EP0482016B1 - Gerät zum auszupfen von haaren - Google Patents

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EP0482016B1
EP0482016B1 EP90909332A EP90909332A EP0482016B1 EP 0482016 B1 EP0482016 B1 EP 0482016B1 EP 90909332 A EP90909332 A EP 90909332A EP 90909332 A EP90909332 A EP 90909332A EP 0482016 B1 EP0482016 B1 EP 0482016B1
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Hans-Eberhard Heintke
Gebhard Braun
Walter Schäfer
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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
    • A45D26/00—Hair-singeing apparatus; Apparatus for removing superfluous hair, e.g. tweezers
    • A45D26/0023—Hair-singeing apparatus; Apparatus for removing superfluous hair, e.g. tweezers with rotating clamping elements

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  • the invention relates to a hand-held device for plucking hair from the skin.
  • the plucking head - viewed geometrically - is designed as a cylindrical roller, the working surface of which is formed by a narrow strip of the roller shell which is parallel to the roller axis.
  • this has the disadvantage that the skin can be pulled along the roller shell during the plucking process and, under certain circumstances, even pinched, that is to say pulled vertically to the skin surface, which is extremely painful; on the other hand, this has the disadvantage of largely directional dependence of the handling and operation of the device. This is because it must be as transverse as possible to the roller axis in order to be effective.
  • the known devices are not very suitable for working on smaller areas of skin and exact contours, e.g. B. hairline, upper lip area (nose), and the like.
  • a hand-held device for plucking hair from the skin which has a housing with a motor accommodated therein and a plucking head attached to the housing and provided with a clamping device.
  • the clamping device is in drive connection with the motor and the plucking head is designed as a disk with an end face to be placed on the skin as a working surface.
  • the disc has a plurality of hair entry slots in the side wall, in which clamping elements are arranged and from an open position in a closed position can be applied to the side surface of the slots in the disk.
  • a plucking head designed as a cylinder with a uniformly curved cylinder jacket cannot be found in this document.
  • the invention has for its object on the one hand to avoid pinching the skin during the plucking process and on the other hand to eliminate the directional dependence of the handling and operation of the device. In addition, easy threading, secure clamping and efficient removal of the hair to be removed, even relatively short hair, should be ensured.
  • the device has a housing with a motor accommodated therein and a plucking head attached to the housing and provided with a clamping device, at least the clamping device being in drive connection with the motor, the plucking head as a cylinder with a Working surface on the skin to be placed on the end face and a uniformly curved cylinder jacket and the clamping device can be applied from an open position to a closed position on the uniformly curved cylinder jacket of the cylinder.
  • the cylinder is designed as a hollow cylinder, inside which the clamping device is provided, that a cam is provided in the geometric axis B of the hollow cylinder, which controls the clamping device, and that at least one of the two Components - hollow cylinders and / or cams - rotatably mounted in the housing and driven by the motor.
  • a modified, advantageous construction characterize the features of claim 12.
  • the construction effort is slightly higher, but has significant advantages.
  • the location of the plucking on the skin is constantly shifting; the cam can be made smaller in the region of the circular arc determining the closing path, as a result of which the overall size of the entire plucking head can also be reduced.
  • the number of jaws can at least double - z. B. four jaws - which increases the number of pluckings in the same way.
  • a fundamentally possible, further variant is characterized by the features of claims 8 and 10; it has the advantage that the movement of the jaws can be used twice, i. that is, on the one hand, if they go into the closed position, on the other hand, they open a gap for the hair entry. The number of pluckings can thus be increased significantly.
  • the hollow cylinder of the plucking head and the cam are guided with their axis or shaft so as to be displaceable in the direction of the geometric cylinder axis, and at least the hollow cylinder is provided with a return spring.
  • the device shown in Fig. 1 for plucking hair abbreviated to "plucking device”, consists essentially of a housing 1, in which a motor 2 is housed, an electric motor fed by primary or secondary cells or directly from the network or a spring mechanism motor can be.
  • the housing 1 is designed so that it can serve as a handle for guiding the plucking device.
  • a bulkhead 3 is also provided, which separates the engine compartment 4 from a gear compartment 6 partially enclosing a plucking head 5.
  • a hollow cylinder 7, which is part of the plucking head 5, is rotatably supported in the gear chamber 6 by means of roller bearings 8. Instead of the roller bearing 8, a plain bearing of known type can also be provided.
  • the rotatably mounted hollow cylinder 7 is thus in drive connection with the motor 2 via the gear mechanism 11, 13.
  • the gear transmission can also be replaced by a so-called "belt drive", such as a belt or cord drive, as is known per se.
  • the gearbox is to be designed so that the speed of the hollow cylinder 7 is lower than the motor
  • two leaf springs 15 are attached inside the gear chamber 6 on opposite sides, which have at their free ends clamping jaws 16, which can be placed on the associated inner surface 14 of the hollow cylinder 7, as will be explained in more detail below.
  • an axis 17 directed parallel to the motor shaft 9 is fastened, which extends through the hollow cylinder 7 to its outer edge 18 and on which a cam 19 is attached, which is suitable due to its design, the clamping jaws 16 via the leaf springs in elastic Bring plant with the inner surface 14 of the hollow cylinder 7.
  • the working surface A of the plucking head 5 is defined by the edge 18 of the hollow cylinder 7, which is placed on the skin during operation of the plucking device and which forms the end face of the hollow cylinder 7.
  • FIGS. 2 and 3 The principle of operation of the clamping device consisting of parts of the hollow cylinder 7 and the clamping jaws 16 can be seen from FIGS. 2 and 3 - the same parts are designated with the same reference numerals as in FIG. 1.
  • the cam 20, which is designed asymmetrically in deviation from the representation in FIG. 1, is adjustably fastened on the axis 17 by means of a clamping screw 21.
  • the leaf springs 15 are designed so that they urge the jaws 22 attached to their free ends into an open position, so that a gap 23 is formed between them and the associated inner surface 14 of the hollow cylinder 7.
  • the cam 20 in turn is dimensioned such that it can urge the clamping jaws 22 into a closed position over a part 24 of its circumference, which is circular, in which - as said - the clamping jaws 22 rest against the inner surface 14 of the hollow cylinder 7.
  • damping strips 25 can be attached to their fixed ends.
  • a head 26 with an outwardly convex surface is placed on the free end of the axis 17, which prevents the skin from bulging excessively into the interior of the hollow cylinder 7.
  • the jacket of the hollow cylinder 7 is partially recessed on its outer edge, such that the parts 27 of the jacket cooperating with the clamping jaws 22 protrude like a crest against the working surface A, as can be seen in FIGS. 7 and 8. Openings 28 can be provided on these jacket parts 27, through which plucked hair is ejected; in this case it is expedient to provide the clamping jaws 22 with cutouts 29, which open the openings 28. In order to facilitate the threading of the hair to be plucked, the vertical edges 30 of the jacket parts 27 are chamfered.
  • the jaws 16 or 22 attached to it are urged into the closed position by the cam 19 or 20, as long as they protrude with the projecting circular section 24 with the radius R Cam track are in contacts; during the remainder of a revolution, the jaws 16 or 22 pivot inward under the action of their leaf springs 15 and release the gap 23 mentioned. Due to the circular movement of the plucking head 5 over the skin surface, the hair penetrate into the gap 23, are clamped by the clamping jaws 16 or 22 when they go into the closed position, and plucked out of the skin during the further rotation of the hollow cylinder 7. This working cycle is repeated twice with two jaws on the plucking head with each of its turns.
  • the closing time of the jaws 16, 22 and the length of the plucking path can be varied.
  • Asymmetrical cams as described above, have the disadvantage in this application, however, that they stress the axis 17 in an alternating direction for bending each time the hollow cylinder 7 rotates.
  • the symmetrical design of the cam 19 shown in FIG. 4, as is also shown in FIG. 1, is more advantageous.
  • the cam 19 is provided with two opposite circular sections 31 with the radii R of the cam track, so that in the closed position of the cam 19 no one-sided radial pressure is exerted on the axis 17.
  • FIG. 4 shows the jaws 16 in their closed position.
  • the number of closed positions can be doubled if, as shown in FIG. 5, two further clamping jaws 32 of the same design and arrangement as the clamping jaws 16 are applied symmetrically to them in the free space of the hollow cylinder 7, as shown in FIG. 5.
  • the jaws 16 are in this view in the closed position and the jaws 32 in the open position, so that a gap 34 is formed between them and the crenellated parts 33 of the cylinder jacket, which are formed in the same way as the corresponding parts 27.
  • Fig. 6 shows the same view of a plucking head as Fig. 4, but with an additional erecting comb 35 is attached, based on the direction of rotation U of the plucking head in front of the jaws 16, to which a bevel 36 can also be attached, which It is easier to thread the hair straightened by the comb 35 into the gap 34 (FIG. 5).
  • the side view drawn in Fig. 6 is only schematic and shows that the Raising comb 35 extends to work surface A; 27 indicates the crenellated part of the jacket of the hollow cylinder 7 which interacts with the jaws 16.
  • FIG. 7 shows a variant compared to the plucking device shown in FIG. 1 with regard to one detail.
  • a shaft 37 is rotatably mounted in the housing 2 by means of roller bearings 38, the end 39 facing the motor 2 is provided with a gear 40 which has a second pinion 41 the motor shaft 9 meshes;
  • the first pinion 42 of the motor shaft 9 is in drive connection with the gear 43 of the hollow cylinder 7.
  • Both gear transmissions 40, 41 and 42, 43 are dimensioned and matched to one another in such a way that the shaft 37 with its cam 19 rotates at a lower speed but the same direction of rotation U (FIG. 4) as the hollow cylinder 7 with the jaws 16 of the plucking head 5
  • the gear drives - as already indicated in FIG. 1 - can be replaced by belt drives.
  • the possible reduction in size of the entire plucking head with this measure makes it possible to provide two plucking heads 5 next to one another with the same or only slightly larger, adapted dimensioning, as shown in FIG. 8, whose direction of rotation U is opposite.
  • the plucking heads are shown in simplified form in FIG. 2 only as hollow cylinders 7 without the internal units; but the crenellated parts 27 of the jacket of the hollow cylinder 7 can be clearly seen.
  • Fig. 11 shows an extension of this design.
  • a mechanically connected ring 53 is placed, of such a radius R 1 that between the edge 50 of the disc 44 and the ring 53 a distance 54 remains, taking into account the
  • the thickness of the jaws 46 corresponds to the desired width of the hair entry gap 55.
  • each jaw 46 has a closed position and an open position in every position at the same time.
  • the jaw 46 is pushed outwards against the ring 53 by the cam 49 against the spring 48 acting in the direction of the arrow c, that is to say brought into the closed position between the two components, while there is between this jaw 46 and the edge 50 the disc 44 opens a gap 55 for entering the hair.
  • the plucking device 5 according to FIG. 12 shows a variant of the device according to FIG. 1; It contains elements of the plucking device 5 shown in FIG is. Analogous to the exemplary embodiment in FIG. 7, a pinion 41 is seated on the shaft 9 of the motor 2, which meshes with a gearwheel 40 fastened on the shaft 37 and thus can rotate the shaft 37 with the cam 19.
  • the other conditions and the mode of operation of the plucking head 5 are otherwise the same as given for the exemplary embodiments in FIGS. 1 and 7, except for the fact that the plucking process must be carried out by moving the plucking device over the skin.
  • the other possible variations, particularly with regard to the design of the cams and the number and arrangement of the clamping jaws, can largely be utilized.
  • the hollow cylinder 7 is guided in the housing 1 in the direction of the geometric axis B or the axis 17 carrying the cam 19 in the housing interior, namely against the action of a return spring 56 supported on the bulkhead 3 of the housing 1.
  • the axis 17 can also be displaced in the same direction and has for this purpose a cross pin 57 which is guided in a slot 58 in the bulkhead 3 of the housing 1 which determines its displacement path. In this way, the entire plucking head 5 is able to yield elastically to the skin when the plucking device is pressed too high.

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US5217469A (en) * 1992-01-27 1993-06-08 Moshe Dolev Rotary head spring-loaded tweezer hair removal device
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