Depilation apparatus with twisting action

A depilation apparatus provided with a depilation member having pinching elements for consecutively holding hairs which grow from the skin clamped in and pulling said hairs from the skin, the depilation apparatus being provided with means for twisting the hairs about their longitudinal axes before the depilation member pulls the hairs from the skin,

• wherein the depilation member comprises at least two disc-shaped pinching elements which are rotatable relative to a housing, which extend transverse to a depilation opening of the housing, and which are displaceable from a catching position, in which a pinching surface of one of the pinching elements is at a distance from a pinching surface of the other pinching element, into a pinching position, in which the pinching elements exert a pinching force on one another through the pinching surfaces, and
• wherein said means for twisting the hairs comprises a depilation member wherein the pinching elements have different rotation speeds at least temporarily while in the pinching position and the pinching surfaces of the pinching elements are slideable alongside one another in the pinching position, and wherein the two pinching discs have non-coaxial rotation axes and are in engagement with one another by means of surfaces which are undulated in circumferential direction, having different numbers of undulations, while one of the two pinching discs can be driven.

A depilation apparatus provided with a depilation member having pinching elements for consecutively holding hairs which grow from the skin clamped in and pulling said hairs from the skin, the depilation apparatus being provided with means for twisting the hairs about their longitudinal axes before the depilation member pulls the hairs from the skin,

• wherein the depilation member comprises at least two disc-shaped pinching elements which are rotatable relative to a housing, which extend transverse to a depilation opening of the housing, and which are displaceable from a catching position, in which a pinching surface of one of the pinching elements is at a distance from a pinching surface of the other pinching element, into a pinching position, in which the pinching elements exert a pinching force on one another through the pinching surfaces,
• wherein one of the pinching elements is fastened on a drive shaft which is rotatably journalled relative to the housing and is shiftable in axial direction, while the other pinching element is journalled so as to be freely rotatable relative to the housing, and
• wherein said means for twisting the hairs comprises a depilation member wherein the pinching elements have different rotation speeds at least temporarily while in the pinching position obtained by an auxiliary disc which can be driven, which is arranged parallel to the disc-shaped pinching elements, and which is displaceable relative to the freely rotatable pinching element and temporarily bears on the freely rotatable pinching element in the pinching position of the pinching elements.