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US 8,490,633 B1Granted
Forced air hair curler kit
OwnerNona J. Kennedy, Amy Morininventors
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Abstract
A forced air hair curler kit for forming multiple individual curls, the kit including a housing which houses a motor, a fan, and a pair of heating elements therein, two different types of support bodies that attach to a housing front end, and two versions of attachment members each of which fit onto a different one of the support body types, the attachment members having alternating rows of air outlet holes through which heated airflow exits and rows of cone-shaped protrusions used to removably secure an amount of a user's hair to the attachment member.
Claims10
A forced air hair curler kit for forming multiple individual hair curls, the kit comprising:
- a hollow elongated tubular housing having a rear end, a front end, a first aperture disposed in the front end, a central wall centrally disposed in the front end, a second aperture disposed in the front end on an opposite side of the central wall from the first aperture, a continuous outer wall, and an interior cavity defined by the rear end, the front end, and the outer wall;
- a thin annular inner frame attached to the front end and surrounding the first aperture;
- a first screen disposed within the inner frame, the screen covering the entire first aperture, wherein the first screen permits airflow therethrough;
- a plurality of spaced apart air intake openings disposed on the rear end, each air intake opening having an internal second screen thereacross, wherein the second screen permits airflow therethrough;
- an electric motor disposed within the interior cavity proximal to the rear end;
- a fan centrally disposed within the interior cavity, the fan in operational communication with the electric motor;
- a pair of elongated heating elements disposed within the interior cavity proximal to the front end and to an inner wall of the interior cavity, the heating elements in operational communication with the motor and the fan;
- an on-off switch disposed on the outer wall, the on-off switch in operational communication with the motor, wherein the on-off switch alternately activates and deactivates the motor when the on-off switch is in an “on” position and an “off” position, respectively;
- a dual temperature switch disposed on the outer wall proximal to the on-off switch, the temperature switch in operational communication with the motor, wherein the temperature switch alternately increases and decreases energy distributed from the motor to the heating elements when the temperature switch is in a “Hi” position and a “Lo” position, respectively, whereby temperature of the heating elements is alternately increased and decreased, respectively;
- an elongated support body fixedly attached to the front end of the housing, the support body disposed in axial alignment with the housing front end;
- at least one elongated tubular attachment member releasably engaging the support body, each attachment member comprising:
- an outer surface;
- an outside edge;
- an inside edge;
- an internal cavity defined by the outer surface, the outside edge, and the inside edge;
- a plurality of spaced apart longitudinally aligned air outlet holes disposed throughout the outer surface;
- a plurality of spaced apart longitudinally aligned cone-shaped protrusions extending outwardly from the entire outer surface;
- wherein the air outlet holes and the protrusions are alternatingly disposed on the outer surface of each attachment member;
- a lock-release button disposed on the outer wall of the housing proximal to the front end, the lock-release button alternately securing and releasing the attachment member from the support body;
- wherein air passing into the interior cavity through the air intake openings is forced by the fan over the heating elements and out through the air outlet holes.
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