Mechanical epilator for pulling hair from the skin while the ski

Details Mechanical epilator for pulling hair from the skin while the ski Mechanical epilator for pulling hair from the skin while the ski

1995-10-06

1998-12-15

Apley, Richard J.

Surgery

Instruments

Means for removal of skin or material therefrom

606131, A61B 1750

Patent

active

058490183

DESCRIPTION:

BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIEND

The invention relates to a mechanical epilator that pulls hairs from the skin while avoiding pain.
PRIOR ART
Epilation that is performed mechanically, i.e. by pulling hairs from the skin, is an operation that is generally rather painful.
This operation can be performed by means of various well-known portable appliances. By way of non-limiting example, one such appliance is described in French patent application FR-A-2 675 354, in the name of SEB S.A. The appliance taught by that French patent application is an epilator of the type having pinching blades. It comprises a housing that is designed to be held in the hand and that contains an electric motor connected to a rotary roller carrying means for pinching and pulling out hairs.
Appliances of that type, or appliances that perform the function of pulling out hairs by implementing analogous mechanical methods, perform the function they are required to perform in satisfactory manner. However, as mentioned above, pulling out hairs is painful.


SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

It is also well known that low temperatures are numbing.
Taking advantage of this observation, the invention has the object of providing a mechanical epilator which, while retaining the functionality of prior art appliances, makes it possible simultaneously to eliminate, or at least to greatly attenuate, the sensation of pain caused by pulling out hairs.
To be able to do this, the epilator is provided with means enabling the zone of skin that is to be epilated to be cooled down, before or during the pulling out of hairs from the skin and drive means for driving the epilator means. In fact, this action also continues after the operation.
There are thus at least two stages:
According to an important characteristic of the inventions the skin is cooled remotely. To do this, a fluid is placed on the skin by various means: an applicator roller, spray. etc. . . . Thereafter evaporation of the fluid is forced by means of a fan system, thereby reducing the temperature of the surface of the skin by a few degrees.
The fluid may be water, or a substance that is more volatile, e.g. an alcohol solution, or it may be an antiseptic substance or a hypoallergenic substance.
In a first embodiment, the skin is moistened by means of a moistening roller which is itself moistened by a fluid contained in a self-contained tank.
In a variant of this embodiment, the moistening roller serves itself as the tank.
In general, epilator means (e.g. a roller made up of disks and of blades as described in the above-specified French patent application) are driven by an electric motor incorporated in the housing of the appliance.
Advantageously, the fan system is constituted by a fan that is also driven by the motor for driving the epilator means.
In this first embodiment, the skin is moistened prior to the operation of epilation, with the moistening means (e.g. a roller) being situated upstream from the epilator means relative to the displacement direction of the appliance over the skin.
In an additional variant of this embodiment, it is also possible to obtain moistening and epilation simultaneously.
Finally, in a second embodiment, moistening of the skin is obtained by spraying on the fluid.
The invention thus provides a mechanical epilator that pulls out hairs from the skin, the epilator comprising a portable housing containing epilator means for said pulling out of hairs characterized in that it is associated with means for moistening the skin over a determined zone thereof by means of a fluid, and in that it comprises drying means for drying said determined zone of skin so as to obtain the evaporation of said fluid and a reduction in the surface temperature of said zone of said skin giving rise to at least partial numbness thereof while hairs are being pulled out therefrom.
The mechanical epilator of the invention thus makes it possible to obtain in simple manner mechanical epilation that is effective, i.e. it retains all of the functionality of the prior art appliance provided for this purpose. However, it

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