EP2198740B1 - Chapiteau de volumiseur ainsi qu'appareil de mise en forme de cheveux doté d'un tel chapiteau - Google Patents

Chapiteau de volumiseur ainsi qu'appareil de mise en forme de cheveux doté d'un tel chapiteau Download PDF

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EP2198740B1
EP2198740B1 EP09178007A EP09178007A EP2198740B1 EP 2198740 B1 EP2198740 B1 EP 2198740B1 EP 09178007 A EP09178007 A EP 09178007A EP 09178007 A EP09178007 A EP 09178007A EP 2198740 B1 EP2198740 B1 EP 2198740B1
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volumiser
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Klaus Hafemann
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45D—HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING
    • A45D20/00—Hair drying devices; Accessories therefor
    • A45D20/04—Hot-air producers
    • A45D20/08—Hot-air producers heated electrically
    • A45D20/10—Hand-held drying devices, e.g. air douches
    • A45D20/12—Details thereof or accessories therefor, e.g. nozzles, stands
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45D—HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING
    • A45D20/00—Hair drying devices; Accessories therefor
    • A45D20/04—Hot-air producers
    • A45D20/08—Hot-air producers heated electrically
    • A45D20/10—Hand-held drying devices, e.g. air douches
    • A45D20/12—Details thereof or accessories therefor, e.g. nozzles, stands
    • A45D20/122—Diffusers, e.g. for variable air flow
    • A45D20/124—Diffusers, e.g. for variable air flow comprising rotating elements

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  • the invention relates to a Haarvolumiseranksatz for connection to an air flow generating device, such as an Aircurler, with a volumizing unit, wherein the volumizing unit is spaced with their hair styling fingers by an elbow from a coupling portion for connecting the Harrvolumiseretzsatzes to the device.
  • Volumizers are hair styling devices with which volume is to be introduced into hair to be formed using an air stream, preferably a stream of hot air.
  • volumizer devices are attachments that can be placed on an airflow generating device, such as an aircurler or a hairdryer.
  • Such a volumizer attachment has a coupling piece for mechanically connecting it to the hand-held device providing the airflow.
  • the coupling piece which is typically designed as a coupling ring, the actual voting unit is with a plurality of longer, of a concave and therefore complementary to the curvature of the human head arched surface parallel to each other protruding hair styling finger.
  • openings are introduced as an outlet of the introduced over the coupling portion in the essay air flow.
  • a hair styling device with such a volumiser attachment is off GB 2 374 801 A known.
  • the air flow providing device is a conventional hair dryer, on the air outlet opening of the Volumiseraufsatz is plugged.
  • the hair styling fingers extend parallel to the longitudinal axis of the hair styling device.
  • Outside the air flow channel of the hair dryer has an electric motor drive unit with a drive wheel which acts on a disposed within the housing of the hair dryer rotatably mounted coupling piece.
  • the on this coupler attached Volumiseraufsatz can then be driven in total oscillating about its longitudinal axis.
  • the hair styling fingers are reciprocated around the longitudinal axis of the volumizer top.
  • the invention is therefore the object of developing a designed as an angle essay Volumiseraufsatz such that its Volumiseriens total or a portion thereof can be driven with an oscillating rotational movement.
  • This Haarvolumiseraufsatz has disposed within the coupling portion drive shaft. Consequently, a drive of a part of the Haarvolumisseraufsatzes is possible.
  • the coupling ring as such, together with the angle relative to the rotatably mounted volumizing unit or the rotatably mounted portion thereof the stator. Since this Haarvolumiseraufsatz is designed as an angular attachment, it is necessary to implement the introduced via the drive shaft rotational movement in an angularly arranged for this output movement. This necessary power conversion is utilized to simultaneously implement the same with the force conversion a rotational rotational movement of the drive shaft in an oscillating rotational movement of the volumizing unit or the rotatably mounted part thereof.
  • the drive shaft has an eccentric to its axis of rotation arranged drive element which engages in a power converter.
  • the force conversion can for example take place in that the output element is a radially outwardly cranked end portion of the drive shaft, which engages in a longitudinal groove about an axis of rotation of the drive shaft angularly extending axis of rotation of the power converter.
  • the measure of the oscillating rotational movement is defined in this embodiment by the degree of cranking and thus the offset of the drive element from the axis of rotation of the drive shaft.
  • the force converter comprises a gimbal mounted conversion element and in this way a friction wear of the mutually moving parts is reduced.
  • a Haarvolumiseraufsatz 1 is designed as an angular attachment and has a not further designed coupling ring 2 for connecting the Haarvolumiseraufsatzes 1 to a in FIG. 1 marked with the reference numeral 3 handset 3, which is executed in the illustrated embodiment as Aircurler.
  • the handset 3 has a fan, not shown, for generating an air flow.
  • heating registers 4 are arranged for heating the air flow generated by the fan.
  • the air flow direction is indicated by a block arrow.
  • Assigned to the handset 3 is further an electric motor drive device 5 with a drive shaft 6, which extends into the region of the mouth 7 of the air outlet opening of the handset 3. At the free end, the drive shaft 6 carries a coupling piece eighth
  • the Haarvololumiseretzsatz 1 the actual, separated by an elbow from the coupling ring 2 Volumisertician 9 with their hair styling fingers 10 in an oscillating rotatably mounted portion 11 and the rotatable portion 11 concentrically enclosing annular portion 12 is divided. Both the region 11 and the ring section 12 carry hair styling fingers 10.
  • the rotatable mounting of the region 11 of the volumizing unit 9 is not shown in detail.
  • the Haarvolumiseraufsatz 1 has a drive shaft 13 which carries at its free end to the coupling piece 8 of the drive shaft 6 of the device 3 complementary coupling piece 14.
  • the two coupling pieces 8, 14 are, when the Haarvolumiseretzsatz 1 is connected with its coupling ring 2 to the device 3, torque-locking engagement.
  • the above the Haarvolumiseretzsatzes 1 in FIG. 1 The block arrow shown represents the assembly movement of Haarvolumiseretzsatzes 1 for connecting the same to the device 3.
  • the drive shaft 13 of the Haarvolumiseretzsatzes 1 is rotatably driven during operation of the drive means 5 of the device 3.
  • the drive shaft 13 has an eccentric to its axis of rotation arranged drive element, which is designed as a drive pin 15 in the illustrated embodiment.
  • the drive pin 15 engages in a Umsetzelement 16, which for Conversion rotational drive movement of the drive shaft 13 in an oscillating rotational movement of the region 11 of the volumizing unit 9 and for converting the drive movement in an angularly to the axis of rotation of the drive shaft 13 is carried out rotational movement.
  • a Umsetzelement 16 which for Conversion rotational drive movement of the drive shaft 13 in an oscillating rotational movement of the region 11 of the volumizing unit 9 and for converting the drive movement in an angularly to the axis of rotation of the drive shaft 13 is carried out rotational movement.
  • the Haarvolumiseraufsatz 1 is a total of airflow.
  • the air flow flowing in via the coupling ring 2 of the Haarvolumiseretzsatzes 1 of the device 3 is supplied to the Volumizerü 9.
  • the bottom of the volumizing unit 9 and individual Haarformfinger 10 have openings for discharging the air flow.
  • the bottom of the area 11 has openings for admitting a partial air flow and feeding it to the hair accommodated with the hair styling fingers 10 of the area 11.
  • the design and storage of the Umsetziatas 16 is below with reference to the FIGS. 2 and 3 described.
  • the conversion element 16 is mounted in a holder 18.
  • a holder 18 For this purpose, has in the illustrated embodiment spherical Umsetzelement 16 via stub axle 19, 19.1, which engage in corresponding bearing openings of the overall U-shaped bracket 18 executed.
  • the drive pin 15 is as out FIG. 2 recognizable, inclined relative to the rotational axis of the drive shaft 13 and engages in a provided for receiving the drive pin 15, correspondingly inclined bore 20 of the Umsetziatas 16.
  • the holder 18 is torque-connected to the output shaft 17 and thus rotatable about the support of the output shaft 17 within the Volumiseretzsatzes 1 stored. In an operation of the drive shaft 13 in the in FIG.
  • the rotational rotational movement of the drive shaft 13 is divided by the gimbal bearing of the Umsetziatas 16 in two oscillating rotational movements about two gimbal axes, namely the in FIG. 3 designated axes of rotation D H and D v .
  • the axis of rotation D H is the axis of rotation of the transfer element 16 about the axis of the two stub axles 19, 19.1.
  • the axis of rotation D v is the axis of rotation of the output shaft 17. Consequently, the transfer element 16 is gimbaled.
  • the the drive pin 15 receiving Bore 20 of the Umsetzettis 16 describes during operation of the drive shaft 13 a circular path (see. FIG. 3 ).
  • the transfer element 16 and the holder 18 carrying the transfer element 16 are located within the Haarvolumiseraufsatzes 1 spaced from the side walls. This leaves a sufficient flow cross-sectional area for the volumizing unit 9 to be supplied air flow.
  • the output shaft 17 is mounted in the illustrated embodiment in the region of the holder 18 in a bearing point 21.
  • the bearing 21 is connected via spokes 22 to the wall of the attachment 1.
  • the spoke space is also designed to provide a sufficient flow cross-sectional area.

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  1. Chapiteau de volumiseur à raccorder sur un appareil (3) produisant un flux d'air, par exemple un sèche-cheveux boucleur, comportant une unité de volumiseur (9), l'unité de volumiseur (9), avec ses doigts (10) de mise en forme des cheveux, étant éloignée par une pièce coudée d'un tronçon de couplage (2) destiné à raccorder le chapiteau de volumiseur (1) à l'appareil (3), caractérisé en ce que l'unité de volumiseur (9) du chapiteau de volumiseur (1), dans son ensemble ou dans une partie seulement (11) de cette dernière, est logée de façon rotative et en ce que le chapiteau de volumiseur (1) dispose afin d'entraîner cette dernière d'un arbre d'entraînement (13), logé de façon rotative à l'intérieur du tronçon de couplage (2), avec un élément de couplage (14) destiné à raccorder l'arbre d'entraînement (13) à un arbre (6) entraîné en rotation dans l'appareil (3), lequel arbre d'entraînement (13) du chapiteau (1) supporte, sur son extrémité de sortie d'arbre, un élément d'entraînement (15) disposé de façon excentrique par rapport à l'axe de rotation de l'arbre d'entraînement (13), qui s'engage, afin d'entraîner l'unité de volumiseur (9) ou la partie (11) de cette dernière, dans un évidement (20) d'un convertisseur de forces (16, 18) qui convertit le mouvement rotatif d'entraînement de l'élément d'entraînement (15) en un mouvement rotatif oscillant de l'unité de volumiseur (9) ou d'une partie (11) de cette dernière, l'axe de rotation de l'unité de volumiseur (9) ou de la partie (11) logée de façon rotative de cette dernière et l'axe de rotation de l'arbre d'entraînement (13) étant disposés en formant un angle l'un par rapport à l'autre, et notamment un angle droit.
  2. Chapiteau de volumiseur selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le convertisseur de force possède et constitue un élément convertisseur (16) logé à la cardan, les axes de rotation (DH, Dv) des deux axes de pivotement cardaniques de l'élément convertisseur (16) sont montés pour se couper virtuellement en un point, l'élément convertisseur (16) est supporté par une fixation (18), dans laquelle l'élément convertisseur est logé de façon pivotante sur l'un des deux axes de rotation (DH) du palier à la cardan et la fixation (18) est logée de façon rotative sur l'autre axe de rotation (Dv) du palier à la cardan et est raccordée à l'unité de volumiseur (9) ou à la partie (11) de cette dernière.
  3. Chapiteau de volumiseur selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que les axes de rotation des deux axes de pivotement cardaniques (DH, Dv) de l'élément convertisseur (16) forment un angle droit.
  4. Chapiteau de volumiseur selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que l'élément convertisseur (16) supporte des tourillons (19, 19.1) surmoulés, diamétralement opposés l'un à l'autre, qui s'engagent chacun dans une ouverture de palier de la fixation (18), conformée en U afin de maintenir l'élément convertisseur (16).
  5. Chapiteau de volumiseur selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que l'élément d'entraînement monté en excentrique par rapport à l'arbre d'entraînement (13) est un pivot d'entraînement (15) dont l'axe longitudinal s'incline vers l'axe de rotation de l'arbre d'entraînement (13) et est raccordé par un coudage à l'arbre d'entraînement (13) et en ce que le pivot d'entraînement (15) s'engage dans un alésage (20) de l'élément convertisseur (16), formé avec une inclinaison correspondante par rapport à l'axe de rotation de l'arbre d'entraînement (13).
  6. Chapiteau de volumiseur selon la revendication 5 caractérisé en ce que l'axe longitudinal du pivot d'entraînement (15) coupe le point d'intersection virtuel formé par les axes de rotation (DH, Dv) du palier à la cardan de l'élément convertisseur (16).
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