US3404944A

US3404944A - Beautician's appliance

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Publication number: US3404944A
Application number: US305420A
Authority: US
Inventors: Rose John R De
Original assignee: John R. De Rose
Current assignee: JOHN R DE ROSE
Priority date: 1963-08-29
Filing date: 1963-08-29
Publication date: 1968-10-08
Anticipated expiration: 1985-10-08

Description

Oct. 8, 1968 J. R. DE ROSE BEAUTICIAN'S APPLIANCE 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Aug. 29, 1963 V v INVENTOR.

' JOHN/i M20 Oct. 8, 1968 J. R. DE ROSE 3,404,944

I I 'BEAUTICIAN'S APPLIANCE Filed Aug. 29, 1953 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR. JOHN R D E 205 E ATTOE/VEYS United States Patent 3,404,944 BEAUTICIANS APPLIANCE John R. De, Rose, Scranton Road, Hamburg, N.Y. 14075 Filed Aug. 29, 19 63, Ser. No. 305,420

1 Claim. (CI. 21-83) ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE Hair rollers are stacked upon a false bottom of a casing and disinfectant located below the false bottom disinfects the rollers by fumes freely circulating to the space above the false bottom.

This invention relates to beauticians appliances, and more particularly to means for storing and dispensing and sterilizing hair curling devices of the so-called roller type.

'In the beauticians industry it is currently popular to train the customers hair looks into curled form by first softening the hair strands by some appropriate treatment and then winding them about cylindrical members of the type known in the trade as rollers. Then when the rollers are removed by the rolled hair locks remain in curled condition. In consequence the present day beautician shop is faced with a problem concerning the intermediate storage and handling of a large number of rollers, which must be kept readily available to the operator in a variety of different sizes and in continuously sterile condition.

It is a primary object of the present invention to provide an improved magazine type device for conveniently storing and maintaining in readily available position a plurality of variously sized rollers of the type referred to. Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear from thespecification hereinafter and the accompanying drawing, wherein:

FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of a roller storage device of the present invention with the cover portion thereof removed;

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along the plane of line 22, as shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a view corresponding to FIG. 1, but showing the magazine device of the invention with the cover member in position thereon;

FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along the plane of line 4-4 of FIG. 3; and

FIG. 5 is a fragmentary sectional view, on slightly reduced scale, taken along line 5-5 of FIG. 3.

The device of the invention is in the form of a compact magazine of externally pleasing appearance, and which is adapted to store there within large numbers of variously sized rollers in a sterilizing atmosphere, while said rollers are presented to the view of the operator in readily available position at all times.

As shown in the drawing herewith the invention comprises a cabinet device indicated generally at comprising a bottom plate 12; a back plate 14; and opposite end plates 1616. As shown best in FIGS. 1, 2, 4 the structure'includes a rearwardly and downwardly sloping false bottom plate 18 vertically spaced above the cabinet bottom plate 12 and centrally reinforced by a vertical abutment 20 (FIGS. 1, 2). Thus, the space beneath the false bottom plate 18 provides a storage facility for a supply of cotton (or other suitable absorbent batt material) as indicated-at 22 (FIG. 4) which may be fromtime to time saturated with a suitable formaldehyde solution or the like, so that fumes emanating therefrom will permeate the interior of the cabinet structure as indicated by the gas circulation arrows shown in FIG. 4.

Thus, it will be appreciated that an assortment of rollers of various dimensions and diameters as illustrated at 25 in FIGS. 1, 2, 4 may be conveniently stacked on top of the false bottom 18 by the operator as he removes the rollers from a hairdressing operation. The rollers are thus disposed in gravity-feeding relation within the cabinet in such manner as to be readily available for selection by the operator for use in a subsequent hairdressing operation. Because of the sloping arrangement of the false bottom plate 18, the rollers automatically reside in gravity-retained position within the cabinet, while their open front end portions are exposed to the view of the operator. Hence he may readily withdraw from the cabinet any desired size roller by simply slipfitting his finger into the front end thereof, and then pulling the roller forwardly and outwardly away from the stack of rollers within the casing.

As shown in FIGS. 3, 4, 5, a top-front closure device for the cabinet is provided to comprise a front wall portion 26 and a top portion 28 having at its rear edge a downwardly turning flange 30 to assist in locating the cover member in position on the cabinet. Also, as shown in FIGS. 5, 4, the cover plate portion 28 will preferably include depending side flanges 3232 arranged to slip-fit inside of the side Walls 16-16 of the cabinet to assist in stabilizing the cover member when in position on the cabinet.

Thus it will be appreciated that in between uses of the rollers the cover device may be placed in cabinetclosing position whereby the antiseptic fumes from the batting stored under the false bottom plate will permeate the interior of the cabinet and saturate the rollers stored therein. Then, when it is desired to re-employ the rollers in another hair dressing operation, the cabinet cover will be removed to expose the rollers to open view as shown in FIG. 1 of the drawing therewith. Rollers of desired size may then be readily withdrawn at will by the operator, and subsequently replaced when the hairdressing operation is finished. Thus, an improved facility is provided for the convenience of the operator whereby to store the rollers when not in use in tidy and compact fashion, while at the same time subjecting them to sterilization between uses.

I claim:

1. A beauticians appliance for sterilizing and storing in readily selectable manner a plurality of hairdressing rollers, said appliance comprising a casing having bottom, back and end wall portions, the top edges of said back and end wall portions lying in the same plane and the front edges of said end walls lying in the same plane,

a false bottom wall in said casing extending between and fixed to said end wall portions, said false bottom Wall having a front edge which is coplanar with said front edges of the end wall portions and having a rear edge which is spaced from said back wall portion, said false bottom wall being spaced above said bottom wall portion of the casing and inclining rearwardly and downwardly toward said back wall portion,

a separate cover for the casing, said cover comprising a top which engages said top edges of said end and back wall portions and a front wall which engages said front edges of said end wall portions and said front edge of the false bottom wall to divided the interior of the casing into upper and lower regions above and below said false bottom wall which are in communication only through the spacing between the rear edge of the false bottom wall and said back wall portion of the casing,

a quantity of absorbent material disposed beneath said References Cited false Wall, UNITED STATES PATENTS a volatile liquid disinfectant saturating said absorbent material whereby disinfectant fumes may circulate 903,565 11/1908 f 312290 through said space between the rear edge of the 5 111201924 12/1914 Glbbons false bottom wall and the back wall portion of 1,477,634 12/1923 Connor 2,479,592 8/1949 Tomczak 3l2290 the casing when said cover is in closing position,

whereby end portions of rollers supported on the false bottom wall are exposed to the circulation of MORRIS WOLK Pnmmy Exammer' disinfectant fumes. 10 R. M. REESE, Assistant Examiner.