US20070256701A1

US20070256701A1 - Barrette with suede, ultra suede or leather non-slip feature

Info

Publication number: US20070256701A1
Application number: US11/417,298
Authority: US
Inventors: Tristan Benz
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2006-05-02
Filing date: 2006-05-02
Publication date: 2007-11-08

Abstract

‘French-style’ hair barrettes typically require a two-piece frame and tension bar to create the necessary tension to hold the barrette in place when closed around hair. Attempting to hold such barrette in place in hair requires the barrette to be constructed out of rigid yet flexible material, like metal or plastic. However, in reality, such barrettes constructed out of metal or plastic typically slip out of hair due to the poor friction level between metal and hair, as well as plastic and hair. In accordance with embodiments of the invention the tension bar, or frame of the barrette that comes into contact with tension bar, is covered with suede, ultra suede or leather. The effect is that of providing a non-slip feature to any ‘French-style’ barrette used to hold hair in place.

Description

BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY

‘French-style’ hair barrettes typically require a two-piece frame and a tension bar to create the tension required to hold the barrette in place when the barrette is closed around hair. Tension bars usually require spring-like properties to hold a shape and a ‘memory’ to return bar to the original shape when pressure causes this original shape to change. To accomplish these spring-like properties, tension bars—and entire barrettes for that matter—are normally constructed out of rigid yet flexible material, like metal or plastic. However, such barrettes constructed out of metal or plastic typically slip out of hair due to the poor friction level between metal and hair, as well as plastic and hair. In accordance with embodiments of the invention the tension bar or frame of the barrette that comes into contact with tension bar, is covered with suede, ultra suede or leather. The effect is that of providing a non-slip feature to any ‘French-style’ barrette used to hold hair in place.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1. Barrette—3-quarter view: shows the 3-quarter view of a ‘French-style’ barrette where suede, ultra suede or leather has been applied to the tension bar of the barrette. (Suede, ultra suede or leather may also be applied to the frame of the barrette that comes into contact with the tension bar to produce the same effect.)
FIG. 2. Barrette—open view: shows the open view of a ‘French-style’ barrette where suede, ultra suede or leather has been applied to the tension bar of the barrette. (Suede, ultra suede or leather may also be applied to the frame of the barrette that comes into contact with the tension bar to produce the same effect.)
FIG. 3. Barrette—closed view: shows the closed view of a ‘French-style’ barrette where suede, ultra suede or leather has been applied to the tension bar of the barrette. (Suede, ultra suede or leather may also be applied to the frame of the barrette that comes into contact with the tension bar to produce the same effect.)
‘French-style’ hair barrettes typically require a two-piece frame and a tension bar to create the tension required to hold the barrette in place when the barrette is closed around hair. Tension bars usually require spring-like properties to hold a shape and a ‘memory’ to return bar to the original shape when pressure causes this original shape to change. To accomplish these spring-like properties, tension bars—and entire barrettes for that matter—are normally constructed out of rigid yet flexible material, like metal or plastic.

Claims

1. That ‘French-style’ barrettes constructed out of metal or plastic typically slip out of hair due to the poor friction level between metal and hair, as well as plastic and hair.

2. That ‘French-style’ barrettes constructed out of rigid yet flexible material, like metal or plastic, whose tension bar, or frame of the barrette that comes into contact with the tension bar, is covered by suede, ultra suede or leather, typically stay put in hair due to the high friction level between suede, ultra suede or leather and hair.

3. That the process of applying suede, ultra suede or leather to any metal or plastic ‘French-style’ barrette at the point it makes contact with hair is a vast improvement on the functionality of such barrette to hold hair in place without slippage.