Tweezer
AssigneeClairol Incorporated
InventorsHenry J. Walter, Eugene T. Fleischhauer
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Abstract
A tweezer useful for plucking hair comprising a housing; arms extending out of the housing and having jaws for grasping a hair to be plucked; first means for closing the arms around the hair until the hair is grasped between the jaws; second means for automatically retracting the arms into the housing after the hair has been grasped between the jaws; means mounted for movement along the housing, whereby a first movement thereof causes the first means to close the arms around and grasp the hair between the jaws, and a second movement thereof, in the same direction as the first movement, causes the second means to retract the arms into the housing, thereby plucking the hair; and means for automatically returning the arms to their unretracted and unclosed position.
Claims27
A tweezer useful for plucking hair comprising:
- a housing;
- arms extending out of the housing, the arms having jaws for grasping a hair to be plucked;
- means for closing the arms around the hair, until the hair is grasped by the jaws;
- means for automatically retracting the arms into the housing from the position of the arms in which the jaws grasp the hair;
- means movably mounted on the housing:
- (a) for activating the means for closing the arms around the hair by movement of the means movably mounted a particular distance on the housing, whereby the arms are moved together to close the arms around a hair, and
- (b) for activating the means for automatically retracting the arms into the housing by further movement of the means movably mounted to a predetermined position on the housing, whereby the hair is plucked;
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- means for automatically returning the arms to their unretracted and unclosed position.
A tweezer useful for plucking hair comprising:
- a housing;
- arms extending out of the housing, the arms having jaws for grasping a hair to be plucked;
- first means for closing the arms around the hair, until the hair is grasped between the jaws;
- second means for automatically retracting the arms into the housing after the jaws grasp the hair;
- third means mounted on the housing for movement parallel to the longitudinal axis of the housing, said first, second, and third means being arranged and constructed so that when the third means is moved to a first predetermined position on the longitudinal axis of the housing, the first means is activated whereby the hair is grasped between the jaws, and when the third means is moved to a second predetermined position on the longitudinal axis of the housing the second means is activated whereby the hair is plucked;
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- fourth means for automatically returning the arms to their unretracted and unclosed position.
A tweezer useful for plucking hair comprising:
- a housing;
- arms extending out of the housing, the arms having jaws for grasping a hair to be plucked;
- first means for closing the arms around the hair, until the hair is grasped between the jaws;
- second means for automatically retracting the arms into the housing, after the hair has been grasped between the jaws;
- third means movably mounted on the housing for activating the first means by movement of the third means to a first predetermined position on the housing, whereby the hair is grasped between the jaws, and for activating the second means by further movement in the same direction as the first movement to a second predetermined position on the housing, whereby the hair is plucked;
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- fourth means for automatically returning the arms to their unretracted and unclosed position.
A tweezer useful for plucking hair comprising:
- a housing;
- arms extending out of the housing, the arms having jaws for grasping a hair to be plucked;
- first means for closing the arms around the hair, until the hair is grasped between the jaws, said first means having a tab extending out of the housing;
- second means for automatically retracting the arms into the housing after the jaws grasp the hair, said second means having a control rod extending out of the housing;
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- a sleeve movably mounted around the housing, whereby movement of the sleeve on the housing in contact with the tab causes the first means to close the arms around and grasp the hair between the jaws and further movement of the sleeve in the same direction in contact with the control rod causes the second means to pluck the hair.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.