GB2415624A

GB2415624A - Electric hair styling device with profiled plates

Info

Publication number: GB2415624A
Application number: GB0503625A
Authority: GB
Inventors: Myung-Seob Lee
Original assignee: YS Creation Co Ltd
Current assignee: YS Creation Co Ltd
Priority date: 2004-06-28
Filing date: 2005-02-22
Publication date: 2006-01-04
Anticipated expiration: 2025-02-22
Also published as: JP2006006909A; GB0503625D0; KR200364344Y1; US20050284494A1; GB2415624B

Abstract

A hair styling device comprises two arms 1,2 pivoted at a hinge 5 and biased apart by a resilient support 6. Upper and lower hair contacting plates 3,4 are located at the distal ends of the arms with heating portions 8,9 adjacent the plates. The heat is provide by electrical power via a power cord 7 and is controlled by means of a switch 10 on one of the arms. Each of the plates have surface profiles 11,12 comprising projections and recessions that cooperate when the arms are brought together. Projections 11b on the upper plate engage with recessions 12a on the lower plate and similarly recessions 11a on the upper plate engage with projections 12b on the lower plate.

Description

ELECTRIC CURLING IRON

FIELD OF TILE, lNVF,NTION

[00011 The present invention generally relates to an electric curling iron, and more particularly, to an electric curling iron for providing a user's hair with a certain shape by forming hemispherical pr:ectons and recessions in surfaces ol' heating plates thereof contacting with a user's hair, and for stretching out the hair or having the hair waved naturally and easily thereby.

BACK(,R()lJND ()F THE, INVF,NTI()N [0002] Generally, a curling iron has been used long time ago so as to adorn a user's hair. In former days, the curling iron have been used such that metal products were t'abricated with various shapes and heated by fire. f lowcvcr, in recent years, the electric curling iron to be heated usmg electricity has been remarkably popularized.

[0003J Korean utility model registration No. 348()14 discloses an example of an electric curling iron entitled "an electric curling iron used in a vehicle" which has been recently used.

[0004J 'I'he disclosed electric curling iron entitled "an electric curling iron used in a vehicle" has a heating plate for generating heat by a power supply from the outside, and the heating plate includes tan upper heating plate 60 and a lower heating plate 62. If a user's hair is positioned between the upper heating plate 60 and the lower heating plate 62 under the condition that they are in a set temperature, the heat generated from each of the upper heating plate 60 and the lower heating plate 62 will make the user's hair to get straightened or waved.

100051 IIowever, in such a case of the conventional electric curling iron having the above-mentiorled construction, because the surfaces to which a user's hair contacts, that is, the suri'aces oL'the upper heating plate and the lower heating plate are formed in a flat shape, the user can stretch the tser's own hair only when he should pull the hair strongly.

100061 ('onsequently, when a user applies excessive forces so as to straighten out the user's own hair, this may cause not only a disadvantage that the hair may be pulled out but also drawbacks that the hair may be damaged by the heat applied for several times due to a difficulty in straightening the hair, the user's wrist may be fatigued due to an operation for long time, and the fatigue may be accumulated

SUMMARY OF THIC INVENTI()N

00071 Accordingly, the present invention is intended to solve the above disadvantages associated with the prior art. It is an object of the present invention to provide an electric curling Iron for providing a user's hair with a certain shape by forming hemispherical projections and recessions in surfaces of heating, plates thereof contacting with a user's hair, and for stretching t-)ul the hair or having the hair waved naturally and easily thereby.

00081 In order to accomplish the object of' the invention, an electric curling iron according to the present invention comprises upper and lower grips which are joined by a hinge at ends lhereol' to be contacted each other and which have heating portions heated by electricity, respectively, and upper and lower heating plates which are provided in contact surl:'aces ot' each of the grips and configured to be heated by the heating portions and discharge heat llere, hemispherical projections and recessions are spaced and arranged each other in the surl'aces of In the upper and lower heating plates.

The projections and recessions are arranged such that the projections are engaged with the recessions when the upper and lower heating plates are contacted each other.

I urther, both ends of the upper and lower heating plates are finished in the form of a straight line.

0009J In the above-mentioned construction of the Invention, the projections and the recessions are formed hi lmes, and lines ol'tlle projections and lines of the recessions are positioned in an alternate way. It is desirable that the recession is positioned between one projection and the other projection

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[00101 Fig. I is a perspective view of' an electric curling iron according to an embodiment of the present invention.

00111 Fig. 2 is a side elevation showing an arrangement in which heating plates of the present invention are ripened.

()0121 1 ig 3 is a perspective view showing an arrangement in which the heating plates of the present invention are closed.

00131 Fig. 4 is a side elevation showing an arrangement in which the heating plates of the present invention are closed.

00141 Fig 5 is a t'ront elevation showing an arrangement in which the heating plates of the present invention are closed.

DF,TA1LED DF,SCRTPT10N OFTHF, PRF,FERRED EMBODIMENTS 00151 The above-mentioned features and operations of the structures will be described in detail in connection with the pret'erred embodiments of the electric curling iron according to the present invention.

00161 Among the attached drawings, Fig. I is a perspective view of an electric curling :3 iron according to an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a side elevation showing an arrangement in which heating plates of the present invention are open, Fig. 3 is a perspective view showman an arrangement in which the heating plates of the present invention are closed, Fig. 4 is a side elevation showhlg an arrangement in which the heating plates of the present invention are closed, and l;ig. 5 is a front elevation showing an arrangement in which the heating plates ol' the present Invention are closed.

00171 As shown U1 the drawings, the electric curling iron according to an embodiment of the present invention includes upper and lower grips 1, 2 which are contacted each other, and upper and lower heating plates 3, 4 which are provided in contact surfaces of each ol'the grip 1, 2 for discharging heat.

0018] The upper and lower grips 1, 2 arc made in the form of pliers in which the grips are contacted each other arid each cod of the grip is pivotally engaged to a hinge 5.

Like this, an elastic supporting portion 6 is positioned between the upper and lower grips 1, 2 made in the form of pliers, arid is spaced In a predetermined distance from the hinge toward the other entl of the electric curling iron.

[00191 The elastic supporting portion 6 supports the upper and lower grips 1, 2 elastically such that the upper and lower grips 1, 2 may be placed to be constantly unfolded when a user does not press the upper and lower grips 1, 2 as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. As shown in Figs. 3 to 5, when the user presses the upper and lower grips 1, 2, dresses the user's own hair, and then, keep the user's own hand from the upper and lower grips 1, 2 pressed by hand, the upper and lower grips 1, 2 are unfolded by force of restoration of the elastic supporting portion 6 in a state as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

[00201 As shown in dotted lines in Figs. 2 and 4, heating portions X, 9 made in the form of coils are each embedded in the other ends of the upper and lower grips 1, 2, and receive electric power through a cable 7 f'rorn the outside to heat the upper and lower heating plates 3, 4.

0021l A power switch 1() for applying or interrupting power supply to the heating portions 8, 9 is positioned on the lower grip 2, and troth ends of the upper and lower heating plates 3, 4 are finished in the Corm ol'a straight line.

0022J The upper and lower heating plates 3, 4 are the portions to which the user's hair is directly contacted, and discharge heat with a suitable temperature after they are heated by an operation of the heating portions 8, 9.

3] 'I'he upper and lower heating plates 3, 4 are biased and positioned toward the other ends of the surfaces of the upper and lower grips], 2, and hemispherical projections and recessions 11, 12 are spaced and arranged each other in the surfaces thereof.

0024l The projections and recessions l l, 12 formed in the upper and lower heating plates 3, 4 are arranged in a regular forth so that the user' hair can be dressed in a predetermined shape 'I'hat is, as shown in Figs. I and 5, lines of the recessions] la, 12a and lines of the projections I lb, l 2b are positioned in an alternate way such that the projections and recessions l l of the upper heating plate 3 are engaged with the projections and recessions 12 ol'tlle lower heating plate 4 each other. In other words, as shown in the drawings, when the recessions 12a of the lower heating plate 4 are arranged in the center lme thereof and the projections 12b are arranged in both side lines of the projections] 2a, the projections 1 lb of the upper heating plate 3 are arranged in the center line thereof and the recessions lla are arranged in both side lines of the projections lib.

00251 Meanwhile, because the recessions lla, 12a formed in the upper and lower heating plates 3, 4 are positioned between one projections I 1 b, I 2b and the other projections 1 lb, I 2b, respectively, the user's hair can he passed in a wave form, not in a straight form [00261 The operation of the electric curling iron according to an embodiment of the present invention as constructed above will be now described in detail.

10027] First, if the user Insets a plug into a power supply outlet (as being not shown) connected with a cable 7 and turns on a switch 10, the upper and lower heating plates 3, 4 will be heated at a suitable temperature by the heating portions 8, 9.

8] Like this, ii the upper and lower heating plates 3, 4 is heated at a suitable temperature, the user may stretch the user's own hair by putting the hair between the upper and lower heating plates 3, 4, pushing the upper and lower grips 1, 2 and then fully pulling the hair or may give the user's own hair a wave by putting the hair between the upper and lower heating plates 3, 4, Bustling the upper and lower grips 1, 2, and then slightly pulling the hair while mainkaining this state for a prescribed time.

00291 At this time, because the user's hair passes between the projections and recessions I I, 12, that is, the recessions I I a, I 2a and the projections 11 b, I 2h formed in the surfaces oi the upper and lower heating plates 3, 4 while having a waveform, the hair can be naturally spread out. I: urtherrmore, because the user's hair is maintained in a certain time under the condition that the hair has been made in a waveform, the hair can be naturally waved.

00301 Accordingly, the user can dress the user's own hair without applying excessive force thereto. Further, the user's hair can be protected from being pulled out, and damages of hair can he decreased owns to less heat applied thereto.

10031] According to the electric curling iron of the present invention as constructed above, the user can dress the user's own hair without applying excessive force thereto and naturally stretch out the user's hair or give the user's own hair a wave by the provision of the projections and the recessions of the upper and lower heating plates.

I'hus, the hair can be protected from being pulled out. I4'urther, because the hairdressing over several times Is not required, the damages ot' heir due to the heat can be decreased and the fatigue of the user's wrist can be minimized.

10032] As mentioned above, while the electric curling iron according to the preferred embodiments of the present invention has been described with reference to the drawings attached hereto, it is to be understood that the present invention should not be limited to the embodiments and drawings herein and various modifications may be made without deviating from the scope of the concept of the present invention.

Claims

1. An electric curling iron including upper and lower grips which are joined by a hinge at their ends so as to be contacted with each other and which have heating portions heated by electricity, and upper and lower heating plates which are provided in respective contact surl'aces of each of the grips and configured to be heated by the heating portions and discharge heat, wherein hemispllerical projections and recesses are provident in the contact surt'aces of the upper and lower heating plates, the projections and recesses being arranged sucl1 that the projections are engaged with the recesses when the upper and lower heating plates are contacted with each other, and wherein both ends ol' the upper and lower heating plates are l'inished in the form of a straight line.

2. 'the electric curling iron of Claim], wherein the projections and the recessions are lI'rmed in lines, lines of the projections and lines ol'tlle recessions being positioned in an alternate way, the recession behlg arranged to be positioned between one projection and the other projection.

3. An electric curling iron as herein described with reference to the accompanying figures.