WIG DRYER

• US 3,757,429 A
• Filed: 12/22/1971
• Issued: 09/11/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Shouji Sumino
• Original Assignee: Shouji Sumino
• Inventors: Sumino, Shouji
• Primary Examiner(s): Camby, John J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yeung, James C.
• Application Number:
  US05/210,735
• Time in Patent Office: 629 Days
• Field of Search: 34/90,91,99,101,103,239 132/9 223/66,67
• US Class Current: 34/103
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 20/44 Hair-drying helmets whereon the ventilating means and the heating means are apart from the helmet

Abstract

A wig dryer comprising a blower-heater unit, a wig supporting block having an air chamber therein and apertures through which the air chamber communicates with the outside of the block, a telescopic flue assembly for connecting the air chamber with the blower-heater unit, a hood having the inner shell perforated with apertures and adapted to cover the wig supporting block, another telescopic flue assembly for connecting the air chamber provided in the hood with the blow-heater unit, wherein the flue assemblies are made alternatively to communicate with the blowheater unit thereby to dry a wet wig put on the block and set the hair of a wig.

Claims

1. A wig dryer comprising:

a base;

means disposed in said base for taking in air from outside;

means received in said base for heating air;

a stack provided on said base;

a wig supporting block provided with a hollow head portion having an air chamber formed therein and a hollow cylindrical portion communicating with the air chamber;

a plurality of apertures perforated through the hollow head portion;

a flue assembly removably connected to the stack and substantially horizontally extending from the stack to the outside of the base;

a leg member provided on the free end of the flue assembly for supporting said flue assembly; and

an outlet opening provided on the free end of the flue assembly for causing the cylindrical portion of the wig supporting block to communicate with the stack and conducting the heated air from the base to the air chamber of the wig supporting block through the stack, the flue assembly and the cylindrical portion, whereby the heated air is directed from the air chamber to a wig on the head portion through the apertures.

2. The wig dryer of claim 1 further comprising projections provided on the hollow head portion of the wig supporting block for holding the wig in a prescribed position thereon.

3. The wig dryer of claim 1 further comprising a connecting tube rotatably inserted into the outlet opening of the flue assembly and receiving the cylindrical portion of the wig supporting block, whereby the wig on the wig supporting block can be horizontally rotated through any desired angle.

4. The wig dryer of claim 1 wherein said wig supporting block comprises a pair of vertically separable sections, and there is further provided a connecting tube inserted into said outlet opening for receiving said hollow cylindrical portion of said wig supporting block with said vertically separable sections joined together.

5. The wig dryer of claim 1 wherein said flue assembly is inclined through a slight angle to a horizontal plane with the free end of said flue assembly lowered, whereby water detained in the wig on the head portion is prevented from dripping therefrom into the base.

6. A wig dryer comprising:

a base;

means disposed in said base for taking in air from outside;

means received in said base for heating air;

a stack erected on tHe base;

a wig supporting block provided with a hollow head portion having an air chamber formed therein and a plurality of apertures for directing heated air from the air chamber to the outside thereof;

a rigid hollow hood having an opening for receiving the wig supporting block and a plurality of apertures for directing heated air from the interior of the hood to the wig supporting block;

first and second flue assemblies so connected to the base adjacent to the stack as to selectively communicate with the stack, the first flue assembly communicating with the hood for conducting heated air from the base to the hood through the stack, whereby heated air is blown over a wig put on the supporting block through the apertures of said hood, and the second flue assembly communicating with the supporting block for conducting heated air from the base to the air chamber through the stack, whereby heated air is directed from the air chamber to the wig put on said hollow head portion through the apertures thereof; and

obstructing means disposed in the first flue assembly for obstructing communication between the stack and the second flue assembly when the first flue assembly is caused to communicate with the stack.

7. The wig dryer according to claim 6 wherein said obstructing means comprises a wall of said first flue assembly.

8. The wig dryer according to claim 6 wherein said first flue assembly comprises two first flues, one of which is slidable in a substantially vertical direction through the other first flue which is pivoted to said base adjacent to the stack, and said second flue assembly comprises two second flues, one of which is slidable in a substantially horizontal direction through the other second flue which is connected to the stack.

9. A wig dryer comprising:

a base;

means disposed in said base for taking in air from outside;

means received in said base for heating air;

a stack erected on said base;

a wig supporting block provided with a hollow head portion having an air chamber formed therein and a plurality of apertures for directing heated air from the air chamber to the outside thereof;

a rigid hollow hood having an opening for receiving the wig supporting block and a plurality of apertures for directing heated air from the interior of the hood to the wig supporting block;

a first flue assembly pivoted to said base adjacent to the stack for enabling the hood to communicate with the stack so as to conduct heated air from the base to the hood when said first flue assembly is erected, whereby the heated air is blown over a wig put on the hollow head portion of the supporting block through the apertures of said hood;

a second flue assembly connected to said stack for enabling said supporting block to communicate with said stack so as to conduct heated air from the base to the air chamber, whereby the heated air is directed from the air chamber to the wig on said hollow head portion through the apertures thereof;

a connection port provided in said second flue assembly for receiving said first flue assembly when said first flue assembly is erected; and

a cover plate provided on said second flue assembly and leading the heated air from the base to the second flue assembly but not to the first flue assembly when said cover plate covers said connection port, said cover plate leading the heated air from the base to the first flue assembly when said cover plate is opened.

10. A wig dryer comprising:

a base;

means disposed in said base for taking in air from outside;

means received in said base for heating air;

a stack erected on said base;

a wig supporting block provided with a hollow head portion having an air chamber formed therein and a plurality of apertures for directing heated air from said chamber to the outside thereof;

a rigid hollow hood having an opening for receiving said wig supporting block and a plurality of apertures for directing heated air frOm the interior of said hood to said wig supporting block;

a first flue assembly pivoted to said base adjacent to said stack for enabling said hood to communicate with said stack so as to conduct heated air from said base to said hood when said first flue assembly is erected, whereby said heated air is blown over a wig put on said hollow head portion of said wig supporting block through said apertures of the hood;

a second flue assembly removably connected to said stack and wig supporting block for enabling said wig supporting block to communicate with said stack so as to conduct heated air from said base to said air chamber, whereby said heated air is directed from said air chamber to said wig on said hollow head portion through said apertures thereof; and

said hood being adapted to be fixed to said base so as to house said air taking-in means, air heating means, stack, wig supporting block, first flue assembly and second flue assembly, thereby to make said wig dryer a self-contained portable unit.