EP2004004B1 - Brosse pour la coiffure - Google Patents

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EP2004004B1
EP2004004B1 EP07736729.0A EP07736729A EP2004004B1 EP 2004004 B1 EP2004004 B1 EP 2004004B1 EP 07736729 A EP07736729 A EP 07736729A EP 2004004 B1 EP2004004 B1 EP 2004004B1
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Vittorio Maestrini
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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
    • A45D24/00—Hair combs for care of the hair; Accessories therefor
    • A45D24/04—Multi-part combs
    • 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
    • A45D20/52—Hair-drying combs or hair-drying brushes, adapted for heating by an external heating source, e.g. air stream
    • A45D20/525—Hair-drying combs or hair-drying brushes, adapted for heating by an external heating source, e.g. air stream by an independent heating source
    • 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
    • A45D24/00—Hair combs for care of the hair; Accessories therefor
    • A45D24/02—Single-piece combs

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  • the present invention relates to tools for hair care and hair style and it refers to hair brush to be used together with a blow drier, characterized in having a structure fit to facilitate the hairdresser's operations and to improve the hair-drying and hair-styling process.
  • the known hair brushes are equipped with a plurality of bristles, single or grouped in bundles, extending from a substrate provided with a handle.
  • the hair brushes can be made of different materials, for example plastic, metal or wood, and of different materials' combination.
  • the brushes can be manufactured in different shapes.
  • US 2001001887 describes a brush having elongated shape with a handle segment and a bristle substrate segment; the bristle substrate defines a cylindrical core having a concave central region and radially larger end regions.
  • the bristles have varying lengths such that the outer peripheral portion of the plurality of bristles defines a planar, cylindrical or partially cylindrical surface.
  • hair brushes having a movable, bristles bearing, frame section fit to move the user's hair laterally ( US 6308717 ), or rotatable hair brushes ( WO 03061430 and US 4685165 ), or collapsible hair brushes ( US 2004060571 and US 4987633 ) and hair brushes with retractable bristles ( GB 2384976 ).
  • patents US 5483719 , US 2002085875 and US 6071029 claim findings for dispensing, during the use, products such as lustre agents, hair-dye agents, hair-growing agents and gels.
  • US 6672313 describes a brush equipped with aerosol sprayers.
  • Some patents claim brush modifications to provide hair and scalp care; for example, EP 1086634 describes special bristles able to enhance the penetration of water and calcium within the cells, so activating different functions of the cells.
  • a real problem in using hair brushes comes out when a hot air stream has to be blown towards hair, for example in the drying or dressing operations.
  • the operator uses the brush to hold the hair lock and to dress the hair, while heating the hair by hair-drier.
  • the operator holds the brush in one hand while, with the other hand, applies the stream of hot air from the blower towards the hair and their root.
  • the operation turns out to be complex and troublesome, in particular when dressing short hair.
  • the hair brush so far known own a frame which does not provide an easy penetration into the hair and which interferes with the air stream.
  • the bristle rows are circumferentially distributed about the peripheral surface of the substrate.
  • This frame besides preventing an easy lifting of a hair lock, tends to block the air flow.
  • the air stream is normally applied perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the brush and, consequently, the core of the brush creates a large barrier to the air flow so that the hairs wound on the hair-drier side turn out to be over-dried while, at the same time, the hairs on the opposite side are under-dried.
  • the present invention refers to a new hair brush as defined in appended claims. Said hair brush is particularly effective in any application where it is necessary to blow a hot air stream towards hair, typically in hair-drying and hair-styling operations.
  • the brush is completely made of plastic material and turns out to be particularly handy, easy to use and to clean and inexpensive.
  • the present invention refers to a hair brush composed by an elongated body, comprising a handy segment to hold and handle the brush, and by tooth-like or prong-like components protruding from the front end of the body, longitudinally aligned with the body and supported by the body.
  • figure 1 shows a perspective view of the brush of the present invention.
  • the hair brush is composed by a elongated body 1 and by protruding components 2 extending from a base 3 located on the front end of the body.
  • the body 1 has the function of handle, to hold and to handle the brush, as well as of bearing the protruding components; it consists in an elongated segment having a preferably cylindrical shape with decreasing diameter or with a concave-convex profile to facilitate the grip.
  • the body 1 can have cylindrical shape with constant diameter throughout its axial length or rectangular shape or any other shape suited to an easy hold.
  • the protruding components 2 extend from a base 3, located on front end of the body 1.
  • the base's shape results from the shape of the body and can have flat or curved surface, with concave or convex profile.
  • the protruding components 2 extend substantially perpendicularly to the base 3 and substantially parallelly to the longitudinal axis of the body 1.
  • the protruding components are disposed at a reciprocal distance such as to facilitate the air flow but, at the same time, to enable an easy and stable winding of the hair.
  • the protruding components can be fixed just onto the outer periphery of the base 3 while, in larger brushes, it is necessary to fix some protruding components also in the inner regions of the base 3.
  • the brush can be rapidly inserted into the subject's hairs preventing them from becoming entangled in the protruding components 2; the brush can easily penetrate into the hair, gradually separate and lift a hair lock and enable then the direct use of the hair-drier, simplifying this way the handling phases.
  • This improvement is particularly effective when operating on short hair; in this case, in fact, with common brushes, it is not easy to insert the brush into the hair as well as to lift the hair lock and to wind the hair around the brush.
  • the hair brush can be manufactured with different diameters of the base 3; small diameters enable an easy winding of short hair while larger diameters are needed in the case of long hair.
  • the protruding components have tooth-like or prong-like shape and have preferably cylindrical or conical shape with preferably pointed end; the end can also be spherical or drop-like.
  • the protruding components can be disposed parallelly to the longitudinal axis of the brush and parallelly one with the others as shown in figure 1 , or can lean to the longitudinal axis of the brush with angle different from 90° with respect to the base 3; in this last case, shown in figure 2 , the teeth-like components, as a whole, take a point shape that further facilitates the penetration of the brush into the hair.
  • the surface of the protruding components can be rough, with well-regulated roughness, in order to generate friction with hair but preventing, at the same time, the hairs from becoming entangled during brushing; that improves handling, when hairs are wound around the teeth.
  • the roughness of the teeth enables the correct tensioning of the wound hairs without slippage, with consequent ease in obtaining the required shape as well as in firmly holding the hairs.
  • Figure 3 shows the heating process of a hair lock when using the brush of the present invention while figure 4 shows a front view of the brush during the heating process.
  • figure 5 shows the heating process by a common hair brush.
  • the arrows indicate the air flow and show that, when using the brush of the present invention, there is no blocking of the air flow because of the absence of a solid central body in the teeth region as well as because of the distance among the teeth; in particular, the air flow can directly dry even the hair on the opposite side with respect to the hair-drier and that enables faster drying and styling and, at the same time, requires less heat to blow-dry the hair so reducing the energy consumption.
  • the heat reflected by the central body (shown in fig. 5 ) can overheat the hairs on the hair-drier side and consequently these hairs can be dried-up; that does not happen with the hair brush of the present invention thanks to the structure of the brush and to the absence of a central body in the teeth region.
  • the use of the brush of the present invention prevents the hairs on the hair-drier side from being possibly overheated and parched.
  • the brush is able to easily wind short hair and to lift that from the scalp; so, by this effective winding, the heating of short hair is improved, considering that hot air can directly get close to the root.
  • the hair brush of the present invention In the operation with short hair, it is particularly convenient to combine the hair brush of the present invention with accessory devices for hair-drier.
  • the operator can use the appropriate nozzle device chosen out the ones described in the Italian patent applications BO2004A000086 (Maestrini V. ) and PS2002A000025 ( PCT/IB03/05057; Maestrini V. ) in order to blow hot air to the hairs down to their roots; this way, a perfect hair-style can be obtained without overheating the scalp.
  • the hair brush is manufactured as a multi-part model, in particular as a three-parts model.
  • the brush is made of plastic material.
  • the hair brush is preferably manufactured, by injection moulding, as a three-parts model.
  • Figure 6 and 7 illustrate an example of manufacture of the brush of the present invention, characterized in that the protruding components are parallel; the brush is obtained by assembling a handle 4, a support 5 and teeth-like components 6.
  • the support is provided with a plurality of orifices 7 into which the teeth-like components are inserted; the teeth-like components have elongated shape, for example cylindrical, with a base 8 having a larger diameter in order to lock the teeth-like components on the support.
  • the support also owns a hole 9 in the central region suited to enable the assembling with the handle by a self screwing bolt.
  • the handle on its turn, owns a protuberance 10 in the top central region, corresponding to the hole 9 of the support, having a thickness substantially equivalent to the thickness of the teeth-like components base 8; the screwing takes place on this protuberance.
  • the components are assembled by firstly inserting the teeth-like components 6 into the orifices 7 of the support 5, then the handle 4 is inserted into the support 5 and locked to that by a screw passing through the hole 9 and entering into the protuberance 10.
  • the protuberance of the handle and the bases of the teeth-like components have substantially the same thickness and that enables the teeth-like components to be locked and stable, once the components are assembled.
  • FIG 8 Another example of manufacture not according to the present invention is shown in figure 8 wherein the support is provided, in the front side, with orifices 11 having concave profile suitable to hold and contain the base of the teeth-like components and, in the side inner surface, with grooves 12 suitable to enable the locking of the handle by pressure.
  • the components are assembled by first inserting the teeth-like components into the orifices 11 and fitting together the base of the teeth-like components with the concavity of the orifices; then the handle is inserted into the support and driven in by force, the locking taking place since the end region of the handle bends within the grooves 12 of the support.
  • the brush can be manufactured in two parts, inserting by pressure the teeth into a single body having the function of handle and base at the same time.
  • the components of the hair brush are manufactured by plastic material suitable for the application.
  • the handle and the support are preferable made of rigid plastics or, alternatively, of plastics having softness properties to effectively bend in the case the handle has to be driven into the support by pressure.
  • the handle and the support are, for example, made of polypropylene, cellulose acetate, nylon, high density polyethylene or polyurethane.
  • the protruding components are preferably manufactured by plastic material having stiffness properties such to prevent the teeth-like components from excessively bending during the use and thermal resistance to withstand the heat of the applied air stream without excessively softening.
  • the protruding components are, for example, made of metacrylate, polycarbonate, ABS or polyisobutylene terephtalate.
  • the protruding components are manufactured with thickness large enough to better withstand the heat during the process.
  • the teeth-like components because of their low individual heat capacity, are the most sensitive components of the brush.
  • the thickness of the protruding components also depends on the brush size.
  • the brush can be manufactured in different sizes on the basis of the application and of the hair's length.
  • the length of the protruding components can range between 25 and 40 mm in the case of short hair, can range between 50 and 60 mm in the case of medium-length hair and can range between 70 and 100 mm in the case of long hair.
  • Figure 9 and 10 show an example of typical dimensions with reference to the hair brush with inclined teeth-like components illustrated in fig.2 .
  • the dimensions in mm are the following:
  • the hair brush can be manufactured in different colours; being a multi-part model, the colour of the different parts can also be different as well as the colour of the different teeth can also be different; for example the teeth can also be transparent or pearly.
  • some components can be made of materials other than plastics, for example wood or metal.

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  1. Une brosse pour cheveux doué d'éléments saillants disposés dans la direction de l'axe longitudinal de la brosse afin de faciliter la pénétration de la brosse entre les cheveux et de faciliter et optimiser le chauffage des mêmes, dans laquelle un support (5) est doué d'orifices (7) à travers lesquels sont insérés les dents (6), et d'un trou central (9) apte à permettre l'assemblage avec un manche (4) par vis auto-taraudeuse; les dents ont une forme allongée, par exemple cylindrique, avec une base (8) de diamètre supérieur qui permet le blocage des éléments à la dent sur le support; le manche (4) possède une protubérance (10) dans la partie supérieure centrale, en correspondance du trou central du support, d'épaisseur essentiellement identique à ce de la base des les dents, sur laquelle se réalise le vissage de la vis; tous les composants sont réalisés en plastique.
  2. Une brosse pour cheveux selon la revendication 1 caractérisée en se que la longueur des éléments saillants, disposés parallèlement à l'axe longitudinal de la brosse et parallèlement les uns par rapport aux autres, est comprise entre 25 et 40 mm.
  3. Une brosse pour cheveux selon la revendication 1 caractérisée en se que la longueur des éléments saillants, disposés parallèlement à l'axe longitudinal de la brosse et parallèlement les uns par rapport aux autres, est comprise entre 50 et 60 mm
  4. Une brosse pour cheveux selon la revendication 1 caractérisée en se que la longueur des éléments saillants, disposés parallèlement à l'axe longitudinal de la brosse et parallèlement les uns par rapport aux autres, est comprise entre 70 et 100 mm
  5. Utilisation de la brosse selon la revendication 1 pour essuyer ou coiffer cheveux
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ITPS20060007 ITPS20060007A1 (it) 2006-04-12 2006-04-12 spazzola per acconciare
PCT/IT2007/000225 WO2007116423A1 (fr) 2006-04-12 2007-03-26 brosse pour la coiffure

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