Abstract: A dental floss container holder and floss dispenser having a housing with a front and back portion. A contoured resilient material made of closed or open cell foam or neoprene for retaining variously shaped dental floss containers and spools. The retaining material is affixed to the interior of the housing. A guide directs floss from the retained container to the exterior of the housing. A cutter is positioned on the exterior of the housing. The housing may be wall mountable.

Abstract: A method for facilitated precision cutting of hair by one handed sectioning, combing and locking of hair into position for cutting and a device for effecting the method. The device comprises a combination of comb, sectioning and locking members arranged such that it provides for the rapid one handed sequential hairstyling functions of sectioning, combing and uniform locking of hair in position for cutting, clipping or trimming without the necessity of constant comb and finger manipulation and movement. A short comb, adapted to comb a straight portion of hair, is combined with a thin tapered elongated sectioning and locking bar. The comb and bar are hingedly connected and are movable relative to each other by use of a single hand and finger manipulation.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for treating moisture-depleted hair with water vapor. The apparatus is constructed so as to be very convenient to the user in treating his or her hair. It includes a first base section which can be a table top unit or a wall mounted unit, and a flexible and collapsible hose portion which is connected to the base section and adapted to be maneuverable by the subject so as to be positionable in an infinite array of directions. The base section includes a removable water reservoir chamber and a housing which includes a vapor generation section as well as an airflow section. A fan is provided in order to entrain water vapor which may be produced by way of either an ultrasonic vibrator or heating coils, and force them out through the flexible hose and onto the subject's head. A variety of interchangeable nozzles are adapted for use on the end of the flexible hose, and are configured in a variety of shapes so as to provide the user with great flexibility in their hair care method.

Abstract: An electric nail polish remover is provided with an underlying housing including a motor means provided with a drive shaft rotatably extending from the lower housing to an upper coaxial housing in a sealing relationship relative to the lower housing, wherein the upper housing contains a cavity for inclusion of a reservoir containing a quantity of fingernail polish remover fluid with a continuous endless belt directed through the fluid and in cooperation with the drive shaft and directed about a series of five finger positions, wherein the finger positions each include a fingernail ledge member to direct the fingernail in operative association with the belt for removal of fingernail polish positioned on the fingernail.

Abstract: A nail repair device for repairing a split or broken fingernail or for cosmetically enhancing the appearance of a fingernail has a support portion for positioning underneath the natural nail and a handle portion of which the support portion may be manipulated into position. The fixture is effected by applying adhesive to the support portion, positioning the support portion firmly under the natural nail to secure the nail repair device to the natural fingernail and then removing the handle portion. The support portion suitably has a lip which may be butted up against the edge of the natural fingernail. The support portion may be trimmed to leave a forward part protruding and a nail extension may be applied to the protruding part.

Abstract: Artificial hair for hair-implantation, which is composed of a monofilament of a synthetic resin, wherein amorphous silver is adhered in spots to the surface of the monofilament by vacuum depositing said silver of the monofilament.

Abstract: A hair conditioning and styling pad is provided which comprises a shaped body of a resilient, open-celled, hydrophilic polyurethane foam matrix integrally incorporating an aqueous phase incorporating about 70-90% water, about 5-25% of a hair conditioning agent, and a nonionic surfactant. The pad is preferably affixed to the tines of a styling brush or comb to yield a composite brush or comb which is effective to condition and style hair. In a further modification of the invention, color-modified aqueous phases will further comprise about 5-25% of a temporary hair coloring agent, and the percentage of water in the color-modified aqueous phase will be about 60-80%.

Abstract: A portable shaving brush assembly that comprises a brush for applying shaving cream, a hollow handle portion and a can of shaving cream removably stored in the hollow handle. The shaving brush is covered by a removable funnel-shaped shield having a hinged cap and multiple ventilation holes to allow the brush to dry when stored after use. The hollow handle has a can holder cap which closes the storage end of the handle. The shaving cream can and can holder cap are removed as a single unit during use.

Abstract: Implant cavities are drilled in the jaw of a patient by first forming a template from a plastic cast of an impression of the jaw regions after it has been prepared as for parallel-crown preparation and the template is provided with parallel bores in which slide sleeves guiding the drill bit of the drill can be received.

Abstract: A disposable permanent wave rod which is comprised of an imperforate generally cylindrically-shaped member formed of a readily wettable rigid polymeric material, wherein, due to the inherent properties of wettable polymers, greater adherence is found to exist between the wettable permanent wave rod and the wetted hair and end paper which is wrapped theraround, thereby preventing slippage of the end paper from around the permanent wave rod. Such rods may be secured to a person's head by connecting each rod to an adjacent rod through the use of rubber bands or an elongated flexible but rigid thin strip of material, which may be tacked or adhesively secured to each adjacent rod.

Abstract: A cosmetic pencil capable of advancing a soft cosmetic mass a short predetermined distance. The pencil has a lower barrel which includes a gripping disk stop. A hollow sheath member is held in the lower barrel and has an outwardly facing cam surface. A holding tube is rotatably inserted into the lower barrel and surrounds the sheath member. The holding tube also has a cam surface, and a spring member and gripping disk surround a push rod which extends into the center portion of the sheath which holds the soft cosmetic mass. Turning the holding tube forces the sheath inwardly, and the gripping disk holds the push rod steady with respect to the lower barrel and, thus, a small amount of cosmetic mass is moved upwardly by the movement of the sheath with respect to the push rod.

Abstract: A tooth brush device comprising an elongated body having first and second end portions and an intermediate portion between the end portions, bristles at the first end portion of the body providing a brush while the second end portion provides a handle for the tooth brush device. The intermediate portion of the body has a chamber for receiving a spool of dental floss to be dispensed by the device through an opening extending within the second end portion, and the body includes a window for monitoring the presence of dental floss within the chamber of the body. The window of the body may also be provided by an opening to the chamber and a transparent window cover removably secured with the body enclosing the opening. The cover includes spool retaining structure which is received within the chamber for rotatably retaining within the chamber a spool of dental floss for the dispensing of floss by the device.

Abstract: A manicure shield is set forth provided with an elongate convex shield to overlie a fingernail to prevent inadvertent contact with a nail and a foreign object during a drying procedure subsequent to the applying of a liquid convering and the like. The shield is formed with a plurality of parallel downwardly depending legs pivotally mounted to an upper, relatively rigid polymeric ring integrally secured to a lower resilient recircling ring for securement about a finger adjacent an associated fingernail of an individual. The lower ring may alternatively be defined by a pair of resiliently biased legs for securement to an individual's finger. A flexible tab secured to an upper surface of the upper ring is in contact with the rear convex surface of the shield to maintain the shield in an upper or lowered position.

Abstract: A compact case designed with a technique of enabling a cosmetic material to be discharged always smoothly while maintaining the desired performance of sealing the cosmetic material to prevent the same from hardening. A flat plate is disposed movably in a case body, and a sealed sack to be filled with the cosmetic material is disposed under this flat plate. A pump capable of being driven by the flat plate to discharge the cosmetic material is provided in the sealed sack. The pump has a discharge hole formed in the flat plate. A cover is stretched over the upper surface of the flat plate to cover the discharge hole. A slit is formed in the cover so as to communicate with the discharge hole.

Abstract: This nail polish kit is designed to provide color and protection to fingernails with little effort on the part of a user. Primarily, it consists of a very thin colored body with a rounded end for substantail mating engagement with the cuticle of a person's finger. There are a multiple number of these articles in a kit and each is adhered to two paper strips that are peeled away to apply the body to the fingernails of a person's hand. The opposite end of the colored body also extends past the front of the fingernail for using scissors to cut it to conform to the curved extending end of the fingernail.