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US 7,458,382 B2Granted
Hot compressing tooth hair comb
AssigneeLovely Strands LLC
InventorJason Blyden
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Abstract
A hair comb having hot compressing teeth, which in an open mode are shrouded by cooler combing teeth designed to encapsulate hair, and in a triggered mode collapse toward each other to compress the hair confined between the cooler teeth. The compressing teeth are mounted to a collapsible mechanism actuated by the comb's user. Various means may be utilized to transfer thermal energy to the heated teeth, and to allow the combing teeth to remain at a lower temperature.
Claims8
A hot compressible tooth hair comb comprising:
- a plurality of combing teeth aligned in an array, extending from and parallel to a longitudinal midline of a body-handle, whereby each of said combing teeth are formed and sized to shroud a shorter-extending heatable tooth;
- a plurality of heatable teeth equal in number to the number of said combing teeth, wherein each said heatable tooth is formed and sized to glide within said combing tooth array;
- said heatable teeth are aligned parallel to the longitudinal midline of said body-handle, and mounted to a collapsible mechanism having a plurality of junctions equal in number to at least the number of heatable teeth, whereby each heatable tooth is mounted to one of said junctions;
- at least one trigger arranged to collapse together said heatable teeth;
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- a leveling mechanism acting to restore all heatable teeth to their shrouded positions, each to within a respective combing tooth after a triggered collapse,
- wherein said combing teeth are fabricated of a material possessing sufficiently light mass and low rates of thermal absorption, and said heatable teeth are fabricated of a metallic or ceramic material possessing a high rate of thermal conduction, a high retentive thermal mass, and surfaced with a non-stick coating.
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A hot compressible tooth hair comb comprising:
- a plurality of combing teeth aligned in an array, extending from and parallel to a longitudinal midline of a body-handle, whereby each of said combing teeth are formed and sized to shroud a shorter-extending heatable tooth;
- a plurality of heatable teeth equal in number to the number of said combing teeth, wherein each said heatable tooth is formed and sized to glide within said combing tooth array;
- said heatable teeth are aligned parallel to the longitudinal midline of said body-handle, and mounted to a collapsible mechanism having a plurality of junctions equal in number to at least the number of heatable teeth, whereby each heatable tooth is mounted to one of said junctions;
- at least one trigger arranged to collapse together said heatable teeth;
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- a leveling mechanism acting to restore all heatable teeth to their shrouded positions, each to within a respective combing tooth after a triggered collapse,
- wherein the collapsible mechanism is a folding gate formed by a link and a rotatable pin consecutive series,
- whereby every second rotateable pin is the junction at which a heatable tooth is mounted;
- and whereby each said heatable tooth remains collinear to said body by the stationary operation of a secondary pin and a tertiary pin fixed to each side of said rotateable pin, wherein each said secondary pin and said tertiary pin is respectively mounted within an upper linear track and lower linear track of said handle-body;
- and wherein said leveling mechanism is a flat plate that is urged to rest atop said folding gate by a leaf spring.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.