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US 8,342,187 B2Granted
Vibrating device
AssigneeConopco, Inc.
InventorsJeffrey Michael Kalman, Carolyn Marie McNeeley, John Richard Nottingham, Rachel Nottingham Colosimo, John Wilford Spirk, Jeffrey Silver Taggart, Jay Philip Tapper
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Abstract
Vibrating grooming device comprising a vibrating head (1) with bristles and/or tines (3) and a handle (2), the vibrating head comprising a motor (10) and an oscillating mass (11), the device characterized by the oscillating mass being disposed to oscillate linearly along an oscillating axis.
Claims4
Vibrating grooming device comprising (1) a vibrating head with bristles and/or tines and (2) a handle, wherein said vibrating head comprises (a) a motor, (b) an oscillating body;
- and (c) a carrier which is connected to the oscillating body at one end and to a crown gear mounted off-center pin at a second end, the crown gear engaging a motor drive shaft and wherein a vibrating movement frequency is from 20-200 Hz;
- and wherein said handle comprises a power supply in a housing, which housing is stabilized by a pin held within an aperture of a stabilizing bushing and which housing is further stabilized by a spring fixed to an inner far end of the handle's outer part;
- the device characterized by the oscillating body in the head being disposed to oscillate linearly along an oscillating axis which is perpendicular to a bristle or tine extending direction, with the carrier in the head pulling and pushing the oscillating body away from the motor in the head in said linear fashion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.