Hair styling iron

Details Hair styling iron Hair styling iron

1998-11-18

2000-02-29

Manahan, Todd E.

Toilet

Hair device

Having hair shaping surface or form

132228, 132272, A45D 240

Patent

active

060296771

DESCRIPTION:

BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELDS

The present invention is directed to a hair styling iron for curling hairs by means of corrugated heat plate and steam.


BACKGROUND ART

Japanese Laid-open utility model publication No. 4-1844 proposes a hair styling iron for curling hairs between a corrugated heat plate and a clamping member. In order to facilitate the hair curling, the device includes a steam generator to apply steam to the hairs through steam vents formed in the heat plate. In this prior device, however, since the steam vents are distributed over various portions including convexities and concavities of the corrugated heat plate, the steam spouting from the convexities, particularly those located at the lateral ends of the corrugated heat plate, is likely to deflect sideward, increasing the danger of touching the skin of the user and burring a skin of the user. Since the hair clamping member is connected to the barrel for pivotal movement between a closed position and an open position, the user is normally required to hold the ends of the hair clamping member and the barrel by the fingers to keeping the hair clamping member pressed tightly against the barrel with the hairs being clamped therebetween. In this condition, there certainly exists a danger of exposing the finger of the user holding the ends of the barrel and the hair clamping member to the steam which is spouted from the vents and guided along the length of the concavities towards the front end of the barrel, thereby hampering and even jeopardizing the hair styling operation.


DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION

The present invention has been accomplished in order to eliminate the above problem and has a primary object of providing a hair styling iron which is capable of preventing the steam from contacting the fingers of a user for enhanced safety and operational convenience.
The hair styling iron in accordance with the present invention includes an elongated barrel with a heat plate which has a corrugated surface composed of a plurality of concavities and convexities arranged along a direction transverse to the length of the barrel and extending along the length of the barrel. The heat plate is heated by a heater mounted in the barrel and is provided with a plurality of steam vents. A steam generator is provided to generate steam for discharging the steam from the steam vents. Also included is a hair clamping member which is connected to the barrel for pivotal movement between a closed position of mating with the heat plate and an open position of disengaging from the heat plate. The steam vents are provided exclusively in the concavities between the convexities. The concavities are closed at a lengthwise end of the heat plate adjacent to the front end of the barrel with a leakage stopper for preventing leakage of the stem outwardly of the heat plate towards the front end of the barrel where fingers of the user hold the hair clamping member pressed against the barrel. With this arrangement, the steam can be well prevented from diverting towards unintended portions to thereby assure a safe and convenient hair styling operation.
Preferably, the barrel and the hair clamping member are formed at their front ends, respectively, with first and second finger catches adapted to be engaged with fingers of a user. These finger catches are cooperative to facilitate the user to keep pressing the hair clamp member tightly against the heat plate with hairs being clamped therebetween.
A water tank may be provided at the front end of the barrel adjacent the first and second finger catches to be actuated by a finger of the user. The water tank is capable of being pushed-in against a spring bias to an operative position of feeding water to the steam generator for generation of the steam. Thus, the user can be easy to generate the steam simply by pushing in the water tank with one finger of the hand, while keeping the hair clamping member pressed against the barrel by the other fingers of the same hand.
Preferably, the steam vents are distributed along the length of the barrel at

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