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US 7,631,645 B2Granted
Method and device for applying hair color
OwnerKaren L. Gayton, Stephen Heath Gaytoninventors
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Abstract
A device and method for coloring hair having at least two chambers within a larger container. At least one chamber wall or membrane is broken to allow the mixing of the content of the chambers, which combine to produce a hair coloring solution. The larger container has a brush or sponge like filter applicator through which the hair coloring solution can be dispensed directly onto the chosen hair area. The larger container preferably is manufactured from a squeezable material such as a polymer so that the larger container can be squeezed to assist in dispensing the hair color solution.
Claims16
A device for applying color to hair comprising:
- (a) a larger container made from a flexible material;
- (b) at least one crushable disk located within the larger flexible container and dividing the larger flexible container into a first chamber and a second chamber;
- wherein
- said first chamber has a second end comprising a crushable disk and wherein said second chamber has a first end comprising a crushable disk;
- (c) a first solution contained within the first chamber;
- (d) a second solution contained within the second chamber;
- (e) an applicator for applying a combination solution comprising the first solution and the second solution to hair, said applicator directly connected to said larger container;
- and
- (f) a rupturable sealing membrane located between the first chamber and the applicator;
- a rotatable dial, a shaft centrally mounted on said dial at one end, and in connection with a first end of said first chamber, a cutting blade superjacent the second end of said first chamber and subjacent the first end of said second chamber, whereby rotating the dial moves the shaft so to apply pressure to said first chamber and to move the crushable disk at the second end of said first chamber into contact with said cutting blade, wherein the first solution and the second solution can be combined across the ruptured crushable disk
- wherein at least one of the first solution and the second solution comprises a hair colorant, and
- wherein rupturing the at least one crushable disk allows the first solution to mix with the second solution and to form the combination solution and rupturing the sealing membrane allows the combination solution to be dispensed from the applicator.
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A device for applying color to hair comprising:
- (a) a larger container having an open top and made from a flexible material;
- (b) a crushable disk located within the larger flexible container and dividing the larger flexible container into a first chamber and a second chamber, wherein said first chamber has a second end comprising a crushable disk and wherein said second chamber has a first end comprising a crushable disk;
- (c) a first solution contained within the first chamber;
- (d) a second solution contained within the second chamber;
- (e) an applicator for applying a combination solution comprising the first solution and the second solution to hair, the applicator being attached to the open top of the larger container;
- (f) a rupturable sealing membrane located between the first chamber and the applicator;
- (g)a rotatable dial;
- (h) a shaft centrally mounted on said dial at one end, and in connection with a first end of said first chamber;
- and
- (i) a hollow, cylindrical cutting blade superjacent the second end of said first chamber and subjacent the first end of said second chamber, whereby rotating the dial moves the shaft so to apply pressure to said first chamber and move the crushable disk at the second end of said first chamber into contact with said cutting blade which moves the cutting blade and causes the cutting blade to contact and rupture the crushable disk at the first end of said second chamber,
- wherein at least one of the first solution and the second solution comprises a hair colorant, and
- wherein rupturing the crushable disk allows the first solution to mix with the second solution through said hollow, cylindrical cutting blade so as to form the hair colorant and rupturing the sealing membrane allows the hair colorant to be dispensed from the applicator.
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A method for applying hair colorant comprising:
- (a) providing a device with an applicator and having a first solution and a second solution contained within a larger flexible container and separated by a crushable disk therein, the larger flexible container having an open top, the device further having a rupturable sealing membrane, wherein at least one of the first solution and the second solution comprises a hair colorant;
- (b) rupturing the crushable disk with at least one hollow, cylindrical blade such that the first solution and the second solution flow through said hollow, cylindrical blade so as to allow the first solution to come into mixing contact with the second solution;
- (c) mixing the first solution with the second solution within the larger container so as to produce a hair color solution comprising the hair colorant;
- (d) rupturing the sealing membrane so as to allow the hair colorant to exit the larger container through the open top to the applicator;
- and
- (e) dispensing the hair color solution through the applicator onto the chosen hair area.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.