EP0479320A1

EP0479320A1 - Liquid hair cosmetic painting instrument

Info

Publication number: EP0479320A1
Application number: EP91116994A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Kiyohiko Fukazawa
Original assignee: Mitsubishi Pencil Co Ltd
Current assignee: Mitsubishi Pencil Co Ltd
Priority date: 1990-10-03
Filing date: 1991-10-04
Publication date: 1992-04-08
Also published as: IT1251600B; ITMI912634A1; ITMI912634A0; FR2667488A1; TW366737U; GB9120986D0; GB2250185A

Abstract

In a liquid hair cosmetic painting instrument comprising a holding shaft (1) accommodating therein a cosmetic supplying member (2) occluded with a liquid hair cosmetic, a plurality of painting cores (3) with capillary action fixed at a front end of the holding shaft, respective rear ends of said painting cores (3) being connected to the cosmetic supplying member (2) and front ends thereof being forwardly protruded from the holding shaft, the improvement which is characterized in that with the painting cores (3) lined up in plural rows substantially straight, the respective positions of the painting cores (3) in neighboring rows are arranged in deviation from each other with respect to respective directions perpendicular to the above plural rows.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Field of the Invention

This invention relates to an instrument for painting various liquid hair cosmetics such as a hairdye, hair setting agent, permanent wave lotion, hair treatment lotion and the like.

Prior Art

Heretofore, there have been employed such type of instruments for painting liquid hair cosmetic that comprise a holding shaft accommodating therein a cosmetic supplying member occluded with a liquid hair cosmetic, a plurality of painting cores with capillary action fixed at a front end portion of the holding shaft, a pair of combs parallelly provided on both sides of the painting cores, said painting cores being arranged on the front end either such that they line up in vertical and lateral directions or such that their respective positions vertically correspond to positions of the comb teeth of the combs, respective rear ends of the painting cores being connected to the cosmetic supplying member, and respective front ends of the painting cores being forwardly protruded from the holding shaft.
Such prior art liquid hair cosmetic painting instruments as described above involve such problems that they have a tendency only to paint the same portion around the hairs thereby requiring a troublesome operation for example to change the direction of painting on the hairs in order to uniformly paint on the entire surfaces around the hairs or that, when painting by the painting cores while combing the hairs by the combs, the painting cores are hidden behind the comb teeth in the direction of combing the hairs thereby resulting in insufficient contacts of the painting cores with the hairs, thus providing an unsatisfactory painting. Said problems are remarkable when the hairs are small in quantity.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

An object of the present invention is to provide an improvement in a liquid hair cosmetic painting instrument comprising a holding shaft accommodating therein a cosmetic supplyng member occluded with a liquid hair cosmetic, a plurality of painting cores with capillary action fixed at a front end of the holding shaft, respective rear ends of said painting cores being connected to the cosmetic supplying member and front ends thereof being forwardly protruded from the holding shaft, the improvement is characterized in that with the painting cores lined up in plural rows substantially straight, the respective positions of the painging cores in neighboring rows are arranged in deviation from each other with respect to respective directions perpendicular to the above plural rows. Another object of the present invention is to prvide an improvent in a liquid hair cosmetic painting instrument comprising a shaft accomodating therein a cosmetic supplying member occluded with liquid hair cosmetic, a plurality of painting cores with capillary action fixed at a front end of the shaft, a pair of combs parallelly provided on both sides of the painting cores, respective rear ends of said painting cores being connected to the cosmetic supplying member and front ends thereof being forwardly protruded from the shaft, the improvement is characterized in that, with the painting cores lined up in plural rows substantially in parallel with the combs, the painting cores in neighboring rows are arranged such that the positions of the comb teeth and the painting cores respectively deviate from each other with respect to respective directions substantially perpendicular to the rows of the comb and the painting cores.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Fig. 1 shows a front view of a hair dyeing instrument according to the present invention;
Fig. 2 shows a plan view of the hair dyeing instrument of Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 is a side view of the same;
Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken along a line IV - IV in Fig. 2;
Fig. 5 is a front view showing another hair dyeing instument to that of Figs. 1 - 4;
Fig. 6 is a plan view of the same; and
Fig. 7 is a sectional view taken along a line VII - VII in Fig. 6.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION AND THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

Referring npw to the accompanying drawings illustrating hair dyeing instruments according to the present invention, detailed description will be given below of the present invention.
Referring first to Figs. 1 - 4, a holding shaft 1 consists of an outer shaft 3, an inner shaft 6 and a front shaft 7. The inner shaft 6 accommodates therein a cosmetic supplying member 2. In a center portion of the front shaft 7 is fixedly inserted a mount 8 through which painting cores 3 are inserted. On an outer peripheral portion of the inner shaft 6 is provided a screw 10 on which a cap 9 is engaged. The cosmetic supplying member 2 accommodated in the inner shaft 6 has such a construction that milled fibres 11 are wrapped in a hundle of cylindrical form, the outer peripheral surface thereof is covered by a synthetic resin coating 12, and a liquid hair cosmetic is occluded therein. The painting cores 3 inserted through the mount 8 per se fixedly inserted in the front shaft 7 are slender sticks of felts treated with resin, and each rear end thereof is sharpened and inserted into the above cosmetic supplying member 2 from the front end thereof, while each curved surface of the front end protrudes forward of the mount 8. The painting cores 3 are thicker than the cosmetic supplying member 2 and draw up the liquid cosmetic from the cosmetic supplying member 2 by way of a capillary action. The painting cores 3 are straightly arranged on the mount 8 in two rows, and on both sides of the painting cores 3 are provided combs 4 in parallel with the rows of the painting cores 3. The combs 4 are implanted on the front shaft 7. Painting operation is naturally carried out while combing the hairs by the combs 4, and accordingly, the rows of the painting cores 3 and the combs are substantially perpendicular to the direction of the painting operation. As well be seen from Fig. 4, the painting cores 3 lined up in the rows are arranged in deviation from each other so that the positions of the painting cores 3 in a first row should not line up with those in a second row with respect to the painting direction. In other words, respective painting cores in the second row are positioned between those in the first row with respect to the painting direction. With the hair dyeing instrument in the above embodiment, the hairs are forced to flex when passing through the painting cores to increase the contacting areas of the painting cores and the hairs and thus the entire surface of the hairs can be uniformly painted. Accordingly, the painting operation can be easily and surely carried out even when the hairs are small in quantity.
Figs. 5 - 7 illustrate another embodiment of the hair dyeing instrument. In this embodiment, the respective positions of the painting cores are different from those of the above-mentioned. Namely, the painting cores 3 are arranged in two straight rows on the mount 8, with 6 painting cores 3 lined up in a row. On both sides of the painting cores 3 are arranged combs 4 implanted in the front shaft 7. Painting operation is naturally carried out while combing the hairs by the combs 4 and the rows of the painting cores 3 and the combs 4 are substantially perpendicular to the direction of the painting operation. In this embodiment, the painting cores substantially in parallel with the combs 4 are arranged in deviation from respective comb teeth of the combs 4 so that respective painting cores 3 may position between respective comb teeth of the combs 4.
With the hair dyeing instrument in the above second embodiment, the hairs combed by the combs 4, or the hairs passed through the comb teeth necessarily contact the painting cores to be surely painted. Accordingly, the hairs can be satisfactorily painted without lack of uniformity even when the hairs are small in quantity.

Claims

In a liquid hair cosmetic painting instrument comprising a holding shaft accommodating therein a cosmetic supplyng member occluded with a liquid hair cosmetic, a plurality of painting cores with capillary action fixed at a front end of the holding shaft, respective rear ends of said painting cores being connected to the cosmetic supplying member and front ends thereof being forwardly protruded from the holding shaft, the improvement which is characterized in that with the painting cores lined up in plural rows substantially straight, the respective positions of the painging cores in neighboring rows are arranged in deviation from each other with respect to respective directions perpendicular to the above plural rows.
In a liquid hair cosmetic painting instrument comprising a shaft accomodating therein a cosmetic supplying member occluded with liquid hair cosmetic, a plurality of painting cores with capillary action fixed at a front end of the shaft, a pair of combs parallelly provided on both sides of the painting cores, respective rear ends of said painting cores being connected to the cosmetic supplying member and front ends thereof being forwardly protruded from the shaft, the improvement which is characterized in that, with the painting cores lined up in plural rows substantially in parallel with the combs, the painting cores in neighboring rows are arranged such that the positions of the comb teeth and the painting cores respectively deviate from each other with respect to respective directions substantially perpendicular to the rows of the comb and the painting cores.