Patent Application
20220104597
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The disclosure relates to clipping devices and more particularly pertains to a new clipping device for use in cutting and styling of hair.
The prior art relates to clipping devices, which may comprise adjustable arms having fasteners engaged thereto, wherein the fasteners are designed to engage baby bottles, flashlights, saltshakers, and the like. The prior art also may comprise articulating arms affixed to hair dryers. What is lacking in the prior art is an adjustable arm having a hail clip affixed thereto, wherein the arm is mountable to a chair.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a coupler, which is configured to selectively engage an element of a chair, such as an armrest or seatback. An arm is engaged to and extends from the coupler. The arm is flexible and thus configured to be bent into a plurality of shapes. A hair clip is engaged to the arm distal from the coupler and is configured to selectively engage a lock of hair. The arm is configured to be bent into a respective shape to selectively position the hair clip relative to the chair. The clip can be used to hold the lock of hair, allowing it to be cut precisely, colored, frosted, and the like.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The second side 24 of each frame 18 has a bend 26 centrally positioned therein. The bend 26 extends outwardly from the pair of frames 18. The bend 26 is configured for insertion of digits of a respective hand of a user, positioning the user to separate the frames 18. The bends 26 also allow a complementarily shaped element of the chair 16 to be inserted thereinto.
An arm 28 is engaged to and extends from the coupler 12. The arm 28 is flexible and thus configured to be bent into a plurality of shapes. A hair clip 30 is engaged to the arm 28 distal from the coupler 12 and is configured to selectively engage a lock of hair. The arm 28 is configured to be bent into a respective shape to selectively position the hair clip 30 relative to the chair 16. The hair clip 30 can be used to hold the lock of hair, allowing it to be cut precisely, colored, frosted, and the like.
The hair clip 30 comprises a first member 32, a second member 34, and a clip spring 36. The first member 32 is engaged to and extends from the arm 28. The second member 34 is hingedly engaged to the first member 32 proximate to the arm 28 defining a handle section 38 and grasping section 40 of the hair clip 30. The clip spring 36 is engaged to the first member 32 and the second member 34 so that the grasping section 40 is biased to a closed configuration. The handle section 38 of the hair clip 30 is configured to be squeezed between digits of a hand of the user to separate the grasping section 40, concurrent with tensioning of the clip spring 36. A lock of hair is insertable into grasping section 40. The user is positioned to release the handle section 38, whereupon the clip spring 36 is configured to rebound so that grasping section 40 clips to the lock of hair.
In use, the arm 28 is affixed to the chair 16 using the coupler 12. The arm 28 can be adjusted to position the hair clip 30 as needed to engage a lock of hair that a stylist will be manipulating. With the lock of hair being held in place by the hair clip 30, the stylist has two hands free to perform manipulations on the lock of hair.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the elements is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
