Mark Mitchell Colbert

US Patent:

20030172543, Sep 18, 2003

Filed:

Mar 10, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/384842

Inventors:

Kathleen Busa - Bronxville NY, US
Caroline Busa - Bronxville NY, US
Mark Colbert - Waterbury CT, US

International Classification:

F26B013/30
A45D001/00

US Classification:

034/096000, 034/092000

Abstract:

A grooming device having a first unit and upper hand-held unit connected to the first unit. A vacuum unit in the first unit creates a vacuum air flow in a vacuum chamber in the hand-held unit, while a heating unit in the first unit generates a heated air flow to a heat chamber in the hand-held unit. The heat chamber and vacuum chamber are contained within a vessel in the hand-held unit. The heat chamber is separated from the vacuum chamber by a wall having regularly spaced pores. When both the vacuum unit and heating unit of the device are switched on, the vacuum flow in the vacuum chamber pulls heated air from the heat chamber through pores in the wall so that dry, heated air flows along the length of the vessel. Thus, hair placed in the vacuum chamber of the hand-held unit is exposed to the combined effect of the vacuum and flow of heated air. In a further embodiment, the wall of the vacuum chamber is heated by a heating element thereby causing the vacuum flow to be heated.