Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids – Apparatus – For hair on head
Patent
1994-08-08
1995-10-17
Gromada, Denise L.
Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids
Apparatus
For hair on head
34101, 392384, 392380, A45D 2000
Patent
active
054578949
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to an implement for styling/drying hair for an air-moving appliance for personal use, in particular a hair dryer or a hot-air curling brush, comprising a body and a two-dimensional air discharge means which includes a series of air exit apertures and carries a series of hair pickup elements arranged adjacent to each other.
Such a hair styling implement is already known from printed specification GB 22 30 184 B. This implement is securable to a conventional hand-held hair dryer. The front face of the attachment includes a plurality of projecting prongs and air vent apertures. This device is intended to be suitable for untangling the hair as it is dried, for example. Because the prongs decrease in length radially outwardly from the center of the attachment, the user has difficulty in manipulating the device, and styling/drying of the hair is not conveniently accomplishable. In addition, only a small region of the hair can be picked up and styled/dried, making it a time-consuming and fatiguing task for its user.
By contrast, it is an object of the present invention to improve upon the known implement such as to improve the treatment of the hair and simplify the manipulation of the device for its user. This object is essentially accomplished in that downstream ends of the hair pickup elements lie on a substantially concave surface. When the implement mounted on the hair dryer is moved in the hair using light circular motions, the hair will be caught by the hair pickup elements, entering the space intermediate thereof. As a result of this movement, more hair will be caught and lifted in the direction of the air discharge means, causing the hair to be fluffed out in the space between the hair pickup elements. The exiting air will dry the hair in this position. As a result, the hair will be given a better stand in its root area. Greater fullness and body will be imparted to the hair. The circular motion of the hair pickup elements has an added massage effect, producing a pleasant feel on the scalp. Further, at least several hair pickup elements will engage the user's scalp in use of the implement, enabling a larger section of hair to be caught for styling/drying so that, overall, the duration of the styling/drying process is reduced.
Because those hair pickup elements that are arranged in an outer region, in particular an edge segment of the air discharge means, are of greater length than the hair pickup elements that are arranged in an inner region of the air discharge means, the ends of the hair pickup elements are disposed in an imaginary inclined plane, simplifying the manipulation of the implement still further. Arranging the fingers of different lengths in this manner enables the implement to cover also parts of the head which are otherwise hard to reach or the hair root area in the neck with ease, styling/drying the hair in these areas.
In an advantageous embodiment of the present invention, the concave surface is a portion of a spherical surface, the sphere diameter corresponding approximately to the mean diameter of a person's head. The surface being approximated to the shape of a person's head, substantially all hair pickup elements are in contact with the scalp in use of the implement. This enables a larger section of the hair to be styled and dried.
Advantageously, the air discharge means is of a convex configuration, enabling the hair to glide over the air discharge means as the device is used. This increases the hair's shine.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the hair pickup elements are arranged on concentric circular rings relatively spaced at approximately equal distances. This approximately uniform distribution of the hair pickup elements provides a sufficient distance between the hair pickup elements for catching individual strands of hair, in addition to ensuring an effective utilization of the surface of the air discharge means.
In an advantageous embodiment of the present invention, the hair pickup elements are arranged on the air discharge means in the form o
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Use instructions for EWT (Elektro-Warme-Technik Company) "Soft dryer" Model SD 5043, undated.
Package box panels of EWT (Elektro-Warme-Technik Company) "Soft Dryer 1400W, Model SD 5043 Set", undated.
Photograph of EWT (Elektro-Warme-Technik Company) Model SD 5043 "Comb attachmet".
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Three Views from an Engineering Drawing of a Diffuser, latest revision dated May 3, 1990.
Braun Aktiengesellschaft
Gromada Denise L.
Podszus Edward S.
Tinker Susanne C.
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