Two-purpose device of hand and hair dryers

• US 4,802,287 A
• Filed: 09/16/1987
• Issued: 02/07/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tatung-Conair Corporation
• Original Assignee: Tatung-Conair Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Shye L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Warner, Steven E.
• Application Number:
  US07/097,120
• Time in Patent Office: 510 Days
• Field of Search: 34/91, 34/90, 34/96, 34/97, 219/359, 219/360, 219/361, 219/366, 219/367, 219/375, 219/368, 219/369, 219/370, 219/371, 219/374
• US Class Current: 34/91
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 20/16 Fixed installed drying devices
• 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 dual purpose hand and hair dryer, and a cabinet for mounting the hair dryer on a wall for use as a hand dryer. The cabinet has a swing-down front part which receives the hair dryer and which has electric circuitry for operating the hair dryer including a light-sensitive switch and a timer.

Claims

1. A combination hair and hand dryer device comprising a portable hand-held electric hair dryer and a cabinet for mounting the hair dryer on a wall or the like so as to convert same to a hand dryer, the cabinet comprising a base part with a base wall, side arms extending from the base wall, and a top cover, the cabinet further comprising a front part having side walls, a front wall with a vent, and internal means for releasably securing the hair dryer therein in a position to blow heated air through the vent, the cabinet still further comprising pivot means connecting the side walls to the side arms for swinging the front part between open and closed positions relative to the base part, for insertion and removal or the hair dryer in the open position and operation of the device as a hand dryer in the closed position, and catch means on the front part and base part for releasably retaining the front part in the closed position.

2. A device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the front part includes electric circuit means for operating the hair dryer when the front part is in the closed position, the circuit means including a light-sensitive switch on an exterior surface of said front wall adjacent the vent for initiating operation of the hair dryer.

3. A device as claimed in claim 2 wherein the circuit means includes a timer means for terminating operation of the hair dryer after a predetermined time period of operation.