U.S. patent application number 13/086954 was filed with the patent office on 2012-10-18 for bristle-pad hairbrush.
This patent application is currently assigned to TONG FONG BRUSH FACTORY CO., LTD.. Invention is credited to Chien-fu FONG, Chiou-chern Kuo.
Application Number | 20120260444 13/086954 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 47005268 |
Filed Date | 2012-10-18 |
United States Patent
Application |
20120260444 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
FONG; Chien-fu ; et
al. |
October 18, 2012 |
BRISTLE-PAD HAIRBRUSH
Abstract
The present invention relates to a bristle-pad hairbrush,
comprising a tuft portion and a handle, wherein the handle is a
general handle, and the invention is characterized in that the tuft
portion includes a plurality of equidistant tuft flat-position
areas with oblique planes. Since the tuft flat-position areas are
designed with oblique planes, therefore after bristles are planted
onto the tuft flat-position areas, the bristles are obliquely
covered onto the tuft portion to naturally form a bristle pad
disposed on the tuft portion. The shock absorption of the bristle
pad keeps the bristle-pad hairbrush in a gentle and smooth contact
with a user's hairs and prevents the bristle-pad hairbrush from
pulling and tearing the user's hair, and prevents the user's fallen
hairs from remaining or accumulating in the tuft portion.
Inventors: |
FONG; Chien-fu; (Taipei
City, TW) ; Kuo; Chiou-chern; (Taipei City,
TW) |
Assignee: |
TONG FONG BRUSH FACTORY CO.,
LTD.
Taipei City
TW
|
Family ID: |
47005268 |
Appl. No.: |
13/086954 |
Filed: |
April 14, 2011 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
15/159.1 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A46B 9/023 20130101;
A46B 9/025 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
15/159.1 |
International
Class: |
A46B 9/02 20060101
A46B009/02 |
Claims
1. A bristle-pad hairbrush, comprising: a tuft portion and a
handle, wherein the tuft portion has a plurality of equidistant
tuft flat-position areas with oblique planes, and a plurality of
bristles planted thereon, and the oblique design of the tuft
flat-position areas naturally forms a bristle pad covered onto the
tuft portion after the bristles are planted, and the shock
absorption of the bristle pad keeps the bristle-pad hairbrush in a
gentle and smooth contact with a user's hairs, while reducing and
preventing the user's fallen hairs from remaining or accumulating
in the tuft portion.
2. The bristle-pad hairbrush of claim 1, further comprising a
plurality of brush pins, each being axially perpendicular to a
hairbrush handle, and each of the bristles being deviated obliquely
in a planting direction of the brush pins, and each of the bristles
being preferably inclined at an angle of 45 degrees or less with
respect to the axial direction of the hairbrush handle.
3. The bristle-pad hairbrush of claim 1, wherein the tuft portion
of the bristle-pad hairbrush includes a plurality of equidistant
tuft flat-position areas with oblique planes provided for planting
a plurality of bristles automatically by a machine or a tool to
produce a bristle pad naturally without requiring any manual
bristle pressing treatment.
4. The bristle-pad hairbrush of claim 1, wherein the tuft portion
of the hairbrush is in a circular cylindrical shape, a flat planar
shape, or any appropriate acceptable shape.
5. The bristle-pad hairbrush of claim 2, wherein the tuft portion
of the hairbrush is in a circular cylindrical shape, a flat planar
shape, or any appropriate acceptable shape.
6. The bristle-pad hairbrush of claim 3, wherein the tuft portion
of the hairbrush is in a circular cylindrical shape, a flat planar
shape, or any appropriate acceptable shape.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of the Invention
[0002] The present invention relates to a bristle-pad hairbrush,
comprising a tuft portion and a handle, wherein the tuft portion
includes a plurality of equidistant tuft flat-position areas with
oblique planes and a plurality of bristles planted thereon, such
that the bristles-covered structure is formed naturally like a pad
after the bristles are planted onto the tuft flat-position areas,
and the shock absorption of the bristle pad keeps the bristle-pad
hairbrush in a gentle and smooth contact with a user's hairs, while
the bristles are covered onto a surface at the bottom of the tuft
portion to prevent the bristles from pulling or tearing the user's
hair and to prevent the user's fallen hairs from remaining or
accumulating in the tuft portion, so as to facilitate cleaning,
after the user's hairs are combed or brushed by the bristle-pad
hairbrush, moreover, cuticles of the user's hair can be soothed
effectively to give shiny and soft hairs.
[0003] 2. Description of the Prior Art
[0004] With reference to FIGS. 1 and 2 for conventional hairbrushes
respectively, the conventional hairbrush regardless of a brush, a
pin comb, or a mixed bristle-and-pin brush includes brush bristles
11 and brush pins 22 planted into tuft portions 10, 20 of the
hairbrush, the brush bristles 11 and the brush pins 22 are disposed
axially perpendicular to a brush body, and a wood, plastic or metal
portion of the tuft portion 10, 20 without any planted bristle or
pin will be exposed. Therefore, after a user's hair is combed or
brushed, the exposed wood, plastic or metal surface may pull or
tear the user's hair easily, and fallen hairs may remain or
accumulate in the tuft portion and makes the cleaning difficult.
Furthermore, when the conventional hairbrush is used for brushing
bristles, the brush bristles or pins may pierce into the user's
hair or scalp to produce uncomfortable hair pulling or tearing.
Obviously, such drawback is an headache and an annoying problem,
and it is a main subject for the present invention to overcome the
aforementioned problem.
[0005] To overcome the foregoing drawback of the conventional
hairbrush by preventing the wood, plastic or metal surface exposed
from the tuft portion 20 of the hairbrush from a direct contact
with the user's hairs, the inventor of the present invention
attempted laying the brush bristle 21 onto the tuft portion 20
flatly. With reference to FIG. 3, after the brush bristles 21 are
planted onto the tuft portion 20 as shown on the left side of the
figure, and then the brush bristles 21 are bent manually and
covered obliquely forward as shown on the right side of the figure,
such that the obliquely covered brush bristles form a bristle pad
provided for preventing the user's hairs from a direct contact with
the bottom surface of the tuft portion. However, experimental
results show that the manual bristle pressing treatment for
producing the bristle pad is too troublesome, and results in a high
defective rate and an unstable quality. This embodiment is a
failure, and it is another subject of the present invention to
overcome this problem.
OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION
[0006] It is therefore an object of the present invention to
provide a bristle-pad hairbrush, i.e. a hairbrush having a
bristle-pad, that completely overcome the foregoing drawback of the
prior arts, the inventor of the present invention based on years of
experience in the related industry to conduct extensive researches
and experiments, and finally developed a feasible bristle-pad
hairbrush, particularly the bristle-pad hairbrush with the design
concept of planting the bristles obliquely along the axial
direction of the hairbrush handle onto the tuft flat-position area
of the tuft portion to naturally form a bristle pad. With the
unique and novel design of the bristle pad of the hairbrush, the
hairbrush keeps a soft and smooth contact with the user's hair and
prevents the brush from pulling or tearing the user's hair and
reduce or prevent the user's fallen hair from remaining or
accumulating in the tuft portion, so as to facilitate cleaning, and
after the user's hairs are combed or brushed by the bristle-pad
hairbrush, cuticles of the user's hair can be soothed effectively
to give shiny and soft hairs.
[0007] A second object of the present invention is to provide a
bristle-pad hairbrush further comprising a plurality of equidistant
oblique tuft flat-position areas disposed on the tuft portion of
the bristle-pad hairbrush for enhancing the fixture of the planted
bristles as well as planting bristles by machines to manufacture
the bristle-pad hairbrushes in mass production, while reducing the
defective rate, cutting costs, and saving unnecessary wastes.
[0008] Another object of the present invention is to provide a
bristle-pad hairbrush, wherein the tuft portion of the bristle-pad
hairbrush includes a plurality of tuft flat-position areas with
oblique planes provided for planting a plurality of bristles by
machines or tools to naturally form a bristle pad on the tuft
portion without requiring any manual bristle pressing
treatment.
[0009] A further object of the present invention is to provide a
bristle-pad hairbrush that the tuft portion of the hairbrush of the
present invention can be in a circular cylindrical shape, a flat
(planar) shape, or any other appropriate acceptable shape, but not
limited to any particular shape only.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0010] The bristle-pad hairbrush, i.e. a hairbrush having a
bristle-pad, of the present invention comprises a tuft portion and
a hand-held handle, wherein the tuft portion on the bristle-pad
hairbrush of the present invention comprises a plurality of
equidistant tuft flat-position areas with oblique planes, and a
plurality of bristles planted onto each of the tuft flat-position
areas. Since the tuft flat-position areas come with an oblique
design, therefore after each of the bristles is planted, the
bristles are obliquely covered onto the tuft portion to naturally
form a bristle pad covered onto the tuft portion. While combing or
brushing, the shock absorption of the bristle pad keeps a soft and
smooth contact with a user's hair and scalp to prevent pulling or
tearing the user's hair, while reducing and preventing the user's
fallen hairs from remaining or accumulating in the tuft portion of
the bristle-pad hairbrush. After the bristle planting operation by
machines or tools as described above is completed, the brush pins
can be planted to complete producing a bristle-pad hairbrush with
bristles without requiring a manual bristle pressing treatment.
[0011] In the bristle-pad hairbrush of the present invention, each
of the brush pins is axially perpendicular to the axial direction
of the hairbrush handle, and each of the bristles is obliquely
deviated with respect to the brush pin. Preferably, each of the
bristles is inclined at an angle of 45 degrees or less with respect
to the axial direction of the hairbrush handle.
[0012] The density and thickness of the obliquely planted bristle
pad of the present invention depend on the quantity of bristles,
and thus the density of the bristle pad can be controlled
appropriately by the quantity of bristles in order to produce a
comfortable good bristle-pad hairbrush for brushing or combing
hairs softly and smoothly.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0013] FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a tuft portion combined with
brush bristles of a conventional hairbrush;
[0014] FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a tuft portion combined with
brush bristles and brush pins of a conventional hairbrush;
[0015] FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a failed embodiment of the
present invention during the research and development process;
[0016] FIG. 4 is a schematic structural view of obliquely planted
bristles in accordance with the present invention;
[0017] FIG. 5 is a schematic structural view of a bristle-pad
hairbrush in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present
invention;
[0018] FIG. 6 is a schematic structural view of a bristle-pad
hairbrush in accordance with another preferred embodiment of the
present invention; and
[0019] FIG. 7 is a schematic structural view of a bristle-pad
hairbrush in accordance with a further preferred embodiment of the
present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0020] The technical characteristics and effects of the present
invention will become apparent with the detailed description of the
preferred embodiment together with the illustration of related
drawings as follows.
[0021] With reference to FIG. 4 for a bristle-pad hairbrush of the
present invention, the bristle-pad hairbrush, i.e. a hairbrush
having a bristle-pad, comprises a tuft portion 30 and a handle 31,
wherein the handle 31 is a general handheld structure of a handle
of the hairbrush, and thus will not be described in details here.
The present invention is characterized in that the tuft portion 30
has a plurality of oblique equidistant tuft flat-position areas 32,
and a plurality of bristles 33 planted on each of tuft
flat-position areas 32. Since the tuft flat-position areas 32 adopt
a design of oblique planes, therefore after the bristles 33 are
planted, the bristles 33 are obliquely covered onto the tuft
portion 30 to naturally form a bristle pad covered onto the tuft
portion. The shock absorption of the bristle pad keeps a soft and
smooth contact of the bristle pad with a user's hairs to prevent
pulling or tearing a user's hair, while reducing or preventing the
user's fallen hairs from remaining or accumulating in the tuft
portion 30. After the aforementioned bristle planting operation is
completed by using machines or tools, brush pins 34 can be planted
to complete the production of a bristle-pad hairbrush with bristles
without requiring a manual bristle pressing treatment.
[0022] With reference to FIG. 5 for the bristle-pad hairbrush of
the present invention, each of the brush pins 34 is axially
perpendicular to the hairbrush handle 31, and each of the bristles
33 is deviated obliquely from the axial direction of the brush pins
34, and each of the bristles 33 is inclined with an angle of 45
degrees or less with respect to the axial direction of the
hairbrush handle 31.
[0023] Since the density and thickness of the oblique bristle pad
of the present invention depend on the quantity of bristles 33,
therefore a desired density of the bristle pad can be achieved by
controlling the quantity of bristles 33 appropriately to
manufacture a comfortable bristle-pad hairbrush for combing or
brushing hairs smoothly.
[0024] In the foregoing preferred embodiments of the present
invention, the tuft portion 30 of the bristle-pad hairbrush is
substantially in a circular cylindrical shape, but the design
concept of the hairbrush of the invention can also be applied to a
hairbrush with a flat tuft portion (substantially in a planar
shape) to achieve the same effect. With reference to FIGS. 6 and 7,
the tuft portions 40, 40' also have a plurality of oblique
equidistant tuft flat-position areas 42, 42' disposed thereon
respectively to facilitate to plant the plurality of bristles (not
shown in the figures) to on the tuft flat-position areas 42, 42' to
produce a bristle-pad hairbrush. The difference reside on one has a
tuft portion in a circular cylindrical shape, and the other has a
tuft portion in a flat (planar) shape. Regardless of which one is
used for manufacturing the hairbrushes, both hairbrushes can comb
or brush hair smoothly and comfortably. In other words, the tuft
portion of the hairbrush of the present invention can be in a
circular cylindrical shape, a flat (planar) shape, or any other
appropriate acceptable shape, but not limited to any particular
shape only. 41 or 41' is handle.
[0025] In summation of the description above, the present invention
provides an improved feasible bristle-pad hairbrush, particularly a
bristle-pad hairbrush with a design concept of planting the
bristles obliquely onto the tuft flat-position areas of the tuft
portion to naturally form a bristle pad. The present invention
complies with the patent application requirements, and thus is duly
filed for a patent application.
[0026] While the invention has been described by means of specific
embodiments, numerous modifications and variations could be made
thereto by those skilled in the art without departing from the
scope and spirit of the invention set forth in the claims.
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