US 6,658,759 B2Granted

Nail dryer

OwnerHou-Chien Huinventor

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Abstract

A nail dryer includes a housing for contacting a user's fingers and an air stream generation unit received in the shell for generation of air stream in order to dry nail polish on the user's nails. The housing defines a plurality of vents and a plurality of apertures. Air leaves the housing through the vents and enters the housing through the apertures. The housing includes two shells each defining a plurality of apertures. One of the shells includes a plurality of hooks formed thereon and the remaining one of the shells includes a corresponding number of recesses defined therein for receiving the hooks. The air stream generation unit includes a motor and a propeller connected with the motor. The motor is connected with a DC power supply through a circuit. The circuit includes a switch. The housing includes a seat on which the motor is mounted. The seat includes a plurality of plates projecting from one of the shells. Each of the plates of the seat includes an edge complementary to the motor.

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Dependent claims

A nail dryer including:

a housing including an external face adapted to contact a user's fingers and thumb, with the external face of the housing including a first side and an opposite side, with the opposite side being located generally opposite the first side, with the first side being adapted to contact pads of the user's fingers and with the opposite side being adapted to contact a pad of the user's thumb concurrent with contact of the user's fingers on the first side, with the housing adapted to be gripped and supported between the user's fingers and thumb, with the housing not requiring a support surface when gripped and supported by the user's fingers and thumb;
a first plurality of apertures located on the first side of the external face of the housing;
a second plurality of apertures located on the opposite side of the external face of the housing;
and
an air stream generation unit received in the housing generating an air stream drying nail polish on nails of the user's fingers contacting the first plurality of apertures of the first side of the external face of the housing concurrent with drying nail polish on a nail on the user's thumb contacting the second plurality of apertures of the opposite side of the external face of the housing as the housing is gripped and supported by the user's fingers and thumb.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.