Gel dispensing hair brush

• US 6,022,163 A
• Filed: 11/13/1998
• Issued: 02/08/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Amal Asfur
• Original Assignee: Amal Asfur
• Inventors: Asfur, Amal
• Primary Examiner(s): Bratlie, Steven A.
• Application Number:
  US09/191,550
• Time in Patent Office: 452 Days
• Field of Search: 401/28, 401/175, 401/268, 222/390, 132/112
• US Class Current: 401/175
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 24/22 Combs with dispensing devices for liquids, pastes or powders
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 11/0027 Lead-screw mechanisms

Abstract

A gel dispensing hair brush for automatically dispensing hair styling gel from a plurality of hollow bristles. The device includes a handle portion having an open end, a closed end defined by an end wall, and an elongated cavity formed therein. A brush portion is attachable to the handle portion open end and has a reservoir in communication with the elongated cavity, the brush portion further comprising a bottom wall, the bottom wall having a plurality of spaced hollow bristle members in communication with the reservoir. An end portion is attachable to the handle portion closed end and includes a direct current motor for rotating a shaft/piston assembly disposed in the elongated cavity and thereby dispensing the gel from the elongated cavity through the hollow bristle members.

Claims

1. A gel dispensing hair brush comprising:

a handle portion having an open end, a closed end defined by an end wall, and an elongated cavity centrally formed therein;

a brush portion attachable to the handle portion open end and having a reservoir in communication with the elongated cavity, the brush portion further comprising a bottom wall, the bottom wall having a plurality of spaced hollow bristle members in communication with the reservoir;

an end portion attachable to the handle portion closed end;

a means for dispensing the gel from the elongated cavity through the hollow bristle members comprising a threaded rod axially disposed in the elongated cavity and having a first end and a second end, the threaded rod first end being rotatably receivable in a recess formed in a brush portion back wall and the threaded rod second end being receivable in a coupling disposed in the elongated cavity proximate the end wall, a piston sealingly receivable within the elongated cavity, the piston having a retaining projection formed along a peripheral portion thereof, the retaining projection being closely receivable in a longitudinal groove formed along an inside surface of the handle portion, the piston further having a central bore formed therethrough, the threaded rod being threadingly engageable to the central bore, and a shaft having a first end and a second end, the first end being fixedly attached to a coupling rear wall, the shaft rotatably extending through the end wall, and the shaft second end being drivingly engageable to an electric motor mounted in the end portion; and

wherein the threaded rod first and second ends are interchangeably receivable in the recess formed in the brush portion back wall and the coupling.

2. The gel dispensing hair brush of claim 1, wherein the shaft second end is drivingly engageable to the electric motor by means of a first gear attached to the shaft second end and a second gear attached to a motor shaft, the first and second gears being meshedly engageable.

3. The gel dispensing hair brush of claim 1, wherein the handle portion further comprises a vent aperture formed proximate the end wall.

4. The gel dispensing hair brush of claim 1, wherein the electric motor is a direct current motor.

5. The gel dispensing hair brush of claim 1, wherein the threaded rod first and second ends further comprise an identically dimensioned square portion and wherein the threaded rod square portions are interchangeably closely receivable in a square recess formed in the coupling.

6. The gel dispensing hair brush of claim 1, wherein the handle portion is cylindrical and wherein the piston is cylindrical.

7. The gel dispensing hair brush of claim 1, wherein the piston further comprises a centrally disposed metal insert, the central bore being formed through the metal insert.