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EP2198734B1
EP2198734B1 EP09177992A EP09177992A EP2198734B1 EP 2198734 B1 EP2198734 B1 EP 2198734B1 EP 09177992 A EP09177992 A EP 09177992A EP 09177992 A EP09177992 A EP 09177992A EP 2198734 B1 EP2198734 B1 EP 2198734B1
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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
    • A45D1/00—Curling-tongs, i.e. tongs for use when hot; Curling-irons, i.e. irons for use when hot; Accessories therefor
    • A45D1/02—Curling-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
    • A45D1/04—Curling-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
    • 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

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  • the invention relates to a hair styling attachment for connection to an air flow generating device, such as an Aircurler, which Haarformaufsatz two hinged to each other, pincer-like adjustable arms whose mutually facing tops each have a complementary work surface for forming a hair styling gap and wherein at least one flow channel for transporting an air flow provided by the device within at least one of the two arms of the hair styling attachment and with the at least one flow channel in connection and opening into the hair styling air outlet openings in the work surface are provided in the at least one arm. Furthermore, the invention relates to a hair styling device with an air flow generating blower and with such a hair styling attachment.
  • an air flow generating device such as an Aircurler, which Haarformaufsatz two hinged to each other, pincer-like adjustable arms whose mutually facing tops each have a complementary work surface for forming a hair styling gap and wherein at least one flow channel for transporting an air flow provided by the device within at least one of the two arms of the hair styling attachment and with the at least one flow channel
  • hair styling attachments which have two articulated arms to each other in the manner of a pair of pliers or scissors adjustable. Between the mutually facing sides of these arms there is provided for receiving the hair to be formed Haarformspalt. The facing sides of the arms each carry a work surface. This is just designed in a so-called Straightener trained hair styling essay.
  • hair styling articles whose work surfaces are curled to create curls.
  • the working surfaces of the two arms are designed to be complementary in terms of their design.
  • Hair-shaping attachments with two movable arms are typically perfused with air.
  • the hot air stream flowing into the attachment from the air generating device the heat required for the hair shaping process is transported to the hair.
  • the mostly moist hair to be formed is dried by the supply of air.
  • a hair styling device designed in this way When operating a hair styling device designed in this way, it is typically grasped with one hand on the device designed as a grip. An actuation of the arms via a lever which preferably extends as far as possible to the air flow generating device to be operated with the hand with which the device is held. Desirable is a one-hand operation.
  • a hair styling attachment is for example off EP 1 334 670 A1 known.
  • the invention is therefore the object of developing an aforementioned, generic hair styling attachment in such a way that an operation of the or the articulated arms is simplified.
  • an adjustment of the or the articulated arms by means of a drive device, which in turn is driven by an electric motor driven drive shaft of the device.
  • the at least one articulated arm mounted relative to the other arm has a disposed within the hair styling lever which is provided as an extension of the working surface supporting arm on the hinge axis addition.
  • the lever extension is arranged at an angle to the plane of the work surface, in such a way that by applying a force acting on the lever extension tensile or pushing force of the arm can be adjusted about its hinge axis.
  • drive means is in addition to other conceivable embodiments, a spindle drive, one element of which represents the drive shaft of the hair styling attachment or is part of this.
  • the other part of the spindle drive is rotationally coupled with respect to the rotationally driven by the drive shaft part, but mounted in the longitudinal axial direction movable within the hair styling attachment.
  • This output element is connected to the actuating lever extension of the at least one relative to the other movably mounted arm.
  • both arms of the hair styling attachment are hingedly connected to a shaft piece and both arms each have such, located within the hair styling lever actuating lever extension, which engages the respective drive device.
  • a hair styling device designed in this way the handling of the opening and closing of the hair styling gap is simplified since, for this purpose, only one button or slide switch on the hair styling device has to be actuated. Therefore, the hair styling device connected to the air flow generating device can be actuated with the hand holding the device for opening and closing the hair styling gap without having to change the grip position. This assumes that the one or more buttons or switches for the operation of the opening and closing movement of the arms or the corresponding place on the Device are arranged.
  • such a hair styling essay has no external lever for operating the arm or arms, such a hair styling is suitable for correspondingly contoured outer surface of the arms in particular to curl hair.
  • FIG. 1 shows a highly schematic representation of a hair styling essay 1.
  • the hair styling attachment comprises two articulated to each other pliers-like adjustable arms 2, 2.1.
  • the two arms 2, 2.1 are hingedly connected to a shaft piece 3.
  • the free end of the shaft piece 3 is formed as a coupling ring 4 to connect the hair styling attachment 1 to an air flow, in particular a hot air flow generating device 5, designed for example as Aircurler.
  • the pivot axis of the two arms 2, 2.1 is indicated in the figure by the reference numeral 6.
  • the two mutually facing sides of the arms 2, 2.1 each have a flat work surface 7, 7.1.
  • the hair styling attachment 1 is designed as Straightener.
  • the shaft piece 3 and the two arms 2, 2.1 can be flowed through, namely by an air stream flowing in via the coupling ring 4 into the hair styling attachment 1.
  • the arms 2, 2.1 each have a flow channel for transporting the air flow provided by the device 5, in particular a warm air flow.
  • These flow channels open into openings located in the working surfaces 7, 7.1, so that the heat brought about via the air flow can be supplied to the hair located in the hair styling gap arranged between the arms 2, 2.1.
  • the arm 2 is described with regard to its opening and closing movement.
  • the arm 2.1 is designed identically.
  • the arm 2 has a with respect to the pivot axis 6 of its working surface 7 opposite lever extension. This is located within the shaft piece 3 and is therefore not visible from the outside.
  • a drive device 9 for adjusting of the arm 2 opposite the arm 2.1.
  • the drive device 9 comprises a drive shaft 10, to which in the illustrated embodiment, a threaded sleeve 11 is connected torque-tight with an internal thread.
  • the drive shaft 10 carries at its free end a coupling piece 12, with which the drive shaft 10 can be connected to a complementary designed coupling piece 13 of the device 5.
  • the threaded sleeve 11 is rotatably mounted within the shaft piece 3 with the drive shaft 10.
  • the threaded sleeve 11 is seated on a threaded spindle 14 which rotatably coupled to the threaded sleeve 11, but is slidably mounted in the longitudinal axial direction.
  • the spindle 14 is connected via a link 15, which in turn is pivotally connected to the actuating lever extension 8 and the spindle 14. In this way, can be transmitted from the spindle 14 to the actuating lever extension 8 both a tensile and a pushing movement.
  • the hair styling attachment 1 is held mechanically on the device 5 by means of its coupling ring 4.
  • the device 5 has a fan for generating an air flow.
  • the device 5 has a heating register 16 for heating the generated air flow.
  • the device 5 further has an electromotive drive device 17 with a drive shaft 18, at the free end of the coupling piece 13 is seated.
  • the generated in the device 5 and funded by the housing airflow is indicated in the figure with a block arrow.
  • the air flow exits the device 5 and flows through the shaft piece 3, before it enters the flow channels of the arms 2, 2.1, to then be supplied to the located in the hair styling gap between the work surfaces 7, 7.1 hair.
  • the hair styling gap from the in FIG. 1 shown open position, in which hair is introduced into the hairline, close by actuating a button located on the device 5, the electric motor drive unit 17 is driven accordingly.
  • the rotational movement generated by this is supplied to this drive shaft 10 of the hair styling attachment 1 and then the spindle drive 10, 14.
  • the spindle 14 moves in this movement in the direction of the threaded sleeve 11 out, which has a closing movement of the two arms 2, 2.1 result.
  • the device 5 preferably has an overload switch-off, so that one of the hair styling pressure acting on the hair is not exceeded. If a certain load condition is exceeded, the electromotive drive device 17 switches off. Since this hair required for molding requires different pressures for molding, the device 5 has an adjustment device, with which the aforementioned overload switch-off or the overload switch-off triggering threshold value can be set.
  • the electric drive device 17 of the device 5 is driven in accordance with the reverse direction.

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  • Cleaning And Drying Hair (AREA)

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  1. Chapiteau de mise en forme de cheveux à raccorder sur un appareil (3) produisant un flux d'air, par exemple un sèche-cheveux boucleur, lequel chapiteau de mise en forme de cheveux (1) présente deux bras (2, 2.1) articulés l'un par rapport à l'autre, réglables à la façon d'une pince, dont les faces supérieures orientées l'une vers l'autre comprennent chacune une surface de travail (7, 7.1) complémentaire afin de former un intervalle de mise en forme de cheveux, au moins un canal de circulation étant prévu dans au moins un bras (2, 2.1) afin de transporter un flux d'air fourni par l'appareil (3) à l'intérieur d'au moins un des deux bras (2, 2.1) du chapiteau de mise en forme de cheveux (1), ainsi que des ouvertures de sortie d'air, situées dans la surface de travail (7, 7.1), qui sont reliées avec ledit au moins un canal de circulation et qui débouchent dans l'intervalle de mise en forme de cheveux, caractérisé en ce qu'au moins un bras (2, 2.1) est, grâce à la liaison articulée, articulé sur l'autre bras (2.1, 2) et que ce bras (2, 2.1) présente un prolongement en forme de levier de réglage (8), disposé à l'opposé par rapport à l'axe de l'articulation (6) de sa surface de travail (7, 7.1) et en angle par rapport au plan de la surface de travail (7, 7.1) et se trouvant dans le chapiteau de mise en forme de cheveux (1), sur lequel prolongement en forme de levier de réglage (8) s'engage un dispositif d'entraînement (9) destiné à régler ce bras (2, 2.1) sur son axe d'articulation (6) par rapport à l'autre bras (2.1, 2), lequel dispositif d'entraînement (9) est entraîné par un arbre d'entraînement (10) logé de façon rotative, lequel arbre d'entraînement (10) dispose, sur son extrémité libre, d'une pièce de couplage (12) destinée à raccorder l'arbre d'entraînement (10) à un arbre (18) entraîné en rotation de l'appareil (3).
  2. Chapiteau de mise en forme de cheveux selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'entraînement (9) du chapiteau (1) dispose d'un entraînement à broche, l'élément de sortie (14) de l'entraînement à broche étant relié au prolongement en forme de levier de réglage (8).
  3. Chapiteau de mise en forme de cheveux selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que la broche fait partie de l'arbre d'entraînement ou constitue celui-ci et que l'élément de sortie raccordé au prolongement en forme de levier de réglage, logé de façon à pouvoir être découplé en rotation, est porté par la broche.
  4. Chapiteau de mise en forme de cheveux selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce qu'une douille filetée (11) portée par la broche (14) de l'entraînement à broche fait partie de l'arbre d'entraînement (10) ou constitue celui-ci et que la broche (14) est raccordée au prolongement en forme de levier de réglage (8) et est logée de façon à pouvoir être découplée en rotation par rapport à la douille (11).
  5. Chapiteau de mise en forme de cheveux selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que les deux bras (2, 2.1) du chapiteau de mise en forme de cheveux (1) sont raccordés de façon articulée à un fût (3) faisant partie du chapiteau et que les deux bras (2, 2.1) disposent chacun d'un prolongement en forme de levier de réglage (8), lesquels deux prolongements en forme de levier de réglage (8) sont raccordés au dispositif d'entraînement (9).
  6. Appareil de mise en forme de cheveux comportant une soufflerie produisant un flux d'air et comportant un chapiteau de mise en forme de cheveux (1), caractérisé en ce que le chapiteau de mise en forme de cheveux (1) est réalisé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 5.
  7. Appareil de mise en forme de cheveux selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que l'appareil (3) de mise en forme de cheveux présente par rapport à son arbre d'entraînement (18) une déconnexion en cas de surcharge.
EP09177992A 2008-12-17 2009-12-04 Chapiteau de mise en forme de cheveux ainsi qu'appareil de mise en forme de cheveux doté d'un tel chapiteau Not-in-force EP2198734B1 (fr)

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