Ronald P Warner

US Patent:

53394771, Aug 23, 1994

Filed:

Feb 12, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/017247

Inventors:

Ronald C. Warner - Waleska GA
Craig M. Warner - Alpharetta GA

Assignee:

Ron Warner Associates - Norcross GA

International Classification:

A45D 2917

US Classification:

15 971

Abstract:

A motorized device for removing nail coatings such as fingernail polish or the like and usable by either a professional manicurist or by an individual caring for her own nails, the invention includes a container controllably rotatable in both clockwise and counter-clockwise directions, the container receiving a single-use cartridge filled with a flexible foam body saturated with a solvent capable of removing the coating. In the environment of a beauty salon, a client inserts each nail sequentially into a finger-receiving slit in the foam body of the cartridge and the cartridge-bearing container is rotated after each insertion to remove the coating, the cartridge then being discarded so that only one client uses a given cartridge. Sequential reversing of the cartridge-bearing container according to the invention speeds removal of the nail coating especially in cuticle areas from which nail coatings are difficult to remove according to prior methodology.

US Patent:

D3349985, Apr 20, 1993

Filed:

Jan 7, 1991

Appl. No.:

7/637746

Inventors:

Ronald C. Warner - Waleska GA
Craig M. Warner - Alpharetta GA

Assignee:

Ron Warner Associates - Norcross GA

US Classification:

D28 58

US Patent:

51859009, Feb 16, 1993

Filed:

Jan 7, 1991

Appl. No.:

7/638334

Inventors:

Ronald C. Warner - Waleska GA
Craig M. Warner - Alpharetta GA

Assignee:

Ron Warner Associates - Norcross GA

International Classification:

A45D 2917

US Classification:

15 971

Abstract:

A motorized device for removing nail coatings such as fingernail polish or the like and usable by either a professional manicurist or by an individual caring for her own nails, the invention includes a container controllably rotatable in both clockwise and counter-clockwise directions, the container receiving a single-use cartridge filled with a flexible foam body saturated with a solvent capable of removing the coating. In the environment of a beauty salon, a client inserts each nail sequentially into a finger-receiving slit in the foam body of the cartridge and the cartridge-bearing container is rotated after each insertion to remove the coating, the cartridge then being discarded so that only one client uses a given cartridge. Sequential reversing of the cartridge-bearing container according to the invention speeds removal of the nail coating especially in cuticle areas from which nail coatings are difficult to remove according to prior methodology. The methods and apparatus of the invention provide for more rapid and safer removal of nail coatings such as nail poish when compared to prior methodology and polish removal apparatus.