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US 4,815,507 AGranted
Socket mounted pencil sharpener for cosmetic facial pencil
OwnerDianne L. O'Rourkeinventor
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Abstract
A portable, light-weight pencil sharpener specifically designed to sharpen cosmetic pencils of the type commonly known as "eye brow" pencils and including a housing enclosing a blade structure and an electrically powered drive motor wherein the housing and power connecting structure are cooperatively dimensioned and disposed to mount the housing directly on a wall outlet or socket during operation.
Claims9
A portable sharpening assembly designed primarily for the sharpening of cosmetic pencils, said sharpening assembly comprising:
- a. a housing having a substantially hollow interior and including an electrically powered drive motor mounted thereon,
- b. blade means mounted within said housing and drivingly connected to said drive motor for sharpening a cosmetic pencil coming into contact therewith,
- c. said housing including an axis opening disposed in aligned, communicating relation to said blade means and dimensioned and configured to receive and position a head portion of the cosmetic pencil in engaging relation to the blade means,
- d. a storage chamber mounted on said housing in communicating relation to the blade means and positioned and dimensioned to receive cuttings of the pencil head from the blade means,
- e. said storage chamber at least partially removably connected to said housing and selectively disposable between an open and a closed position, whereby such storage chamber may be emptied of cuttings received therein,
- f. power connection means for electrically connecting said drive motor to a source of electricity being secured to said housing and comprising a pair of spaced-apart electrical prongs protruding outwardly from a rear surface of said housing and dimensioned and configured to removably engage a conventional electric wall socket,
- g. switch means positionable between a current-on and a current-off position and connected in current regulating relation to the drive motor for regulating activation thereof, and
- h. said housing and said rear surface, thereof dimensioned and disposed to supportingly engage a supporting surface adjacent said wall socket and removably attach and support said housing thereon during operation of said blade means and sharpening of the cosmetic pencil.
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