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US 2013/0092182 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for treating abnormal nails
OwnerKatherine A. Stockbauerinventor
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Abstract
A device for treating a pincer nail includes a user-controlled rotary wand with grinding tip for passage along the nail bed. The speed of the grinding tip is variably controlled by a rheostat/motor combination. Safety sensors sense the temperature at the nail bed and along the wand so as to either warn the user of undesirable temperatures being approached and/or cease power to the grinding tip.
Claims20
An apparatus for use on a nail bed of a human comprising:
- a wand having a grinding tip for contact with a nail bed;
- a power source;
- means responsive to a delivery of power from said power source for rotating said wand about an imaginary, longitudinal axis passing therethrough, a rotation of said wand and said grinding tip thereon contacting the nail bed for a therapeutic abrasion thereof.
An apparatus for use on a nail bed of a human comprising:
- a shaft having an abrasive tip at a free end thereof;
- a power source;
- means responsive to a delivery of power from said power source for rotating said shaft and said tip thereon for abrading the nail bed upon contact therewith;
- sensing means responsive to a predetermined temperature at the nail bed resulting from said abrading for ceasing said delivery of power.
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An apparatus for use on a nail bed of a human comprising:
- a shaft having an abrasive tip at a free end thereof;
- a power source;
- means for rotating said shaft and said tip upon a delivery of power from said power source, said tip abrading the nail bed upon contact therewith;
- means responsive to a predetermined temperature at the nail bed resulting from said abrading for warning an operator of said apparatus that said predetermined temperature is being approached.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.