Appliance for hair styling and/or hair drying

Abstract

An appliance (1) for hair styling and/or hair drying and especially for encing the condition, body and/or volume of the hair of a user, for a personal-use airflow device, especially a hair dryer or hot air curling brush, has a base body (2), a carrier plate (3) which adjoins the front of the base body (2), and a plurality of finger-like hair gripping elements (5) located on a first region (4) of the carrier plate (3) and projecting from it. Using the appliance (1) according to the invention, an outstanding hair styling and hair drying effect can be achieved by the carrier plate (3) having a second region (6) which adjoins the lower side of the first region (4) which is without hair gripping elements (5), and by at least some of the hair gripping elements (5) and the second region (6) being matched to one another such that, when appliance (1) is being used, the second region (6) of carrier plate (3) lies at least partially on the head of the user, while the hair gripping elements (5) are made to engage the hair and at least in part to lie against the head of the user in an essentially tangential arrangement of the hair gripping elements (5) relative to the head of the user.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.