Diffuser for a hair dryer
AssigneeBraun GmbH
InventorsJames W. Parkinson, Dieter Liebenthal
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Abstract
The invention is directed to a diffuser for a hair dryer comprising a diffuser body which is adapted to be secured to the nozzle of the hair dryer and includes a plurality of hair pickup elements (9, 10, 11) extending away from the diffuser body. At least one of the hair pickup elements (9, 10) is movably arranged on the diffuser body.
Claims32
A diffuser for a hair drier comprising a diffuser body which is adapted to be secured to a nozzle of the hair dryer and includes a plurality of hair pickup elements extending away from the diffuser body, wherein at least one of the hair pickup elements is movably arranged on the diffuser body so as to be movable relative to others of said pickup elements from a first position to a selected spatially separated second position.
A diffuser as claimed in wherein the hair pickup elements are selected from a group of objects consisting of knobs, fingers, prongs, and pins.
A diffuser for a hair dryer comprising a diffuser body which is adapted to be secured to a nozzle of the hair dryer and includes a plurality of hair pickup elements extending away from the diffuser body, said plurality of hair pickup elements including a first cluster of hair pickup elements and a second cluster of hair pickup elements, wherein said first cluster of hair pickup elements is movably arranged on the diffuser body so as to be movable relative to the second cluster of pickup elements from a first position to a selected, spatially separated second position.
A method of styling the hair of a user comprising the steps of:
- providing, on an implement for styling hair of an air moving appliance for personal use, a body including a plurality of air exit apertures and carrying a plurality of hair pickup elements having distal ends extending away from the body, wherein at least one of the hair pickup elements is movably arranged on the body so as to be displaceable relative to others of the hair pickup elements from a first position to a selected spatially separated second position;
- contacting the distal ends of the at least one of the hair pickup elements with the scalp of the user;
- displacing the at least one of the hair pickup elements from the first position to the second position;
- and
- moving the hair between the displaced one of the hair pickup elements and the others of the hair pickup elements,
- whereby a flow of air exiting the air exit apertures dries the moved hair.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.