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Adjustable vibrating head massaging device

  • US 6,179,794 B1
  • Filed: 11/19/1998
  • Issued: 01/30/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/19/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A massaging head gear system comprising, in combination:

  • an inverted U-shaped headband including a central housing having an arcuate bottom face, an arcuate top face, a pair of elongated side faces and a pair of short end faces defining an interior space, a pair of slots formed in the end faces of the central housing adjacent to the bottom face thereof, the headband further including a sleeve with a length greater than that of the central housing with a pair of ends extending from the pair of slots;

    a pair of laterally-spaced massaging assemblies each including an arcuate adjustment piece, the adjustment piece having a first end slidably positioned in an open end of the sleeve of the headband, a slider bracket being mounted to a second end of the adjustment piece, a generally planar rectangular slider bar mounted on the slider bracket between opposite open ends of the slider bracket with a top edge and a bottom edge, each of the massaging assembles comprising a pair of laterally-spaced pads depending from spaced locations on the slider bar for positioning a first one of the pair of pads in a location in front of an ear of the wearer and a second one of the pair of pads in a location behind the ear of the wearer with the ear positioned in between the pads, the slider bar being slidably mounted on the slider bracket for permitting movement of the slider bar and the pads mounted thereon along an axis oriented perpendicular to a plane in which the headband lies, each slider bar having a central extent with a reduced width for constraining sliding motion of the slider bar in the slider bracket, each pad having a planar outer face, a planar inner face with a plurality of soft nibs extending therefrom in perpendicular relationship with the inner face for extending between hairs on the head of wearer, and a periphery formed between the inner and outer faces, the periphery being defined by a pair of parallel linear side edges and a pair of semicircular end edges, wherein a first one of the end edges of each pad is hollow for receiving one of the ends of the slider bar, each of the pads being pivotally mounted on the slider bar in a manner such that the pad pivots in a plane that includes the slider bar; and

    a vibrating mechanism situated in the central housing of the headband and mounted on the sleeve for vibrating the headband and massaging assemblies upon the actuation thereof, the vibrating mechanism including a dial mounted on an upper apex of the top face of the central housing of the headband for adjusting an extent to which the vibrating mechanism vibrates.

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