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US 5,133,722 AGranted
Method and device for plucking hair
AssigneesElecsys Ltd., Product Development (S.G.Z.) Ltd.
InventorsZohar Avrahami, Joseph Gross, Shlomo Zucker
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Abstract
A method and device for plucking hair by engaging the hair with a hair-plucker body to clamp the hair thereto, moving the hair-plucker body and the hair clamp thereto in the plucking direction with respect to the skin, and successively interrupting the movement of the hair-plucker body and the hair clamp thereto such that the hair-plucker body applies a series of short tugs to the hair until it is plucked from the skin.
Claims22
A method of plucking hair from a person's skin, comprising:
- engaging the hair with a hair-plucker body to firmly clamp the hair thereto;
- moving the hair-plucker body, and the hair clamped thereto, away from the skin to pluck the hair therefrom;
- and successively interrupting the movement of the hair-plucker body and the hair while clamped thereto such that the hair-plucker body applies a plurality of short tugs to the clamped hair until it is plucked from the skin.
A device for plucking hair from a person's skin, comprising:
- a hair-plucker body for firmly clamping the hair and movable away from the skin until the hair is plucked therefrom;
- and a drive for successively interrupting the movement of the hair-plucker body and the hair while clamped thereto at a frequency of about 10-200 interruptions per second, such that the hair-plucker body applies a series of short tugs to the clamped hair until it is plucked from the skin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.