EP0766938B1 - Auftrageeinheit und Heissschmelzstoffauftragsgerät - Google Patents

Auftrageeinheit und Heissschmelzstoffauftragsgerät Download PDF

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EP0766938B1
EP0766938B1 EP96402057A EP96402057A EP0766938B1 EP 0766938 B1 EP0766938 B1 EP 0766938B1 EP 96402057 A EP96402057 A EP 96402057A EP 96402057 A EP96402057 A EP 96402057A EP 0766938 B1 EP0766938 B1 EP 0766938B1
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Jean-Pierre Debourg
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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
    • A45D26/0014—Hair-singeing apparatus; Apparatus for removing superfluous hair, e.g. tweezers using wax

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  • the present invention relates to the field general technique of application devices hot-melt product, such as depilatory wax, ointments, creams, or even glues or varnishes, in which the product is stored in solid form and must be subjected to a calorific contribution to change state, and move to at least a pasty state, in order to can be applied.
  • hot-melt product such as depilatory wax, ointments, creams, or even glues or varnishes
  • hot melt it should be understood any type of product at room temperature in a solid, even semi-solid physical state or pasty, but susceptible to heat change physical state to liquefy enough so that it can be spread out as a layer.
  • the invention more particularly aims to protect an application device and a wax applicator depilate, but it is quite obvious that the application is not limited to this specific use.
  • the hair removal technique by application of a depilatory wax consists in making melt a certain amount of wax and then apply in the molten state, a layer of wax on the area to be depilated. After hardening, i.e. cooling, the cold wax film is removed using any appropriate means, the hairs then being extracted from the skin due to their attachment to the wax.
  • the wax application temperature is wrong controlled, as well as the thickness application of the wax layer on the area to be depilate.
  • Such devices generate numerous disadvantages and in particular require time important to implement.
  • Such devices generally have a great autonomy and are well suited in the case hair removal to be performed on a large area important.
  • the device remains relatively bulky and requires relatively handling important.
  • This device comprises a housing, associated with means grip, a reservoir of the product to be applied made of a material which is good conductor of heat and preferably aluminum. This reservoir is related thermal with external heating means. At at least one applicator roller is placed in the vicinity a tank outlet, to allow applying depilatory wax to the area desired.
  • Document EP-0.499.317 which shows the characteristics of the preamble of the claim 1 relates to an apparatus epilation including a housing with a reservoir intended to contain a block of wax.
  • the device is provided with a roller rotary distributor and a heating element arranged between the tank end and the distribution roller and against which rests the block of wax.
  • the object of the present invention is to consequence to remedy the disadvantages of prior devices and in particular to provide a device for applying a hot-melt product, the design and implementation are particularly simplified, while allowing good control of the application temperature of the hot-melt product.
  • Another object of the invention is to have a application device comprising connections particularly simple electrics and despite everything reliable, and means of application limiting the risk accidental sagging or spreading.
  • Yet another goal is to have a applicator whose filling level can be easily controlled.
  • the invention relates to a applicator of hot-melt product, particular depilatory wax, as defined in claim 1.
  • the invention also relates to an applicator assembly such as defined in claim 10.
  • An applicator assembly for the adhesive comprising the features of the preamble of claim 10 is known from US-A-4826049.
  • a set of applicator for hot-melt product in particular depilatory wax, in accordance with the invention and shown more particularly in Figure 1, includes a power supply unit 1 and a applicator 3 of the hot-melt product 20.
  • the power supply unit 1 is provided with a socket 2 or domestic plug for connection on the electrical network.
  • this block supply 1 delivers a very low voltage, by example between 2.5 volts and 6 volts. This very low voltage allows, on the one hand, a simple design of the applicator and, on the other hand, gives the whole a high level of protection from the device electrical risks.
  • the applicator 3 is shown in Figures 1 and 2 in vertical sections, orthogonal one by relative to each other, views in the heating position of the applicator.
  • the latter includes a reservoir 4 intended to contain the hot-melt product 20.
  • the hot-melt product 20 can be introduced in the form solid granules or, when hot, in the liquid state.
  • the tank 4 can be refillable or, preferably, filled during its manufacture and discarded after use. This tank 4 also serves as a body, i.e. allows manual gripping of the applicator, and its manipulation can be carried out with one hand.
  • a distribution unit is arranged opposite an opening 5 at the outlet of the reservoir 4.
  • This member distribution is basically made up of a roller 6, movable in rotation about an axis 7.
  • the axis 7 can be rigidly mounted, either on the roller 6, either on the lateral sides of the tank 4.
  • heating means 8 These are therefore directly in contact with the hot-melt product 20.
  • These means of heating consist essentially of a wire 9 heat resistant, mounted on an insulating support 10.
  • the electric wire 9 is a wire of copper, can be enamelled, insulated or not.
  • Means of electrical connection 11 are used to connect the power supply unit 1 to the heating means 8, and more specifically to the resistant wire 9.
  • the capacity of the reservoir 4 is limited to a volume of less than 10 cm3 and so preferred equal to 7 cm3, which allows the product hot melt 20 to melt quickly, the applicator 3 is then operational within a very short time.
  • the electrical connection means 11 are temporary, i.e. they link the low voltage output of the power supply unit 1 aux heating means 8 so as to melt the wax epilate, but that applicator 3 can also be disconnected from power supply 1 to allow the application of the hot-melt product.
  • This characteristic therefore allows the applicator 3 to be very easy to handle, and in particular allows its one-handed operation and access to hard-to-reach areas. This is all the more pronounced as the applicator 3 is small dimension and that the distributor, and more precisely the roller 6, is also of low dimension and for example of a diameter less than 2 cm and also less than 2 cm in length, allowing the application for example above the upper lip.
  • the electrical connection means include a male part 12, more particularly visible on the Figure 2, comprising two pins 13 and 14. Durant the heating stage, this male part 12 is connected to a female part integral with the block supply 1 and constituting its low output voltage. Each pin 13, 14 is connected to one of the ends of the heating wire 9. These two pins 13, 14 thus make it possible to ensure an electrical connection between the power supply 1 and the resistant wire 9, when the heating stage, but it also ensures, during of this same step, a mechanical connection between the applicator 3 and the power supply 1, the latter then serving as a support or base for the applicator 3.
  • the tank 4 taken in a section parallel to the plane of application, or horizontal seen in the position of applicator heating, has a quadrilateral shape, usually rectangular or square.
  • the tank 4 has therefore substantially a parallelepiped shape.
  • the support 10 of the electric wire 9 is placed in a plane corresponding to one of the diagonals of the quadrilateral section. So the heating element is perfectly positioned inside the tank 4 and is almost immobile in position, thanks also to the two pins 13, 14 integral with the tank 4. This precise positioning of wire 9 heating is achieved thanks to a design and particularly simple means this design simple being easily miniaturizable.
  • the reservoir 4 is constituted by a plastic material.
  • the particularly simple design of the applicator 3 allows the reservoir 4 to be single filling. The entire applicator 3 can then be discarded when the tank 4 is empty, i.e. that it no longer contains any material hot melt.
  • At least one of the walls of the tank 4 is partially made of a material transparent to light.
  • This transparent part is a window that allows the user to checking the filling level of the product hot-melt 20.
  • the filling state of the tank 4 is particularly easy to observe.
  • one of the walls, or the whole, of the reservoir 4 is constituted entirely in materials transparent to light. Of such materials are generally poor conductors of heat and therefore, in the case of a totally tank made of this material, thermal insulation is increased. The heating elements being placed at inside the tank 4, the caloric losses are therefore minimized and the efficiency of the heating means is optimized.
  • the unique filling characteristic, or disposable applicator further facilitates the user any cleaning operations and limits the risk of environmental pollution.
  • the applicator 3 At rest, before use, the applicator 3 is cold and the hot-melt product 20 which it contains, is solid.
  • the user fixed on power supply 1 which is itself connected to the domestic electrical network.
  • the the temperature of the heating means then rises, this which results in the fusion of the hot-melt product.
  • Applicator 3 is then dissociated from the block and due to the thermal inertia of overall, the hot melt remains at the desired temperature, allowing its application.
  • the hot-melt product 20 can therefore be deposited. Yes necessary, after applying a first strip of hot-melt product 20, the applicator 3 is again attached to the power supply to increase the temperature and therefore the fluidity of the product hot melt. Applying another tape can then be done.
  • the invention is not limited to the details of the modes described above, but includes in particular variants employing means equivalent. Different variants of this device are possible, particularly in the arrangement of the wire 9 resistant.
  • This heating wire 9 can be distributed over its support 10 by turns whose density can be also distributed in the height of the tank 4. These turns can be distributed to heat more near the dispenser roller 6, or closer to the base of the reservoir 4 and of the pins 13, 14 so as to shorten the implementation time during the first use or during use when the tank is partially empty.

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  1. Gerät zum Auftragen von Schmelzstoff, insbesondere von Enthaarungswachs, umfassend:
    einen Behälter (4), der dazu bestimmt ist, eine Menge des Schmelzstoffes (20) zu enthalten und das Erfassen und die Handhabung des Gerätes zu erlauben,
    ein Verteilerelement (6), das gegenüber einer Auslaßöffnung (5) des Behälters (4) angeordnet ist,
    Mittel zum Erhitzen (8) des Schmelzstoffes (20), die im Inneren des Behälters (4) in Kontakt mit dem Schmelzstoff (20) angeordnet sind,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß Mittel zur vorübergehenden elektrischen Verbindung (11) es erlauben, einen elektrischen Versorgungsblock (1) mit den Erhitzungsmitteln (8) zu verbinden, die dann den Schmelzstoff (20) schmelzen lassen, wobei die elektrische Versorgung bei der Anwendung des Stoffes abgeschaltet ist, daß der Behälter (4), gesehen in einem Schnitt, der parallel zur Anwendungsebene liegt, die Form eines Vierecks hat, und daß die Erhitzungsmittel einen elektrischen Widerstandsdraht (9) umfassen, der auf einem Träger (10) angeordnet und um den Träger (10) gewickelt ist, wobei der Träger (10) in einer Ebene angeordnet ist, die einer der Diagonalen des Vierecks entspricht.
  2. Gerät nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Träger (10) eine Breite aufweist, die größer als die größte innere Breite des Behälters (4) ist.
  3. Gerät nach einem der Ansprüche 1 und 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die elektrischen Verbindungsmittel (11) einen Steckerabschnitt (12) umfassen, der zwei Stifte (13, 14) aufweist, die mit dem Behälter (4) fest verbunden und an die Erhitzungsmittel (8) angeschlossen sind, und der einerseits die elektrische Verbindung des Erhitzungsmittel (8) mit dem Versorgungsblock (1) und andererseits die mechanische Verbindung des Gerätes (3) mit dem Versorgungsblock (1), der als Stütze dient, ermöglichen.
  4. Gerät (3) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das Fassungsvermögen des Behälters (4) auf ein Volumen beschränkt ist, das kleiner als 10 cm3 ist.
  5. Gerät nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Behälter (4) aus Kunststoffmaterial hergestellt ist.
  6. Gerät nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß mindestens eine der Wände des Behälters (4) teilweise aus lichtdurchlässigem Material hergestellt ist.
  7. Gerät nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das Verteilerelement eine Rolle ist.
  8. Gerät nach Anspruch 7, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Verteilerrolle von geringem Ausmaß ist, einen Durchmesser von weniger als 2 cm und eine Länge von weniger als 2 cm aufweist.
  9. Gerät nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Behälter (4) zum einmaligen Auffüllen ausgebildet ist.
  10. Auftrageeinheit für Schmelzstoff, insbesondere für Enthaarungswachs, umfassend:
    einen elektrischen Versorgungsblock (1) und
    ein Gerät zum Auftragen (3),
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das Gerät (3) ein solches nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 9 ist.
  11. Auftrageeinheit nach Anspruch 10, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Versorgungsblock (1) eine sehr niedrige Spannung liefert, die zwischen 2,5 Volt und 6 Volt beträgt.
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FR9511620A FR2739266B1 (fr) 1995-10-03 1995-10-03 Ensemble applicateur et applicateur de produit thermofusible
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