Cleaning apparatus for hair brushes and combs

• US 6,981,292 B1
• Filed: 09/28/2000
• Issued: 01/03/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Francesco Dassi
• Original Assignee: Francesco Dassi
• Inventors: Dassi, Francesco
• Primary Examiner(s): Snider, Theresa T.
• Application Number:
  US10/089,660
• Time in Patent Office: 1,923 Days
• Field of Search: 153/11, 153/39, 15/38, 15/39
• US Class Current: 15/38
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 24/46 with roller brushes
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 17/06 Devices for cleaning brushes after use

Abstract

Described is an apparatus for removing hair entangled among the teeth of combs or the bristles of brushes, after their use, which acts through the action of rotating whips and of an assembly for sucking and collecting the removed residuals.

Claims

1. An apparatus for removing hair from one of teeth of a comb and bristles of a brush, comprising:

a first rotating shaft;

at most two whips extending from the first rotating shaft for cyclically passing through one of a comb receiving position and a brush receiving position; and

a suction arrangement generating an air stream in proximity to one of the comb receiving position and the brush receiving position, the air stream sucking the hair from the one of the teeth of the comb and the bristles of the brush,

wherein a first whip of the at most two whips is spaced from a second whip of the at most two whips by a predetermined distance so that, during use of the apparatus, the first whip does not interfere with the second whip, the first and second whips acting on one of the comb and the brush individually.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a collecting arrangement collecting the hair sucked by the suction arrangement.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a second rotating shaft, the second rotating shaft being parallel to the first rotating shaft, the second rotating shaft including a third whip extending therefrom.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the first and second rotating shafts rotate in opposite directions so that the first and third whips converge from one of the comb and brush receiving positions towards the air stream.

5. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the first and second rotating shafts are separated from one another by a particular distance, the particular distance being substantially equal to a length of the first whip.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first whip is flexible.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first whip is mounted on a whip-holder hub.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of the first and second whips includes a free end of a continuous thread wound on a reel which is attached to the first rotating shaft.

9. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the first and second whips are mounted on respective removable whip-holder hubs.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising:

a plurality of scrapers situated tangentially to at least one of the first and second rotating shafts and the respective whip-holder hubs.

11. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a box-shaped body, the body having an aperture through which the first whip extends toward one of the comb receiving position and the brush receiving position, the aperture providing an inlet of air for the air stream, the body having aeration slits.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the aperture is located at a top side of the box-shaped body.

13. The apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising:

a protective shell situated at the aperture.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the protective shell has an access door urged toward a closed position, the protective shell interacting with a safety switch.

15. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the box-shaped body includes an extractable drawer-like container collecting the hair, the container including a hair-retaining filter.

16. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the box-shaped body includes an inspection door positioned as a function of a position of the first whip.

17. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a motor capable of operating a fan of the suction arrangement and the first rotating shaft.

18. The apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

a motor capable of operating a fan of the suction arrangement and the first rotating shaft;

a first motion transmission arrangement situated between a driving shaft of the motor and the first rotating shaft; and

a second motion transmission arrangement situated between the first and second rotating shafts.

19. An apparatus for removing hair from one of teeth of a comb and bristles of a brush, comprising:

a first rotating shaft;

a plurality of whips extending from only one of an end and an area adjacent the end of the first rotating shaft for cyclically passing through one of a comb receiving position and a brush receiving position; and

a suction arrangement generating an air stream in proximity to one of the comb receiving position and the brush receiving position, the air stream sucking the hair from the one of the teeth of the comb and the bristles of the brush,

wherein a first whip of the plurality of whips is spaced from a second whip of the plurality of whips by a predetermined distance so that, during use of the apparatus, the first whip does not interfere with the second whip, the first and second whips acting on one of the comb and the brush individually.