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US 7,582,094 B2Granted
Attachment for an epilator
AssigneeBraun GmbH
InventorsRalf Dorber, Pedro Sanchez-Martinez
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Abstract
A device for use on an epilator having a drivable epilation head with a plurality of clamping elements. The device can be adapted to cover at least one clamping to prevent the clamping element from trapping hairs.
Claims31
An epilator system, comprising:
- an epilator device having a drivable epilation head with a plurality of clamping elements distributed on its working surface and configured to move along paths of motion when the epilation head is driven, and with actuating members designed to move the clamping elements into relative clamping contact in a plucking zone in which some of the clamping elements are exposed in order to trap hairs between the some of the clamping elements and extract the trapped hairs, and with at least one control member adapted to control the actuating members;
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- an attachment secured to the epilator device in a manner such that the attachment at least partially covers at least one of the paths of motion in the plucking zone to prevent hairs from being clamped between the clamping elements that move along the at least one of the paths of motion, the at least one of the paths of motion lying between two other paths of motion that are exposed in the plucking zone and whose associated clamping elements are positioned to trap hairs.
An epilator system, comprising:
- an epilator device having a drivable epilator head with first clamping elements configured to move along first paths of motion and second clamping elements configured to move along second paths of motion when the epilation head is driven;
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- an epilator attachment comprising
- a frame that is attached to the epilator device;
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- a plurality of strips extending from a first portion of the frame to a second portion of the frame, the plurality of strips together with the first and second portions of the frame defining a plurality of apertures that are positioned over the first paths of motion such that the plurality of apertures allow the first clamping elements to pluck hair during use, and the plurality of strips positioned over the second paths of motion such that the plurality of strips substantially prevent the second clamping elements from plucking hair during use.
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An epilator system, comprising:
- an epilator device having a drivable epilator head with first clamping elements configured to move along first paths of motion and a second clamping element configured to move along a second path of motion when the epilation head is driven;
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- an epilator attachment that is attached to the epilator device, the epilator attachment defining first and second apertures, a first strip portion of the epilator attachment extending between the first and second apertures, the first and second apertures positioned over the first paths of motion such that the apertures allow the first clamping elements to pluck hair during use, and the first strip portion of the epilator attachment positioned over the second path of motion such that the first strip portion of the epilator attachment substantially prevents the second clamping element from plucking hair during use.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.