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US 5,317,815 AGranted
Grille assembly for hair driers
OwnerShyh-Jye Hwanginventor
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Abstract
A grille assembly including a hopper-like barrel connector having a smaller rear connecting tube fastened around the barrel of a hair dryer and a bigger front rounded shell, a grille covered on the front opening of the rounded shell, the grille having a center shaft disposed inside the rounded shell, and a rotary vane mounted on the center shaft of the grille, whereby the rotary vane is rotated to induce outside air into the rounded shell through through holes thereon for mixing with the current of hot air being produced by the hair drier.
Claims1
A grille assembly for attachment to a hair dryer having a heated air output section comprising:
- (a) a barrel connector housing defining an open internal chamber for flow of air therethrough, said barrel connector housing having a frontal open section and a rear section forming a back wall of said barrel connector housing;
- (b) a connecting tube secured to and extending from said back wall of said barrel connector housing back wall for coupling to said heated air output section of said hair dryer, said connecting tube having a through passage in fluid communication with said open internal chamber of said barrel connector housing;
- (c) a grille secured to a sidewall of said barrel connector housing and located at said frontal section of said barrel connector housing, said grille having a grille center shaft extending internal said open chamber;
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- (d) a rotary vane rotatably mounted on said grille center shaft, said back wall of said barrel connector housing having a plurality of back wall openings formed therethrough whereby heated air from said hair dryer rotatably displaces said rotary vane inducing external air to be drawn into said open internal chamber through said back wall openings for mixing with said heated air and passage through said frontal open section of said barrel connector housing.
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