Patent Grant
7032602
Applicant claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119 of Korean Application No. UM 2003-23059 filed Jul. 16, 2003. Applicant also claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §365 of PCT/KR03/02403 filed Nov. 10, 2003. The international application under PCT article 21(2) was not published in English.
The present invention relates to an extension hair having a hair guiding loop which is used to style thinning or short hair long. More particularly, the present invention relates to an extension hair having a hair guiding loop which allows a user's hair to be inserted into a hair connecting tube of artificial hair conveniently and rapidly by the hair guiding loop inserted into the hair connecting tube upon coupling the hair to the hair connecting tube of the artificial hair.
Recently, as women have been becoming keenly interested in their appearance and beauty, various accessories and stuffs are being developed. Especially, in case of hair, hair styles having unique individualities by various color changes, such as coloring, as well as a variety of hairstyling techniques, are often used as means for exhibiting one's individuality.
Particularly, in recent years, partial wigs using original hair are acquiring a greater vogue than hairstyling or coloring, for instance, short hair is made long utilizing various kinds or partial wigs, or bridge type partial wigs of a pre-colored state are utilized.
As mentioned above, in case of making short hair long, an extension hair made of human hair or artificial hair is used. If it is desired to connect such an extension hair to a user's hair, a predetermined number of the extension hair is taken out, an adhesive is applied to the end of the extension hair, and then the extension hair is attached to the end of hair desired to be connected, by which the extension hair is connected as the adhesive is completely hardened.
Further, the adhesive is solidified in such a manner that a liquid adhesive melted by a super-heat is coated, with the extension hair end and the user's hair end being overlapped each other, and then as the liquid adhesive starts to be hardened, a hairdresser makes a roll of the liquid adhesive directly with fingers to form it round and solidify it.
However, in such a typical extension hair above-stated, in case of a extension hair not processed at all, a certain amount of the extension hair is taken out of a strand of hair. Thus there are a lot of hair dropping on the floor or falling here and there during use, so it is not economical. Moreover, also the number of the hairs is not constant, this makes it difficult to expect a beauty state of a high quality. Especially, in a case that the user's hair and the extension hair are connected using a liquid adhesive injecting device, the applied amount of the liquid adhesive is not constant thus the adhesion size is not constant as well as the operation is so messy.
Upon coating and forming the liquid adhesive on the end of the certain amount of the extension hair, a super-heat is directly applied to the user's hair in order to melt the hardened adhesive, so this may lead to the damage to the hair as well as the risk of burning. In addition, the melted adhesive flows down or makes the operation messy, thereby failing in attaining a simple and tidy connection.
To overcome the above-described problem, the present applicant had registered an extension hair in Korean Utility Model Registration No. 316019, which can attain a firm fixation is attained without any after-treatment and hardening treatment by applying an adhesive to the end of human hair or artificial hair divided into a predetermined number and inserting, attaching and fixing the applied adhesive and the end of the human hair or artificial hair into a hair connecting tube made of a moisture-resistant shrinkable tube of a predetermined length, whereby, if the outside of the hair guiding tube is heated with the end of the user's hair to be connected being inserted into the hair guiding tube, the adhesive inside is coupled to the user's hair while being melted and the hair guiding tube is firmly fixed to the user's tube while being shrunken.
At this time, in order to insert the above-described hair to the hair connecting tube, there is employed the method in which a jig such as a hook for use in hair guiding is pushed down through the inside of the hair connecting tube, and the hair on the scalp is hooked on the hook to be pulled out of under the tube body.
However, the above-stated hair insertion method has problems that it may lead to the troublesomeness of work due to several work processes during work and resultantly lead to the delaying of work time, and it may bring on an injury to a human body through carelessness in the use of the hook.
That is to say, as the jig for drawing out hair, a needle for knitting or a hook or the like is utilized. In case that an extension work is carried out utilizing the jig, there is a problem that an extension hair is entangled or broken. In case of an extension hair having a hair connecting tube with a relatively small inner diameter, there is a problem that it is difficult to insert the jig into the connecting tube and a lot of defective items are generated in this insertion procedure.
Further, there may occur a problem that work cannot be carried out if the hook is lost from carelessness in keeping the hook for hair guiding.
The present invention has been developed for the purpose of solving the foregoing problems and thus it is an object of the present invention to provide an extension hair having a hair guiding loop, in which the hair guiding loop of an flexible wire-form is provided with a hanging part on the middle part, an inserting part on the upper part and a drawing-out part on the lower part, the upper inserting part being inserted from the lower part to the upper part of the hair connecting tube so that the inserting part is exposed toward the upper part of the hair connecting tube, and which makes it possible for anybody skilled or not skilled to insert the hair into the hair connecting tube by a simple operation without an extra hair guiding hook, accordingly simplifies the working process and shorten the working time, prevents bodily wounds due to carelessness of the user, and prevents the loss of the hair guiding loop as the flexible circular inserting part and the hanging part on the lower part prevent the hair guiding loop from separated freely from the hair connecting tube.
These and other features, aspects, and advantages of preferred embodiments of the present invention will be more fully described in the following detailed description, taken accompanying drawings. In the drawings:
a through 3c are cross-sectional views showing a used state of a guiding loop according to the present invention,
wherein
Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
A known extension hair having a hair guiding loop, which is made by adhering the ends of a plurality of supplemental hairs 2 and 2′ to the inner circumferential surface of a hair connecting tube 1 of a predetermined length by an adhesive 3, wherein the hair guiding loop 10 has a hanging part 11 is formed on the middle part and an inserting part 12 and a drawing-out part 13 are formed in a circular shape respectively on the upper part of and on the lower part, the hanging part 11 of the hair guiding loop 10 being located at the lower part of the hair connecting tube 1 and the inserting part 12 being inserted in a manner to be exposed to the upper part of the hair connecting tube 1 in an flexible circular shape.
The hanging part 11 of the hair guiding loop 10 is formed by knotting, or is formed of a compressed member or a shrinkable member.
Further, the hair guiding loop 10 is provided with the circular inserting part 12 on the upper part and the hanging part 11 done on the lower part.
In the drawings, unexplained reference number 20 is hair.
By the above configuration, the operation and used state of the extension hair according to the present invention will now be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
As shown in
The hair guiding loop 10 is in a wire-form having a predetermined flexibility, such as a fishing line, and is inserted to the hair connecting tube 1 of each of the extension hair.
As the hair connecting tube 1, a moisture resistant shrinkable tube active by heat or a metal tube compressive by an external pressure or the like is preferably used.
The hair guiding loop 10 inserted into the hair connecting tube 1 of each of the extension hair is formed by knotting on the lower part, or hung on the lower part of the hair connecting tube 1 by the hanging part 11 formed of a compressed member or a shrinkable member. The inserting part 12 inserted to be exposed to the upper part has flexibility, keeps a circular loop shape and is flexibly supported on the upper part of the hair connecting tube 1, thereby preventing the hair guiding loop 10 from being separated from the hair connecting tube 1 unless there is an external force upon handling the extension hair.
In a case that such extension hair having the hair guiding loop is connected to a user's hair, firstly, as shown in
With the user's hair 20 being hung on the inserting part 12 of the hair guiding loop 10, as shown in
The inserting part 12 is changed in shape by an artificial force upon passing through the hair connecting tube 1 and is separated to the lower part through the inside of the hair connecting tube 1. That is, the user's hair 20 hung on the inserting part 12 is prevented from separation owing to the compression force of the hair connecting tube 12. When the hair guiding loop 10 separated to the lower part of the hair connecting tube 1 is completely separated from the hair connecting tube 1, the user's hair 20 drawn down by the inserting part 12 is inserted into the hair connecting tube 1 and overlapped with the supplemental hairs 2 and 2′ of the extension hair.
On the other hand, upon connecting and fixing the user's hair 20 and the supplemental hairs 2 and 2′ overlapped in the hair connecting tube 1, in case of using the hair connecting tube 1 made of an moisture resistant shrinkable tube as shown in
Thus, by the shrinkage phenomenon of the hair connecting tube 1, the inner space of the adhesive 3 which the user's hair 20 is inserted into becomes smaller and the user's hair 20 is fixed. At the same time, the adhesive 3 melting by heat makes the user's hair 20 and the supplemental hairs 2 and 2′ mixed with and adhered to each other. When the heat source is removed, the supplemental hairs 2 and 2; and the user's hair 20 are firmly fixed by the adhesive 3 therein as the adhesive 3 is hardened.
Further, in case of using the hair connecting tube 1 made of a compression type metal tube, when a pressure is applied to the outer part of the hair connecting tube 1 by a press, the hair connecting tube 1 is compressed by the compression force. By the compression of the hair connecting tube 1, the inner space of the hair connecting tube 1 in which the user's hair 20 is inserted becomes also smaller and the user's hair 20 is fixed. At the same time, by the flexible force of the adhesive 3 inside the hair connecting tube 1 where hair is planted, the user's hair 20 and the supplemental hairs 2 and 2′ becomes to have a greater compression force, thereby preventing depilation. Moreover, the hair is not directly contacted to the metal surface of the hair connecting tube 1 after compression, thereby preventing the adverse effects such as hair fracturing or cutting.
On the other hand, as shown in
Using the extension hair of this type, as shown in
As described above, the present invention is possible for anybody skilled or not skilled to insert the hair into the hair connecting tube by a simple operation without an extra hair guiding hook. Thanks to this, it is possible to simplify the working process and shorten the working time, prevent bodily wounds due to carelessness of the user, and prevent the loss of the hair guiding loop as the flexible circular inserting part and the hanging part on the lower part prevent the hair guiding loop from separated freely from the hair connecting tube.
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| 20-2003-0023059 | Jul 2003 | KR | national |
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| PCT/KR03/02403 | 11/10/2003 | WO | 00 | 3/23/2004 |
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| WO2005/006898 | 1/27/2005 | WO | A |
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