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Wall-mounted electric hair dryer incorporating dual-voltage electric shaver outlets

  • US 4,700,049 A
  • Filed: 08/12/1985
  • Issued: 10/13/1987
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/13/1984
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. a wall mounted hair dryer comprising:

  • a casing having a cold air intake and a heated air outlet;

    said casing containing an impeller powered by an electric motor and an electric heating element coupled to the electric mains and arranged to draw cold air through said intake and provide heated air at said outlet;

    a flexible air hose having one end communicating with said outlet and another end having a handle terminating in a discharge air outlet for directing heated air at the person of the user;

    two shaver outlets mounted on said casing and connected to a dual-voltage current-limited transformer coupled to said electric mains, said transformer supplying one of said shaver outlets with said mains voltage and the other of said outlets with twice said mains voltage, the current supplied to both of said outlets being limited to substantially the current drain of an electric shaver, whereby an electric outlet can be replaced by a hair dryer and two safety electric outlets for shavers, one outlet at the normal voltage and the other at twice the mains voltage.

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