Classifications

• • 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
  • A45D34/00—Containers or accessories specially adapted for handling liquid toiletry or cosmetic substances, e.g. perfumes
  • A45D34/06—Containers or accessories specially adapted for handling liquid toiletry or cosmetic substances, e.g. perfumes in combination with other toiletry or cosmetic articles

Definitions

• the invention relates to a hair dryer, in particular a hand-held hair dryer, with a blower device for generating an air flow.
• Hair dryers of the type mentioned above which dry the hair by means of a flow of air generated by a blower, there are in a variety of variants for many years.
• Hair driers and hand-held hairdryers are available in the professional hairdressing area, while public facilities such as swimming pools, gyms, etc. often have hairdryers fixed to the wall, and every household now has hand-held hairdryers in a variety of designs .
• hair dryers have a heating device, which can usually be operated in different heating stages, so that either a cold stream of perfume, a lukewarm or a hot air flow can be generated.
• hair dryers are often used not only to dry the hair, but also in order to bring them into appropriate shape during drying by appropriate treatment.
• the hair can be modeled and fixed with the aid of gel, hair spray or the like. Usually the hair with the gel or hair spray and a fragrance in a desired fragrance note supplied.
• the hair dryer for this purpose has an active substance delivery device in order to introduce into the generated air stream an active substance, for example a fragrance, a conditioner, a luster substance, etc.
• the active substance delivery device has an atomization device.
• this atomizing device can have a nozzle device with one or more nozzle openings, through which a specific amount of active substance is injected directly into the air jet.
• the drug delivery device is designed such that the active ingredient evaporates.
• the adjustment can also be made such that the active ingredient evaporates only above a higher evaporation temperature.
• This evaporation temperature can then be achieved by applying the active substance delivery device by an air jet heated by a heater of the hair dryer.
• the evaporation temperature can in particular be set so that evaporation of active substances takes place only after a certain heating stage.
• the drug delivery device should be followed by a heater of the hair dryer. If the drug delivery device does not require an elevated temperature for delivery of the drug can the drug delivery device but also be preceded by the heater. This may be cheaper for certain types of hairdryers.
• the drug delivery device on a solid with a stored therein volatile active ingredient.
• a solid may, for example, be a sponge or the like which is impregnated with the active ingredient.
• it may also be a kind of fragrance gel, scented wax or the like, in which the active ingredient is incorporated and from which the active ingredient with a certain evaporation rate, which may also be temperature dependent, is delivered.
• the drug delivery device has a dispensing container which is filled with a volatile active substance and whose wall is at least partially in the form of a gas-permeable (permeable) membrane.
• the delivery rate through the membrane may be temperature dependent.
• the drug delivery device has a drug reservoir and means for delivering drug from the drug reservoir in the solid or in the dispensing container or to the atomizing device.
• a sponge could be replenished from the drug reservoir with active ingredient.
• the active substance delivery device preferably has a valve device arranged between the active substance reservoir and the solid and / or the dispensing container and / or the atomizing device. The user can then use this valve device to precisely dose how much active substance is released from the active substance reservoir into the solid or the dispensing container or the atomizing device, and thus also determine the amount of active substance dispensed into the air stream.
• the active agent delivery device has an actuating element arranged on a device housing of the hair dryer for actuating the valve device, ie for opening the valve, for example.
• the hair dryer is designed as a hand-held hair dryer with a housing with handle, the actuator is preferably arranged on the handle, that the user can conveniently operate the valve device while holding the hair dryer to metered add active ingredient in the air stream.
• the solid or the dispensing container are designed in the form of a replaceable cartridge.
• the user can replace the corresponding part very easily.
• this drug reservoir is preferably designed as a replaceable cartridge.
• the solid body or the dispensing container or the active substance reservoir in particular in the form of the exchangeable cartridge, can also be designed to be refillable.
• the drug delivery device is located in the device housing of the hair dryer in the region of the air inflow opening, d. H. directly at the air inflow opening or in the airflow direction at a distance behind the air inflow opening, or in the area of the air outflow opening, d. H. directly at the Luftausströmö réelle or in the air flow direction at a distance in front of the Heilausströmö Maschinen.
• the hair dryer can also be designed with a plurality of drug delivery devices, for. B. for simultaneous introduction of various active ingredients, for example, a fragrance and a conditioner.
• active ingredients for example, a fragrance and a conditioner.
• FIG. 1 shows a cross section through a first embodiment of a hair dryer according to the invention with an atomizing device when inserting a cartridge filled with active substance
• Figure 2 shows a cross section through the hair dryer according to Figure 1 with inserted
• Figure 3 shows a cross section through the hair dryer according to Figures 1 and 2 with an open valve for delivery of active ingredient in the air stream;
• FIG. 4 shows a cross section through a second exemplary embodiment of a hair dryer according to the invention for inserting an annular dispensing container
• Figure 5 is a cross-section through an annular dispensing container for insertion into a hair dryer according to Figure 4;
• FIG. 6 shows a cross section through the hair dryer according to FIG. 4 with inserted dispensing container
• Figure 7 is a cross-section through a third embodiment of a hair dryer according to the invention with an annular dispensing container;
• Figure 8 is a cross-section through a fourth embodiment of a hair dryer according to the invention with integrated in an air outlet grille dispensing containers with removed air outlet grille;
• Figure 9 is a cross-section through the hair dryer of Figure 8 with built-in air outlet grille; 10 shows a cross section through a fifth embodiment of a hair dryer according to the invention with integrated in an air inlet grate dispensing containers.
• the hair dryer illustrated in FIG. 1 is largely a hand-held hair dryer 1 with a housing 2, an air inlet opening 4 and an opposite air outlet opening 5 and a fan 6 arranged in the housing 2 shortly behind the air inlet opening 4 for generating an air flow which is generated by the air inflow opening 4 in the air flow direction R flows through the housing 2 to the air outflow opening.
• the air inflow opening 4 is covered in the usual way by a grid 4 'or the like.
• the Heilausströmö réelle 5 may be provided with a grid attachment.
• a handle 3 is integrally formed on the underside in the usual way, from which a power cable 8 is led out at the bottom. At this handle 3, the user can hold the hair dryer 1 during use.
• a heater 7 is arranged in the air flow in the form of a heating coil.
• the hair dryer 1 according to the invention with a drug delivery device 10 - here with a sputtering device 20 with a nozzle 25 - equipped.
• the handle 3 opposite region of the housing 2 is a recess 9 for receiving a replaceable cartridge 11, which forms a reservoir 1 1 for the active ingredient W.
• the active substance can be refilled into the reservoir 11 via a closable filling opening 12.
• the cartridge 1 1 is in this case designed such that it can be hooked on a front side of the recess 9 pointing in the air outlet opening 9 under a retaining edge arranged in the recess 9 and then pressed into the recess 9 in the manner of a lever (see FIG. 2).
• a passage opening 13 In the bottom of the cartridge 11 is a passage opening 13, which is closed by a flexible membrane cover 14.
• This flexible membrane cover 14 is pressed by a hollow opening mandrel 15, which is arranged in the recess 9 at a suitable location in the device housing 2 when levering down the cartridge 1 1 in the recess 9. It can then enter drug W through the opening mandrel 15 in an antechamber of a valve 16.
• This valve 16 consists of a longitudinally displaceably arranged in a valve seat 17 valve piston 18, which is held by a return element 19, here by a return spring 19, in a closed position in which a valve piston member so seated in the valve seat 17, that the valve is closed.
• valve piston 18 is connected to a preferably non-rigid pressure transmission element 23, similar to a construction train or the like.
• This pressure transmission element 23 is in turn connected at the end to an actuating element 22 in the form of a knob 22, which is located at the transition between the handle 3 and the air inlet opening 4 on the housing 2.
• actuating element 22 in the form of a knob 22, which is located at the transition between the handle 3 and the air inlet opening 4 on the housing 2.
• valve piston 18 for fixing the knob 22.
• other operating elements for adjusting the temperature and / or the blower power can be located on the handle (not shown). If this button 22 is pressed, the pressure is transmitted from the pressure-transmitting element 23 to the valve piston 18, so that the latter comes into an open position. This is shown in FIG. When the user releases the button 22, the valve piston 18 is immediately moved by the return element 19 back into the closed position in the valve seat 17 and the valve 16 is closed.
• the nozzle 25 is then atomized a certain amount of active ingredient in the air stream.
• the nozzle 25 is for this purpose formed with a plurality of nozzle openings 26 which extend annularly radially outwardly, so that the air flow past the nozzle openings 26 and thereby generates a slight negative pressure at the nozzle openings 26. This automatically entrains a certain amount of active substance in the airflow. In principle, however, any other nozzle arrangement and design can be selected.
• pressure is generated in the reservoir with the aid of the actuating element, so that the active ingredient is injected through a suitable nozzle with overpressure into the air jet.
• the embodiment illustrated in FIGS. 1 to 3 is suitable for a wide variety of active ingredients such as perfumes or perfumes, conditioners, luster substances, etc.
• FIGS. 4 and 6 show a further exemplary embodiment of a hair dryer 1 according to the invention, which is particularly suitable for dispensing fragrances.
• the hairdryer 1 is constructed in a similar manner as a commercial hair dryer. However, located at the Heilausströmö réelle 5 of the hair dryer 1, a receptacle 5a for a drug delivery container 30 in the form of an annular cartridge, hereinafter also “aroma ring” 30.
• This aroma ring 30 can be inserted into the receptacle 5a, if 4), the ring closure 5r can then be replaced (FIG. 6) after the delivery container 30 has been inserted into the air outlet opening 5 around an air outlet grille 5 '.
• FIG. 3 This is an annular container 30, the wall 31 is at least partially formed in the form of a gas-permeable membrane 32.
• the container 30 consists of an annular, open at one end, deep-drawn tub portion 33 of a thermoformable plastic. At the open end of this trough part 33 is closed with an annular permeable membrane 32, which is attached to a small flange of the trough part 33, z. B. is welded to the thermoformable plastic.
• Such an aroma ring 30 is filled with a particular fragrance W.
• the gas-permeable membrane 32 may be sealed at the time of sale by a protective film, such as an aluminum foil, which is peeled off prior to first use. Subsequently, the aroma ring 30, as shown in Figures 4 and 6, used in the hair dryer 1 and there gives the perfume at a substantially constant release rate.
• the release rate may also be temperature-dependent, so that a larger amount of perfume W is released only when exposed to hot air or hot air.
• the discharge amount depends concretely on the composition of the active substance W and the structure of the permeable membrane 32.
• the possibilities of controlling the release of active ingredient by appropriate selection of these components are known to the person skilled in the art from various fields. For example, similar fragrance dispensing containers have long been used in dishwashers or for scenting rooms.
• FIG. 7 shows a further variant in which the aroma ring 30 is not inserted in the region of the air outflow opening 5 but instead in a receptacle 4 a in the region of the air inflow opening 4 into the housing 2 of the hair dryer 1.
• FIGS 8 and 9 show an embodiment in which a plurality of small drug delivery elements 35 are integrated into an air outlet grille 5g.
• the drug delivery elements 30 may be firmly connected to the air outlet grille 5g, d. H. for example, the air outlet grille 5g may be a consumable part.
• the drug delivery elements 30 may alternatively be releasably attached to the air outlet grille 5g. In particular, they can be connected to one another for ease of exchange with each other.
• the drug delivery elements 35 may be small drug delivery containers or solids from or from which the drug evaporates.
• FIG. 10 shows a further exemplary embodiment, which is constructed similarly to the exemplary embodiment according to FIGS. 8 and 9. However, in this case the drug delivery elements 34 are not connected to the air outlet grille 5g but with the air inlet grille 4g.
• any other desired shape for the active ingredient container can also be selected.
• the atomizing device may be configured in a different form.

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