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US 9,167,877 B2Granted
Apparatus for the steam treatment of hair
AssigneeSeb S.A.
InventorsGérald Serres-Vives, Bénédicte Simond
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Abstract
An apparatus for the steam treatment of hair, comprising a housing including a liquid tank, a means for supplying a steam generator with liquid, one or more openings for dispensing the steam thus generated towards a lock of hair, and a hair shaping device that comprises at least one treatment surface provided with heating means and brought into contact with a lock of hair. The steam generator includes a heating member that is thermally independent from said treatment surface.
Claims13
An apparatus for the steam treatment of hair comprising:
- a liquid tank,
- means for supplying liquid for a steam generator,
- one or a plurality of openings for dispensing the steam generated to a lock of hair, and
- a hair shaping device comprising a first arm and a second arm jointed together and displaceable in opposite directions, each arm having a generally elongate treatment surface comprising heating means and coming into contact with a lock of hair, wherein the steam generator comprises a heating element that is thermally independent of said treatment surface, and wherein the steam dispensing opening or openings are arranged on an edge of the first arm of the hair shaping device, and
- a steam deflector extends laterally outward from an edge of the second arm of the hair shaping device positioned opposite the openings for dispensing steam arranged on the edge of the first arm.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.