US 5,108,409 AGranted

Depilating apparatus

OwnerJacques Demeesterinventor

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Abstract

A depilating apparatus has a depilator head (1) comprising a series of movable blades (7) arranged in pairs for forming a plurality of tweezers for gripping and pulling out the hairs to be eliminated. The depilator head is linked with a mechanical drive adapted for imparting thereto a translational movement, substantially along a plane (X-X') parallel to the plane defined by the free edges of the movable blades (7) forming the gripping tongs, and for further imparting thereto, during this translational movement, a movement of retraction away from this plane (X-X'), this latter movement taking place along an axis (Z-Z') perpendicular to this plane. There is further an actuator for driving the movable gripping blades (7) so as to effect the closing of the pinching tongs before the beginning of the retraction movement of the depilator head, and to cause these tongs to open and to remain open until they are closed again before the next retraction of the depilator head.

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Dependent claims

A depilating apparatus comprising a depilator head including movable blades forming together at least one pair of gripping blades which are alternately opened and closed for pulling out hairs which are to be eliminated, wherein said depilator head (1) is mounted on one end of a housing (2) of said apparatus and is coupled with actuating means in said housing adapted for imparting to said head:

a first movement having periodically a main component which is substantially parallel to a working plane (X-X') of said depilator head and hence to a skin surface, and is also parallel to edges of the gripping blades (7) so as to facilitate, by means of a combing action, the engagement of the hairs which are to be pulled out between the gripping blades (7);
a second movement, which is a recoil, wherein said depilator head moves away from said working plane (X-X'), along an axis (Z-Z') which is substantially perpendicular to said working plane (X-X'), while the gripping blades (7) remain oriented in a same direction with their edges oriented towards the working plane;
said actuating means alternately causing the closing of the blades prior to the recoil of the depilator head (1) and then the opening of said blades until they become closed again before another recoil movement of the depilator head takes place.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.