Illumination – With viewing mirror – With vanity case
Reexamination Certificate
2000-02-16
2001-11-20
Cariaso, Alan (Department: 2875)
Illumination
With viewing mirror
With vanity case
C362S141000, C362S259000, C362S413000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06318877
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to the field of portable, yet full-sized, fully illuminated travel vanities, and in particular, to such vanities having a collapsible, folding framework with two removable base supports which provide stability to, and restrict movement of, the vanity frame.
There are, of course, various designs for illuminated, portable vanities which can be used for travel. These would include ones such as Southam U.S. Pat. No. 856,497; Herbold U.S. Pat. No. 1,968,342; Wickwire U.S. Pat. No. 2,480,800; Gernsback U.S. Pat. No. 1,057,820; Morey U.S. Pat. No. 2,235,109; Ohrenstein et al. U.S. Pat. No. 4,091,443; and Dieterle U.S. Pat. No. 4,745,528.
However, the prior art does not appear to show a travel vanity which has a collapsible, folding framework that, when unfolded, expanded, and assembled serves as a free-standing, full-sized illuminated travel vanity, and which when disassembled, collapsed and folded-up, measures a distance of 22 inches wide by 23 inches high. In its collapsed and folded state, the invention fits neatly into a compact carrying case which promotes ease of storage of the device, in addition to promoting ease of transport.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention is designed to overcome the problems with prior known illuminated travel vanities such as those noted above. This invention provides a full-size vanity, rather than a compact-sized vanity, which provides full illumination when assembled and expanded for use. Once assembled, the vanity can be used in a home setting and left assembled for daily use while applying make-up or dressing hair, or the vanity could be disassembled and collapsed for use during travel. The known prior art, such as Dieterle U.S. Pat. No. 4,745,528, does not provide the level of illumination that this invention provides. Many times make-up is over-applied or under-applied to the face due to lack of ample lighting in the home or hotel room accommodations during travel. For instance, many hotel accommodations in the U.S. and Europe fail to provide sufficient lighting in which one would be able to apply make-up and achieve the desired make-up tones. Many hotel accommodations, however, provide desks for travelers to utilize for work during their stay at the hotels. This device is designed so that it could be assembled and erected on a desktop or hotel vanity. The user could then sit at the desk and apply her make-up or dress her hair with proper lighting provided by the full-sized vanity lights. The mirror is incidental. The device could be packaged to include any standard reversible mirror, or the user could utilize her own mirror.
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Cariaso Alan
Carothers & Carothers
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