Nail polish machine

• US 4,206,556 A
• Filed: 09/22/1978
• Issued: 06/10/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Margaret B. Spicer, Paul F. Sabo
• Original Assignee: Margaret B. Spicer, Paul F. Sabo
• Inventors: Sabo, Paul F., Spicer, Margaret B.
• Primary Examiner(s): O'Dea, William F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Joyce, Harold
• Application Number:
  US05/944,792
• Time in Patent Office: 627 Days
• Field of Search: 34/88, 34/90, 34/97, 34/98, 34/101, 34/103, 34/107, 34/239, 34/243 R, 34/202, 34/233, 132/73.5, 132/73, 132/73.6, 132/75
• US Class Current: 34/90
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 29/22 Finger-supports

Abstract

A device used for the application of fingernail polish and the like comprises a housing, a finger insert for positioning a finger on the housing, lighting means in the housing for providing direct illuminatin on the finger insert, a motorized fan for drying a polished fingernail, means for actuating the lighting means and the motorized fan, an air inlet in the housing for supplying air to the fan and an air outlet in the housing for directing air blown by the fan at the finger insert so that when a fingernail is polished it is quickly and easily dried without moving the finger to a new location.

Claims

1. A device used for the application of fingernail polish and the like, said device comprising a housing, including a base portion and an upright portion;

said upright portion being provided with a downwardly facing free end;

said base portion being provided on its upper surface with a horizontally disposed finger pad rotatable in a generally horizontal plane and provided with a finger insert located below said downwardly facing free end;

lighting means in said upright portion for providing direct illumination on said finger insert;

fan means in said housing for blowing air through said downwardly facing free end at essentially right angles to said finger insert for drying a polished fingernail and an air inlet in said housing for supplying air to said fan;

said lighting means and said fan means being operable independently of one another;

said finger insert being located centrally of said finger pad;

such that it remains beneath the downwardly facing free end when rotating the finger pad for both polishing and drying the fingernail.

2. A device as claimed in claim 1, when provided with heating means located in said housing between the fan means and the finger insert so that the air blown by the fan means and directed at the finger insert is heated by the heating means.