Method of cutting hair and toothed template curves for cutting hair

Claim 1

A template curve for guiding hair shaping, comprising: (a) a curve having a backing portion and having a multiplicity of parallel juxtaposed teeth extending from said backing portion on axes disposed at right angles to said backing portion, (b) said backing portion having a longitudinal axis and said longitudinal axis of said backing portion having simple curvature and said curvature being arced relative to a centrally located axis parallel to and spaced from said axes of said teeth, (c) adjacent teeth having roughened parallel surfaces facing each other to grip hair in order to retain the position of said teeth relative to hair engaged by said teeth, (d) said backing portion having on opposite sides thereof a first pair of generally parallel guiding surfaces spaced apart farther than the width of said teeth so that a clipper may be guided along said first pair of guiding surfaces on the convex or the concave face of said curvature to cut hair without contacting said teeth and said backing portion having on opposite sides thereof a second pair of guiding surfaces joining said first pair of guiding surfaces at generally right angles thereto and at the opposite margins of said first pair of guiding surfaces from said teeth so that a clipper may be guided along said second pair of guiding surfaces to generally maintain the same relative position of the clipper relative to said teeth and relative to hair being engaged by said teeth, and (e) said backing portion having a series of pairs of openings therein including end and central pairs of openings in the surface of said backing portion opposite to said teeth and a handle selectively positioned relative to said openings having a pair of prongs to be selectively, removably engaged in a pair of said openings, said handle being positioned by said prongs and openings generally in the plane of said curve.

Claim 13

The method of hair cutting, comprising: engaging the hair of persons with a toothed curve having a convex face and a concave face and supporting the curve so that the curve becomes a template at a substantially fixed location during a cutting operation on the hair determining the length of the cut hair and determining the shape of the cut on the hair during each cutting operation, shaping the curve with a simple curvature arced relative to a centrally located axis parallel to and spaced from the axes of the teeth of the curve, cutting the hair by bringing an electric clipper having a blade along the curve and using the curve back opposite the teeth as a guide that the clipper moves along, and repeating the above step at various locations on the hair of each person, and applying said clipper sometimes to said convex face of said curve and other times to said concave face of said curve and with said curve in various positions including positions spaced from a person's head and including positions in which said curve is non-parallel to a person's head.

Claim 14

The method of hair cutting, comprising: engaging the hair of persons with a toothed curve having a convex face and a concave face and supporting the curve so that the curve becomes a template at a substantially fixed location during a cutting operation on the hair determining the length of the cut hair and determining the shape of the cut on the hair during each cutting operation, shaping the curve with a simple curvature arced relative to a centrally located axis parallel to and spaced from the axes of the teeth of the curve, cutting the hair by bringing an electric clipper having a blade along the curve and using the curve back opposite the teeth as a guide that the clipper moves along, and repeating the above step at various locations on the hair of each person, and applying said clipper sometimes to said convex face of said curve and other times to said concave face of said curve and with said curve in various positions including positions spaced from a person's head and including positions in which said curve is non-parallel to a person's head.