On this day in 1890 James H. Bevington was granted the patent for Hair Singer. U.S. Patent No. 433,439.
This invention relates to a device for singing or cauterizing the ends of human hair after being cut by the hair-dresser with the object of closing the hair-ducts exposed by the barber’s shears, and this preventing waste of the vital fluids upon which the life and continuance of the hair depend.
The construction of the device is such as to slightly cauterize and close up the exposed ends of the cropped hair without injuriously singeing the same or impairing its vitality.
