WO2004095974A2 - Dispositif formant pince a epiler - Google Patents
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- WO2004095974A2 WO2004095974A2 PCT/FR2004/001004 FR2004001004W WO2004095974A2 WO 2004095974 A2 WO2004095974 A2 WO 2004095974A2 FR 2004001004 W FR2004001004 W FR 2004001004W WO 2004095974 A2 WO2004095974 A2 WO 2004095974A2
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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
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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
- A45D26/0066—Tweezers
- A45D26/0071—Tweezers the hair being extracted automatically, i.e. without manual traction by the user
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- the present invention relates to a device forming tweezers.
- a device forming tweezers of the type comprising:
- a gripping member comprising first and second gripping branches, mounted movably in the fixed body between a rest position and an armed position, elastic means for returning the gripping member to the rest position, and
- the pinching member of the tweezer device described in US-A-4 240 435 comprises two pinching branches each forming a lever of the third kind.
- a lever is said to be of the first kind, or intermobile, when the articulation axis of this lever (fulcrum) is placed between, on the one hand, an operating part of this lever, on which a force is applied operating the lever (or power), and on the other hand, an active part of this lever on which is exerted a resistance force.
- a lever is said to be of the second kind, or inter-resistant, when the active part of this lever is placed between the articulation axis and the operating part of the lever.
- a lever is said to be of the third kind, or inter-acting, when the operating part of this lever is placed between the articulation axis and the active part of this lever.
- the branches of the clamping member are movable between a separated position, towards which they are resiliently recalled, and a clamped position.
- a device forming tweezers of the aforementioned type is particularly well suited for plucking unwanted hair from a human being, in particular hair located in sensitive places such as the ears, nostrils or eyebrows.
- This tweezer device is usually presented in front of a hair to be removed, the pinching member being in the armed position in which the pinching branches are separated.
- the actuation of the operating member has the effect of unlocking the clamping member, which is then resiliently returned to the rest position. During this return movement, the pinching member grasps the hair and pulls it out.
- the return movement of the pinching member in the rest position being very rapid, the pulling of the hair is practically painless.
- the operating member comprises two antagonistic operating pushers mounted to move on the fixed body.
- the operating pushers each cooperate with a gripping branch of the gripping member.
- These two operating pushers are provided with rolling balls facilitating a relative movement between the branches of the gripping member and these operating pushers.
- the two operating pushers ensure both the unlocking of the clamping member in the armed position and the holding in the tight position of the two branches of the clamping member during the return stroke of this clamping member towards its rest position. , to allow the hair to be pulled out.
- the object of the invention is to propose a device forming tweezers, of the aforementioned type, of simple structure and inexpensive to manufacture.
- the subject of the invention is a device forming tweezers, of the aforementioned type, characterized in that the device comprises means for blocking the nipping branches in a tight position, active during a displacement stroke of the pinching member between its armed and rest positions, without the user having to maintain an action on the operating member.
- the branches of the clamping member are held tight during the return stroke of the clamping member towards its rest position, so as to allow the pulling of a hair, this of automatically, without the user having to maintain an action on the operating member.
- the operating member not being intended to keep the branches of the operating member tight, its structure can be relatively simple. According to other characteristics of the tweezer device:
- the blocking means comprise two substantially parallel sliding surfaces, formed in the body, between which the gripping member is arranged so that each branch of this gripping member cooperates with a corresponding sliding surface during the movement stroke of the 'pinch member between its armed and rest positions, the spacing between the sliding surfaces being sufficiently reduced to keep the branches tight;
- the two branches of the pinching member each form a lever of the third kind and are movable between a separated position and the clamped position, the branches being preferably called elastic ent in the separated position; the branches of the clamping member are in the separated position when this clamping member is in the armed position;
- the device comprises a slide, mounted movable on the body between rest and arming positions, so as to be accessible at least partially outside of this body, and means for coupling this slide with the member nipping, so as to drive this nipping member between its rest and armed positions;
- the coupling means comprise complementary drive stops integral with the slide and the clamping member;
- the device comprises elastic return means of the slide in the rest position, preferably separate from the return means of the pinching member in the rest position;
- the body has a generally elongated tubular shape, the slide being carried by a proximal end of the body and being substantially coaxial with this body;
- the body has a generally elongated tubular shape, the slider being carried by a side wall of the body and sliding between proximal and distal ends of this body;
- the operating member has a general form of push-button mounted movable transversely on the body;
- the operating member has a general form of lever mounted articulated on the body around an axis substantially transverse to this body;
- the locking means comprise complementary locking stops integral with the body and the clamping member;
- the locking stop of the pinching member is delimited by a shoulder formed on its first branch forming the end of a retraction ramp of the locking stop of the pinching member;
- the operating member is capable of cooperating with the retraction ramp.
- FIGS. 1 to 4 show a device forming tweezers according to a first embodiment of the invention, designated by the general reference 10.
- This device 10 comprises a fixed body 12 of generally elongated tubular shape.
- the section of the body 12 is for example substantially square or circular.
- the device 10 also comprises a clamping member 14, comprising first 14A and second 14B clamping branches.
- the pinching member 14 is mounted mobile in the body 12 between a rest position, as shown in FIG. 1, and an armed position, as shown in particular in FIG. 3.
- the first 14A and second 14B branches of the pinching member 14 each form a lever of the third kind and are movable between a tight position, as shown in Figures 1 and 4, and a spaced position, as shown in the figures 2 and 3.
- the first 14A and second 14B gripping branches are preferably resiliently biased in the separated position.
- nipping branches 14A, 14B are in the separated position when the nipping member 14 is in the armed position (see FIGS. 2 and 3).
- the pinch branches 14A, 14B are each provided with a free end. These free ends are intended to grip a pile when the pinch branches 14A, 14B are in the clamped position.
- the device 10 also includes a tension spring 16 forming elastic return means of the clamping member 14 in the rest position.
- the device 10 further comprises means 18 for locking the clamping member 14 in the armed position. These locking means 18 are intended to oppose the return force of the spring 16 when the clamping member 14 is in the armed position (see Figures 2 and 3).
- the locking means 18 can be released using an operating member 20 that can be activated by a user.
- the operating member 20 has the general shape of a pusher mounted movable transversely on the body 12.
- the locking means 18 comprise complementary locking stops 18A, 18B respectively secured to the body 12 and to the clamping member 14.
- the locking stop 18B of the pinching member 14 is delimited by a shoulder formed on the first branch 14A of the pinching member 14. This shoulder delimits the end of a projection forming a ramp 22 retracting the locking stop 18B of the pinching member 14.
- the first branch 14A of the clamping member forming a lever of the third kind, the locking stop 18B of the clamping member 14 as well as the retraction ramp 22 are placed on the operating part of this lever of the third kind.
- the device 10 comprises a slide 24 movable on the body 12 between a resting position, as shown in particular in FIG. 1, and an arming position, as shown in Figure 2.
- slide 24 is accessible, at least partially, outside the body 12.
- the slide 24 is coupled with the clamping member 14 by means of coupling means 26, so as to drive the clamping member 14 between its rest and armed positions.
- the slider 24 is returned elastically to the rest position by means of a compression spring 28, forming elastic return means distinct from the return means of the clamping member 14 formed by the tension spring 16.
- tension springs 16 (recall of the pinching member 14) and of compression 28 (recall of the slide 24) are substantially coaxial.
- the means for coupling the slide 24 with the clamping member 14 comprise complementary driving stops 26A, 26B, respectively secured to the slide 24 and the clamping member 14.
- the slider 24 has a general shape of a cap, and is carried by a proximal end of the body 12. It will be noted that the slider 24 is, in this case, substantially coaxial with the body 12.
- the coupling stop 26A secured to the slide 24 is formed in a proximal internal end of this slide 24.
- the coupling stop 26B secured to the clamping member 14 is formed on a proximal end of a member 30 axially extending the member pinch 14 opposite the free ends of its pinch branches 14A, 14B.
- the device comprises means 32 for blocking the pinching branches 14A, 14B in their tight position.
- These locking means 32 are active in particular during a movement of movement of the gripping member 14 from its armed position, as shown in FIG. 2 or 3, towards its rest position, as shown in the figure 1.
- the locking means 32 comprise two sliding surfaces 32A, 32B, substantially parallel, formed in the body 12. It will be noted that the pinching member 14 is arranged between these sliding surfaces 32A, 32B so that each branch 14A, 14B of this gripping member 14 cooperates with a corresponding sliding surface 32A, 32B during the travel of movement of the gripping member from its armed position to its rest position.
- the spacing between the sliding surfaces 32A, 32B is reduced enough to keep the branches 14A, 14B tight while taking advantage of the relative elasticity of these branches in a direction transverse to the pinching member 14.
- the device 10 is in a rest configuration, as shown in FIG. 1, in which the pinching member 14 is in the rest position (retracted in the body 12).
- the locking stops 18A, 18B cooperate with each other, so as to oppose the elastic restoring force induced by the tension spring 16.
- the device 10 being in the configuration shown in FIG. 3, the user places the free ends of the branches 14A, 14B of the pinching member on either side of a hair to be removed.
- the user actuates the operating member 20, which has the effect of tightening the branches 14A, 14B of the clamping member and releasing the locking means 18.
- the clamping member 14 is then automatically recalled towards its rest position by the tension spring 16.
- the two sliding surfaces 32A, 32B cooperate respectively with the first branch 14A of the clamping member 14, by means of the ramp 22 , and with the second branch 14B of this pinching member 14. This has the effect of locking the pinching branches 14A, 14B in a tight position during the movement of movement of the pinching member 14 between its armed position, as shown in FIG. 3, to its rest position, as shown in FIG. 1, passing through the intermediate position shown in FIG. 4.
- the sliding surfaces 32A, 32B make it possible to maintain the nipping branches 14A, 14B in a tight position when the nipping member 14 is returned to its rest position, without the user having to maintain an action on the operating member 20.
- FIGS. 5 to 8 show a device 10 forming tweezers according to a second embodiment of the invention.
- the slider 24 is carried by a side wall 12L of the body.
- This slide 24 is arranged on this body 12 between the proximal and distal ends of this body 12.
- the operating member 20 has a general form of lever mounted articulated on a distal end of the body 12 around an axis X substantially transverse to the body 12.
- the operating member 20 is arranged in the extension of the path of the slide 24.
- the operating member 20 forms a lever of the second kind, the active part of this lever being intended to cooperate with the retractable ramp 22.
- the return springs 16 and 28 are both arranged inside the body 12, substantially parallel to one another. Furthermore, the return spring 28 of the slide 24 acts in traction, and not in compression, as is the case in the first embodiment of the invention.
- the drive stop 26B is formed on a member extending transversely the second branch 14B of the pinching member 14.
- the operation of the device 10 forming tweezers according to the second embodiment of the invention is mutatis-mutandis analogous to that of the device according to the first embodiment of the invention.
- the operating member 20 is, in the case of the second embodiment of the invention, arranged in the longitudinal extension of the slide 24, the user can release the locking means 18 of the clamping member 14 by acting on the operating member 20 forming a lever with the same finger, for example the thumb, as that used to move the slide 24, without having to significantly modify the position of the device 10 in his hand.
- the slide 24 is returned to its rest position as soon as the user releases it, as shown in FIG. 7, so that it does not interfere with the user when the actuator is actuated. maneuver 20, and that it does not obstruct the travel of the clamping member 14 towards its rest position when the locking means 18 are released.
- the device 10 forming tweezers according to the invention may be, in the same way as a conventional tweezers, used for functions other than pulling out a hair, for example for the extraction of a foreign body, such as a splinter, from the skin.
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EP04742572A EP1615524B1 (fr) | 2003-04-24 | 2004-04-23 | Dispositif formant pince a epiler |
AT04742572T ATE511774T1 (de) | 2003-04-24 | 2004-04-23 | Enthaarungspinzette |
US10/554,468 US20060229667A1 (en) | 2003-04-24 | 2004-04-23 | Device forming epilating forceps |
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FR03/05075 | 2003-04-24 | ||
FR0305075A FR2854037A1 (fr) | 2003-04-24 | 2003-04-24 | Pince a epiler mecanique indolore |
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AT (1) | ATE511774T1 (fr) |
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WO2008114912A1 (fr) * | 2007-03-21 | 2008-09-25 | Jeong Sik Han | Pinces à épiler |
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