Hair removal system for use prior to skin treatment
OwnerHamid Taghaddosinventor
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Abstract
An accessory device attachable to a hand piece producing a beam for removal of hair from the skin of a patient prior to skin treatment on a body part, such device including a strip of material disposed between the hand piece and the patient's skin to interfer with the beam emitted from the hand piece to heat the surface of the skin under the material for burning only the hair and not the skin of the patient, such burnt hair adhering to the material. A method of removing hair from the skin of a body part of a patient prior to skin treatment on such body part is also disclosed.
Claims4
A device in combination with a hand piece producing a beam for the removal of hair from the skin of a body of a patient prior to skin treatment, comprising:
- a material adapted to be disposed between said hand piece and said body of the patient, such material interfering with said beam sufficiently to cause heating and burning of said hair but not burning of said skin, said burnt hair adhering to said material for the removal thereof, wherein said device is removably attached to said hand piece, and said device further including a dispensing roll for dispensing said material.
A hair removal system for the removal of hair from the skin of a body part of a patient prior to skin treatment on said body part, comprising:
- a hand piece, said hand piece emitting a beam;
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- a material adapted to be disposed between said hand piece and the body part of said patient, said material interfering with said beam directed at said body part through said material, said beam creating heat under said material to burn the hair on said body part but not burn the skin, said burnt hair adhering to said material, said device further including means to move said material under said beam, said material picking up said burnt hair as it is moved wherein said means to move said material comprises a dispensing roll for dispensing said material and a take-up reel for taking up said material, said dispensing roll and take-up reel attachable on opposite sides of said hand piece, said material to be moved from said dispensing roll, between said hand piece and said body part of the patient under said beam, to said take-up reel.
A method of removing hair from the skin of a body part of a patient prior to skin treatment on said body part, comprising the steps of:
- providing a piece of material;
- placing said material on the skin of said body part;
- providing a hand piece producing a beam;
- directing said beam through said material;
- interfering with said beam by said material;
- heating and burning said hair on said body part under said material by said beam without burning said skin sufficiently to cause said burnt hair to adhere to said material;
- removing said material with burnt hair adhered thereto;
- providing a length of said material;
- providing said length of material in a roll form;
- providing a dispensing roll for dispensing said length of material therefrom;
- providing a take-up reel for taking up said length of material;
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- rolling up said length of material with said burnt hair adhered thereon on said take-up reel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.