US 5,749,377 AGranted

Pedicure kit

OwnerAlphonse J. Desarioinventor

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Abstract

A pedicure kit comprises a toe spreader and a toe nail scissor that separates toes of a foot of a user who has difficulty bending without the user having to bend and cuts the toe nails on the toes of the foot of the user who has difficulty bending without the user having to bend. The combination includes an elongated and slender toe spreader, and an elongated and slender toe nail scissor. The elongated and slender toe spreader has a slender handle portion that is releasibly engagable in the palm of a hand of the user, and a toe spreader portion that is remote from the slender handle portion of the elongated and slender toe spreader and releasibly engages and separates the toes of the foot of the user from each other without the user having to bend, so that the toes of the foot of the user who has difficulty bending can be separated from each other without the user having to bend and separate the toes of the foot of the user with another hand of the user. And, the elongated and slender toe nail scissor is separate from the elongated and slender toe spreader and has a handle portion that is releasibly engagable by the thumb and the index finger of another hand of the user, and a cutting portion that is remote from the handle portion of the elongated and slender toe nail scissor and cuts the toe nails on the toes of the foot of the user without the user having to bend, so that the toe nails on the toes of the foot of the user who has difficulty bending can be cut without the user having to bend.

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Dependent claims

A pedicure kit, comprising:

a) an elongated and slender toe spreader having a slender handle portion being releasibly engagable in the palm of the hand of a user, and a toe spreader portion being remote from said slender handle portion of said elongated and slender toe spreader and releasibly engaging and separating the toes of the foot of the user from each other without the user having to bend, so that the toes of the foot of the user who has difficulty bending can be separated from each other without the user having to bend and separate the toes of the foot of the user with the other hand of the user;
said elongated and slender toe spreader further having an elongated, slender, and generally rectangular-parallelepiped-shaped body with a proximal end from which said slender handle portion of said elongated and slender toe spreader extends coplanarally upwardly, and a distal end from which said toe spreader portion of said elongated and slender toe spreader extends coplanarally downwardly;
said slender handle portion of said elongated and slender toe spreader being narrower than said elongated, slender, and generally rectangular-parallelepiped-shaped body of said elongated and slender toe spreader so as to provide a pair of lateral shoulders, so that a stop is provided when the palm of the hand of the user grips said slender handle portion of said elongated and slender toe spreader that prevents downward slipping thereof;
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b) an elongated and slender toe nail scissor being separate from said elongated and slender toe spreader and having a handle portion releasibly engagable by the thumb and the index finger of the other hand of the user, and a cutting portion remote from said handle portion of said elongated and slender toe nail scissor and cutting the toe nails on the toes of the foot of the user without the user having to bend, so that the toe nails on the toes of the foot of the user who has difficulty bending can be cut without the user having to bend.

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A method of providing a pedicure, comprising said steps of:

a) placing a user foot pad of said pedicure kit on a generally horizontal surface;
b) placing the foot of a user on said foot pad, with the ball of the foot of the user resting thereon;
c) holding a handle portion of an elongated and slender toe spreader of said pedicure kit in the palm of the hand of the user, with said elongated and slender toe spreader pointing downwardly;
d) holding a handle portion of an elongated and slender toe nail scissor of said pedicure kit in the other hand of the user, with a closed finger loop of each said handle portion of said elongated and slender toe nail scissor receiving one of the thumb and the index finger of the other hand of the user, and with said elongated and slender toe nail scissor pointing downwardly;
e) positioning a straight lower edge of a generally rectangular-parallelepiped-shaped lower part of a toe spreader portion of said elongated and slender toe spreader on the tops of the toes of the foot of the user;
f) exerting a downward force on said elongated and slender toe spreader and thereby cause three spaced-apart and generally rectangular-shaped lateral toe throughslots in said straight lower edge of said generally rectangular-parallelepiped-shaped lower part of said toe spreader portion of said elongated and slender toe spreader to slightly deform accordingly, and capture, three middle toes of the toes of the foot of the user and thereby cause the three middle toes of the toes of the foot of the user to separate from each other, while vertical sides of said generally rectangular-parallelepiped-shaped lower part of said toe spreader portion of said elongated and slender toe spreader cause a first toe and a fifth toe of the toes of the foot of the user to separate from the separated three middle toes of the toes of the foot of the user, so that the toes of the foot of the user who has difficulty bending can be separated from each other without the user having to bend and hold the toes of the foot of the user apart with the other hand of the user;
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g) cutting the toe nails on the separated toes of the foot of the user with a cutting portion of said elongated and slender toe nail scissor without the user having to bend, so that the toe nails on the toes of the foot of the user who has difficulty bending can be cut without the user having to bend.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.