Lip strengthening device

• US 7,887,461 B2
• Filed: 07/10/2009
• Issued: 02/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Maryam Bakhtiyari
• Original Assignee: Maryam Bakhtiyari
• Inventors: Bakhtiyari, Maryam
• Primary Examiner(s): Thanh; Loan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Roland; Daniel F
• Application Number:
  US12/500,821
• Publication Number:
  US 20110009242A1
• Time in Patent Office: 585 Days
• Field of Search: 482/10, 482/11, 482/49, 482/121, 482/122, 482/127, 482/140, D21/662, D21/692, D21/693, 601/38, 600/242, 600/201, 600/208, 600/212, 600/223, 600/237, 606/204.15, 433/69, 128/859, 128/860, 128/861, 128/862, 128/863
• US Class Current: 482/11
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/025 Spiral springs with turns lying substantially in plane surfaces
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/032 for insertion in the mouth

Abstract

A facial muscle strengthening and lip strengthening device comprises a primary hinge attached to two articulating arms and biased to a predetermined position. Lip-engaging members are attached to the articulating arms opposite the primary hinge and are also attached to the articulating arms in a hinged manner. The lip-engaging members comprise saddle-shaped units to be disposed in front, back, and atop the lips of a user. To employ the device, a user places the device between the lips in a vertical, horizontal or slanted orientation and compresses the device, bringing the lip-engaging members proximally together and causing the primary hinge to depend laterally away from the mouth of the user.

Claims

1. A lip exercising device comprising:

a. a primary hinge comprising a housing enclosed spring biased to a predetermined position;

b. two articulating members, each having a first end and a second end, the first end of each articulating member attached to the primary hinge in a position whereby when the hinge rests in the biased position, the articulating members are disposed at an obtuse angle in relation to each other;

c. each articulating member also comprising an angle between said first and said second end, whereby the second ends of the articulating members are disposed at and articulate in parallel within the same plane of movement; and

d. a lip-engaging member capable of simultaneously resting on the inside and outside of a user'"'"'s lips, connected to the second end of each articulating member, wherein the connection between each lip-engaging member and articulating member comprises a secondary hinge allowing the lip-engaging members to articulate relative to the articulating members.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the housing comprises two adjacent cylinders each cylinder connected to a different articulating member.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the second cud of each articulating member connects to the primary hinge using an off-set angle, so that the articulating members articulate in the same two-dimensional plane.

4. A lip exercising device comprising:

a. a primary hinge biased to a predetermined position and comprising a housing containing a spring;

b. two articulating members, each having a first end and a second end, the first end of each articulating member attached to the primary hinge in a position so that when the hinge rests in the biased position, the articulating members are disposed at an obtuse angle in relation to each other;

c. a saddle-shaped lip-engaging member connected to the second end of each articulating member, wherein the connection between each lip-engaging member and articulating member comprises a secondary hinge allowing the lip-engaging members to articulate relative to the articulating members; and

d. wherein when a user compresses the device by reducing the distance between the saddle-shaped lip-engaging members and the primary hinge depends away from a biased position, the secondary hinges allow the articulating members to articulate relative to the saddle-shaped lip-engaging members so that the saddle-shaped lip-engaging members remain in the same position relative to a user'"'"'s lips.