US 5,857,263 AGranted

Reconfigurable hair drying apparatus

AssigneeChina Pacific Trade Ltd.

InventorWing-Kin Chan

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Abstract

A hair drying apparatus comprising a conventional hand-held hair dryer, a hair dryer holder, a power cord retainer and a base, wherein the hair dryer holder has features for removably receiving the hair dryer, for making an elevation adjustment for the hair dryer and for maintaining the position of the barrel of a hair dryer, the power cord retainer comprises features for storing and releasing a length of flexible power cord, such that when the hair dryer is detached from the hair dryer holding means, the hair dryer is connected to the base by a length of flexible cord released from the power cord retainer. In addition, a detachable wall-mount member may be added to this apparatus, making it transformable between hand-held, table-top and wall-mount types of hair dryer which would offer a high degree of flexibility particularly to consumers.

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Dependent claims

A hair drying apparatus reconfigurable between table-top and wall-mountable use, comprising a hand-held hair dryer, a hair dryer holding means, a power cord retaining means and a base, wherein:

said hand-held hair dryer comprises a handle, a length of flexible power cord and an elongate barrel,
said hair dryer holding means comprises means for removably receiving said handle of said hair dryer and for maintaining said barrel of said hair dryer in an operative position in both the table-top and wall-mountable configurations,
said power cord retaining means comprises means for storing and releasing a length of said flexible power cord, such that when said hair dryer is detached from said hair dryer holding means, said hair dryer is connected to said base by a length of flexible cord released from said power cord retaining means,
said base is adapted to support said hair dryer for operation on a table-top, shelf-top and other similar support surfaces, and
said power cord retaining means abuts said base and provides a variable counter-weight near the base for maintaining stability of said hair dryer when the same is used as a table-top device.

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