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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 1991
Filed:
Apr. 26, 1990
Peter M Lee, Seattle, WA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A comb for selectively separating strands of hair for individual treatment includes an elongated base and a plurality of teeth positioned at spaced-apart locations along the length of the base. Each tooth includes a shaft which extends outwardly from the base to a free end. The teeth include a hair-engaging portion at the free end of a shaft which is substantially linearly straight and smooth from the base to the hair-engaging portion. The hair-engaging portion is positioned to engage only selected strands of hair while allowing non-selected strands to fall freely from between the teeth as the comb is lifted, moving the teeth in a direction toward the base through the lock of hair. Each hair-engaging portion includes a tine member which extends outwardly from the shaft to define a substantially open hook throat. Each tine member is on a common side of each tooth so that the selected strands may be released from each hook throat by a single longitudinal movement of the base. The teeth having a hair-engaging portion may be positioned separately on the base from other teeth which may not have a hair-engaging portion, or both types of teeth may be positioned in an alternating arrangement together on a single side of the base.