Helen of Troy Limited

Cosco Management, Inc.

Kaz Europe Sàrl

Luke Hillebrecht

Mathieu Zastawny

Aakriti Jojo Chandra

Yoon Jung Heo

Jesse Thomas

Gary Koenemann

William C Fiebel

Steve Paliobeis

Paul K Meeker

William R Gibson

Dio Climaco Cavero

Maya Kremien

Adrian Gonzalez

Joann Parker

Yoon June Heo

Nicholas Reynolds

Lourdes Lopez Valle

Steven J Paliobeis

Adriana Payan Apodaca

Antoniette Vickio

Shannon Waugh

A hair styling tool or curling iron includes a handle portion and a styling portion. The handle portion houses a torsion spring. The styling portion includes a hair engaging member adapted to be biased toward the styling portion by the torsion spring. A spring door is releasably and/or removably connected to the handle portion and is configured to cover and at least partially secure the torsion spring within the handle portion. The torsion spring is not mechanically connected to the handle portion so that releasing and/or removing of the spring door from the handle portion allows for removal and replacement of the torsion spring.

Handle for hair styling tool with replaceable spring

Hair straightener

A hair appliance includes a handle, an electrical component coupled with the handle, and a switch mechanism in electrical communication with the electrical component and a power source. The electrical component has a plurality of settings. The switch mechanism includes a switch and a rotatable adjustment member. The switch has multiple positions and includes a sliding actuator. Each position corresponds to a respective setting for the electrical component. The rotatable adjustment member includes a contact surface operatively coupled with the sliding actuator such that rotational movement of the rotational adjustment member results in translational movement of the sliding actuator.

Hair appliance switch mechanism

Handle for beauty tool

Beauty tool switch

Blow dryer

Hair dryer

Handle for blow dryer

Beauty tool paddle head attachment

Curling iron

In one embodiment, hair appliance is provided in which non-heated gas flow is directionally applied automatically to hair after application of a heat treatment. In another embodiment, a compressed gas source is used in conjunction with the hair appliance. The directional application of the non-heated gas is based upon the orientation of the hand held hair appliance. In one embodiment, the directional gas flow of the non-heated air is configured to provide the non-heated gas flow to a user's hair at the location at which the user's hair exits engagement with the hair appliance. In one embodiment a compressed gas source is integrated with a hand held hair appliance. In another embodiment, a hair appliance system is provided in which the compressed gas source is external to a hand held hair appliance.

Hair styling appliance with directional air flow valve and compressed gas

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El Paso, TX, United States of America

Luke Hillebrecht