Brush treatment appliance having a treatment brush having bristles which are inclined with respect to the bristle holder

• US 20020049399A1
• Filed: 10/12/2001
• Published: 04/25/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Stampf, Roland
• Application Number:
  US09/976,227
• Publication Number:
  US 20020049399A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 601/114
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 13/008 Disc-shaped brush bodies
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 9/02 Position or arrangement of bristles in relation to surface of the brush body, e.g. inclined, in rows, in groups
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0173 Means for preventing injuries
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 7/005 hand-held

Abstract

In a body treatment appliance (1) having a treatment brush (6) which is drivable with respect to a brush axis (13) and which has a bristle holder (12) having a substantially flat bounding surface (15) and serving to hold bristles (16), which are preferably arranged in tufts and whose free ends define an enveloping surface (18), no tuft whose bristles (16) extend up to the enveloping surface (18) are arranged in the area of the brush axis (13) and at least the tuft (17) arranged in the vicinity of the brush axis (13) is arranged so as to be inclined with respect to the bounding surface (15) and so as to diverge from the brush axis (13) in the direction from the bounding surface (15) towards the enveloping surface (18).

Claims

1. A body treatment appliance (1)

having a housing (2) to be held in a hand and

having a driving arrangement (5) accommodated in the housing (2) and

having a treatment brush (6) which is drivable with respect to a brush axis (13) with the aid of the driving arrangement (5) and which has a bristle holder (12) having a substantially flat bounding surface (15) and having bristles (16) connected to and projecting from the bristle holder (12) in the area of its bounding surface (15), of which bristles (16) at least a large part of these bristles (16) define an enveloping surface (18) by means of the free ends of these bristles (16),

in which the treatment brush (6) does not have any bristles which extend up to the enveloping surface (18) in the area of its brush axis (13) and in which at least the bristles (16) arranged in the vicinity of the brush axis (13) are arranged so as to be inclined with respect to the bounding surface (15) and so as to diverge from the brush axis (13) in the direction from the bounding surface (15) towards the enveloping surface (18).

2. A body treatment appliance (1) as claimed in claim 1,

in which all the bristles (16) of the treatment brush (6) are arranged so as to be inclined with respect to the bounding surface (15) and so as to diverge from the brush axis (13) in the direction from the bounding surface (15) towards the enveloping surface (18).

3. A treatment brush (6) which is drivable with respect to a brush axis (13) and which has a bristle holder (12) having a substantially flat bounding surface (15) and having bristles (16) connected to and projecting from the bristle holder (12) in the area of its bounding surface (15), of which bristles (16) at least a large part of these bristles (16) define an enveloping surface (18) by means of the free ends of these bristles (16),

in which the treatment brush (6) does not have any bristles which extend up to the enveloping surface (18) in the area of its brush axis (13) and in which at least the bristles (16) arranged in the vicinity of the brush axis (13) are arranged so as to be inclined with respect to the bounding surface (15) and so as to diverge from the brush axis (13) in the direction from the bounding surface (15) towards the enveloping surface (18).

4. A treatment brush (6) as claimed in claim 3,

in which all the bristles (16) of the treatment brush (6) are arranged so as to be inclined with respect to the bounding surface (15) and so as to diverge from the brush axis (13) in the direction from the bounding surface (15) towards the enveloping surface (18).