SELF-SUFFICIENT FINGER-NAIL TREATMENT SALON

• US 3,712,312 A
• Filed: 04/21/1971
• Issued: 01/23/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Morris Sussman
• Original Assignee: Morris Sussman
• Inventors: Sussman, Morris
• Primary Examiner(s): Mancene, Louis G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lever, J. O.
• Application Number:
  US05/136,053
• Time in Patent Office: 643 Days
• Field of Search: 34/90,91,202,243 350/315,318,311 132/73.6
• US Class Current: 132/73.6
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 29/18 Manicure or pedicure sets, e.g. combinations without case, etui, or the like combined with or on sheath of scissors B26B13/22, B26B29/04

Abstract

A self-sufficient finger-nail treatment salon in which the user is supplied with bottles of nail polish, nail-working tools, and means to illuminate the nails with light rays simulating the environmental conditions under which the nails will be exposed. The salon includes a console housing a bulb whose rays are selectively filtered to provide the desired illumination, and a blower drawing air heated by the bulb and directing it through an open-ended duct whose upper wall serves as a work counter for applying polish to the nails, the heated air discharged from the duct being used to dry the applied nail polish.

Claims

1. A self-sufficient finger-nail treatment salon comprising:

A. a console having a forwardly projecting, open-ended duct having a rectangular cross-section, the upper wall of the duct serving as a work-counter, the front wall of the console having a window therein, B. an incandescent bulb disposed in said console to produce rays passing through said window to illuminate the nails of fingers placed on said counter, C. selective filter means interposed in the path of said rays to produce illumination simulating the illumination of the environment in which said nails are to be exhibited, and D. blower means in said console to draw air heated by said bulb and to direct it through said duct to effect drying of wet nails placed in front of said duct.

2. A salon as set forth in claim 1, wherein said duct is slightly raised relative to the ground plane, whereby fingers placed on said plane have their nails in the mainstream of the heated air discharged by the duct.

3. A salon as set forth in claim 1, wherein said salon includes galleries on the sides thereof to accommodate bottles of nail polish.

4. A salon as set forth in claim 1, wherein said filter means is constituted by a multi-segment disc, each segment having different optical filter characteristics.

5. A salon as set forth in claim 1, further including a partition separating said bulb from said blower in said console to define front and rear compartments, said partition having an opening therein whereby warm air from the compartment containing the bulb is drawn into the compartment containing the blower communicating with said duct.

6. A salon as set forth in claim 1, wherein the roof of the console is corrugated to form channels for receiving nail-working tools.