Skin treatment appliance
AssigneeSperry Rand Corporation
InventorsTheodore Robert Flowers, Hermann Reinhold Schaefer
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Abstract
A hand-held portable electrical skin treatment appliance and particularly for use in the care of facial skin wherein the appliance is provided with means for detachably mounting various skin treatment devices to a rotary drive output. The attachment device is provided with self-contained motion translating means for converting the rotary drive output orbital movement of the skin treatment device to enhance the massaging or cleansing effects to the skin of the user.
Claims13
A skin treatment attachment for a portable electrical skin treatment appliance having a motor and rotary drive means for operating the attachment, the attachment comprising;
- a. a casing containing skin treatment output means,
- b. means detachably connecting said casing to the appliance,
- c. rotable cam means within the casing,
- d. means for connecting said cam means to the appliance drive means,
- e. means for directing movement of the casing upon operation of the rotary drive means, and
- f. means within the casing for converting motion of the rotatable cam means to orbital motion of the skin treatment output means.
A skin treatment appliance comprising;
- a. a first hand-held casing housing a motor and rotary drive means including a drive gear and a driven gear operable by said motor,
- b. a second casing including rotatable cam means and skin treatment output means,
- c. means for detachably connecting said second casing to said first casing and said cam means directly to both of said gears for operation thereby, and
- d. means within the second casing for converting motion of the gear driven cam means to orbital motion of the skin treatment output means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.