Horizontally supported planar surfaces – Combined – With heating or air moving means
Patent
1992-01-07
1994-01-11
Dorner, Kenneth J.
Horizontally supported planar surfaces
Combined
With heating or air moving means
108 64, A45D 2900
Patent
active
052771300
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a manicure table.
The care of hands and more particularly the care of nails have for a long time been regarded as activities or services subordinate to hairdressing itself.
When performing a manicure in conventional conditions, the manicurist was seated on a stool and the client simply had his/her hands placed on generally removable surfaces fixed to the armrests of his/her seat.
Hand and nail care have progressively assumed their own importance, and clients have started the habit of making appointments just for these services, i.e. without at the same time having a hair cut or a wash and set.
The managers of hairdressing salons have thus been induced to provide in their salon a section exclusively devoted to these services. The more and more marked dissociation between hairdressing and the care of hands and nails has logically resulted in the appearance of salons exclusively reserved for hand and nail care. Throughout this same evolution, the range of products and instruments used has also increased and no longer resembles the portable equipment which was previously known.
Regardless of whether the salon is completely devoted to manicure or whether there is a space reserved for manicure in a hairdressing salon, the furniture can be summed up as a rectangular work table. This table is most frequently in the form of a small table with two main parts, in which the equipment and the instruments are located. The width of the surface of the work table is normally 60 centimeters. The client and the manicurist are positioned on both sides of the table and have to place their legs in the space between the two main parts of the table. This exercise is even more difficult as the width of the table is, by necessity, relatively small, as has been said. Thus there is a contradiction in so far as the client and the manicurist would like to be farther apart so that they have more room for their legs, but the nature of the work implies the opposite.
As can be easily understood, the client's comfort must override the manicurist's comfort, and the manicurist will arrange her own legs depending on the position of the client's legs, regardless of whether it suits her or not.
To understand fully the many disadvantages which are found with the furniture used at present, it is necessary to describe the manner in which the manicurist works. In this short description, it is assumed that the manicurist is right-handed. She holds the client's hand in her left hand. The manicurist is sitting on the edge of her seat and is bending forward. Her left forearm rests on the table and gives her support. The right arm has to be free and unencumbered so as to be able to work and handle the instrument, mainly the file, in all the necessary orientations.
The normal working position thus has the following characteristics: bent back; great torsion of the top of the body towards the right; supported just by the left arm, i.e. eccentrically and not symmetrically; movement of the right arm without counter-support, causing tension in and locking of the top of the body in a most unhealthy position.
Clearly no one can maintain such a working position for eight hours a day over a long period of time without having serious problems with the vertebral column. The pain which results from maintaining this position quickly becomes intolerable and causes manicurists to restrict their activities, either voluntarily or on medical advice. Pure and simple withdrawal from the profession is more or less long term.
The object of the present invention is to propose a manicure table which enables all the above-mentioned drawbacks to be remedied.
The manicure table according to the invention is described in claim 1.
The following description is based on the drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 illustrates the manicure table according to the invention, in plan view, and more particularly shows the shape of its surface;
FIG. 2 shows, in plan view, the manicure table according to the invention and indicates the positioning of the seats, as well as a
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Anderson Gerald A.
Dorner Kenneth J.
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