Toilet – Methods – Hair deformation or set
Patent
1995-10-06
1998-06-16
Manahan, Todd E.
Toilet
Methods
Hair deformation or set
132210, 132266, 132268, 132239, 132254, A45D 230
Patent
active
057655723
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to the general technical field of hair treating and/or setting apparatus, such as those permitting the functions of hair dressing, setting and curling for example.
The present invention concerns a hair treating and/or setting apparatus, preferably hand-held, comprising, arranged starting from a main body, a handle, a hair curling member, preferably mounted for free rotation on the main body around its longitudinal axis, and at least one movable clip for clamping a lock of hair against the member.
The apparatus according to the invention is more particularly intended to assure a function of immobilizing a lock of hair in order to assure or facilitate curling of a lock of hair. In this connection, the hair treating and/or setting apparatus according to the invention concerns more specifically, but not exclusively, curling apparatus. The apparatus according to the invention can however, obviously, comprise, in association on the principal body constituting it, supplemental devices adapted to perform other hair treating and/or setting functions such as a brush, or any other means capable of supplying heat, steam or a treatment product. The apparatus according to the invention thus comprises, equally, apparatus such as hair dressing or curling irons provided or not provided with means for heating or for generating steam.
It is also known in order to facilitate the curling of a lock of hair around a cylindrical body, to furnish the latter with projections, teeth or other elements capable of penetrating into the lock of hair in order to facilitate its adherence and immobilization on the cylindrical body. Such a device presents, however, the drawback of requiring use of both of the user's hands, one to hold the lock of hair pressed against the cylindrical body, the other to turn the apparatus around the cylindrical body. These devices are in consequence generally considered to be difficult to use, and at least necessitate a minimum dexterity.
In order to improve the positioning and the immobilization of the lock of hair on the cylindrical body it has in consequence already been proposed to resort to a movable clip fixed to said body in order to assure clamping of the lock of hair. Such a clip thus permits applying and immobilizing the lock of hair onto the body and thus greatly facilitates the always tricky phase of starting curling of the lock. The prior art device implementing the standard principle of the mobile clip thus presents a notable improvement in handling in comparison with the device mentioned previously. Resort to a movable clip does not however permit remedying the problems of the separation of the treated and curled lock starting from the cylindrical body, without at least partially destroying the structure and quality of the remaining curls. In effect, the separation step requires an unrolling of the curl in order to release it.
It has already been proposed in order to at least partially solve this problem, to furnish the cylindrical bodies with a certain number of retractable projections intended to facilitate the separation of the curled lock. It has been found that at least a portion of the hair always adheres partially to the projections, and that if the uncurling of the lock can be limited, it is always necessary to assure a certain manual guiding, starting from the rolling, and even at the end of the operation during separation. The devices equipped with retractable projections are moreover more complex to produce at the mechanical level, and by the same have an increased cost.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the invention aims, in consequence, to propose a new hair treating and/or setting apparatus which does not present the drawbacks of prior systems mentioned previously, and which is able to assure in a simple, effective and rapid manner the separation of the treated and curled lock without a complicated manipulation on the part of the user.
Another object of the invention aims at furnishing a hair treating and/or settin
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Bontoux Daniel
Paget Monique
Manahan Todd #E.
Robert E.
Seb S.A.
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