US20050081873A1

US20050081873A1 - Hair attaching method

Info

Publication number: US20050081873A1
Application number: US10/685,511
Authority: US
Inventors: Jih-Sheng Chung
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2003-10-16
Filing date: 2003-10-16
Publication date: 2005-04-21

Abstract

A hair attaching method, by which applying a joint sheath to attach natural or artificial hair to a client's hair tightly and naturally hence makes the client's hair more stylish and increases the hair density of the sparse hair client.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

This invention is related to a hair attaching method, in particular to a hair attaching method by which applying a joint sheath to attach natural or artificial hair to a client's hair tightly and naturally, hence makes the client's hair more stylish and increases the hair density of the thin hair client.

RELATED ART OF THE INVENTION

Since ancient time, women appreciate enjoy dressing up more than men; they pay more attention to dressing, clothing, fittings, and hairstyle. However, fashion trend fleets quickly. In such a changing time, hairstyle should alter with the occasions. In today's' world where people's overall image is vital, hairstyle takes an important role.
However, the growth speed of hair differs from person to person, the length of hair can't be lengthened or shortened immediately, and the hair color and hairstyle can't be altered at all times. A technique called “attaching hair” is invented, which is aimed to attach hair strands of different colors and lengths to original hair directly or indirectly to make hair more variable and stylish.
In addition, attaching hair can also solve the trouble of thin hair among middle-age men, freeing them from pain and high expense of planting hair. The “attaching hair” method has evolved for a fairly long time and can mainly be divided into fixed type and removable type; however, in the past, the “attaching hair” method usually utilized thermosol glue to attach hair, and the quality of hair to be attached is different from that of original hair. If binding untreated hair or artificial hair directly to original hair, it will be coarse and difficult to wash, treat, and shape. Moreover, it will bring discomfort to the client because the attached hair is easy to entangle and difficult to comb.
As stated above, it is urgent task to attach hair for people conveniently while keep them feel comfort.

SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT INVNETION

In consideration of above issue, the present invention provides a hair attaching method, in order to overcome the shortcomings of existing hair attaching method. This invention utilizes a kind of joint sheathes that are heat shrinkable tubes made of polyolefin. The joint sheathes will shrink under heat and thus attach the hair strands to the client's original hair firmly. In addition, the attached hair is easy to be treated (e.g., dye, perm, or cut) and can be shaped freely. Moreover, it can add hair to people with sparse hair to increase their confidence.
As for comfort, the client almost can't sense existence of the joint sheathes described the invention, and he/she can comb hair smoothly, just like original hair. Therefore the invention brings convenience, immediacy, and diversity of hair, and protection to the client's original hair from any chemical or physical injury.
The present invention comprises at least the following steps: coil up and fix the hair at top according to head form of the client; choose a strand of hair from the original hair of the client and insert it in the joint sheath; push the joint sheath toward hairy root of the hair strand to appropriate position, and then insert one end of the hair trend to be attached into the joint strand; heat the joint sheath with a heater to attach the hair strand to the original hair strand with the joint sheath and keep the shape; finally, determine whether to attach another hair strand according to the client's hair condition.
The content and technique of the present invention is detailed as follows with reference to the attached drawings:

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT INVENTION

FIGS. 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, and 1E are sketch diagrams of conventional technique;
FIGS. 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E, 2F, 2G, 2H, and 2I are sketch diagrams of the first embodiment implemented according to the hair attaching method of the invention;
FIGS. 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D, and 3E are sketch diagrams of the second embodiment implemented according to the hair attaching method of the invention;
FIG. 4 is a flow chart of the first enforcement of the present invention;
FIGS. 5A and 5B are flow charts of the second embodiment of the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF THE SYMBOLS

10 Client
11 Hair Coiled up
12 Free End of a Hair Strand
20 Hair Strand to Be Attached
30 Glue
40 Heater
50 Joint Sheath

- Step 100: Coil up and fix the hair at top appropriately according to the head form of the client;
- Step 110: Insert at least a hair strand into the joint sheath and heat the joint sheath with a heater to make the joint sheath shrink to couple with the hair strand tightly;
- Step 120: Choose a strand of original hair that is not fixed and insert the free end of it into said joint sheath and on said hair strand;
- Step 130: Heat the joint sheath with a heater to make said original hair strand couple with the joint sheath tightly and keep the shape;
- Step 140: Determines whether to attach another hair strand according to the client's hair condition.
- Step 200: Coil up and fix the hair at top appropriately according to the head form of the client;
- Step 210: Choose a hair strand from the client's hair that is not fixed;
- Step 220: Insert the free end of said hair strand into the joint sheath;
- Step 230: Push said joint sheath toward hairy root;
- Step 240: Insert one end of a hair strand to be attached into said joint sheath;
- Step 250: Heat the joint sheath with a heater to make the original hair strand, the hair strand to be attached, and the joint sheath couple with each other tightly and keep the shape;
- Step 260: Determines whether to attach another hair strand according to the client's hair condition.

DETAILED DESCTIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS

The present invention provides a hair attaching method. FIGS. 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, and 1E show conventional hair attaching technique, which is described as follows:
As shown in FIG. 1A, first, the client 10 coils up hair at top, the barber fixes the client hair 11 coiled up, chooses the free end 12 of any strand of hair that is not coiled up, and then chooses the hair 20 to be attached. Please see FIG. 1B. The barber heat the hair 20 to be attached through a glue 30 to make the glue 30 fixes the free end 12 of the hair 20 to be attached, the details of the joint is shown in FIG. 1C.
As shown in FIG. 1D, the barber performs according to above steps to finish hair attaching for the client 10. Please see FIG. 1E, after hair attaching, the hair coiled up is released down to cover the joints. As described above, fixing hair with glue 30 may result in combing difficulty. Hence, this invention puts forth an improved method to solve the problem.
FIGS. 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E, 2F, 2G, 2H, and 21 are sketch diagrams of the first enforcement implemented according to the hair attaching method of the invention. They are described as follows:
As shown in FIG. 2A, first, the hair 20 to be attached is fixed in the joint sheath 50 through heating the joint sheath 50 with a heater 40, said heater 40 provides thermal source and can fix the hair 20 on hair of the client 10; as shown in FIG. 2B and FIG. 2C, wherein the hair 20 to be attached is fixed in the joint sheath 50; in FIG. 2D, the client 10 coils up the hair on the top, and the barber fixes the hair 11 coiled up for the client 10, and then choose the free end 12 of a hire strand from the hair not coiled up and begin to attach hair with the hair 20 fixed in the joint sheath 50.
Please see FIG. 2E, wherein the hair strand 20 fixed in the joint sheath 50 is attached to the free end 12 of the original hair strand of the client 10 with the heater 40; as shown in FIG. 2F, wherein the heater 40 is heating the joint sheath 50, which is a soft heat shrinkable tube made of polyolefin and fixed on the hair 20 through heating under a temperature below 125° C.; when the heater 40 heats the joint sheath 50, the empty end of the joint sheath 50 shrinks on the free end 12 of the original hair strand of the client's hair, as shown in FIG. 2G.
Please see FIG. 2H, wherein the barber performs according to above steps repeatedly to finish hair-attaching work for the client 10. In FIG. 21, the hair 11 coiled up is released down to cover the joints. And the embodiment 1 is implemented finally.
FIGS. 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D, and 3E are sketch diagrams of the second embodiment implemented according to the hair attaching method of the invention. They are described as follows:
In FIG. 3A, the client 10 coils up hair at top, and the barber fixes the hair 11 coiled up, choose any strand from it and inserts the free end 12 of the hair strand into the joint sheath 50, and then push the joint sheath 50 towards hairy root slowly. As shown in FIG. 3B, the barber then inserts one end of the hair strand 20 to be attached into the joint sheath 50.
In FIG. 3C, the barber prepares to heat the joint sheath with the heater 40; as shown in FIG. 3D, wherein the heater 40 is heating the joint sheath 50 to couple the original hair strand of the client, the hair strand 20 to be attached, and the joint sheath 50 with each other tightly and keep the shape, finally the effect in FIG. 3E is achieved.
Please see FIG. 3F, wherein the barber performs according to above steps repeatedly to finished hair-attaching work for the client 10. In FIG. 3G, the hair 11 coiled up is released down to cover the joints. And the embodiment 2 is implemented.
As described in above embodiment 1 and embodiment 2, the hair 20 to be attached may be natural hair or artificial hair, which is of excellent quality and not dyed or premier to prevent the client's hair front entangling or fuzzy due to static electricity.
However, the hair 20 described in the present invention can be curled, dyed, or pigtailed with a hair-treating device to achieve variability.
FIG. 4 is a flow diagram of the first embodiment implemented according to the present invention. It is described as follows:
First, the client's hair at top is coiled up appropriately according to the client's hair condition (step 100); after the hair 11 is fixed, at least a strand of hair 20 to be attached is inserted into the joint sheath 50 and is coupled tightly to the joint sheath 50 through heating the joint sheath 50 (step 110); a hair strand is chosen from the client's hair that is not fixed and insert the free end 12 of the hair strand into the joint sheath 50 and on the original hair strand (step 120); next, the joint sheath 50 is heated with a heater to make the hair strand to be attached couple to the joint sheath 50 tightly and kept there (step 130); finally, determine whether to attach another hair strand according to the client's hair condition (step 140); if further hair attaching is not necessary, the process is terminated and thus the first embodiment is implemented; otherwise return to step 120 and repeat above steps till it is not necessary to attach further.
FIGS. 5A and 5B show the flow diagram of the second embodiment implemented according to the invention. They are described as follows:
First, the client's hair at top is coiled up appropriately according to the client's hair condition; after the hair 11 is fixed, a strand of hair that is not fixed is chosen (step 210); next, the free end of that hire strand is inserted into the joint sheath 50 (step 220) and the joint sheath 50 is pushed towards hairy root (step 230) to an appropriate position; next, a strand of hair 20 to be attached is inserted into the joint sheath 50 (step 240) and the joint sheath 50 is then heated with a 40 to make the original hair strand, the hair strand to be attached, and the joint sheath couple to each other tightly and the shape is kept (step 250); finally, determine whether to attach another hair strand according to the client's hair condition (step 260); if it is unnecessary, the process is terminated and the embodiment 2 is implemented; otherwise above steps are repeated from step 210 till it is unnecessary to attach hair further.
The present invention is disclosed with above preferred embodiments. However, those embodiments should not be deemed to constitute any limitation to the invention. Any person familiar with the art can make modifications or embellishments to the invention, without deviating from the spirit and scope of the invention. Therefore, the scope of the present invention is only confined to the claims attached.

Claims

1. A hair attaching method, by which attaching natural or artificial hair to a client's hair tightly and naturally, said method comprising the following steps:

coil up and fix the hair at top appropriately according to the head form of the client;

insert at least an hair strand to be attached into the joint sheath and heat the joint sheath with a heater to make the joint sheath shrink to couple to said hair strand tightly;

choose a strand of original hair that is not fixed and insert the free end of it into said joint sheath and on said hair strand;

heat the joint sheath with a heater to make said original hair strand couple with the joint sheath tightly and keep the shape;

determines whether to attach another hair strand according to the client's hair condition.

2. The hair attaching method as in claim 1, wherein said hair to be attached is natural hair or artificial hair.

3. The hair attaching method as in claim 2, wherein said natural hair is of excellent hair quality and not dyed or premier to avoid the client's hair from entangling or fuzzy due to static electricity.

4. The hair attaching method as in claim 1, wherein said hair to be attached can be curved, dyed, or pigtailed with the hair-treating device.

5. The hair attaching method as in claim 1, wherein said joint sheath is a soft heat shrinkable tube.

6. The hair attaching method as in claim 5, wherein said soft heat shrinkable tube is made of polyolefin.

7. The hair attaching method as in claim 5, wherein said soft heat shrinkable tube is fixed to said hair to be attached through heating under a temperature below 125° C.

8. A hair attaching method, by which attaching natural or artificial hair to a client's hair tightly and naturally, said method comprises the following steps:

choose a hair strand from the client's hair that is not fixed;

insert the free end of said hair strand into the joint sheath;

push said joint sheath toward hairy root;

insert one end of a hair strand to be attached into said joint sheath;

heat the joint sheath with a heater to make the original hair strand, the hair strand to be attached, and the joint sheath couple with each other tightly and keep the shape;

9. The hair attaching method as in claim 8, wherein said hair to be attached is natural hair or artificial hair.

10. The hair attaching method as in claim 9, wherein said natural hair is of excellent hair quality and not dyed or premier to avoid the client's hair from entangling or fuzzy due to static electricity.

11. The hair attaching method as in claim 8, wherein said hair to be attached can be curved, dyed, or pigtailed with the hair-treating device.

12. The hair attaching method as in claim 8, wherein said joint sheath is a soft heat shrinkable tube.

13. The hair attaching method as in claim 12, wherein said soft heat shrinkable tube is made of polyolefin.

14. The hair attaching method as in claim 12, wherein said soft heat shrinkable tube is fixed to said hair to be attached through heating under a temperature below 125° C.