fibers may be keratin fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Inventor: Daniel Loren
  • Patent number: 5722434
    Abstract: A hair enhancement system including a female portion having a first flexible fabric strip having a first plurality of female snap fastener halves secured to and evenly spaced a first spacing distance along a first side surface thereof; a male portion having a second flexible fabric strip having a second plurality of male snap fastener halves that are mateably with the female snap fastener halves of the female portion secured to and evenly spaced by the first spacing distance along a second side surface thereof; and a hair enhancement weft including a third plurality of flexible enhancement hair strands secured to and extending from a side edge of one of said female and male portions along the length thereof. The hair enhancement system is utilized by placing a section of hair from the person having the hair enhancements applied between the female or male portions and snapping the female snap fastener strip to the male snap fastener strip in a manner to retain the section of hair from the person therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Inventor: Janice M. Walker
  • Patent number: 5657774
    Abstract: This invention features a hairpiece kit having a hairpiece and a headband. The hairpiece comprises a flexible net lace cap and wefts of hair attached to and extending out from top of the net lace cap. The net lace cap is preferably semi-oval shaped with a straight front edge positioned near the forehead of the wearer, with a curved back edge positioned near the crown of the head of the wearer and with a central axis being perpendicular to the front edge of the net lace cap and running from crown of the head to forehead of the wearer. In a most preferred embodiment, the hairpiece is connected to the headband by using strips of attaching material that are attached onto top of the headband and onto bottom of the hairpiece, a hook strip and a loop strip respectively, simplifying separation of the hairpiece from and attachment of the hairpiece to the headband and diminishing costs. The strips of attaching material may be connected to the headband and to the hairpiece by sewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Inventor: Mary Ellen Niese
  • Patent number: 5601099
    Abstract: A retainer used for hair joining includes a retainer body, a rod-like member on one end portion of the retainer body, and an elongated cushion member which has multiple cuts and which is arranged on the retainer body such that it is spaced apart from the rod-like member. Reducible looped portions are formed on one end of each of multiple joining hairs to allow the rod-like member to pierce therethrough. The free ends of the multiple joining hairs are clamped by the plurality of cuts in the cushion member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1997
    Assignee: Aderans Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kousuke Mochizuki, Ryuji Teratoko
  • Patent number: 5592957
    Abstract: A hairpiece includes a rear base portion and a front base portion for attaching multiple strands of hair thereto and separate complementary fastening segments for detachably connecting the front base portion to the rear base portion. The rear base portion has a pair of opposite sides and a front end extending therebetween. The front base portion has a pair of opposite sides and a rear end extending therebetween and coextensive with the front end of the rear base portion. The complementary fastening segments are connecting bands respectively attached to the rear end of the front base portion and the front end of the rear base portion. The connecting bands have fastening elements thereon attachable to and detachable from one another to connect the front base portion to the rear base portion for use on the wearer's head and to disconnect and remove the front base portion from the rear base portion without the necessity for removal of the rear base portion from the wearer's head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Inventors: Carmine M. Gazerro, Richard Indiveri
  • Patent number: 5586566
    Abstract: A zig-zag method of braiding hair which is applied to the production of braided wigs and hair pieces. The method suggests three specific and essential steps to producing two identical hair pieces. The first step is to arrange a single lock of braided hair in a zig-zag orientation. The second step is to affix a pair of bases, one on each side of the zig-zag oriented lock of hair, and the third step is to make an incision down the middle of the zig-zag equidistant from each side of the of the ends of the zig-zags, resulting in two identical hair pieces. The hair that is used in this process can either be real hair, synthetic hair, or a mixture of both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1996
    Inventors: Ryeu K. Kim, Im S. Lee
  • Patent number: 5547529
    Abstract: The invention is a false eyelash system, for producing unknotted clusters of false eyelashes from long fibers. A plurality of long fibers are knotted around a main string with a preliminary knot. The long fibers are trimmed a distance away from the main string that corresponds to a desired eyelash length. Cement is applied to the preliminary knot and discernible distance therefrom to form a cement clot. The preliminary knot is removed by cutting through the cement clot to form unknotted clusters of false eyelashes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1996
    Inventor: David L. Woolf
  • Patent number: 5413124
    Abstract: A method for pressing a hair weft (10) is provided as well as an article of manufacture. The hair Weft (10) includes a weave (50) which connects attached ends (A) of individual hairs (H) to the weave (50). The weave (50) has a vinyl composition (100) applied thereto along a length thereof while the weave (50) is attached to a lower platen (20). Once multiple coats of the vinyl composition (100) have been applied to the weave (50) and allowed to dry, an upper platen (30) is placed over the weave (50). Clamps (34) are then utilized to press the upper platen (30) down onto the lower platen (20) pressing the vinyl composition (100) and weave (50). The resulting pressed weft (10') more securely bonds the hairs (H) to the pressed weave (50') and decreases a thickness of the pressed weave (50'). The hair weft (10') can then be utilized more effectively for a variety of different uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1995
    Inventor: Peter A. Incando
  • Patent number: 5406971
    Abstract: A hair replacement device is constructed from hollow, polyurethane tubing reinforced with copper wire to prevent stretching and to allow the device to be molded, and re-molded, to conform to the contours of the scalp. The copper wire is coated with a flesh color substance. The device defines a peripheral segment and longitudinal and lateral tubing intertwined and glued at intersecting areas to form a generally basket shaped device. Hair is conventionally attached to the plastic tubing, and a skin panel insert may be added where desired. The hair of an individual may be draw through the open framework and blended with the hair attached to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1995
    Assignee: Taylor Topper, Inc.
    Inventor: Greg A. Taylor
  • Patent number: 5271420
    Abstract: A wig is provided having a single line weft and no head cap. Hairs of the wig are joined by a single line of stitch, folded by heating and coated with an adhesive. A linear lace of two or three lines of hairs is fixed to a vinyl sheet. The single weft of wig hair is tied to the linear lace with a binding line. The wig is light in weight due to a single line of weft and the direction of curl can be easily changed. The weft of narrow width will not damage the scalp and suits well with the hair of the wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1993
    Assignees: Heon-Sik Park, Dongan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Heon S. Park
  • Patent number: 5218977
    Abstract: A wig-like cool cap wherein an artificial hair is implanted to an artificial scalp portion. The artificial hair is composed of carbon fiber or fine thread form comprising twisted plural carbon fibers, while the artificial scalp portion comprises a central network portion (1) and an outer surrounding membranous portion (2). The central network portion (1) is composed of carbon fiber or fine thread form comprising twisted plural carbon fibers and is constructed in a network. The outer surrounding membranous portion (2) is arranged at an outer circumference of the central network portion and has a plurality of micropores. Because carbon fiber has very large coefficient of thermal conductivity and is superior in heat-releasing characteristic, it can prevent stuffiness and sweat peculiar to conventional wigs. Further, because carbon fiber is superior in resistance against chemicals, hair care products, coloring reagent and the like can be freely used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1993
    Inventor: Masakatsu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5135011
    Abstract: In a wig, a wig base is made of an artificial skin and/or a net. A plurality of hairs are planted to an outer convex surface of the wig base. The hairs are inconspicuous in color with respect to the wig base, at root areas of the hairs which are planted to the wig base. Thus, knots of the hairs planted to the wig base are inconspicuous so that there is provided a natural hairline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1992
    Assignee: Aderans Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobumoto Motoori, Kousuke Mochizuki
  • Wig
    Patent number: 5044382
    Abstract: In a wig, a hair-planting framework bulges outwardly as a whole to have a cap-like outer configuration. The hair-planting framework has a peripheral-edge frame formed generally into an elongated elliptic configuration, and interlocking chain-like thread elements each of which is formed by a filament so knitted as to have stretchability. The chain-like thread elements are arranged within the peripheral-edge frame in intersected relation. The chain-like thread elements are fastened to the peripheral-edge frame to define openings in the hair-planting framework. When the wig is worn onto a head of a wearer, strands of existing hair of the wearer are drawn outwardly through the openings and are blended with strands of hair planted to the hair-planting framework.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Assignee: Aderans Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Ando, Ryuji Teratoko