Epilating appliance

Details Epilating appliance Epilating appliance

1992-02-28

1993-08-10

Pellegrino, Stephen C.

Surgery

Instruments

Means for removal of skin or material therefrom

606131, A61B 1700

Patent

active

052344428

DESCRIPTION:

BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to an epilating appliance.
An appliance of the type initially referred to is known from EP-A-0 147 285. In this appliance, an axle provided with disks or brushes is arranged parallel to the driven shaft, the disks or brushes engaging with part of their circumference in the space intermediate the disks of the associated plucking members for the purpose of cleaning them.
Appliances of this type involve high constructional expenditure, necessitate a large number of individual components requiring manufacture to a high degree of precision, and have an unfavorable energy balance because of relatively high friction losses occurring in particular in the control of the tweezers action of the disks, which has an adverse effect particularly when operated from battery which is the preferred mode of operation of such hand-held small electrical appliances.
The advantage of the present invention resides for the one part in the use of a relatively small number of different components - the epilation head accordingly having a plurality of components which are identical in construction - and for the other part in reduced friction by the spreader rollers which at the same time act to clean the disks functioning as plucking members. In addition, the exclusive use of circumferentially closed circular disks relatively closely arranged in rows and serving as plucking members causes the skin to be held down during the plucking action.
A particularly advantageous, because simple and economical, construction of the appliance of the invention.
Another construction of the appliance of the invention affording greater advantages particularly in view of the energy balance, this construction being especially suited to speeding up the entire epilating process, because opening and closing of the disks under direct control of the spreader rollers permits several plucking operations to be executed during one disk revolution.
Also, particular embodiments include advantageous means for avoiding the exertion of special forces in particular during the closing cycle of the disks, and, naturally, for avoiding energy losses due to friction and additional holding and bending forces during the full opening cycle of the disks, while a straightforward construction is maintained.
Using in the area of the opening of the casing a comb known per se suitably engaging with its teeth between the disk pairs serves to support the skin and to locate the appliance in position during the plucking action.
Embodiments of the present invention are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. In the drawings,
FIG. 1 is a schematic front elevational view of the epilating appliance with the casing opened;
FIG. 2 is a side view thereof, showing a simplified representation partly in section;
FIG. 3 is a schematic sectional view of a plucking device illustrating a first embodiment thereof;
FIG. 4 is a front elevational view of the plucking device according to the embodiment of FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 is a schematic front elevational view of a plucking device illustrating a second embodiment thereof;
FIG. 6 is a schematic sectional view taken along the line 6--6 of FIG. 5;
FIG. 7 is a view of a modified detail of the plucking device of FIGS. 5 and 6;
FIG. 8 is a side view of another modified detail of the plucking device of FIGS. 5 and 6;
FIG. 9 is a top plan view of the plucking device of FIG. 8;
FIG. 10 is a front elevational view of an assembly comprising the plucking device of FIGS. 8 and 9;
FIG. 11 is another view, in section, of the assembly taken along the line 11--11 of FIG. 10;
FIG. 12 is a perspective view of the assembly illustrating the details of FIGS. 8 and 9; and
FIG. 13 is a fragmentary schematic view of a detail of the appliance of FIG. 1.
Referring now to FIG. 1 of the drawings, there is shown an epilating appliance having a casing 1 serving as a handle and accommodating a motor 2 at its bottom end. At the opposite end of the casing 1, a shaft 3 is rotatably mounted, the shaft being driven by the motor 2 through a toothed belt 4. In lieu of a t

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