Combination hair/hand/body dryer and vapor dispenser

• US 4,195,416 A
• Filed: 05/25/1978
• Issued: 04/01/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Marshall J. Hall
• Original Assignee: Marshall J. Hall
• Inventors: Hall, Marshall J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Favors, Edward G.
• Application Number:
  US05/909,527
• Time in Patent Office: 677 Days
• Field of Search: 34/3, 34/53, 34/90, 34/91, 34/96, 34/97, 34/98, 34/233, 34/243, 219/366, 219/367, 219/368, 219/369, 219/370, 219/371, 219/374
• US Class Current: 34/90
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 10/48 Drying by means of hot air hair-drying devices A45D20/00; curative hot-air baths A61H33/06; electric heating elements H05B

Abstract

A cabinet adapted to be mounted on a wall of a washroom or similar facility is provided with a conventional hand-held hair dryer secured within the cabinet and positioned so that the output of the hair dryer is projected through a vent opening in the cabinet. The hair dryer is controlled by a push-button time switch and the push button of the switch is operable from the outside of the cabinet. A suitable vaporizing substance is disposed within the cabinet adjacent to the inlet of the hair dryer so that the fumes are expelled through the vent together with the heated air. Additional electrical circuitry can be provided to override the time switch and to provide power outlets for washroom accessories such as electric shavers or lighting.

Claims

1. A hair/hand/body dryer and simultaneous vapor dispenser housed in a cabinet mountable in or on a building, for example in a bathroom, washroom shower and change room or other like area, comprising in combination:

a cabinet having a vent,

a suction and heating means mountable in the cabinet and having a cold air intake and a hot air outlet, the hot air outlet of the suction and heating means being so shaped and disposed in the cabinet so as to project expelled air through said vent provided in the cabinet wall;

a supply of vaporizing material;

means for supporting and replenishing the supply of said vaporizing material;

and means for electrically connecting said suction and heating means to an electric power source, said electrical connection means comprising a power lead, a push-button time switch wired electrically in series with the power lead to the suction and heating and a manually operable on/off switch wired electrically in parallel with said push-button time switch so that said suction and heating means is actuated by the push-button or independently by the manually operable on/off switch across the power source.

2. A hair/hand/body dryer and vapor dispenser as claimed in claim 1 wherein the vaporizing material is located directly adjacent the air intake of the combination suction and heating means.

3. A hair/hand/body dryer and simultaneous vapor dispenser as claimed in claim 1 wherein the means for supporting and replenishing the supply of vaporizing material comprises a ventilated shelf located in the cabinet above the air intake of the combination suction and heating means.

4. A hair/hand/body dryer and vapor dispenser as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cabinet is provided with a vertical divider on one side of which are housed the suction and heating means and the vaporizing material, and conventional bathroom cabinet shelves and the like are provided in the other half of the cabinet.

5. A hair/hand/body dryer and simultaneous vapor dispenser as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one socket power outlet is provided in the cabinet for operation of the combination suction and heating means.

6. A hair/hand/body dryer and vapor dispenser as claimed in claim 1 wherein an electric light is mounted on the outside of the cabinet and is connected in circuit with the time switch and the combination suction and heater means by a two pole single or double throw switch, so that the light may be operated by the push button of the time switch simultaneously with the timed operation of the combination suction and heating means;

and so that the light can be operated with the combination suction and heating means for any time the latter is operative; and

so that the light may be independently operable.

7. A hair/hand/body dryer and vapor dispenser as claimed in claim 1 wherein the cabinet is provided with a two-way horizontally slidable mirrored face panel.

8. A hair/hand/body dryer and vapor dispenser as claimed in claim 1 wherein the cabinet includes selectively operable locking means for lockingly enclosing said suction and heating means and the vaporizing material within the cabinet.

9. A hair/hand/body dryer and vapor dispenser as claimed in claim 1 wherein the combination suction and heating means is an electric hair dryer of the hand holdable type.

10. A hair/hand/body dryer and vapor dispenser as claimed in claim 9 wherein the hair dryer is releasably mounted in the cabinet.