Toilet – Hair device – Having hair shaping surface or form
Patent
1994-12-02
1997-03-04
Mancene, Gene
Toilet
Hair device
Having hair shaping surface or form
132233, 132228, 132245, 132262, A45D 104, A45D 236, A45D 400
Patent
active
056069839
ABSTRACT:
The hair care appliance of this invention has a housing, which holds a set of hair curlers and encloses electrical heating means for heating the curlers, and has a transparent cover which covers the set of curlers and the top of the housing. Each curler has a reversibly thermochromic thermoplastic elastomeric surface layer (around which hair is to be curled) which preferably covers a mandrel portion of a thermoplastic body. The thermoplastic body has ends of larger diameter than the mandrel portion of the body, and the mandrel may be hollow. A hollow mandrel may contain a double-walled metal core, which may contain a heat-retaining material. The elastomeric surface layer is preferably molded from an thermoplastic elastomer composition containing particulate thermochromic material, which preferably comprises reversibly thermochromic dye encapsulated in micro-capsules. The thermochromic dye components are chosen to be non-toxic and environmentally benign. The combination is preferably prepared to have a complete and distinct color change at a curler temperature optimum for curl retention. The colors within the preferred curling temperature range and outside that range are easily distinguished by users, even if they suffer from red/green color blindness. Thermochromic thermoplastic elastomer (TTPE) compositions for the curler mandrel surface layer are disclosed, along with a process for preparing such compositions. Preferred processes for manufacturing the curlers using the TTPE compositions are disclosed.
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Monty Lawrence P.
Monty Patrick T.
Mancene Gene
Philogene Pedro
Touw Theodore R.
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