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Designated Extension States:
AL BA RS
(30)
Priority:
22.09.2008 JP 2008242923
(71)
Applicant: Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.
Kadoma-shi
Osaka (JP)
(72)
Inventors:
Inoue, Tomoyuki Kadoma-shi
Osaka (JP)
Hashiguchi, Tetsuro Kadoma-shi
Osaka (JP)
(74)
Representative: Appelt, Christian W.
Forrester & Boehmert
Pettenkoferstrasse 20-22 80336 München 80336 München (DE)
(54)
Depilatory device
(57) A depilatory device (1) in this invention comprising a housing (200), a plucking
means, a pinching mechanism, and a plucking mechanism. The plucking means includes
a plucking cylinder (16) which is supported to the housing (200). The plucking cylinder
(16) carries a plurality of pinching units (300L,300R) at a circumference surface
of the plucking cylinder (16). The pinching unit is composed of a first blade (31L)
and a second blade (23L). At least one of the first blade (31L) and the second blade
(23L) is movable toward and away from the other of the first blade and the second
blade to have an opened position and a pinch position. Each of the pinching units
has a hair introducing direction perpendicular to the gap between the first blade
and the second blade in the opened position. The pinching mechanism is configured
to provide the opened position and the pinch position to the first blade and the second
blade. The plucking mechanism is configured to rotate the plucking cylinder. The pinching
units are arranged to have their hair introducing directions which are inclined with
respect to the longitudinal axis as well as a circumferential direction of the plucking
cylinder.