NAIL CLIPPER

• US 20180279739A1
• Filed: 07/07/2015
• Published: 10/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Three Seven Corporation
• Original Assignee: Three Seven Corporation
• Inventors: KIM, SangMug
• Granted Patent: US 10,383,424 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 2029/026 for toenails, e.g. with a rod acting over the clipper
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 29/02 Nail clippers or cutters
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 29/023 with retainers for nail clippings
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 29/04 Nail files, e.g. manually operated

Abstract

A nail clipper includes a cutting unit which includes an inner elastic plate which is bent such that a pair of cutting blades faces each other and the inner elastic plate has elastic restoring force, an outer elastic plate which is bent to surround an outer surface of the inner elastic plate and has elastic restoring force, and a pushing plate which has one end assembled to a support shaft disposed in inner and outer shaft holes penetratively formed in the inner and outer elastic plates and elastically deforms the inner and outer elastic plates by being pushed; a handle unit which includes a first main body which has an internal space into which the cutting unit is inserted and disposed, and a scattering prevention unit prevents a cut object cut by the cutting blades from scattering.

Claims

1. A nail clipper comprising:

a cutting unit which includes an inner elastic plate bent such that a pair of cutting blades faces each other and the inner elastic plate has elastic restoring force, an outer elastic plate bent to surround an outer surface of the inner elastic plate and has elastic restoring force, and a pushing plate having one end assembled to a support shaft disposed in inner and outer shaft holes penetratively formed in the inner and outer elastic plates and elastically deforms the inner and outer elastic plates by being pushed, wherein the cutting unit generates cutting force by the cutting blades that face each other,

a handle unit which includes a first main body which has an internal space into which the cutting unit is inserted and disposed, and a second main body extending outward by a predetermined length from the first main body, such that a user who pushes the pushing plate holds the handle unit; and

a scattering prevention unit which includes a movable body having a guide protrusion movably assembled to a guide path formed in the first main body, to prevent an object cut by the cutting blades from scattering.

2. The nail clipper of claim 1, wherein the inner elastic plate includes upper and lower plates which each have the cutting blade at one end thereof and the inner shaft hole penetratively formed therein, and a bending plate which connects an other end of the upper plate and an other end of the lower plate and is bent to generate elastic restoring force, and the outer elastic plate includes upper and lower plates which each have the outer shaft hole penetratively formed at one end thereof, and a bending plate which connects an other end of the upper plate and an other end of the lower plate and is bent to generate elastic restoring force.

3. The nail clipper of claim 1, wherein the support shaft is penetratively disposed in the inner shaft holes in the form of an oblong hole continuously extending along upper and lower plates and an elastic plate of the inner elastic plate, and a lower end of the support shaft, which is penetratively disposed in the outer shaft holes in the form of a circular hole penetratively formed in upper and lower plates of the outer elastic plate, is disposed to be caught by a catching hole penetratively formed in a bottom surface of the first main body.

4. The nail clipper of claim 1, wherein the movable body includes a catching protrusion which is interposed between the inner elastic plate and the outer elastic plate, and disposed in the guide path.

5. The nail clipper of claim 1, wherein the first main body includes a first bottom plate having a catching hole penetratively formed so that a lower end of the support shaft is disposed to be caught by the catching hole, and a pair of inner sidewalls which extends vertically from both left and right sides of the first bottom plate, and has the guide path to which the guide protrusion of the movable body is assembled to be movable by being guided by the guide path.

6. The nail clipper of claim 1, wherein the movable body includes outer sidewalls which extend vertically from both left and right sides of a second bottom plate, and have the guide protrusion which is assembled to the guide path of the first main body so as to be movable by being guided by the guide path.

7. The nail clipper of claim 6, wherein the second bottom plate is provided with a discharge recess which is recessed by a predetermined depth to form a passageway, through which the cut object is discharged, between the second bottom plate and the first main body.

8. The nail clipper of claim 1, wherein the second main body includes a holder having an internal space that temporarily stores at least one auxiliary beauty tool.

9. The nail clipper of claim 8, wherein the second main body includes a cover member which covers an opened upper side of the holder and seals the holder.

10. The nail clipper of claim 8, wherein the holder includes a fixing hole configured to be opened so that the auxiliary beauty tool enters or exits through the fixing hole, and a coupling body coupled to one end of the auxiliary beauty tool is inserted and disposed through the fixing hole.

11. The nail clipper of claim 8, wherein the holder includes a first stopper which meets an outer surface of the auxiliary beauty tool temporarily stored in the internal space and generates fixing force.

12. The nail clipper of claim 9, wherein the cover member includes a second stopper which meets an outer surface of the auxiliary beauty tool temporarily stored in the internal space of the holder and generates fixing force.

13. The nail clipper of claim 1, wherein a partition wall is provided between the first main body and the second main body.

14. The nail clipper of claim 2, wherein the second main body includes a holder having an internal space that temporarily stores at least one auxiliary beauty tool.

15. The nail clipper of claim 3, wherein the second main body includes a holder having an internal space that temporarily stores at least one auxiliary beauty tool.

16. The nail clipper of claim 4, wherein the second main body includes a holder having an internal space that temporarily stores at least one auxiliary beauty tool.

17. The nail clipper of claim 5, wherein the second main body includes a holder having an internal space that temporarily stores at least one auxiliary beauty tool.

18. The nail clipper of claim 6, wherein the second main body includes a holder having an internal space that temporarily stores at least one auxiliary beauty tool.

19. The nail clipper of claim 7, wherein the second main body includes a holder having an internal space that temporarily stores at least one auxiliary beauty tool.