US 4,361,966 A · Portable hair dryer

Abstract

A lightweight, compact hair dryer is provided having a rigid case to contain a blower-heater arrangement for the provision of hot air, a collapsible hood structure having a structural support connected to the case in supported relation thereby, the case having an extensible stand portion for attachment of the hood in supported relation therewith, the hood support comprising a flexible band which can be rolled into a roll for storage within the box, and in the open condition when attached to the stand portion providing a free standing support portion of the hood structure. The hood further includes air inflatable bag means extending from the hood band to partially enclose the head of a user when in use, the walls of the bag having apertures located to direct hot air in drying relation with the user's head, provided from a hose connection to the blower heater. The arrangement combines the functional characteristics of prior art portable arrangements with the structural and functional characteristics of prior art salon-type rigid hood arrangements.

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Dependent claims

In a portable hair dryer, hood structure comprising;

air inflatable shaped bag means arranged to receive the head of a user in partially enclosed relation therein when in use;
air blowing apertures perforating selected inner wall portions of the bag means, to direct air therefrom, when in use in blowing relation against the hair of a user;
a flexible cantilever support band attached to the bag means in supporting relation forming an intergral part of the hood structure and having sufficient width to provide arcuate cantilevered support to the bag means;
first portions of said bag means secured to the band extending in downward depending supported relation therefrom as a profiled skirt and second portions of said bag means extending upwardly from the band in supported relation therefrom to provide an air supported structure of sufficient depth to at least partially enclose the top portion of said users head, releasable fastening means for securing the band in adjustable forwardly extending relation from a hood support structure to permit tilt adjustment of the hood relative to said rearwardly located support structure;
to an air supply connection connected to the bag means for the passage of heated air into the bag means at a pressure sufficient to support said second bag portions.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Portable hair dryer

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Portable hair dryer

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