EP2789256A2 - Haarpflegegerät, das mit Zähnen zum Schutz gegen Dampf ausgestattet ist - Google Patents

Haarpflegegerät, das mit Zähnen zum Schutz gegen Dampf ausgestattet ist Download PDF

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EP2789256A2
EP2789256A2 EP20140162824 EP14162824A EP2789256A2 EP 2789256 A2 EP2789256 A2 EP 2789256A2 EP 20140162824 EP20140162824 EP 20140162824 EP 14162824 A EP14162824 A EP 14162824A EP 2789256 A2 EP2789256 A2 EP 2789256A2
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Eddy NGO
Xavier Vacheron
Régis FEREYRE
Franck Mandica
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45DHAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING
    • A45D1/00Curling-tongs, i.e. tongs for use when hot; Curling-irons, i.e. irons for use when hot; Accessories therefor
    • A45D1/02Curling-tongs, i.e. tongs for use when hot; Curling-irons, i.e. irons for use when hot; Accessories therefor with means for internal heating, e.g. by liquid fuel
    • A45D1/04Curling-tongs, i.e. tongs for use when hot; Curling-irons, i.e. irons for use when hot; Accessories therefor with means for internal heating, e.g. by liquid fuel by electricity
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45DHAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING
    • A45D2/00Hair-curling or hair-waving appliances ; Appliances for hair dressing treatment not otherwise provided for
    • A45D2/001Hair straightening appliances
    • A45D2/002Hair straightening appliances with combs
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A45HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
    • A45DHAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FOR COSMETICS OR COSMETIC TREATMENTS, e.g. FOR MANICURING OR PEDICURING
    • A45D1/00Curling-tongs, i.e. tongs for use when hot; Curling-irons, i.e. irons for use when hot; Accessories therefor
    • A45D2001/008Curling-tongs, i.e. tongs for use when hot; Curling-irons, i.e. irons for use when hot; Accessories therefor with vapor generation, e.g. steam

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  • the present invention relates to a hairdressing apparatus equipped with a steam treatment unit which is intended to treat the hair with steam in order to form them.
  • the treatment unit of this hairdressing apparatus can also be configured to heat the hair for shaping.
  • Such a hairdressing device allows for example, according to its configuration, to perform brushing, smoothing, curling or embossing hair.
  • Hairdressers are known for smoothing, curling or embossing hair.
  • a hairdressing appliance comprises a portable treatment unit consisting in particular of two arms or jaws which each comprise a surface that can be flat or curved.
  • the two arms are articulated together to form a clamp configured to pinch the hair between the two surfaces disposed vis-a-vis, when bringing the two arms together.
  • These two arms also include a gripping zone for opening and closing the clamp and its handling during styling.
  • At least one of these two surfaces comprises a heating device for the treatment by heating the hair when they are pinched between the two surfaces.
  • Smoothing a lock of hair is done by pinching the wick between the two surfaces and moving the clamp closed along this wick, from the root to the tip.
  • Curling a lock of hair is done by pinching the wick between the two surfaces and at least partially winding this wick around the surfaces, the heat to fix the hair loop.
  • the hairdressing apparatus comprises a remote base relative to the portable processing unit and connected thereto.
  • the base includes a water reservoir and a pump for, when activated, to pump water into the reservoir to feed the clamp.
  • One of the arms of the portable treatment unit comprises a vaporization chamber equipped with a heating device.
  • the pump injects water into the steam chamber; this water vaporizes under the action of the heating device and the steam is projected onto the hair by means of projection means arranged on said arm.
  • the clamp allows the treatment of hair by heating and steam.
  • the present invention aims to optimize the treatment of hair by steam on a hairdressing appliance.
  • the invention relates to a hairdressing apparatus which comprises a portable treatment unit comprising vaporization means and at least one arm equipped with teeth configured to project steam onto the hair, this vapor being derived from said vaporization means .
  • these teeth are arranged and aligned in a longitudinal direction preferably corresponding to the longitudinal direction of the arm. We however, could provide the longitudinal direction of the teeth perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the arm, according to the configuration of the hairdressing apparatus.
  • the spraying means may be directly integrated in the arm or be wholly or partly offset in a base connected to said arm by a cord.
  • the teeth are arranged next to each other and each comprise two steam projection holes oriented in opposition to one another in the longitudinal direction, the projection holes of adjacent steam of two adjacent teeth being arranged vis-à-vis.
  • the holes are arranged on the sides of the teeth whose plane containing the side is generally orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the arm.
  • the portable treatment unit comprises a comb arranged adjacently along the teeth.
  • a comb makes it possible to separate and untangle the hair.
  • the term "comb” means an element equipped with rigid or semi-rigid teeth arranged longitudinally one after the other, or even a row of natural or synthetic bristles which replaces said teeth of the comb. This traditional comb differs from the row of teeth through which the steam is extracted.
  • the portable treatment unit is configured not only to treat the hair by vaporization, but also to treat the hair by heating, which makes it possible to optimize styling by a double treatment by heating and steam.
  • the teeth comprise heating means, which makes it possible to heat the hair passing between said teeth. and being in contact with the surfaces of the heated teeth in addition to their vaporization.
  • the portable treatment unit comprises two arms configured to form a clamp provided with two surfaces arranged vis-à-vis which concomitantly allow the pinch of a lock of hair.
  • the first arm comprises a vaporization chamber, said teeth and means for connecting the vaporization chamber to the teeth. These teeth are disposed downstream of the surface on the first arm, taking into account the direction of movement of the portable treatment unit during the hairstyling which must first allow treatment by vaporization of the hair and then their pinching.
  • the portable treatment unit comprises means for heating at least one of the two surfaces on the two arms.
  • the lock of hair is heated during its pinching between the two surfaces.
  • the two surfaces of the two arms are equipped with heating means, which makes it possible to heat the hair on two opposite sides during their nip between said surfaces. This optimizes the hair treatment by heating.
  • this comb is positioned between the surface of the first arm and the teeth.
  • the teeth perform a first separation of the hair from the wick while vaporizing said hair passing between said teeth, on their two opposite sides.
  • the comb performs a second separation of the hair which allows to refine their separation and unravel them, before they are pinched between the two surfaces.
  • the hairdressing apparatus according to the invention which has the aforementioned characteristics, can have different configurations.
  • the hairdressing apparatus equipped with two arms can comprise the configured surfaces to allow the smoothing, curling and / or embossing of the hair.
  • the hairdresser has only one arm, that can be configured to allow combing or brushing hair.
  • the hairdressing apparatus 1 object of the invention is a hair straightener. It comprises a portable processing unit 2 and a remote base 3, connected together by means of a cord 4 which makes it possible to supply electricity and water to the portable treatment unit 2 from the base 3.
  • This base 3 comprises a water tank and a water circulation pump and is electrically powered by means of an electrical connection socket.
  • the portable treatment unit 2 comprises two arms 5, 6 - also called jaws - articulated to each other by means of a pivot connection 7, which makes it possible to form a clamp.
  • the two arms 5, 6 each comprise on their inner face and at their distal portion 5a, 6a, a surface 8, 9.
  • the surfaces 8, 9 are planar, in the form of two plates and are furthermore heated.
  • curved heating surfaces such as, in particular, hair-style hairdressing appliances, or even corrugated heating surfaces such as, in particular, hairdressing appliances of the hair-embossing type.
  • the two arms 5, 6 each comprise a proximal portion 5b, 6b. These two proximal portions 5b, 6b can concomitantly be grasped with one hand, which allows the manipulation of the portable treatment unit 2 and the closure of the clamp when the two proximal portions 5b, 6b are clamped.
  • the surfaces 8, 9 disposed opposite each other come into contact with one another, which allows the pinch of a lock of hair arranged between these two surfaces 8, 9
  • a spring 10 arranged between the two arms 5, 6 near the pivot connection 7, allows the opening of the clamp when it stops tightening with the hand.
  • the first arm 5 comprises at its distal portion 5a, vaporization means which are here a vaporization chamber 11 which allows the creation of steam which is intended to be projected on the lock of hair before this lock of hair is pinch between the two surfaces 8, 9 of the clamp in the closed position.
  • vaporization means which are here a vaporization chamber 11 which allows the creation of steam which is intended to be projected on the lock of hair before this lock of hair is pinch between the two surfaces 8, 9 of the clamp in the closed position.
  • the portable treatment unit 2 of the hairdressing appliance 1 may have similar technical characteristics to those described in the patent application.
  • FR2967017A1 filed by the applicant as to the implementation of the surfaces 8, 9 heating and the vaporization chamber 11, with all the advantages that provides such a design. Variants are of course conceivable for these elements, without departing from the scope of the invention.
  • the heating surfaces 8, 9 and the vaporization chamber 11 each comprise a heating device consisting of a positive temperature coefficient thermistor, called PTC, and a device for measuring the temperature of the device. heater consisting of a thermistor with a negative temperature coefficient, called CTN.
  • said processing unit comprises only two thermistors with positive temperature coefficient and two negative temperature coefficient thermistors, or even some known variants, a single negative temperature coefficient thermistor measuring the temperature of the two positive temperature coefficient thermistors.
  • the first arm 5 of the portable processing unit 2 comprises teeth 12 which are arranged next to each other in a longitudinal direction defined by an axis X1. These teeth are disposed near and along the surface 9, in downstream part of this surface 9 on the first arm 5.
  • the processing unit 2 is moved in the downstream direction illustrated by the arrow 13 on the Figures 2 and 3 , which first allows the hair 14 to pass between the teeth then, in a second step, to be clamped between the surfaces 8, 9 of the two arms 5, 6 in the closed position.
  • each tooth 12 comprises two holes 15, 16 which communicate via connection means which may be a conduit 17 with the vaporization chamber 11. These holes 15, 16 are arranged opposite one another. So as illustrated in figure 4 the second hole 16a of a first tooth 12a is disposed opposite the first hole 15b of a second tooth 12b adjacent to the first tooth 12a. It is the same between all the teeth 12, 12a, 12b adjacent one after the other. When steam is created in the vaporization chamber 11, it enters the direction of the arrow 18a inside the conduit 17 and then exits in the direction of the arrows 18b, 18c through the holes 15, 16, 15b , 16a of each tooth 12, 12a, 12b, as illustrated in figure 4 .
  • the hair 14 arranged between two adjacent teeth 12a, 12b receive steam projected in the direction of the arrows 18b, 18c, which allows to vaporize the two opposite sides of the hair 14 passing between said adjacent teeth 12a, 12b.
  • a comb (not shown) may be arranged along an axis parallel to the axis X1 of the teeth 12, between said teeth 12 and the edge 9a of the surface 9 of the first arm 5, in the zone 19 illustrated in FIG. figure 2 .
  • This comb may comprise rigid or semi-rigid teeth, or even bristles of natural or synthetic material.
  • this comb can be fixed removably or not in said zone 19 indicated in FIG. figure 3 .
  • the comb may be directly molded into the material at this area 19 or the comb may be mounted in a slider arranged in a slider at said area 19.
  • the comb makes it possible to refine the separation of the hair before they are pinched between the two surfaces 8, 9.
  • the comb can be made entirely of plastic, for example thermoplastic, more particularly polybutylene terephthalate (PBT).
  • the arm 5 may comprise teeth 12 which have the aforementioned characteristics relating to the vaporization and which are designed in a material having good thermal conduction, these teeth 12 being connected to a thermistor with a positive temperature coefficient, called CTP, a thermistor with a negative temperature coefficient, called CTN, for measuring the temperature of the teeth 12.
  • CTP thermistor with a positive temperature coefficient
  • CTN negative temperature coefficient
  • the teeth can come out of the cover of the vaporization chamber which is heated by a PTC.
  • a hairdressing appliance which comprises both heating teeth 12 and heating surfaces 8, 9. In this case the teeth 12 ensure, in addition to a vaporization of the hair 14, a preheating of the hair 14 before their eventual combing and then their pinching and heating between the two heating surfaces 8, 9.
  • Such hairdressing apparatus may have a complementary comb with teeth or bristles for combing or brushing hair. It may also have a heating treatment surface 8.
  • spray means on the hair styling apparatus could for example provide a mini water tank arranged directly on the arm 5 and remove the base 3. On the contrary could be deported in the base 3 the thermistor with positive temperature coefficient so as to create directly the steam in this base 3, then to convey the steam into the vaporization chamber 11.

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