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
  • A45D2/00—Hair-curling or hair-waving appliances ; Appliances for hair dressing treatment not otherwise provided for
• • 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
  • A45D2/00—Hair-curling or hair-waving appliances ; Appliances for hair dressing treatment not otherwise provided for
  • A45D2/001—Hair straightening appliances
• • 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
  • A45D1/00—Curling-tongs, i.e. tongs for use when hot; Curling-irons, i.e. irons for use when hot; Accessories therefor
  • A45D2001/008—Curling-tongs, i.e. tongs for use when hot; Curling-irons, i.e. irons for use when hot; Accessories therefor with vapor generation, e.g. steam

Definitions

• the invention relates to styling pliers serving as a straightener-modeler.
• TECHNOLOGICAL BACKGROUND Styling tongs consisting of two heating pads which can be provided with a water tank for simultaneous emission of steam have already been offered on the market.
• the pads attached to the end of two handle arms connected by a pivot and a spring, keep the two arms apart in the rest position.
• Hair strands are pinched between the heating pads and the hair can be straightened by sliding them between the hot pads, possibly with emission of steam obtained from water from a reservoir incorporated in the support of a pad. heating, in contact with which the water evaporates.
• This type of pliers with angular opening essentially has the drawback of not being easily adaptable to different types of hair and above all, for a constant thickness of a lock, of acting more on the hair clips on one side than on the other. Indeed, in the case of branches articulated around a common axis, the angle between the pads varies constantly as a function of the spacing. The pads therefore only imperfectly match the strands of hair. This device also does not allow the user to achieve all the desired shaping effects.
• the present invention aims to avoid the aforementioned drawbacks and seeks in particular to allow the two branches constituting the handle to open other than only angularly.
• a particular aim is to provide styling pliers allowing the user to modify the pinching effect according to the styling effects which he wishes to exert.
• the styling pliers conventionally comprises heating pads fixed to the end of two branches of a handle.
• the two branches are however mounted floating in the sense that a central element of the handle serves as a guide for these branches and which can thus move transversely- from a fully contracted position by closing the hand and bringing the two heating pads in contact complete, up to a position of maximum spacing - bringing the branches in position of contact with stops of the central element, spring elements ensuring this maximum spacing in the absence of action on the branches of the handle, that is to say in the rest position.
• the clamp is closed in the conventional way, that is to say angular. It is however possible to press in an identical manner on the front and rear faces of the branches of the handle, in this case closing the pads in parallel and this perfectly in contact with the whole lock of hair. By increasing the pressure forward, the pads approach by the tip, which allows for example to precisely treat very short hair or to perform touch-ups.
• This mode of articulation makes it possible to transmit all the dexterity of the user to the skates.
• the pads approach parallel or favoring contact towards 1 'front or rear. They can thus perfectly match the lock of hair regardless of its thickness and regularity.
• the branches of the handle assume the shape of half-shells enveloping the central handle element.
• the central handle element is pierced with two openings, one at the front the other at the rear, which allow the passage of a spring working in compression.
• Each spring pushes the two arms away from each other, until contact with a stop on the central element.
• a stud or other fixing element retains the end of the spring in place.
• Fig. 1 shows a sectional view of a styling pliers according to the invention (limited to the essential constituents);
• Figs. 2A, 2B and 2C represent a styling pliers according to the invention in three positions of use and; Figs. 3A, 3B and 3C illustrate different possibilities for mounting pads on the styling pliers
• Fig. 4 illustrates the possibility of mounting accessories on the styling pliers. Identical reference marks are used in the different figures for identical or similar elements. DESCRIPTION OF A FORM OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INVENTION
• the styling pliers represented by the general reference 1 comprises 2 heating pads 3 and 5 connected to a handle 7. These pads are provided with electrical resistors (not shown) supplied by an electric wire passing through the handle 7.
• This handle 7 is constituted by a central element 9 and two branches 11 and 13.
• the branch 11 is extended by a nose 15 in which is mounted the heating pad 3, while the. branch 13 is extended by a nose 17 in which the heating pad 5 is mounted.
• the central element 9 has stops 19 at its ends for steps 21 made on the branches 11 and 13.
• the springs 23 and 25, respectively at the front and rear ends of the handle 7, are held by pins and separate the branches 11 and 13 from each other and consequently also, the heating pads 3 and 5. It is easy to see that by pressing (see Fig. 2A) on the back of the pliers evenly, on the front and back (Fig. 2B) or on the front (Fig. 2C), the pliers and more precisely the heating pads, can affect a position with angular spacing, parallelism or pinching from the front of the heating pads. Other intermediate positions are possible, thus offering the user the possibility of performing all the styles of shaping.
• the two branches 11 and 13 preferably affect the shape of half-shells covering two side walls integral with the central element 9, the handle also being closed at its front end and at its rear end.
• the upper nose 15 of the clamp may be provided with a reservoir 31 which is removable to allow it to be filled and which communicates with the pad 3 to cause under the effect of a command placed for example on the handle 7, the vapor emission on or between the pads.
• FIG. 3A represents noses 15 and 17 which extend the branches 11 and 13, in which the pads 3 and 5 are mounted, thus forming protective shells for the pads.
• the heating pads 3 and 5 are mounted in cantilever on the end of the branches 11 and 13. According to another alternative embodiment shown in FIG. 3C, the heating pads 3 and 5 are strung on pins 33 and 35, integral with branches 11 and 13.
• the heating pads can be fixed or interchangeable and take any suitable form: namely flat, curved, concave, wavy etc.
• the pads can also be axially orientable or reversible according to user requirements.
• the nose 15 can be shaped so that it can be provided with one or more adaptable elements 37 equipped for example with a double row of comb teeth.

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• Cleaning And Drying Hair (AREA)

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