Rotary cylinder for an epilating appliance

A rotary cylinder for an epilating appliance for personal use, comprising

• a plurality of pairs of clamping members arranged on the cylinder circumference in a plurality of rows extending in a direction of the cylinder rotational axis,
• a plurality of actuators operating the pairs of clamping members into and subsequently out of relative gripping engagement in a plucking zone along a shell surface of the rotary cylinder, each actuator operating one pair of clamping members, wherein each row has at least a first and a second pair of clamping members and associated first and second actuators, and
• at least one control member driving the actuators to operate the pairs of clamping members into gripping engagement in a region of the plucking zone,
• whereby the first and second pairs of clamping members of each row traverse the plucking zone together in gripping engagement during cylinder rotation.

A rotary cylinder for an epilating appliance for personal use, comprising

• a cylinder body having opposed axial ends and a rotational axis extending therebetween,
• a plurality of pairs of generally elongate clamping blades disposed within the cylinder body and extending across the cylinder body, the clamping blades of each pair being in adjacent facing relation and relatively movable, each clamping blade having at least first and second terminal regions disposed at spatially separated regions of a surface of the cylinder body, each terminal region defining a clamping member, whereby two adjacent clamping members form a pair of clamping members relatively movable for plucking hair of a user in a plucking zone along a shell surface of the cylinder body,
• at least one control member disposed at one of said axial ends, and
• a plurality of actuators disposed in the cylinder body, said actuators being driven by the control member and extending from the control member to contact the pairs of clamping blades, wherein at least one clamping blade of each pair of clamping blades is contacted by at least one actuator, each said at least one actuator not contacting another clamping blade.

A modular rotary cylinder for an epilating appliance for personal use, comprising

• a plurality of disks forming a cylinder body, each disk comprising
• front and rear faces joined by a circumferential surface around a rotational axis between the front and rear faces,
• each face defining a groove extending across the face,
• a movable clamping blade received in the front face groove and a stationary clamping blade received in the rear face groove,
• wherein each pair of adjacent disks has the front face groove of a first disk in register with the rear face groove of a second disk, and wherein adjacent pairs of movable and stationary clamping blades disposed between registering grooves define pairs of clamping members proximal the adjacent circumferential surfaces, and
• a plurality of actuators received in the rotary cylinder contacting the clamping blades and adapted to by driven by a control member,
• whereby an axial length of the modular rotary cylinder is selected by assembling the pairs of disks.

A rotary cylinder for an epilating appliance for personal use, comprising

• a shell surface surrounding a rotational axis,
• the shell surface defining at least one hair guiding channel, the channel bounded by first and second channel walls in spaced facing relation, and extending in an axial direction in a manner of a screw thread about the rotational axis, and
• a plurality of pairs of clamping members relatively movable into and out of hair gripping engagement in a plucking zone of the shell surface, the hair guiding channel intersecting at least a portion of the plurality of pairs of clamping members,
• whereby during rotation of the cylinder hair of skin of a user to be depilated is guidingly supported into the pairs of clamping members.