Hair dryer apparatus

• US 5,177,879 A
• Filed: 02/14/1992
• Issued: 01/12/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: David J. Muta
• Original Assignee: David J. Muta
• Inventors: Muta, David J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bennet, Henry A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): ESQUIVEL, DENISE LYNNE
• Application Number:
  US07/835,364
• Time in Patent Office: 333 Days
• Field of Search: 34/90, 34/91, 34/96, 34/97, 34/98, 34/202, 392/380, 392/381, 392/382, 392/363, 392/370, 248/314
• US Class Current: 34/97
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 20/16 Fixed installed drying devices
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 29/18 Manicure or pedicure sets, e.g. combinations without case, etui, or the like combined with or on sheath of scissors B26B13/22, B26B29/04

Abstract

A hair dryer apparatus is arranged to include a portably mounted hair dryer assembly secured to a housing, with the housing including an air directing conduit directed therethrough for selective securement of a hand supported plate assembly permitting ease of drying of fingernail polish and the like, and a support plate for securing various garments thereto such as hosiery.

Claims

1. A hair dryer apparatus, comprising,

a housing, the housing including a front wall, a bottom wall spaced from a top wall, and a right side wall spaced from a left side wall, and

an electric power supply directed into the housing, and

an electrical outlet receptacle mounted to the bottom wall, and

a support wall fixedly and orthogonally mounted to the right side wall spaced above the bottom wall, and

an abutment wall fixedly mounted to the bottom wall extending orthogonally relative to the bottom wall to an orientation above the support wall, with an electrical power cord receiving conduit directed between the support wall and the abutment wall, and

a hair dryer member, the hair dryer member including an electric power cord directed through the electric power cord receiving conduit in electrical communication with the electric power supply, and

the hair dryer member including a handle, the handle securable to the support wall in contiguous communication with the abutment wall when mounted adjacent the right side wall, with the hair dryer member further including a hair dryer head arranged for projection to the housing, and

the handle includes a handle bottom wall, the handle bottom wall includes a first magnet, and the support wall includes a ferrous plate magnetically adherable to the first magnet, and the hair dryer head includes a hair dryer head bottom wall, with the hair dryer head bottom wall including a second magnet, and a second ferrous plate mounted within the housing adjacent the right side wall aligned with the second magnet when the hair dryer member is secured to the housing, and

the housing includes a nozzle receiving conduit directed into the housing between the right side wall and the top wall, and an air flow conduit directed through the housing in pneumatic communication with the nozzle receiving conduit, with the air flow conduit directed into a conduit outlet tube, the conduit outlet tube projecting and canted downwardly relative to the front wall, and

the conduit outlet tube includes a plurality of spaced, coaxially aligned bores, and a support tube, the support tube including a plurality of rotatable pins projecting from the support tube at opposed ends of the support tube, with each of the retractable pins directed through one of said bores, and a support tube frame fixedly mounted to the support tube, and an undulating plate fixedly and orthogonally mounted to a lower distal end of the support tube frame, with the undulating plate including a plurality of spaced parallel finger supporting grooves.

2. An apparatus as set forth in claim 1 wherein the top wall includes at least one slot directed through the top wall in communication with the air flow conduit, and an apertured pouch arranged for reception within the slot, the apertured pouch including an apertured pouch flange fixedly mounted at an upper distal end of the apertured pouch, and the apertured pouch including a fibrous wadding contained therewithin, and the wadding arranged for reception of fluid for aromatic infusion of the fluid into air flow through the air flow conduit.