Hair brush with a flexible base plate made of a plastic material

• US 4,500,939 A
• Filed: 03/18/1983
• Issued: 02/19/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/1982
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: L'Oreal SA
• Original Assignee: L'Oreal SA
• Inventors: Gueret, Jean-Louis H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Moose, Jr., Harry E.
• Application Number:
  US06/476,718
• Time in Patent Office: 704 Days
• Field of Search: 361/212, 361/220, 361/221, D 4/14, D 4/99, 132/9, 132/11 R, 132/120, 15/159 R, 15/159 A, 15/187, 15/190, 15/194
• US Class Current: 361/221
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 15/0002 Arrangements for enhancing monitoring or controlling the brushing process
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 15/002 with a means for removing or creating static electricity
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 15/0051 Brushes fitted with ventilation means, e.g. with air buffers, air vents
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 2200/104 Hair brush
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 3/005 Bristle carriers and bristles moulded as a unit A46B1/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 5/00 Brush bodies; Handles integral with brushware
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 7/04 interchangeably removable bristle carriers
• CPC Class Codes: A46D 1/00 Bristles; Selection of materials for bristles making artificial bristles D01D, D01F

Abstract

A hair brush of antistatic plastic material comprises an apertured base plate in the form of a grid having bristles integrally moulded therewith. The base plate is convexly curved in the finished brush with the bristles on the convex side and the grid construction imparts to the brush sufficient resilience to allow the relatively stiff integrally moulded bristles to execute a comfortable brushing action.

Claims

1. In an antistatic hair brush comprising handle means and brushing means carried by said handle means, said brushing means embodying a flexible base means and bristles on said base means, the improvement wherein said base means is made of an antistatic plastic material and includes grid means defining apertures and bristles being integrally moulded together with said grid means and disposed perpendicular to the grid means.

2. An antistatic hair brush according to claim 1, wherein said grid means is constituted by a central oval-shaped support element, an outer oval-shaped peripheral edge member, oval-shaped further support elements between said central oval-shaped support element and said outer oval-shaped peripheral edge member, and a plurality of diverging radial ribs, most of said ribs being supported by both said central oval-shaped support element and said outer oval-shaped peripheral edge member, said ribs being arranged in intersecting relationship with said further oval-shaped support elements which are coplanar with said ribs, said further oval-shaped support elements being regularly interspaced from each other and disposed substantially concentrically with respect to each other and in relation to the central oval-shaped support element and to the outer peripheral edge member of said grid means.

3. An antistatic hair brush according to claim 2, wherein each said bristle is situated between the intersections of two adjacent said radial ribs with a said further oval-shaped element.

4. An antistatic hair brush according to claim 3, wherein each said bristle is equidistant from the intersections of two adjacent said ribs with a said further oval-shaped support element.

5. An antistatic hair brush according to claim 1, wherein said grid means is constituted by ribs intersecting at right angles so as to define between two adjacent ribs zones of the grid means over which zones the bristles are distributed in a regular manner.

6. An antistatic hair brush according to claim 5, wherein each bristle is between and equidistant from the intersections of two adjacent said ribs with a third said rib.

7. An antistatic hair brush according to claim 1, wherein the base plate is made of one of the group consisting of nylon 12, nylon 11 and nylon 11 grafted to a block copolymer of polyether and polyamide.

8. An antistatic hair brush according to claim 1, wherein said antistatic plastic material of the base means and the bristles comprises a plastic material containing at least one antistatic carbon constituent.

9. An antistatic hair brush according to claim 1, wherein said handle means and said base plate of the brushing means are integrally moulded.

10. An antistatic hair brush according to claim 1, wherein said base means of the brushing means is distinct from the handle means, and said base means is moulded flat.

11. An antistatic hair brush according to claim 10, wherein said handle means includes means defining an opening and, on the internal lateral periphery of said opening, a peripheral groove having a dovetail cross section for receiving said base means by catch-engagement, whereupon said base means assumes a shape which is convex on the side whereon the bristles are distributed.

12. An antistatic hair brush according to claim 10, wherein said handle means comprises means defining a recess having a floor, means defining a plurality of apertures in said floor, and means defining a groove of dovetail cross section on the side surface of the recess, and wherein said base means has an edge adapted to be catch engaged in said groove when said base means assumes a shape which is convex on its side whereon said bristles are distributed.

13. An antistatic hair brush according to claim 1, wherein the base means has a rectangular shape and is rolled up cylindrically and welded on two of its opposite edges to form a cylindrical base element.

14. An antistatic hair brush according to claim 13, and including a cylindrical support on which said cylindrical base element is fitted.

15. An antistatic hair brush according to claim 13, wherein said handle means includes a hand grip and a cap spaced from said hand grip, and wherein said cylindrical base element is fixed on said handle means by being held between said hand grip and said cap, and wherein said hand grip and said cap constitute two elements of the same supporting handle and are being disposed near the respective ends of said cylindrical base element.

16. An antistatic hair brush according to claim 15, wherein said handle means includes first and second ends, a rod extending axially from said first end, and a catch engagement stud adapted to cooperate with said cap to hold said cap on said rod.

17. An antistatic hair brush according to claim 1, wherein said base means comprises a rectangular plate having two opposite edges and, along each of said two opposite edges, a fastening means constituted by a strip and means flexibly connecting said strip to the respective said opposite edge of said base means, each said strip having a longitudinal rib on its free edge.

18. An antistatic hair brush according to claim 17, wherein said handle means includes a contoured extension means having a substantially crescent-shaped cross-section and including an axially extending groove means, and separate holding means comprising an axially extending flange adapted to be engaged in said groove means, wherein said holding means has a substantially T-shaped cross section, the top part of the T constituting a cap which surmounts said contoured extension means, and wherein said holding means and the contoured extension means define between them recess means wherein said longitudinal ribs of said base means strip are held.

19. An antistatic hair brush according to claim 17, wherein said handle means includes contoured extension means of crescent-shaped cross-section, an axial flange centrally of said extension means, spaced parallel groove means of said contoured extension means, and a rib at the edge of said flange, wherein said flange is disposed between said spaced groove means of the contoured extension means, and wherein said handle means further includes holding means slidable along said contoured extension means, said holding means having two longitudinal flanges adapted to receive therebetween said flange of the contoured extension and adapted to engage said spaced groove means of the contoured extension means so as to be capable of sliding engagement therealong, said holding means further comprising two side strips adapted to cooperate with said contoured extension means to hold said base means by the said longitudinal ribs of its strips.

20. An antistatic hair brush according to claim 18, wherein said handle has a hand grip at the end opposite said contoured extension means, wherein said holding means has a projection at its end near said hand grip, and wherein said hand grip includes recess means to receive said projection.