Toilet – Hair device – Comb
Patent
1992-08-03
1994-03-08
Mancene, Gene
Toilet
Hair device
Comb
132114, 132202, 424 70, 424 71, 401283, A45D 2422
Patent
active
052919056
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to applicators for the treatment of hair consisting of a dispenser in the form of a comb or brush and an active-substance preparation for the care, softening or setting of hair.
In addition to the desired effects, many forms of hair treatment, in which active substances are applied to the hair, also result in serious stressing of, or damage to, the hair. Accordingly, it is advisable, for example after permanent wave treatment or dyeing of the hair, to subject the hair to an aftertreatment. The softening, conditioning and/or setting preparations applied to the hair in this aftertreatment are intended to prevent permanent damage to the hair and to provide it with other desirable properties including, for example, good wet and dry combability, longer holding of styles and protection against damp air.
Conventional aftertreatments are rinses, in which the active substances are applied to the hair, for example, in the form of a solution, a dispersion, a cream or an emulsion. After a certain contact time, the hair is then rinsed and subsequently dried. Accordingly, aftertreatments of this type involve considerable effort and, in many cases, also result in further unwanted adverse stressing of the scalp. In addition, quick-drying resin solutions generally formulated as hair sprays are used to protect hairstyles against moisture and to improve their hold. In this case, too, more controlled application of the active substances to the hair and avoiding the problem of propellents involved in the formulation of sprays would be an advantage.
Accordingly, there is a need for a simple hair aftertreatment process which has little or no ill-effect on the scalp. In addition, it would be of advantage to be able specifically to aftertreat individual, particularly stressed regions of the hair.
It is known that the hair as a whole or individual hair strands can be colored by means of a dispenser, for example in the form of a comb or brush, with minimal effort and without affecting the scalp. Dispensers of the type in question, which also dispense a liquid, for example a hair dye, during combing or brushing of the hair, are described, for example, in DE-OSS 27 49 074 and 36 22 234 and in DE-GbM 79 32 856. Another dispenser is described in Applicants, German patent application 38 09 498.
The dispensers consist in principle of a storage vessel for the liquid to be applied which communicates through connecting passages with the teeth or bristles through which the liquid is dispensed. This storage vessel may be mounted on the comb or the brush or, for example, may be integrated with its handle or spine. The dispensers may be both rigid and, if desired, equipped with a vibration mechanism to promote dispensing of the liquid.
It has now been found that dispensers show particularly advantageous properties in combination with certain hair-softening and/or setting active-substance preparations.
Accordingly, the present invention relates to a hair treatment applicator consisting of a dispenser in the form of a comb or a brush and an active-substance preparation which contains at least one hair-softening or hair-setting component, characterized in that the hair-softening and/or hair-setting components are present in a concentration of from 0.01 to 20% by weight, based on the total weight of the active-substance preparation, and in that the active-substance preparation has a viscosity at room temperature of from 0.9 to 12 mPa.s.
Combs or brushes of the type mentioned above may be used as the dispenser. The dispenser according to German patent application 38 09 498 is preferred and is illustrated in the sole drawing figure, which is a perspective view, partially broken away, of one embodiment of this type of dispenser. This dispenser 1 consists of a reservoir 3 for the active-substance preparation of a first porous material within a housing 2 and teeth 4 of a second porous material inserted into, and in capillary communication with, the first porous material, the teeth being formed with closed pores in the surface regio
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Busch Peter
Hoeffkes Horst
Thiele Klaus
Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
Jaeschke Wayne C.
LaViola Frank A.
Mancene Gene
Millson Jr. Henry E.
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