Grooming apparatus and knot remover
AssigneeLongoria Design LLC
InventorJose Longoria
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Abstract
A pet or human battery operated grooming apparatus having a housing, a number of tines formed in the housing, each tine having a slot, and a number of disk shaped blades mounted to a shaft, the shaft mounted in the housing and the blades disposed in the tine slots. A protective cover encloses most of each blade leaving only a slit open to the blade. The tines direct knots or tangles in the hair or fur of the pet, or hair of a human, to the slits and the blades. The user may then rotate the blades to cut the knots. This process occurs without any undue pulling of the associated skin of the animal or human.
Claims20
A grooming apparatus comprising:
- a housing including a handle portion and a comb portion, the comb portion having a plurality of tines, wherein a slot is positioned within each of the tines;
- a rotatable shaft mounted in the housing;
- a plurality of blades activated with the shaft, each blade of the plurality of blades being disposed in a corresponding slot;
- a protective guard connected to the housing and partially covering the plurality of blades, thereby exposing a portion of each blade through a corresponding slot opening and allowing hair and fur picked up by the tines to be directed to the blades;
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- structure connected to the shaft and mounted in the housing for causing the shaft to rotate.
A grooming apparatus comprising:
- a housing including a handle portion and a comb portion, the comb portion having a plurality of tines wherein a slot is positioned within each tine;
- a rotatable shaft mounted in the housing;
- a plurality of blades activated with the shaft, each blade of the plurality of blades being aligned with and disposed in a slot in a corresponding tine of the plurality of tines, wherein a portion of each blade is exposed through a corresponding slot opening that allows hair and fur picked up by the tines to be directed to the blades;
- a protective guard connected to the housing and partially covering the plurality of blades;
- and a motor connected to the shaft and mounted in the housing for causing the shaft to rotate.
A method for making a grooming apparatus, the steps of the method comprising:
- forming a housing, the housing including a handle portion and a comb portion, the comb portion having a plurality of tines, wherein a tine slot is positioned within each tine;
- mounting a shaft with a plurality of spaced apart blades in the housing, each blade of the plurality of blades being aligned with and disposed in a corresponding tine slot;
- connecting a protective guard to the housing for partially covering the plurality of blades;
- mounting a motor to the housing for engaging the shaft;
- and forming a battery compartment in the housing for storing batteries to energize the motor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.