EP0642311B1 - Appareil d'epilation - Google Patents

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EP0642311B1
EP0642311B1 EP94909930A EP94909930A EP0642311B1 EP 0642311 B1 EP0642311 B1 EP 0642311B1 EP 94909930 A EP94909930 A EP 94909930A EP 94909930 A EP94909930 A EP 94909930A EP 0642311 B1 EP0642311 B1 EP 0642311B1
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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 an epilation device for removing hair from the human body, which can be held in the hand of a user and guided over the areas of skin to be treated.
  • the device has a cylinder rotatable about a central axis, the cylinder jacket of which is formed by at least one group of lamellae fixed relative to one another and at least one group of clamping elements movable relative to one another.
  • the lamellae or clamping elements of a group are arranged at least in pairs next to one another and the groups are arranged one behind the other in relation to a direction of rotation of the cylinder.
  • the clamping elements can be moved towards or away from one another at least in pairs with the opening or closing of a clamping gap.
  • Epilation devices of this or a similar type are already known, for example, from the publications US 4575902 A, US 4960422 A or US 5084055 A, which are expressly incorporated into the disclosure content of the present application.
  • Motorized epilation devices are based on the principle that the hairs to be removed are grasped by means of periodically opening and closing tweezers-like clamping elements, pinched and pulled out of the skin with the root.
  • the latter process is realized in that the forceps-like clamping elements are quickly moved away from the skin after the hair or hair has been pinched.
  • This movement of the clamping elements away from the skin can be accomplished, for example, in that the clamping elements are part of a rotatable cylinder and are periodically moved towards and away from each other during the rotation of the cylinder.
  • a general problem of the devices of the type mentioned at the outset is to increase the effectiveness and to reduce the pain sensation of the user when removing the hair.
  • the effectiveness of the epilation can be improved in particular by measures which ensure that the hair of the areas of skin covered by the epilation device are supplied specifically to the nips between the clamping elements. Not all hair is straight or perpendicular to the surface of the skin, but also grows out of the skin at an angle or lies flat on the surface of the skin.
  • so-called threading aids can be provided for straightening and threading the hair into the jaws. Such threading aids reduce the number of empty plucks, ie the closing of the empty clamping gap, and increase the effectiveness of the epilator.
  • US 5084055 A describes an epilation device with the features mentioned at the beginning, in which an epilation cylinder rotatable about a central axis has a plurality of rows of clamping elements which are arranged on the cylinder jacket. On both sides of the clamping elements with respect to a direction of rotation of the cylinder, so-called protective slats are attached in the region of the cylinder jacket. On the one hand, these protective slats have the property of preventing skin irritation due to the rotating clamping elements. Another advantage of these protective slats is that the hair to be removed is combed in a certain way and fed to the clamping gaps between the clamping elements. Although devices with such protective slats have proven themselves in practice, there is a desire to further increase the effectiveness of the epilation devices for the reasons set out above.
  • the epilation device according to the invention has, as practical studies show, an increased effectiveness and causes less pain during use. This is due to the funnel effect, i. H. the channeling and alignment of the hair to be removed can be attributed to the individual nips. Due to the wedge-shaped or funnel-shaped decreasing groove width, the hair to be removed is grasped through a skin section corresponding to the largest groove width and in the narrowing groove is specifically supplied to a clamping gap assigned to a groove end section with a reduced groove width. Empty picking operations are thus reduced by this measure. Another positive effect of the wedge-shaped or funnel-shaped decreasing groove width is that the skin partially penetrating into the groove is curved to different degrees during the rotation of the cylinder due to the increasingly narrowing groove width.
  • a clamping gap is assigned to each individual groove end section of reduced groove width. This measure has the advantage that all the hairs to be removed, which can be detected by the rotary cylinder over its longitudinal extent, are threaded into the groove end sections of the grooves with an enlarged groove width and are fed specifically to the clamping gaps of the several clamping elements.
  • a wedge-shaped or funnel-shaped decreasing groove width is realized in a structurally simple manner in that the slats have an essentially wedge-shaped, in particular increasing, thickness.
  • the lamella thickness in the area of the groove end section is substantially constant with a reduced width. Because the groove side walls run parallel to one another over the region of the relatively short groove end section and form a groove of constant groove width, the targeted feeding of the hair into the clamping gap adjoining the groove end section is promoted.
  • the clamping gap of adjacent clamping elements are assigned two groove end sections with a reduced groove width, which open into the clamping gap on both sides thereof.
  • This arrangement proves to be extremely advantageous for epilation devices in which the direction of rotation of the cylinder is reversible. Depending on the direction of rotation of the cylinder, the hair to be removed is fed to the clamping gap either through one or through the other of the grooves opening on both sides into the clamping gap.
  • the groove width advantageously assumes the greatest values in a jacket region diametrically opposite the clamping elements or in a central section of the jacket region located between groups of clamping elements.
  • the lamellae are made extremely thin in the area of the largest groove width, so that the hair to be removed is gripped by the grooves practically over the entire area of the longitudinal extent of the cylinder, and the clamping gaps of the clamping elements are targeted by the wedge-shaped grooves are supplied, whereby only a fraction of the longitudinal extension of the cylinder is covered by the clamping gaps.
  • the number of hairs fed to the clamping gaps per unit length is increased by the compressing or channeling effect of the wedge-shaped narrowing grooves, in addition to ensuring a targeted feeding of these hairs to the respective clamping gap.
  • the offset dimension of the lamellae or clamping elements of the nth group with respect to the (n + 1) th group is advantageously dimensioned such that this dimension is equal to the mean groove spacing of adjacent grooves divided by n.
  • This embodiment of the invention ensures a uniform distribution of the effective clamping gaps of the clamping elements in relation to the longitudinal extent of the cylinder.
  • one or more slats of one or more groups have one, at least in partial areas along the cylinder jacket or several tooth-like recesses, which preferably extend to the groove base of the groove.
  • These tooth-like recesses cause combing of the hair to be removed, lying transversely to the grooves or lying flat on the skin, which is inserted into the groove through the individual webs of the slats, which may have different widths, between the recesses and then, as described above, the be fed to individual clamping gaps.
  • the lamellae have these tooth-like recesses in a groove end section with an enlarged groove width.
  • sections of the lamellae are formed by, in particular, disc-shaped rollers.
  • the rollers are advantageously part of an axis which is arranged on the cylinder essentially freely rotatably parallel to the central axis. Because of this configuration, only two bearing points are to be provided on the cylinder for a plurality of adjacent rollers, the axis provided with the rollers preferably being able to be fixed to the cylinder by means of snap or latching means.
  • the axis at such a radial distance Arrange the center axis on the cylinder, which is smaller or approximately equal to the distance between the groove base and the center axis.
  • the lamellae of each group are part of a component with a substantially circular sector or circular segment-shaped profile, which is arranged adjacent to the clamping elements on the cylinder or comprises them laterally.
  • exemplary embodiments of the invention are shown purely schematically, omitting constructive details or subtleties.
  • An overview of the functional structure and the mode of operation of the epilation device, the type of actuation of the clamping lamellae and the drive of the rotary cylinder is given, for example, by the prior art mentioned at the beginning.
  • the following description of exemplary embodiments of the invention relates essentially to the configuration of the cylinder with regard to the arrangement of the lamellae and their assignment to the clamping elements.
  • a rotary cylinder 10 is mounted in an epilation device (not shown in the figures) so that it can rotate about a central axis 12.
  • the cylinder jacket 14 of the cylinder 10 is covered by one or more groups 20, 22 of fins 24, 25 and one or more groups 16, 18 relative to each other movable clamping elements 26, 28 are formed.
  • the slats 24, 25 and clamping elements 26, 28 of a group 20, 22, 16, 18 are arranged side by side in pairs or rows.
  • the groups 20, 16, 22, 18 are arranged one behind the other on the cylinder jacket 14 in relation to a direction of rotation 30, 32 of the cylinder 10, so that a row of lamellae 24, 25 follows on a row of clamping elements 26, 28.
  • the clamping elements 26, 28 can be moved in pairs towards and away from one another by opening or closing a clamping gap 34, 35.
  • Slats 24, 25 arranged adjacent to the cylinder 10 each form a groove 36.
  • the groove 36 has a wedge-shaped or funnel-shaped groove width 38.
  • a groove end section 44, 50 with a reduced groove width 38 is in each case assigned to a clamping gap 34, 35.
  • the other groove end section 62 has an increased groove width 38.
  • the fins 24, 25 are wedge-shaped with increasing thickness 46 with respect to the direction of rotation 30, 32 of the cylinder 10.
  • the lamella thickness 48 is essentially constant, so that the groove 36 formed by two lamellae 24, 25 has a constant groove width 38 in the area of the groove end section 44, 50.
  • adjacent clamping elements 26, 28 are assigned two groove end sections 44, 50 with a reduced groove width 38.
  • the groove end sections 44, 50 open out on both sides of the clamping elements 26, 28 into the clamping gap 34.
  • the groove width 38 assumes the greatest values.
  • two groups 20, 22 of lamellae 24, 25 and two groups 16, 18 of clamping elements 26, 28 are arranged alternately one behind the other on the cylinder jacket 14.
  • the groove 36 formed by respectively adjacent lamellae 24, 25 of a group 20, 22 is associated with its groove end section 44 in each case with a clamping gap 34, 35 of adjacent clamping elements 26, 28 of the following group 16, 18 of clamping elements 26, 28.
  • the groove width 38 in the groove end section 62 assumes the greatest values.
  • the slats of the first group 20 and the clamping elements 26, 28 of the first group 16 are offset from the slats 24, 25 of the second group 22 and the clamping elements 26, 28 of the second group 18 on the Cylinder jacket 14 arranged.
  • the offset dimension 54 (FIG. 4) of the slats 24, 25 or clamping elements 26, 28 of the respective groups 16 to 22 is equal to the mean groove spacing 55 of adjacent grooves 36 divided by two.
  • One or more fins 24, 25 of one or more groups 20, 22 have at least in partial areas 58 along the cylinder jacket 14 one or more tooth-like recesses 56, 57.
  • the recesses 56, 57 generally extend as far as the groove base 60 of the groove 36.
  • the tooth-like recesses 56, 57 are arranged in a groove end section 62 with an enlarged groove width 38.
  • partial sections 74 of the lamellae 24, 25 are formed by disk-shaped rollers 76.
  • the rollers 76 are part of an axis 78 which is arranged essentially parallel to the central axis 12 of the cylinder 10 so that it can rotate freely.
  • the axis 78 has one such a radial distance A to the central axis 12 of the cylinder 10, which is smaller or approximately equal to the distance A to the groove base 60 of the groove 36 and the central axis 12.
  • the lamellae 24, 25 of each group 20, 22 are part of a component 64, 66, 68 with a profile 70, 72 which is essentially in the form of a sector of a circle or a segment of a circle and which is adjacent to the clamping elements 26, 28 is arranged on the cylinder 10 (z. B. Figure 1) or the clamping elements 26, 28 laterally (z. B. Figure 11b).

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  1. Appareil d'épilation pour éliminer des poils sur le corps humain, qui peut être tenu à la main par un utilisateur et être guidé sur les parties de peau à traiter, comprenant un cylindre (10) qui est capable de tourner autour d'un axe central (12) et dont l'enveloppe cylindrique (14) est formée par au moins un groupe (20, 22) de lamelles (24, 25) fixées l'une par rapport à l'autre et par au moins un groupe (16, 18) d'éléments de pinçage (26, 28) déplaçables l'un par rapport à l'autre, les lamelles (24, 25) et respectivement les éléments de pinçage (26, 28) d'un groupe (20, 22 ; 16, 18) étant agencés au moins par paires l'un à côté de l'autre, les groupes (20, 16, 22, 18) étant agencés l'un derrière l'autre par rapport à un sens de rotation (30, 32) du cylindre (10), les éléments de pinçage (26, 28) étant, au moins par paire déplaçables l'un vers l'autre et respectivement l'un à l'écart de l'autre avec ouverture et respectivement fermeture d'un intervalle de pinçage (34, 35), caractérisé en ce que des lamelles voisines (14, 15) forment chaque fois un rainure (36) présentant une largeur de rainure (38) qui s'étend en forme de coin ou d'entonnoir et en ce qu'au moins une section d'extrémité de rainure (44, 50) à largeur de rainure (38) diminuée est adjointe à chaque fois à un intervalle de pinçage (34, 35).
  2. Appareil d'épilation suivant la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'un intervalle de pinçage (34, 35) est adjoint à chaque section d'extrémité de rainure différente (44, 50) de largeur de rainure (38) réduite.
  3. Appareil d'épilation suivant l'une des revendications 1 et 2, caractérisé en ce que les lamelles (24, 25) présentent une épaisseur (44) qui s'étend sensiblement en forme de coin.
  4. Appareil d'épilation suivant l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que l'épaisseur (48) des lamelles est sensiblement constante dans la zone de la section d'extrémité de rainure (44, 50) à largeur réduite.
  5. Appareil d'épilation suivant l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que deux sections d'extrémité de rainure (44, 50) présentant une largeur de rainure (38) réduite sont adjointes à des éléments de pinçage (26, 28) situés l'un à côté de l'autre et débouchent dans l'intervalle de pinçage (34) des deux côtés de celui-ci.
  6. Appareil d'épilation suivant l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la largeur de rainure (38) adopte les plus grandes valeurs dans une zone d'enveloppe (52) située diamétralement à l'opposé des éléments de pinçage (26, 28) ou dans une section centrale (51) de la zone d'enveloppe (52) qui est située entre des groupes (16, 18) d'éléments de pinçage (26, 28).
  7. Appareil d'épilation suivant l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que n groupes (20, 22) de lamelles (24, 25) et n groupes (16, 18) d'éléments de pinçage (26, 28), où n=2, 3,... sont agencés alternativement l'un derrière l'autre sur l'enveloppe (14) du cylindre et en ce que la rainure (36) formée par des lamelles respectivement voisines (24, 25) d'un groupe (20, 22) est adjointe avec sa section d'extrémité de rainure (44) à un intervalle de pinçage (34, 35) d'éléments de pinçage voisins (26, 28) du groupe suivant (16, 18) d'éléments de pinçage (26, 28).
  8. Appareil d'épilation suivant la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que les lamelles (24, 25) du nième groupe (20, 22) ainsi que les éléments de pinçage (26, 28) du nième groupe (16, 18) sont agencés sur l'enveloppe (14) du cylindre de manière décalée par rapport aux lamelles (24, 25) du groupe (n+1) (22, 20) ainsi que par rapport aux éléments de pinçage (26, 28) du groupe (n+1) (18, 16).
  9. Appareil d'épilation suivant la revendication 8, caractérisé en ce que la mesure de décalage (54) des lamelles (24, 26) et respectivement des éléments de pinçage (26, 28) du nième groupe (16, 20) par rapport au groupe (n+1) (18, 22) est égale à la distance centre à centre (55) de rainures voisines (36) divisée par n.
  10. Appareil d'épilation suivant l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'une ou plusieurs lamelles (24, 25) d'un ou plusieurs groupes (20, 22) présentent au moins dans des zones partielles (58) le long de l'enveloppe (14) du cylindre un ou plusieurs évidements en forme de dents (56, 57) qui s'étendent de préférence jusqu'au fond (60) de la rainure (36).
  11. Appareil d'épilation suivant l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les lamelles (24, 25) présentent des évidements en forme de dents (56, 57) dans une section d'extrémité de rainure (62) présentant une largeur de rainure (38) agrandie.
  12. Appareil d'épilation suivant l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que des sections partielles (74) des lamelles (24, 25) sont formées par des galets (76) façonnés en particulier en forme de disques.
  13. Appareil d'épilation suivant la revendication 12, caractérisé en ce que les galets (76) sont des composants d'un axe (78) qui est agencé sensiblement parallèlement à l'axe central (12) du cylindre (10) de manière à pouvoir pivoter librement sur celui-ci.
  14. Appareil d'épilation suivant la revendication 13, caractérisé en ce que l'axe (78) est agencé à une distance radiale R de l'axe central (12) du cylindre (10) qui est plus petite ou approximativement égale à la distance A entre le fond (16) de la rainure (36) et l'axe central (12).
  15. Appareil d'épilation suivant l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les lamelles (24, 25) de chaque groupe (20, 22) sont un composant d'une pièce de construction (64, 66, 68) ayant un profil sensiblement en forme de secteur de cercle ou de segment de cercle (70, 72) qui est agencé au voisinage des éléments de pinçage (26, 28) sur le cylindre (10) ou entoure latéralement les éléments de pinçage (26, 28).
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DE4309406A DE4309406C2 (de) 1993-03-24 1993-03-24 Epilationsgerät
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