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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 1986
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1983
Jurgis Sapkus, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);
Mattel, Inc., Hawthorne, CA (US);
Abstract
A hand-held, hand operated hair twining apparatus having a pivotal trigger member actuable to pivot a shaft member through a ratchet mechanism, the shaft member supporting a disc housing, configured for retaining a gear mechanism therein, the housing supporting first and second hair clamp members rotatable relative to the housing by means of the gear mechanism. Actuation of the trigger member with the housing restrained rotates both clamp members and the filaments of hair therein to twist the filaments into strands. Actuation of the trigger member with the housing released interchanges the positions of the clamp members in a direction opposite to the twist to produce a twine.