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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 1983
Filed:
Sep. 18, 1981
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jurgis Sapkus, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);
Assignee:
Mattel, Inc., Hawthorne, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A45D / ; A45D / ; A45D / ; D04C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
87 33 ; 87-8 ; 87 13 ; 87 62 ; 132-9 ;
Abstract
A hand held, hand operated hair braiding apparatus having a plurality of aligned gear members, each having an aperture therethrough for passage therethrough of a strand of hair, with a first pair of adjacent gear members having the positions interchanged in response to actuation of a lever member in a first direction with the remaining gear member then being interchanged with the adjacent one in response to pivoting of the lever member in the reverse direction. There is also disclosed an accessory device for facilitating the use of the hair braiding apparatus.