TECHNICLE FIELD
[0001] The present invention is directed to a depilating device for removing superfluous
hairs from the skin for aesthetic reasons or the like, comprising the features of
the preamble of claim 1.
[0002] Depilating devices are known, for example, in Japanese patent publication JP-B-7079731
and in European Patent Specification No. 0,328,426. The devices of these patents disclose
the use of a series of pinching disks supported on a shaft. Each alternate disk is
driven to move in one direction at a time along an axis of the shaft in order to clamp
hairs between the two adjacent disks for plucking the hairs from the user's skin.
However, the prior art devices cause users pain.
[0003] The above problem has been eliminated in an improved depilating device of the present
invention. The depilating device in accordance with the present invention is characterized
by the features of the characterising portion of claim 1.
[0004] The structure of the depilating device according to the present invention is based
upon finding that pulling the hairs along its direction or the orientation of the
pores in the skin can well reduce the pain. With this structure, it is readily possible
to catch the hairs by moving the blades along the hair in the forward swinging stroke,
after which the hairs can be successfully pulled along the length of the hairs in
the return stroke of the blades.
[0005] These and still other objects and advantageous features of the present invention
will become more apparent from the following description of the preferred embodiments
when taken in conjunction with the attached drawings.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0006]
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a depilating device in accordance with a first embodiment
of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the depilating device;
Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken along line I-I of fig. 2;
Fig. 4 is a vertical section taken along line II-II of fig. 2;
Figs. 5A to 5E are vertical sections illustrating the oscillating movement of a plucking
assembly of the depilating device;
Figs. 6A to 6E are explanatory views illustrating the clamping operations of movable
pinching plates in correspondence respectively to figs. 5A to 5E;
Fig. 7 is an explanatory view illustrating the clamping operation of the movable pinching
plate with the corresponding fixed pinching plates;
Fig. 8 is an explanatory view illustrating another clamping operation in accordance
with a modification of first embodiment;
Fig. 9 is a perspective view of a depilating device in accordance with a second embodiment
of the present invention;
Fig. 10 is a vertical section of the depilating device;
Fig. 11 is a vertical section taken along line III-III of fig. 10;
Fig. 12 is a vertical section taken along line IV-IV of fig. 10;
Figs. 13A to 13E are vertical sections illustrating the oscillating movement of a
plucking assembly of the depilating device;
Figs. 14A to 14E are explanatory views illustrating the clamping operations of movable
pinching plates in correspondence respectively to figs. 13A to 13E; and
Fig. 15 is an expanded view of the positive-return cam shown with the clamping operations
of the movable pinching plates effected at points of the X-shaped grooves.
DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS
First Embodiment <Figs. 1 to 8>
[0007] Referring now to fig. 1, there is shown a depilating device in accordance with a
first embodiment of the present invention. The device comprises a housing 10 and a
depilator head 20 mounted on the upper end of the housing 10 to surround a plucking
assembly 40 which is responsible for removing the hairs from the skin. The housing
10 is composed of housing halves and incorporates an electric motor 70 for driving
the plucking assembly 40. The motor 70 is supported by a chassis 60 together with
an associated mechanism for driving the plucking assembly 40. The housing 10 is provided
with a power switch 13 for energization of the motor 70 directly from an AC main power
or through an incorporated rechargeable battery. A socket terminal 14 is provided
in the lower end of the housing 10 for electrical connection to an AC power adaptor
for charging the battery and energizing the motor 70. The depilating head 20 is provided
in the form of a rectangular head frame with a pair of end walls which define therebetween
an opening 23 for receiving therein the plucking assembly 40.
[0008] The depilating head 20 is detachably mounted on the upper end of the housing 10 by
means of a hook 15 and carries a hair smoothening guide 30 which comes into contact
with the skin of the user for smoothening the hairs prior to plucking the hairs by
the plucking assembly 40. The guide 30 is of a rather flat rectangular configuration
with a pair of side bars extending in parallel with the side walls of the head 20.
The guide 30 is disposed within the upper end of the opening 23 and connected to a
pair of pins on the end walls of the head 20 so as to swivel about the pins for easily
following the contour of the skin when moving the head 20 across the skin of the user.
For smoothening purposes, the guide 30 is formed on one of the side bars with comb
projections 31 and is also provided with a roller 32 extending above the other side
bar and freely rotatable about corresponding pins 33 supported by the guide 30.
[0009] The plucking assembly 40 comprises a carrier 41 rotatably supported about a shaft
42 extending horizontally between the end walls of the head 20 with its opposite ends
journaled to the upper end of the chassis 60. The carrier 41 is provided with a series
of fixed pinching plates 43 of somewhat semi-circular configuration arranged along
the axis of the shaft. The fixed pinching plates 43 are made of a plastic material
showing some elasticity and are molded integrally with the carrier 41 to provide a
unitary structure. However, the fixed pinching plates 43 may be separately formed
from the carrier 41. Also mounted on the carrier 41 are movable pinching plates 44
which are arranged along the axis of the shaft 42 in an alternating relation to the
fixed pinching plates 43. The movable pinching plates 44 are compose of first and
second plates 44A and 44B which are commonly supported loosely on the shaft 42 to
be rotatable thereabout together with the carrier 41 and the fixed pinching plates
43. The first and second plates 44A and 44B are arranged along the axis of the shaft
42 alternately to each other and are secured at their lower ends respectively to first
and second sliders 50A and 50B which are slidably supported by axles 52 held in the
lower end of the carrier 41 and which are driven to reciprocate in parallel with the
shaft 42 but in the opposite directions to each other, as will be discussed later.
[0010] Turning back to fig. 2, the chassis 60 supports, in addition to the motor 70, a positive,
return cam 80 and a plurality of gears for establishing a drive connection from the
motor 70 to the positive-return cam 80 as well as for oscillating the carrier 41 or
the plucking assembly 40 about the shaft 42. The positive-return cam 80 is provided
in the form of a cylinder with a pair of circumferentially extending grooves 81 which
are symmetrical to each other such that the horizontal distance between the grooves
varies in the circumferential direction. The cam 80 is supported on a horizontally
extending center shaft 82 to be rotatable therewith and is operatively connected at
the grooves 81 to the sliders 50A and 50B by means of universal joints. Each joint
comprises a vertical swivel 91 and a horizontal swivel 92 which is inserted into a
top plate 61 of the chassis 60 to be freely rotatable therein.
[0011] The motor 70 is operatively connected to the positive-return cam 80 through a reduction
gear train of a pinion 71 of the motor 70, a first gear 72 on a first shaft 73, a
second gear 74 on a second shaft 75, a third gear 83 on one end of the shaft 82 of
the positive-return cam 80. The first and second shafts 73 and 75 are held in the
chassis 60 in a parallel relation to the shaft 42. A cam 63 is carried on one end
of the second shaft 75 opposite to the second gear 74 so as to be rotatable therewith
and is provided with an eccentric pin 64 which is eccentric to the axis of the second
shaft 75 and which is connected to one end of a crank lever 65. The other end of the
crank lever 65 is connected to a gear wheel 66 by means of a pivot pin 67 at a point
radially outwardly of a shaft 68 carrying the gear wheel 66. As best shown in fig.
4, the gear wheel 66 is in meshing engagement with a gear 49 on one end of the shaft
42 of the carrier 41 so that the rotation of the eccentric pin 64 about the second
shaft 75 is translated into an oscillating rotary movement of the gear wheel 66 about
the shaft 68 and therefore the corresponding movement of the gear 49 or the plucking
assembly 40 about the shaft 42. That is, the plucking assembly 40 is caused to oscillate
about the shaft 42 in synchronism with the above-described plucking movement of displacing
the movable pinching plates 44 in the axial direction of the shaft 42, and is so arranged
to complete one oscillation cycle while the positive-return cam 80 rotates one-half
about the center shaft 82 such that the movable pinching plate 44 is caused to move
toward and away from one of the two adjacent fixed pinching plates 43 during one oscillation
cycle of the plucking assembly 40 about the shaft 42 and to move toward and away from
the other fixed pinching plate 43 during and away from the other fixed pinching plate
43 during subsequent one oscillation cycle of the plucking assembly 40.
[0012] The operation of the plucking assembly 40 will by now discussed with reference to
figs. 5A to 5E and 6A to 6E which illustrate in sequence one oscillation cycle of
the plucking assembly 40 about the shaft 42. When the plucking assembly 40 is in a
position of fig. 5A, the upper edge of the movable pinching plate 44 is angularly
displaced downward to be hidden within the opening 23 of the depilator head 20 and
at the same time the movable pinching plate 44 is kept in a neutral posi-tion where
the upper edge thereof is spaced axially along the shaft 42 from both of the two adjacent
fixed pinching plates 43, as shown in fig. 6A. As the plucking assembly 40 rotates
in a clockwise direction in the figure about the shaft 42 from the position of fig.
5A to a position of fig. 5B to rotate the movable pinching plates 44 for exposure
into the opening 23 of the depilator head 20 while advancing the head 20 along the
user's skin in the direction indicated by an arrow A in the figures, the movable pinching
plate 44 is still kept in spaced relation to the two adjacent fixed pinching plates
43, shown in fig. 6B, so as to be ready for entrapping the hair H into a clearance
between the movable pinching plate 44 and the fixed pinching plate 43. When the plucking
assembly 40 is rotated further to the position of fig. 5C while being further advanced
in the direction of the arrow A, the movable pinching plate 44 is caused to axially
shift to have its upper end engaged with one of the two adjacent fixed pinching plates
43 to clamp the hair H therebetween, as shown in fig. 6C. Thereafter, the plucking
assembly 40 is caused to rotate in the reverse direction, i.e., counter-clockwise
direction in the figure to a position of fig. 5D, at which condition, the movable
pinching plate 44 is kept in closed relation to the correspondirig fixed pinching
plate 43 so as to keep clamping the hair H therebetween, as shown in fig. 6D, to thereby
pull and remove the hair H from the skin as the plucking assembly 40 rotates about
the shaft 42. Subsequently, when the plucking assembly 40 is further rotated in the
counter-clockwise direction to return to a position of fig. 5E which is the same position
of fig. 5A, the movable pinching plate 44 is caused to move away from the fixed pinching
plate 43 and returns into the neutral position, during which the hair H is released
and flew circumferentially out of the plucking assembly 40 by a centrifugal force
acting thereon. In summary, the hairs are removed along their length or directions
by moving the blades along the hair in the forward swinging stroke and following pulling
it along its length in the return stroke of the blades.
[0013] At this time, the positive-return cam 80 has completed one-half rotation so that,
in the immediately subsequent one oscillation cycle of the plucking assembly 49 or
in subsequent one-half rotation of the cam 80, the movable pinching plate 44 is caused
to move toward and away from the other fixed pinching 43 so as to cooperate therewith
for effecting the like plucking operation. In this manner, each movable pinching plate
44 is caused to move axially along the shaft 42 between the two adjacent fixed pinching
plates 43 to clamp the hair with the one fixed pinching plate 43 at a time and the
hair with the other fixed pinching plate 43 at the other. Thereby, a whole distance
between the two adjacent fixed plates 43 can be best utilized as an effected plucking
length. It should be noted here that, since the set of alternate movable punching
plates 44A and the other alternate set of the movable pinching plates 44B are caused
to move in the opposite direction along the shaft 42, the two adjacent movable pinching
plates 44A and 44B are simultaneously brought into abutment against the one common
fixed pinching plate 43 positioned therebetween to apply counterbalancing forces F
to the fixed pinching plate 43 at a time, as shown in fig. 7, thus canceling otherwise
occurring undesired vibrations of the fixed pinching plates 43 and therefore minimizing
the operation noise. Although the first embodiment discloses to arrange the movable
pinching plates 44 in an alternating relation to the fixed pinching plates 43, as
shown in fig. 7, it is equally possible to arrange the two movable pinching plates
44A and 44B between the two adjacent fixed pinching plates 43, as shown in fig. 8,
while effecting to apply counterbalancing forces F to the common fixed pinching plate
43 from the adjacent two movable pinching plates 44A and 44B.
Second Embodiment <FIGS. 9 to 14>
[0014] Referring to figs. 9 to 14, there is shown a depilating device in accordance with
a second embodiment of the present invention. The device comprises a depilator head
120 mounted on a housing 110 and including a plucking assembly 140. The housing 110
incorporates a chassis 160 mounting a motor 170, a positive return cam 180, and a
drive mechanism for the plucking assembly 140. The housing 110 is provided with a
switch handle 113 for turning on and off the motor 170 and also with a pair of terminal
pins 114 for electrical connection to an AC power adaptor to energize the motor 170.
The head 120 is in the form of a top and bottom opened rectangular frame having a
pair of end walls between which the plucking assembly 140 is received. The head 120
is detachably mounted on the upper end of the housing 110 by means of a hook 115 and
carries a hair smoothening guide 130 which comes into contact with the skin of the
user for smoothening the hairs prior to plucking the hairs by the plucking assembly
140. A head cap 128 is provided to fit over the head 120 for protection thereof when
not in use. The guide 130 is of a rather flat rectangular configuration with a pair
of side bars extending in parallel with the side walls of the head 120 and a pair
of opposed end bars with center dents. The front side bar is slotted to give a comb
projection 131 for smoothing the hairs, while the rear side bar carries a roller 132
in rolling contact with the user's skin for facilitating to move the cutter head 120
across the skin. The roller 132 is supported to be rotatable about a pin journaled
at the opposite ends to the rear side bar.
[0015] The plucking assembly 140 employed in the second embodiment is identical to that
of the first embodiment. Therefore, no further explanation is deemed necessary but
it is repeated here that the assembly 140 includes a like carrier 141 rotatably supported
on a shaft 142 and mounting a number of fixed pinching plates 143 alternated by movable
pinching plates 144 and that the movable pinching plates consist of first and second
plates 144A and 144B which are commonly supported loosely on the shaft 142 to be rotatable
thereabout together with the carrier 141 and the fixed pinching plates 143. The first
and second plates 144A and 144B are secured at their lower ends respectively to first
and second sliders 150A and 150B which are slidably supported by axles 152 held in
the lower end of the carrier 141 and which are driven to reciprocate in parallel with
the shaft 142 but in the opposite directions to each other. A roller 195 is slidably
received in an arcuate furrow 153 formed in the bottom of each of the sliders 150A
and 150B. A side projection receives an offset pin 196 which extends in parallel with
the center vertical shaft 193 in an opposite relation to the eccentric pin 194 from
the center vertical shaft 193. Provided at the lower end of each offset pin 196 is
a cam follower 197 for slidable engagement into each one of grooves 181 of the positive-return
cam 180 such that the rotation of the cam 180 is translated into reciprocating movement
of the sliders 150A and 150B along the shaft 142 through a swinging movement of the
cam cylinders 190, thereby displacing the movable pinching plates 144A and 144B in
the axial direction to move their upper edge into abutment and away from the associated
fixed pinching plates 143.
[0016] The positive-return cam 180 is provided in the form of a cylinder supported on a
horizontally extending center shaft 182 to be rotatable therewith. The cam 180 is
formed with a axially spaced pair of circumferentially extending grooves 181 which
are symmetrical to each other such that the horizontal distance between the grooves
181 varies in the circumferential direction.
[0017] The operation of the plucking assembly 140 will be now discussed with reference to
figs. 13A to 13E and 14A to 14E which illustrate in sequence one oscillation cycle
of the plucking assembly 140 about the shaft 142. When the plucking assembly 140 is
in a position of fig. 13A, the upper edge of the movable pinching plate 144 is angularly
displaced downward to be hidden within the opening 123 of the depilator head 120 and
at the same time the movable pinching plate 144 is kept in a neutral position where
the upper edge thereof is spaced axially along the shaft 142 from both of the two
adjacent fixed pinching plates 143, as shown by solid lines in fig. 14A. It is noted
here that dotted lines in figs. 14A to 14E show the positions of the same movable
pinching plate 144 taken during the next oscillation cycle of the plucking assembly
140. As the plucking assembly 140 rotates in a counter-clockwise direction in the
figure about the shaft 142 from the position of fig. 13A to a position of fig. 13B
to rotate the movable pinching plates 144 for exposure into the opening 123 of the
depilator head 120 while advancing the head 120 along the user's skin in the direction
indicated by an arrow A in the figures, the movable pinching plate 144 is still kept
in spaced relation to the two adjacent fixed pinching plates 143, as shown in fig.
14B, so as to be ready for entrapping the hair H into a clearance between the movable
pinching plate 144 and the fixed pinching plate 143. When the plucking assembly 140
is rotated further to the position of fig. 13C while being further advanced in the
direction of the arrow A, the movable pinching plate 144 is caused to axially shifted
to have its upper edge engaged with one of the two adjacent fixed pinching plates
143 to clamp the hair H therebetween, as shown in fig. 14C. Thereafter, the plucking
assembly 140 is caused to rotate in the reverse direction, i.e., clockwise direction
in the figure to a position of fig. 13D, at which condition, the movable pinching
plate 144 is kept in closed relation to the corresponding fixed pinching plate 143
so as to keep clamping the hair H therebetween, as shown in fig. 14D, to thereby pull
and remove the hair H from the skin as the plucking assembly 140 rotates about the
shaft 142.
[0018] Subsequently, when the plucking assembly 140 is further rotated in the clockwise
direction to return to a position of fig. 13E which is the same position of fig. 13A,
the movable pinching plate 144 is caused to move away from the fixed pinching plate
143 and returns into the neutral position, during which the hair H is released and
flew circumferentially out of the plucking assembly 140 by a centrifugal force acting
thereon. In summary, once again the hairs are removed along their length or directions
by moving the blades along the hair in the forward swinging stroke and following pulling
it along its length in the return stroke of the blades.
[0019] At this time, the positive-return cam 180 has completed one rotation so that, in
the immediately subsequent one oscillation cycle of the plucking assembly 140 or subsequent
one rotation of the cam 180, the movable pinching plate 144 is caused to move toward
and away from the other fixed pinching 143, as shown in the dotted lines of figs.
14A to 14E, so as to cooperate therewith for effecting the like plucking operation.
[0020] The features disclosed in the foregoing description, in the claims and/or in the
accompanying drawings may, both, separately and in any combination thereof, be material
for realizing the invention in diverse forms thereof.
LIST OF REFERENCE NUMERALS
[0021]
- 10
- housing
- 13
- power switch
- 14
- socket terminal
- 15
- hook
- 20
- depilator head
- 23
- opening
- 30
- hair smoothening guide
- 31
- comb projection
- 33
- pin
- 40
- plucking assembly
- 41
- carrier
- 42
- shaft
- 43
- fixed pinching plate
- 44
- movable pinching plate
- 45
- hole
- 49
- gear
- 50
- slider
- 52
- axle
- 60
- chassis
- 61
- top plate
- 63
- cam
- 64
- eccentric pin
- 65
- crank lever
- 66
- gear wheel
- 67
- pivot pin
- 68
- shaft
- 70
- motor
- 71
- pinion
- 72
- first gear
- 73
- first shaft
- 74
- second gear
- 75
- second shaft
- 80
- positive-return cam
- 82
- center shaft
- 83
- third gear
- 110
- housing
- 111
- housing half
- 112
- housing half
- 113
- power switch
- 114
- terminal pin
- 115
- hook
- 119
- boss
- 120
- depilator head
- 123
- opening
- 124
- pin
- 128
- head cap
- 130
- hair smoothening guide
- 131
- comb projection
- 132
- roller
- 140
- plucking assembly
- 141
- carrier
- 142
- shaft
- 143
- fixed pinching plate
- 144
- movable pinching plate
- 145
- hole
- 146
- anchor leg
- 147
- side tab
- 148
- groove
- 149
- gear
- 150
- slider
- 151
- notch
- 152
- axle
- 153
- furrow
- 160
- chassis
- 161
- top plate
- 169
- screw
- 170
- motor
- 171
- pinion
- 172
- first gear
- 173
- first shaft
- 180
- positive-return cam
- 181
- groove
- 182
- center shaft
- 183
- second gear
- 190
- cam cylinder
- 191
- barrel
- 193
- center vertical shaft
- 194
- eccentric pin
- 195
- roller
- 196
- offset pin
1. A depilating device for removing hairs from the skin of a user comprising;
a housing (10; 110) with a top opening (23; 123);
a carrier (41) mounted in said housing and having a longitudinal axis and mounting
a series of fixed and movable pinching plates (43, 44; 143, 144) arranged along an
axial direction of said carrier to define small clearances between the respective
tips of the adjacent plates for entrapping the hairs therebetween;
shuttle means (50A, 50B; 150A, 150B) coupled to said movable pinching plates for displacing
said movable pinching plates along said longitudinal axis to repeatedly clamp the
hairs between the tips of the adjacent plates, and subsequently release the hairs;
characterized in that
said device includes drive means (65, 66, 49; 165, 166, 149) coupled to said plurality
of pinching plates (43, 44; 143, 144) for reciprocating said pinching plates along
an arcuate path about said longitudinal axis between an extended position where the
tips of the plates reach said opening (23; 123) in engageable relation to the hairs
on the skin and an retraced position, where the tips of the plates are retracted in
the housing away from said opening;
said drive means is cooperative with said shuttle means during reciprocating such
that said pinching plates are closing for clamping the hair during the movement of
the tips along said arcuate path from the most retracted position to the most extended
position and is initially kept closed during movement in the reverse direction from
said most extended position to said most retracted position for plucking the hair,
and such that the pinching plates are caused to be opened when reaching the most retracted
position for releasing the hair.
2. A depilating device as set forth in claim 1, wherein said top opening (23) has a periphery
lying in a generally flat plane, said arcuate path constituting an inclined path extending
in an inclined relation to said general plane of the periphery of said opening (23)
between said extended position and said retracted position.
3. A depilating device as set forth in claim 1, wherein said housing (110) accommodates
a carrier (141) carrying said plurality of pinching plates (43, 44; 143, 144), said
carrier (141) being coupled to said drive means (165, 166, 149) for reciprocation
along said arcuate path about said longitudinal axis of said carrier.
4. A depilating device as set forth in any of claim 1 to 3, wherein each pair of adjacent
pinching plates comprises a fixed pinching plate and a movable pinching plate.
5. A depilating device as set forth in claim 4, wherein said fixed pinching plates are
made of an elastic material.
1. Enthaarungsvorrichtung zum Entfernen von Haaren von der Haut eines Benutzers, die
umfaßt:
- ein Gehäuse (10; 110) mit einer oberen Öffnung (23; 123);
- eine Trägervorrichtung (41), die in dem Gehäuse befestigt ist und die eine Längsachse
aufweist und auf der eine Reihe von sowohl festen als auch beweglichen Klemmplatten
(43, 44; 143, 144) montiert sind, die längs einer axialen Richtung der Trägervorrichtung
so angeordnet sind, daß sie schmale Zwischenräume zwischen den jeweiligen Spitzen
angrenzender Platten zum Ergreifen von Haaren zwischen diesen definieren;
- Verschiebemittel (50A, 50B; 150A, 150B), die für einen Versatz der beweglichen Klemmplatten
entlang der Längsachse so an die beweglichen Klemmplatten gekoppelt sind, daß sie
wiederholt die Haare zwischen den Spitzen der angrenzenden Platten einklemmen und
nachfolgend die Haare freigeben;
dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß
- die Vorrichtung ein Antriebsmittel (65, 66, 49; 165, 166, 149) umfaßt, das mit einer
Vielzahl von Klemmplatten (43, 44; 143, 144) für ein Hin- und Herbewegen der Klemmplatten
längs eines gekrümmten Weges um die Längsachse zwischen einer ausgefahrenen Position,
bei der die Spitzen der Platten die Öffnung (23; 123) in einer in Eingriff bringbaren
Beziehung zu den Haaren auf der Haut erreichen, und einer zurückgefahrenen Position,
bei der die Spitzen der Platten von der Öffnung weg in das Gehäuse zurückgefahren
sind, gekoppelt ist;
- wobei das Antriebsmittel während des Hin- und Herfahrens so mit dem Verschiebemittel
zusammenwirkt, daß sich die Klemmelemente für ein Klemmen des Haares während der Bewegung
der Spitzen entlang des gekrümmten Weges von der am meisten zurückgefahrenen Position
bis zu der am meisten ausgefahrenen Position schlie-ßen und anfänglich während einer
Bewegung in der Rückwärtsrichtung von der am meisten ausgefahrenen Position zu der
am meisten zurückgefahrenen Position für ein Auszupfen des Haars geschlossen gehalten
werden, und so daß die Klemmplatten zum Freigeben des Haares geöffnet werden, wenn
sie die am meisten zurückgefahrene Position erreichen.
2. Enthaarungsvorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, wobei die obere Öffnung (23) einen Umfangsbereich
aufweist, der in einer im wesentlichen flachen Ebene liegt, wobei der gekrümmte Weg
einen schrägen Pfad bildet, der sich in einer schrägen Beziehung zu der allgemeinen
Ebene des Umgebungsbereichs der Öffnung (23) zwischen der ausgefahrenen Position und
der zurückgefahrenen Position erstreckt.
3. Enthaarungsvorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, wobei das Gehäuse (110) eine Trägervorrichtung
(141) aufnimmt, die die Vielzahl der Klemmplatten (43, 44; 143, 144) trägt, wobei
die Trägervorrichtung (141) für eine Hin- und Herbewegung entlang des gekrümmten Weges
um die Längsachse des Trägers mit dem Antriebsmittel (165, 166, 149) gekoppelt ist.
4. Enthaarungsvorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3, wobei jedes Paar aneinander
angrenzenden Klemmplatten eine feste Klemmplatte und eine bewegliche Klemmplatte umfaßt.
5. Enthaarungsvorrichtung nach Anspruch 4, wobei die festen Klemmplatten aus einem elastischen
Material bestehen.
1. Dispositif à épiler pour enlever les poils de la peau d'un utilisateur comprenant
:
un carter (10 ; 110) avec une ouverture supérieure (23 ; 123);
un support (41) monté sur ledit carter et ayant un axe longitudinal et supportant
une série de plaques de pincement fixes et mobiles (43, 44 ; 143, 144) placées dans
un sens axial dudit support pour définir de petits jeux entre les bouts respectifs
des plaques adjacentes afin de coincer les poils entre eux ;
un moyen de navette (50A, 50B ; 150A, 150B) couplé auxdites plaques de pincement mobiles
pour déplacer lesdites plaques de pincement mobiles le long dudit axe longitudinal
pour coincer de manière répétitive les poils entre les bouts des plaques adjacentes,
et ensuite libérer les poils ;
caractérisé en ce que
ledit dispositif comprend un moyen d'entraînement (65, 66, 49 ; 165, 166, 149) couplé
à ladite pluralité de plaques de pincement (43, 44 ; 143, 144) pour animer d'un mouvement
alternatif lesdites plaques de pincement le long d'un trajet arciforme autour dudit
axe longitudinal entre une position allongée dans laquelle les bouts des plaques atteignent
ladite ouverture (23 ; 123) dans une relation d'engagement par rapport aux poils de
la peau et une position rétractée dans laquelle les bouts des plaques s'éloignent
de ladite ouverture en étant rétractés dans le carter ;
ledit moyen d'entraînement coopère avec ledit moyen de navette au cours du mouvement
alternatif de telle sorte que lesdites plaques de pincement se ferment pour coincer
le poil pendant le déplacement des bouts le long dudit trajet arciforme depuis la
position la plus rétractée jusqu'à la position la plus allongée et est initialement
maintenu fermé pendant le déplacement dans le sens inverse depuis la position la plus
allongée jusqu'à la position la plus rétractée pour arracher le poil, et de sorte
que les plaques de pincement s'ouvrent lorsqu'elles atteignent la position la plus
rétractée pour libérer le poil.
2. Dispositif d'épilation selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ladite ouverture supérieure
(23) a une périphérie située dans un plan généralement plat, ledit trajet arciforme
constituant un trajet incliné se prolongeant dans une relation inclinée par rapport
audit plan général de la périphérie de ladite ouverture (23) entre ladite position
allongée et ladite position rétractée.
3. Dispositif d'épilation selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ledit carter (110) loge
un support (141) portant ladite pluralité de plaques de pincement (43, 44 ; 143, 144),
ledit support (141) étant couplé audit moyen d'entraînement (165, 166, 149) en vue
d'un mouvement alternatif le long dudit trajet arciforme autour dudit axe longitudinal
dudit support.
4. Dispositif d'épilation selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, dans lequel
chaque paire de plaques de pincement adjacentes comprend une plaque de pincement fixe
et une plaque de pincement mobile.
5. Dispositif d'épilation selon la revendication 4, dans lequel lesdites plaques de pincement
fixes sont en matériau élastique.