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US 5,024,243 AGranted
Comb for practicing selective hair coloring
OwnerSusan L. Snyderinventor
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Abstract
A method of coloring selected hair shafts with a hair treating material, while leaving adjacent hair shafts untreated, in which hair treating material is laid down simultaneously onto a plurality of generally parallel spaced and non-overlapping areas running along the lay of the hair; a method of touching up hair which has been so treated, after the roots have grown out; and a coloring comb adapted to use in the method, said coloring comb having narrow dispensing gullets separated by plural combing teeth.
Claims31
A hair coloring apparatus comprising:
- a thixotropic hair coloring material;
- a reservoir section adapted to contain said thixotropic hair coloring material;
- a handle-pump section having means to pump hair coloring material;
- manually actuated means in said handle-pump section to actuate said means to pump and to thereby suck thixotropic hair coloring material from one end of said handle-pump section and deliver it to the other end;
- said means to pump delivering an amount of thixotropic hair coloring material and delivering it at a rate determined by the amount of movement and the speed of movement, respectively, of said manually actuated means;
- whereby controlled continuous pumping of thioxtropic hair coloring material is achieved in accordance with progressive manual squeezing of said manually actuated means;
- a comb-head section having a comb, bores in the spine of said comb for delivering thixotropic hair coloring material in said bores to the base of selected gullets between the teeth of said comb;
- there being unselected gullets, located between said selected gullets having no bores and to which no thixotropic hair coloring materials is delivered;
- means to detachably affix said reservoir section to the suctin end of sid handle-pump means can suck thirotropic hair coloring material from saaid reservoir section;
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- means to detachably affix said comb-head to said delivery end of said handle-pump in operative relationship, whereby said pump means can deliver thixotropic hair coloring material sucked from said reservoir through the handle-pump to the bores in said spine and to said elected gullets.
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A hair coloring apparatus comprising a comb-head, said comb-head having:
- a thixotropic hair coloring material;
- a longitudinal spine;
- a plurality of aligned teeth projecting from said spine and defining a series of gullets between successive teeth;
- a longitudinal main bore extending along the length of said spine;
- a plurality of branch bores extending from said longitudinal main bore to selected ones only of said gullets;
- said selected gullets and the unselected gullets being arranged in a repeating sequence;
- means on said spine adapted to receive said thixotropic hair coloring material for passage into said longitudinal main bore and said plurality of branch bores;
- whereby, when said comb-head is stroked through a laminar sheaf, said spine is adapted to slide along said face of said laminar sheaf, said plurality of aligned teeth are adapted to guide said comb-head along the lay of said laminar sheaf;
- said selected gullets act as reservoirs of said thixotropic hair coloring material and isolators of those strands of hair held in said selected gullets, so that those strands of hair are treated;
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- whereby other strands of hair, isolated in unselected gullets, remain untreated.
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An apparatus for coloring hair, the combination of comb-head, a handle therefor and a thixotropic hair coloring material;
- said comb-head comprising:
- a longitudinal spine;
- a plurality of aligned teeth projecting from said spine and defining series of gullets between successive teeth;
- a longitudinal main bore extending along the length of said spine;
- a plurality of branch bores extending from said longitudinal main bore to selected ones only of said gullets there being unselected gullets which have no associated branch bores;
- said selected and unselected gullets being arranged in a repeating sequence;
- means on said spine adapted to receive thixotropic hair coloring material for passage into said longitudinal main bore and said plurality of branch bores;
- said handle comprising:
- means for supplying thixotropic hair coloring material and means for delivering said thixotropic hair coloring material to said means on said spine adapted to receive thixotropic hair coloring material
- manually actuable means for controlling the amount and rate of delivery of the thixotropic hair coloring material to said comb-head;
- whereby, when said comb-head is stroked through a laminar sheaf, said spine is adapted to slide along said face of said laminar sheaf, said plurality of aligned teeth are adapted to guide said comb-head along the lay of said laminar sheaf;
- said selected gullets act as reservoirs of thixotropic hair coloring material and isolators of those strands of hair held in said selected gullets, so that those strands of hair are treated;
- whereby other stands of hair, isolated in unselected gullets, remain untreated;
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- whereby, further, the amount and the rate of application of thixotropic hair coloring material applied to said those strands of hair held in said selected gullets is manually controllable during the time the comb-head is stroked through the laminar sheaf.
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A hair coloring apparatus comprising:
- a thixotropic hair coloring material;
- a reservoir section adapted to contain said thixotropic hair coloring material;
- a handle-pump section having means to pump thixotropic hair coloring material;
- means to actuate said pump to suck said thixotropic hair coloring material from one end of said handle-pump and deliver it to the other end;
- a comb-head section having a comb, bores in the spine of said comb for delivering said thixotropic hair coloring material in said bores to the base of selected gullets between the teeth of said comb;
- means to detachably affix said reservoir section to the section end of said handle-pump in operative relationship, whereby said pump means can such said thixotropic hair coloring material from said reservoir section;
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- means to detachably affix said comb-head to said delivery end of said handle-pump in operative relationship, whereby said pump means can deliver said thixotropic hair coloring material sucked from said reservoir section through the handle-pump to the bores in said spine and to said selected gullets.
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A human hair coloring apparatus comprising in combination:
- a thixotropic hair coloring material;
- a comb means for selectively applying said thixotropic hair coloring material to limited portions of a head of human hair, said comb comprising:
- reservoir means for holding said thixotropic hair coloring material, gullets, and passage ways extending from said reservoir to said gullets of said comb and providing for transportation of said thixotropic hair color material between said reservoir and said gullets;
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- wherein said comb means for selectively applying layers of thixotropic hair coloring material lays down separated areas of said thixotropic hair color material.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.