Electrical hair buffing apparatus

• US 20030125754A1
• Filed: 12/09/2002
• Published: 07/03/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Main Power Electrical Factory Limited (Midea Group Co., Ltd), Spartan Import & Export, LLC
• Original Assignee: Main Power Electrical Factory Limited (Midea Group Co., Ltd), Spartan Import & Export, LLC
• Inventors: Ashworth, Steven Wallace, Zaino, Nancy, Davis, Alice, Lee, Kwok Kay
• Application Number:
  US10/313,115
• Publication Number:
  US 20030125754A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/133
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 2200/1018 comprising a pad, i.e. a cushion-like mass of soft material, with or without gripping means
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 2200/1054 Abrasive cosmetic skin peeling or scrubbing
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 26/0004 by abrasion
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 7/005 hand-held

Abstract

A hair-removing and exfoliating device is provided with a pair of counter-rotating abrasive surfaces for pressing against the skin to abrade hair there-from and to exfoliate the skin. The surfaces may be adapted for continual alternating movement in counter-rotating directions at the surface of the skin. In the preferred embodiment, two concentric counter-rotating abrasive surfaces are provided, one rotating clockwise and the other rotating counterclockwise.

Claims

1. An electrical hair-removing device comprising an abrasive surface for pressing against hairy skin to exfoliate the skin and abrade the hair there-from, said surface adapted for automatic and continual electronically-controlled movement in differing directions relative the skin.

2. The hair-removing device of claim 1 wherein said movement is rotational and said differing directions are clockwise and counter-clockwise rotations.

3. An electrical hair-removing device comprising two or more adjacent and substantially coplanar abrasive surfaces for pressing against hairy skin to exfoliate the skin and abrade the hair there-from, each surface adapted for movement in differing directions relative to the other of said surfaces adjacent thereto.

4. The hair-removing device of claim 3 wherein said movement is rotational and said differing directions are clockwise and counterclockwise rotations.

5. The hair-removing device of claim 4 wherein said two or more abrasive surfaces comprise concentrically disposed surfaces rotating about a single rotational axis.

6. An electrical hair-removing device comprising a moving abrasive surface for pressing against hairy skin to exfoliate the skin and abrade the hair there-from, said surface adapted for alternating electronically-controlled movement in differing directions relative to the skin.

7. The hair-removing device of claim 6 wherein said movement is rotational and said differing directions are clockwise and counterclockwise rotations.

8. An electrical hair-removing device comprising two or more adjacent and substantially coplanar abrasive surfaces for pressing against hairy skin to exfoliate the skin and abrade the hair there-from, each surface adapted for alternating movement in differing directions relative to the other of said surfaces adjacent thereto.

9. The hair-removing device of claim 8 wherein said movement is rotational and said differing directions are clockwise and counterclockwise rotations.

10. The hair-removing device of claim 9 wherein said two or more abrasive surfaces comprise concentrically disposed surfaces rotating about a single rotational axis.

11. An electrical hair-removing device comprising a movable abrasive surface for pressing against hairy skin to exfoliate the skin and abrade the hair there-from, wherein said abrasive surface is removable from said device for replacement thereof and comprises a rotating abrasive inner disk concentrically surrounded by a counter-rotating abrasive outer ring.

12. The hair-removing device of claim 11 wherein said abrasive surface is spherical.

13. The hair-removing device of claim 11 wherein said abrasive surface is removable from said device by bayonet-type attachment means.

14. The hair-removing device of claim 11 wherein said abrasive surface is removable from said device by thread means.

15. The hair-removing device of claim 11 wherein said abrasive surface is removable from said device by hook and loop fastening means.

16. An abrasive element for use in a hair removing device and comprising an inner disk and a separate outer ring concentric therewith.

17. A method of removing hair from hairy skin and exfoliating the skin comprising;

providing an abrasive surface comprising an electrically rotated abrasive inner disk and an electrically counter-rotated abrasive outer ring,

pressing said abrasive surface against the skin until the hair is removed from the skin and the skin is exfoliated.

18. A method of removing hair from hairy skin and exfoliating the skin comprising,

Providing an abrasive surface comprising at least one electrically rotated abrasive first disk and at least one electrically rotated abrasive second disk adjacent to said first disk and adapted for opposite rotation relative thereto,

Pressing said abrasive surface against the skin until the hair is removed from the skin and the skin is exfoliated.

19. An electrical hair-removing device comprising two or more adjacent and substantially parallel abrasive cylinders for pressing against hairy skin to exfoliate the skin and abrade the hair there-from, each cylinder adapted for rotational movement in differing directions relative to the other of said cylinders adjacent thereto.

20. The hair-removing device of claim 19 wherein said differing directions are clockwise and counterclockwise rotations.

21. An electrical hair-removing device comprising two or more adjacent and coaxial abrasive cylinders for pressing against hairy skin to exfoliate the skin and abrade the hair there-from, each cylinder adapted for rotational movement in differing directions relative to the other of said cylinders adjacent thereto.

22. The hair-removing device of claim 21 wherein said differing directions are clockwise and counterclockwise rotations.

23. In an electrical hair removing device of the type having a stationary body and one or more rotating shafts extending there-from, and one or more abrasive surfaces adapted for connection to the one or more rotating shafts and adapted for rotation therewith relative to the housing, the improvement comprising;

One or more connection couplings for enabling connection and removal of said one or more abrasive surfaces to and from said one or more shafts, wherein said one or more connection couplings each comprise longitudinal locking means for fixed longitudinal coupling of said one or more abrasive surfaces to said one or more shafts, and rotational locking means for fixed rotational coupling of said one or more abrasive surfaces to said one or more shafts.

24. The improvement of claim 23 wherein each abrasive surface comprises an abrasive pad and each coupling comprises a pad connector fixed to said pad and a drive connector fixed to said shaft, and wherein each pad connector is adapted for connection to each drive connector by an axial connection force, and wherein each one of said pad connectors or said drive connectors contains one or more lead-in cams and rotational locking slots and each other of said pad connectors or said drive connectors contains one or more rotational locking tabs, and each cam is adapted to rotate each associated tab into rotational alignment with each associated slots by means of said axial connecting force.

25. The improvement of claim 23 wherein each abrasive surface comprises an abrasive pad and each coupling comprises a pad connector fixed to said pad and a drive connector fixed to said shaft, and wherein each pad connector is adapted for connection to each drive connector by an axial connection force, and wherein each one of said pad connectors contains one or more lead-in cams and rotational locking slots and each drive connector contains one or more rotational locking tabs, and each cam is adapted to rotate each associated tab into rotational alignment with each associated slots by means of said axial connecting force.