Hair dryer having adjustable height and air flow
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsGenji Kosaka, Keiko Matoba
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Abstract
A hair dryer includes a hair dryer body and a stand for supporting the body, wherein the hair dryer body has a body head having a heater and a blast fan driven by a motor disposed from an intake port toward a blow-off port side, incorporating a collecting mechanism on the blow-off port, and a handle capable of supporting the body head foldably and provided with a switch for changing operations of the motor and the heater. The stand includes a handle containing cylinder capable of storing the detached handle and is provided with a height adjusting mechanism capable of adjusting a height of the handle, and a storage area formed integrally with the handle containing cylinder is provided with an interior storage space.
Claims13
A hair drier comprising a hair drier body and a stand for supporting the hair drier body thereon, wherein:
- said hair drier body comprises a hair drier head provided with an intake port and a blow-off port and having a blast fan, a motor driving the blast fan and an air heating mechanism disposed therebetween, and a rod grip supporting the hair drier head foldably and provided with a switch means for changing an operation of said motor and said air heating mechanism;
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- said stand comprises a grip part inserting cylinder containing said grip part detachably and provided with a height adjusting mechanism which adjusts a containable depth of said grip part, and a container part formed integrally with the grip part inserting cylinder and having a containing space formed interiorly.
A hair dryer comprising:
- a handle member;
- a cylindrical head member pivotably connected to said handle member, said head member being movable between operative and storage positions;
- an intake port provided at a first end of said cylindrical head member;
- a blow-off port provided at a second end of said cylindrical head member;
- a heating mechanism provided adjacent said intake port on the interior of said cylindrical head member;
- a blast fan provided downstream of said heating mechanism;
- a motor driving said blast fan;
- switch means for changing an operation of said motor and said heating mechanism, said switch means being provided on said handle member;
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- a stand supporting the hair dryer at said handle member, said stand including
- a handle cylinder removably supporting said handle member therein,
- a height adjusting mechanism adjusting the supporting depth of said handle cylinder,
- a container member removably storing said cylindrical head member when said hair dryer is in said storage position and said handle member is fully inserted in said handle cylinder, and
- locking means provided as a notched recess on said handle cylinder, wherein said locking means mates with said switch means when said handle member is inserted into said handle cylinder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.