Facial beauty device

• US 4,300,556 A
• Filed: 07/25/1980
• Issued: 11/17/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Asahi Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Asahi Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Shigeo, Ochi, Shuhei, Morihara, Nobuyuki, Ueda, Fumiya, Namba, Hiroshi, Nishino, Motohisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Yasko, John D.
• Application Number:
  US06/172,706
• Time in Patent Office: 480 Days
• Field of Search: 128/256, 128/368, 128/367, 4/160, 4/165
• US Class Current: 604/291
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 33/12 Steam baths for the face
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 35/008 for the head A61H35/02 and A61H35/04 takes precedence

Abstract

A facial beauty device attainable, in addition to facial sauna effect with a heated and highly moistened atmosphere, a facial skin washing effect by means of water spray and simultaneously both facial skin tightening and massaging effects accompanying inherent cooling and spray pressure, respectively. The device is provided with a moistening means oscillating water in a reservoir within a body case at a frequency of an ultrasonic band and delivering generated mist into a hood on the case to provide a highly moistened atmosphere within the hood, means for heating the mist by passing it through an electric resistive heater or carrying it onto the hood with hot air stream heated by the heater, and means for spraying water in the reservoir or from a tank capable of automatically supplying water responsive to falling water level in the reservoir toward a face contacting opening of the hood through nozzles opened in the hood by means of a pump. Preferably further provided is a spray rocking mechanism for providing sprays of a pattern elongated in the width direction of the user'"'"'s face and blown while being moved between jaw and forehead through nozzles positioned on the forehead side. As desired, the heating means is arranged so that only a hot air stream can be fed into the hood after water is sprayed.

Claims

1. A facial beauty device including a body case, a hood mounted on said case and having an opening for resting thereagainst the user'"'"'s face, and means for generating within said hood a heated and moistened atmosphere from water in a reservoir housed in the case;

the device further comprising a passage communicating the upper space in said reservoir with the inner space of the hood and a water spraying means including a pump and nozzle housed within the case and spraying water in the reservoir substantially toward said opening of the hood, and said atmosphere generating means comprising means provided in the bottom of the reservoir for generating a mist within said passage by oscillating water in the reservoir, means for generating a moistened air stream directed toward the inner space of the hood through the passage together with said mist, and means for heating at least a part of said moistened air stream.

2. A device according to claim 1 wherein said mist generating means is an ultrasonic oscillator provided in the bottom of said reservoir at a position substantially corresponding to the lower end of said passage.

3. A device according to claim 1 wherein said nozzle of said water spraying means sprays water against a part of the user'"'"'s face and is rockable for varying spraying direction so as to spray water over the entire area of the face.

4. A device according to claim 3 wherein said water spraying means initiates and terminates its water spray at a state where said spraying direction of said rockable nozzle is not directed toward said opening of said hood.

5. A device according to claim 1 wherein said nozzle of said water spraying means sprays water in a zone elongated in the width direction of the user'"'"'s face and is supported rockably for shifting said elongated spray zone to spray water over the entire area of the face.

6. A device according to claim 5 wherein said elongated spray zone is formed by a plurality of said nozzles disposed along said width direction.

7. A device according to claim 6 wherein at least two of said plurality of nozzles disposed at both ends in said width direction have their spraying center directed substantially toward the center of said opening of said hood.

8. A device according to claim 1 wherein said opening of said hood is made on a plane inclined to be higher on the side of the forehead of the user'"'"'s face and lower on the side of the jaw, and said nozzle is disposed at a deflected position on said higher side of said hood opening.

9. A device according to claim 5 wherein said elongated spray zone is formed by a plurality of said nozzles provided on a connecting water feed pipe extending in said width direction and supported axially rotatably.

10. A device according to claim 9 wherein said nozzles respectively comprise an elongated cylindrical nozzle member mounted to said feed pipe in a manner detachable in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the pipe, and said nozzle member is locked to its mounted position by means of a member fitted to the feed pipe in the axial direction of the pipe.

11. A device according to claim 10 wherein said nozzle members are respectively provided with a water jetting port opened in the longitudinal direction of the member and a colliding wall with which water jetted out of said jetting port collide to be dispersed in a lateral direction with respect to said longitudinal direction.

12. A device according to claim 9 wherein said connecting feed pipe is axially rotated by a rotation of an operating handle mounted rotatably to said case to rockably support said nozzles, and said pump of said water spraying means is actuated by a switch operated by said rotation of said operating handle.

13. A device according to claim 12 wherein said operating handle turns on and off said switch with a cam fixed on an axially rotatable shaft of the handle.

14. A device according to claim 1 wherein said air stream generating means comprises a hot air stream passage opened at one end in a side wall of said communicating passage and having at the other end said heating means, a cool air stream passage opened at one end in the upper part of said reservoir and also at the other end at a position substantially adjacent the heating means, and an air blowing passage which blows air toward respective said the other ends of said hot air stream passage and cool air stream passage.

15. A device according to claim 14 wherein said communicating passage is provided with a partition suspended from a delivery port of the passage opened inside said hood to a position adjacent said opened one end of said hot air stream passage, and said delivery port is divided by said partition into a first part deliverying into the hood an air stream of a relatively higher temperature and less moistened and a second part deliverying into the hood an air stream of a relatively lower temperature and more moistened.

16. A device according to claim 1 wherein said body case includes a water feeding tank removably fitted to the case for feeding water into said reservoir, said tank having a plug normally resiliently closing a water feeding port of the tank, and the body case is provided with a push rod for pushing said plug of the tank to open its said feeding port when the tank is fitted to the case and with a filter expanding in feeding direction of water from the tank.

17. A device according to claim 16 wherein said reservoir has a feed port opened downward at the bottom, said body case has a tank receiving port to a lower opening of which a feed pipe is connected, said feed pipe connects said tank receiving port through a T-joint to said feed port of the reservoir and a suction port of a pump of said water spraying means, and the feed pipe and a lateral pipe portion of said T-joint connecting between the feed pipe and the suction port of the pump are inclined to be lower in the water feeding direction.

18. A device according to claim 1 wherein said communicating passage has a non-circular shape in section and extends inside said hood, and said hood is provided at the bottom with a hollow cylindrical part having a shape in section intimately engageable to said sectional shape of the communicating passage and extending inside the hood to a position adjacent extended end of the passage so that the hood is detachably mounted at said cylindrical part to the passage.