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Abstract

A hair roller includes an elongated body, a hair clip, and an elastic anchoring element. The body has an annular shape around which hair can be wound for styling person's hair. The hair clip has a hair-engagable blade portion and a lever portion. The blade portion is disposed along an exterior side portion of the body and has an arcuate shape conforming to the shape of the body. The lever portion is attached to and extends from the blade portion for actuation by a finger of a user. The roller also has structure mounting the hair clip to the body to undergo pivotal movement along an arcuate path between a closed position adjacent to the body and an opened position angularly displaced from the body such that a portion of the hair is retained between the blade portion of the hair clip and exterior side portion of the body when the hair clip is moved to the closed position in response to a bias imposed on the hair clip and is released from between the blade portion and exterior side portion of the body when the hair clip is pivotally moved toward the opened position in response to the user actuating the lever portion of the hair clip. The elastic element is made of a stretchible material which is extendable longitudinally along the body so as to extend over and thereby anchor thereon the hair wound about the body. The roller also may have a heat retaining member disposed in an interior chamber of the roller body.

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