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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2001
Tomoyuki Inoue, Hikone, JP;
Hidekazu Sueyoshi, Kanzaki-gun, JP;
Jyuzaemon Iwasaki, Nagahama, JP;
Kotaro Yanagi, Hikone, JP;
Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd., Kadoma, JP;
Abstract
An epilating device has a rotary cylinder carrying a plurality of pinching row units arranged around the cylinder. An actuator bar is connected to movable blades in each row unit and is caused by a driven mechanism to move the movable blades towards the adjacent blades for pinching body hairs therebetween and plucking the hairs as the cylinder rotates. After the actuator bar is released from the driven mechanism, the bar is urged by a return spring to move the blades away from the adjacent blade to be ready for subsequent hair pinching. All the actuator bars spaced circumferentially around the cylinder and provided respectively for the row units are coupled commonly to the one return spring so that the epilating device can have an increased number of the row units around the cylinder only at a minimum number of the springs.