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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2002
Jose A. Carballada, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Dennis E. Kuhlman, Middletown, OH (US);
David M. Stentz, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Shinji Nishimura, Hikone, JP;
Kazunori Nakasai, Hikone, JP;
Jose A. Carballada, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Dennis E. Kuhlman, Middletown, OH (US);
David M. Stentz, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Shinji Nishimura, Hikone, JP;
Kazunori Nakasai, Hikone, JP;
Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A hair iron that can set hairstyles by heating and spraying a treatment agent comprises a pair of holding parts (); each having heating block (), the surface of which acts as a holding surface (); at least one holding part () containing liquid container (), liquid holder () that brings the liquid in liquid container () in contact with heating block () as the liquid in liquid container () is transferred to heating block (), and steam path () that sprays from holding surface () the steam generated as the liquid transferred from inside liquid container () is heated by the contact surface with heating block () of liquid holder (). Hair is held between the holding surfaces () of the pair of holding parts (), and under the action of the steam sprayed from the steam path (), the hairstyle is set. In this hair iron (), the liquid container () is set on the side of the heating block () opposite to the holding surface (), and at the same time, the liquid holder () is set between the heating block () and the liquid container ().