Hair drying brush of water absorption type

• US 5,077,914 A
• Filed: 01/11/1991
• Issued: 01/07/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Wetmaster Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Wetmaster Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Yasuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Bennett, Henry A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gromada, Denise L. F.
• Application Number:
  US07/640,050
• Time in Patent Office: 361 Days
• Field of Search: 34/3, 34/70, 34/89.1, 34/95, 34/96, 132/108, 132/109, 132/110, 132/111, 132/120, 15/160
• US Class Current: 34/95
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 2200/104 Hair brush bristles arrangements for hair brushes A46B9/023
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 5/00 Brush bodies; Handles integral with brushware

Abstract

A brush for drying hair has a body with a hollow interior. The body has opposed surfaces with the surface on one side having teeth arranged in a more open or less dense pattern than the teeth on the opposite surface. The teeth on each face pass through a non-woven fabric sheet of water absorbant material with inner ends of the teeth seated in recesses in the inner body of the head of the brush. The non-woven fabric on one surface of the brush is isolated from the non-woven fabric on the other face so that its water absorbing function is isolated from the fabric on the other surface.

Claims

1. A hair drying brush of water absorption type comprising a body having a brush teeth carrier and a plurality of brush teeth rising from said brush teeth carrier, a surface of said brush teeth carrier being coated around the roots of said brush teeth with a non-woven fabric as a water absorbent, wherein said non-woven fabric as water absorbent is divided into at least two sections and these sections are spaced and isolated from one another, said teeth being arranged in two groups spaced from each other with each group contacting a different one of the fabric sections, said teeth having a header portion seated in openings in said body, said headers being held against said body by said fabric.

2. A hair drying brush of water absorption type as recited in claim 1, wherein said brush teeth having anchor means and said brush teeth being arranged like comb teeth with the anchor means for each of the brush teeth being positioned in a groove formed in the brush teeth carrier so as to orient the brush teeth to extend radially outwardly from the brush teeth carrier.

3. A hair drying brush of water absorption type as recited in claim 2, wherein each of said anchor means has a width slightly larger than a diameter of the brush tooth.

4. A hair drying brush of water absorption type as recited in claim 1 wherein said brush teeth carrier has an inner cavity and the edges of said non-woven water absorbent fabric extend into said inner cavity.

5. A hair drying brush of water absorption type comprising a grip, a brush teeth carrier connected to said grip and a plurality of brush teeth projecting from said brush teeth carrier and arranged in two groups isolated from each other, the surface of said brush teeth carrier being coated around roots of said brush teeth with non-woven fabric as water absorbent, wherein said non-woven fabric as water absorbent is divided into a pair of sections so as to define a pair of layers facing oppositely from each other and said sections of water absorbent non-woven fabric being spaced and moisture isolated from each other and each section associated with only one of said groups of brush teeth, said brush teeth associated with one of said layers being coarse while the brush teeth associated with the other layer are dense.

6. A hair drying brush capable of water absorption, said brush having a body, a plurality of brush teeth projecting outwardly from opposite faces of said body and recess means in said faces of said body seating the root ends of said teeth, a non-woven water absorbent fabric seated against each of said faces of said body with said teeth extending therethrough in moisture receiving relationship to said teeth, said fabric contacting one face being isolated from the fabric contacting the other face whereby each provides an independent moisture absorbing means, said fabric acting as a retainer for said teeth holding said teeth in said recess.

7. A hair drying brush capable of water absorption as described in claim 6 wherein said body has means for clamping the perimetrical edges of said fabric thereto.

8. A hair drying brush capable of water absorption, said brush having a body, said body having a pair of oppositely directed faces, a plurality of brush teeth projecting outwardly from each of said faces of said body and recess means in each of said faces of said body seating one end of the teeth projecting from the face adjacent thereto, a non-woven water absorbent fabric seated against and overlying each of said faces with the teeth projecting from the faces over which the fabric lies extending therethrough in moisture receiving relationship to said teeth and the spaces therebetween, said body having moisture non-absorbent means separating the adjacent edges of the fabric on opposite faces thereof.

9. A hair drying brush capable of water absorption as described in claim 8 wherein the spacing between the brush teeth projecting from one of said faces is greater than the spacing between the brush teeth projecting from the other of said faces whereby the brush teeth on said one side are adapted to provide initial removal of water from the hair and the brush teeth on the other side are adapted to substantially remove the remaining portion of the water.

10. A hair drying brush capable of water absorption as described in claim 8 wherein said non-absorbing means is a spacer element seated between said oppositely directed faces, said spacer element being moisture impervious for isolating the moisture absorbent fabric of one of the faces from that of the other of said faces.

11. A hair drying brush capable of water absorption as described in claim 10 wherein the perimetrical edges of said absorbent fabric covering said opposite faces are isolated from each other.

12. A hair drying brush capable of water absorption as described in claim 11 wherein means are provided on both ends of said body for connecting said oppositely directed faces, said means at one end being detachably mounted to said body whereby the edges of said absorbent fabric can be released.

13. A hair drying brush capable of water absorption as described in claim 8 wherein said body is formed of a pair of shell elements against an outer face of which said water absorbent fabric is seated, a moisture impervious member seated between said shell elements for spacing said elements and the perimetrical edges of the fabric on each of said shell elements from each other.

14. A hair drying brush capable of water absorption as described in claim 13 wherein the interior of said body is hollow.

15. A hair drying brush capable of water absorption as described in claim 14 wherein the perimetrical edges of said fabric extend into the hollow interior of said body and are clamped against said moisture impervious member.