Apparatus for callus removal
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsRobbert Freerk Johan Van Der Scheer, Joost Tomas Glazenburg, Maurits Koenen, Harold Wolf, Johannes Beugels, Adarsh Shrivastava
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Abstract
The invention relates to a skin treatment device for removing callus from the skin by an abrasive treatment, comprising a housing with a handle section (110), a skin treatment element (120) rotatable around a rotational axis (101) and a protective rim (130). Said protective rim circumferentially encases said skin treatment element partially over an angular range of more than 120° and less than 330° about said rotational axis such that a circumferential abrasive treatment surface protrudes from the protective rim in an area extending over an angular range of 30° to 240°.
Claims20
A skin treatment device, comprising:
- a housing with a handle section and a treatment head section, wherein the handle section is in an angular orientation with respect to the treatment head section,
- a skin treatment element rotatable around a rotational axis and configured to grind off a callus using an axial abrasive treatment surface and a circumferential abrasive treatment surface,
- a protective rim arranged stationary at said treatment head section of the housing and having an axial skin contact surface configured and arranged to support the skin of a user along the axial direction during use, wherein said skin treatment element is rotatable in relation to said protective rim, and
- a drive mechanism configured and arranged to drive the skin treatment element in a rotational movement about said rotational axis, wherein the axial abrasive treatment surface is accessible for skin treatment through an axial opening of the protective rim, wherein said axial opening extends over an angular range of 360° about said rotational axis,
- wherein the skin treatment element is mounted to a shaft, the shaft is coupled to the drive mechanism in a releasable interlocking action,
- wherein said skin treatment element is disk-shaped for rotational movement about the rotational axis,
- wherein said circumferential abrasive treatment surface a portion that at least partially protrudes beyond the treatment head section of the housing in the radial direction,
- wherein said protective rim partially and circumferentially encases said skin treatment element over an angular range of more than 120° and less than 330° about said rotational axis, such that the circumferential abrasive treatment surface is accessible for skin treatment in an area extending over an angular range of 30° to 240° about the rotational axis, and
- wherein the axial skin contact surface of the protective rim and the axial abrasive treatment surface of the skin treatment element are configured to be adjustable relative to each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.