EP1596686B1 - Accessoire de coiffure - Google Patents

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EP1596686B1
EP1596686B1 EP04706233A EP04706233A EP1596686B1 EP 1596686 B1 EP1596686 B1 EP 1596686B1 EP 04706233 A EP04706233 A EP 04706233A EP 04706233 A EP04706233 A EP 04706233A EP 1596686 B1 EP1596686 B1 EP 1596686B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45D—HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING
    • A45D20/00—Hair drying devices; Accessories therefor
    • A45D20/04—Hot-air producers
    • A45D20/08—Hot-air producers heated electrically
    • A45D20/10—Hand-held drying devices, e.g. air douches
    • A45D20/12—Details thereof or accessories therefor, e.g. nozzles, stands
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45D—HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING
    • A45D2/00—Hair-curling or hair-waving appliances ; Appliances for hair dressing treatment not otherwise provided for
    • A45D2/001—Hair straightening appliances
    • A45D2/002—Hair straightening appliances with combs
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45D—HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING
    • A45D1/00—Curling-tongs, i.e. tongs for use when hot; Curling-irons, i.e. irons for use when hot; Accessories therefor

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  • This invention relates to hair styling attachments, devices and apparatus and, more particularly, to hair styling attachments, devices and apparatus which operate with a hot or warm air source in the hair styling, setting or treating process. More specifically, although of course not solely limited thereto, this invention relates to attachments, devices and apparatus for hair straightening.
  • hair formers are widely used to effect designed or desirable hair styling for personal grooming or other requirements such as theatrical needs.
  • hair formers with the particular hair forming members can form specific designs of hair styling.
  • hair rollers or curlers are used to produce a curly effect on hair and hair straighteners are used to straighten hair which is otherwise curly.
  • a hair-dresser typically holds a comb or brush by one hand, engages the portion of hair to be straightened, imparting straightening tension to that portion of the hair by pulling towards the free end of the hair and then blow hot or warm hair onto that portion of the hair to impart more permanent hair styling setting to that portion of the hair.
  • This requires the service of a hair-dresser and may not be comfortable to the customer because different customers may have different susceptibility to the straightening tension and different levels of straightening tension may be required to treat hair of different qualities.
  • FR-A-2,785,159 has described a hair brushing accessory comprising a hollow body (2) and a plurality of hair treating members (6, 7) for compressively receiving hair in which strands of hair are styled through elastic squeezing by an adjacent pair of hair treating members, the squeezing action means results frictional engagement between the hair treating members and the hair being engaged along a longitudinal direction.
  • Such frictional engagement also means that an undesirable longitudinal tension will be applied on the scalp of a user during normal use when the accessory is being drawn towards a free end of the strands of hair. Therefore, improvements to known hair styling attachments are desirable.
  • a hair styling attachment comprising a main housing and at least a pair of adjacently disposed hair treating members, wherein said main housing comprises an air inlet and said hair treating surface being communicable with said air inlet, each said hair treating member comprises an elongate main body having at least one thermally conductive hair treating surface thereon, said pair of hair treating members are in compressive contact to form a gap for receiving the hair to be treated, characterised in that said hair treating member includes a cylindrical main body with a first cylindrical axis, said hair treating member includes at least a cylindrical roller with its cylindrical axis substantially parallel to and off-set from said first cylindrical axis so that at least part of the cylindrical surface of said cylindrical roller is exposed from said cylindrical surface of said cylindrical main body and forming said cylindrical body and from said hair treating surface.
  • said thermally conductive hair treating surface is rotatable about an axis which is parallel to the longitudinal axis of said elongate main body of said hair treating member.
  • said hair treating member is displaceable along a direction which is substantially transversal to the longitudinal axis of said elongate main body of said hair treating member to form a gap for hair receiving.
  • said pair of hair treating members are relatively movable against spring urge.
  • said roller which is rotatably connected to said elongate main body of said hair treating member, and the axis of said roller is parallel to and offset from the longitudinal axis of said elongate main body of said hair treating member.
  • said elongate main body has a circular cross-section, and the longitudinal axis of said roller is parallel to and off-set from the longitudinal axis of said elongate main body.
  • the thermally conductive hair treating surfaces of an adjacent pair of said hair treating members directly face each other.
  • said elongate main body comprises a round or dome-shaped headed, and the heads of an adjacent pair of said hair treating members co-operatively form a hair engaging aperture.
  • said main housing includes an upstream end and a downstream end; said hair treating members include a first and a second end with said first end being a free end protruding beyond said downstream end; and said first end of said hair treating member is deflectable and/or displaceable relative to said main housing, characterised in that said corresponding hair treating surfaces are convexly disposed with respect to each other.
  • said hair treating member resembles a finger with a generally cylindrical body.
  • said hair treating member includes a generally elongated and thermally insulated main body mounted with a rotatable metallic surface which forms said hair treating surface.
  • the hair styling attachment also includes a plurality of hair treating members, wherein first and second hair treating surfaces are formed on some of said plurality of hair treating members, and said hair treating surfaces on the same hair treating member are diametrically disposed.
  • the hair styling attachment also includes a plurality of hair treating members, wherein said plurality of hair treating members are linearly disposed.
  • said main housing includes an attachment means for coupling said device to a hot air blower.
  • a hair styling apparatus including a hair styling attachment described herein and a hair blower.
  • the hair styling device which is a hair styling attachment 1 for the present example includes a main housing 10 and a plurality of hair treating members 21-25.
  • the main housing 10 includes a generally frusto-conical body with an upstream end 12 , a downstream end 13 and a circumferential wall 14 interconnecting the upstream end and the downstream end.
  • the downstream end of the main body 10 includes a top member 15 on which a sub-assembly including the plurality of the hair treating members 21-25 and a mounting base 26 is attached.
  • the upstream end 16 of the main housing includes an air-inlet aperture and coupling means for attaching to a hot air blower such as a hair dryer.
  • the coupling means includes a collar member 16 which extends generally along the axial direction of the frusto-conical main body and is provided with a circumferential flange 17 for, for example, latching engagement with the nozzle of the hot air blower.
  • the hair treating member 21-25 includes an elongated main body with a generally circular or rounded cross-section and a thermally conductive hair treating surface (211; 221a; 221b; 231a; 231b; 241a; 241b).
  • the elongated main bodies of the plurality of the hair treating members are generally aligned with their longitudinal axes generally parallel and the corresponding hair treating surfaces in contiguous compressive contact.
  • each of the main bodies of the hair treating members are generally cylindrical with a dome-shaped top or first end with the second end mounted on the base 26 of the main housing.
  • the main bodies are preferably made of a thermally insulated material so as to avoid injuring the scalp of a user, although, of course, a thermally conductive main body can also be used.
  • the dome-shaped first ends of the adjacent pairs of hair treating members co-operate to form a plurality of hair engaging apertures so that the hair treating members are adapted to more conveniently approach and engage the hair to be straightened.
  • At least a roller is mounted with its longitudinal axis off-set from the cylindrical axis of the main body 51-55 of the hair treating member so that part of the curved surface is protruded from the cylindrical surface of the main body 51-55 of the hair treating members exposed to form the hair treating surface.
  • the rollers have a generally cylindrical body in this example, it will be noted that roller body of other geometry with a longitudinal extending curved surface can be used.
  • a pair of rollers (33; 341; 342; 351; 352) are mounted on each of the main bodies 52-54 . These rollers are mounted off-set from the cylindrical axis of the main body and are disposed so that the curved cylindrical surfaces of the corresponding cylindrical rollers are slightly pressing against each other under spring bias.
  • the hair treating members 21-25 are mounted on a base housing 26 and are disposed so that the longitudinal axes of the hair treating members are generally parallel to each other with the partially cylindrical hair treating surfaces facing each other and in generally compressive contact.
  • the hair treating members are generally linearly disposed and mounted on a channel formed on the base housing 26 .
  • Some of the hair treating members, for example, 21, 22, 24 and 25 are mounted with spring biasing so that they are urged by a lateral urging force along the transversal direction, i.e. the direction which is generally transversal to the axial or longitudinal axis of the cylindrical body, towards their neutral positions.
  • the hair treating members are disposed so that they can be slightly displaced or deflected by acting against the spring urging force to form a plurality of hair treating gaps 41-44 .
  • the channel provides a guide to the deflection or displacement of the movable hair treating members.
  • the hair treating fingers 21-25 generally resemble a collection of parallelly disposed fingers each with a top free end protruding beyond the top member 15 of the main housing 10 .
  • the hair treating members 21-25 include a rounded or dome-shaped head 61-65 and the adjacent heads co-operate to form a hair engaging aperture which is convergent towards the downstream end of the main body so that they can gradually approach the hair and easily engage a small bundle of hair between the gaps formed by the adjacent hair treating members. It will be appreciated that the convergent apertures formed between adjacent rounded or dome-shaped heads assist convenient engagement of the desirable portion of hair.
  • the hair styling attachment 1 is coupled onto the outlet nozzle of a hot hair blower so that hot air is delivered towards the plurality of hair treating members via the upstream end air inlet 12 .
  • the circumferential wall 14 of the main body defines an air enclosure so that the air entering the upstream end 12 will travel towards the downstream end 13 .
  • hair treating gaps are formed upon engagement of the hair between the gaps, a portion of the hot air will exit through the base aperture between the adjacent displaced hair treating members and generally travel along the partially cylindrical hair treating surface.

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  1. Accessoire de coiffure (1) comprenant un logement principal (10) et au moins une paire d'éléments de traitement des cheveux (21 ; 22 ; 23 ; 24 ; 25) disposés de façon adjacente, dans lequel ledit logement principal (10) comprend une entrée d'air (12), chaque dit élément de traitement des cheveux comprenant un corps principal allongé (51 ; 52 ; 53 ; 54 ; 55) ayant au moins une surface de traitement des cheveux (211 ; 221a; 221b ; 231a; 231b; 241a; 241b) thermiquement conductrice sur celui-ci, ladite surface de traitement des cheveux pouvant être mise en communication avec ladite entrée d'air, et ladite paire d'éléments de traitement des cheveux étant en contact par compression pour former un espace pour recevoir les cheveux devant être traités, caractérisé en ce que ledit élément de traitement des cheveux (21 ; 22 ; 23 ; 24 ; 25) inclut un corps principal cylindrique avec un premier axe cylindrique, ledit élément de traitement des cheveux inclut au moins un rouleau cylindrique (33 ; 341 ; 342 ; 351 ; 352) avec son axe cylindrique substantiellement parallèle et décalé par rapport audit premier axe cylindrique de sorte qu'au moins une partie de la surface cylindrique dudit rouleau cylindrique est exposée à partir de ladite surface cylindrique dudit corps principal cylindrique et formant ledit corps cylindrique et à partir de ladite surface de traitement des cheveux (211 ; 221a ; 221b ; 231a; 231b ; 241a; 241b).
  2. Accessoire de coiffure selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ladite surface de traitement des cheveux (211 ; 221a ; 221b ; 231a ; 231b ; 241a; 241b) thermiquement conductrice est rotative autour d'un axe qui est parallèle à l'axe longitudinal dudit corps principal allongé dudit élément de traitement des cheveux.
  3. Accessoire de coiffure selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que ledit élément de traitement des cheveux (21 ; 22 ; 23 ; 24 ; 25) est déplaçable le long d'une direction qui est substantiellement transversale à l'axe longitudinal dudit corps principal allongé dudit élément de traitement des cheveux pour former un espace de réception des cheveux.
  4. Accessoire de coiffure selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que ladite paire d'éléments de traitement des cheveux (21 ; 22 ; 23 ; 24 ; 25) sont relativement mobiles à l'encontre de la poussée d'un ressort.
  5. Accessoire de coiffure selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ledit rouleau (33 ; 341 ; 342 ; 351 ; 352) est raccordé de façon rotative audit cor ps principal allongé dudit élément de traitement des cheveux, et que l'axe dudit rouleau est parallèle et décalé par rapport à l'axe longitudinal dudit corps principal allongé dudit élément de traitement des cheveux.
  6. Accessoire de coiffure selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ledit corps principal allongé (51 ; 52 ; 53 ; 54 ; 55) a une section transversale circulaire, et que l'axe longitudinal dudit rouleau est parallèle et décalé par rapport à l'axe longitudinal dudit corps principal allongé.
  7. Accessoire de coiffure selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les surfaces de traitement des cheveux thermiquement conductrices d'une paire adjacente desdits éléments de traitement des cheveux (21 ; 22 ; 23 ; 24 ; 25) se font directement face l'une à l'autre.
  8. Accessoire de coiffure selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel ledit corps principal allongé comprend une tête (61 ; 62 ; 63 ; 64 ; 65) ronde ou en forme de dôme, et les têtes d'une paire adjacente desdits éléments de traitement des cheveux (21 ; 22 ; 23 ; 24 ; 25) forment en coopération une ouverture d'engagement des cheveux.
  9. Accessoire de coiffure selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel ledit logement principal (10) inclut une extrémité amont et une extrémité aval ; lesdits éléments de traitement des cheveux incluent une première et une deuxième extrémités avec ladite première extrémité étant une extrémité libre faisant saillie au-delà de ladite extrémité aval ; et ladite première extrémité desdits éléments de traitement des cheveux (21 ; 22 ; 23 ; 24 ; 25) peut être courbée et/ou déplacée par rapport audit logement principal, caractérisé en ce que lesdites surfaces de traitement des cheveux correspondantes sont disposées de façon convexe les unes par rapport aux autres.
  10. Accessoire de coiffure selon la revendication 9, dans lequel ledit élément de traitement des cheveux (21 ; 22 ; 23 ; 24 ; 25) ressemble à un doigt avec un corps généralement cylindrique.
  11. Accessoire de coiffure selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel ledit élément de traitement des cheveux (21 ; 22 ; 23 ; 24 ; 25) inclut un corps principal généralement allongé et thermiquement isolé monté avec une surface métallique rotative qui forme ladite surface de traitement des cheveux (211 ; 221a ; 221b ; 231a ; 231b ; 241a ; 241b).
  12. Accessoire de coiffure selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes et incluant une pluralité d'éléments de traitement des cheveux (21 ; 22 ; 23 ; 24 ; 25), dans lequel la première et la deuxième surfaces de traitement des cheveux sont formées sur certains de ladite pluralité d'éléments de traitement des cheveux, et lesdites surfaces de traitement des cheveux sur le même élément de traitement des cheveux sont disposées diamétralement.
  13. Accessoire de coiffure selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes et incluant une pluralité d'éléments de traitement des cheveux (21 ; 22 ; 23 ; 24 ; 25), dans lequel ladite pluralité d'éléments de traitement des cheveux sont disposés de façon linéaire.
  14. Accessoire de coiffure selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel ledit logement principal (10) inclut un moyen de fixation (17) pour coupler ledit dispositif à une soufflante d'air chaud.
  15. Appareil de coiffure incluant un accessoire de coiffure selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes et une soufflante d'air chaud.
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