Patents Examined by Rachel A. Running
  • Patent number: 7082949
    Abstract: A heating hair curler comprising a handle with at least one clamp and at least one push button and a heating unit for setting locks of hair, in which the heating unit has a relief in the form of a worm screw, called a fixed spiral profile, fixed to the heating unit, and in which the hair curler also comprises a mobile spiral profile which can be moved along the longitudinal axis of the heating unit by means of the push button so as to compress the lock of hair coiled into a spiral around the hair curler between the fixed spiral and the mobile spiral and thus so as to heat the lock on at least two sides at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Conair Corporation
    Inventor: Pierre L.M. Julemont
  • Patent number: 7021318
    Abstract: A portable cosmetics case includes a housing having a receipt member for cosmetic set and cosmetics to carry it and a cover, the receipt member containing the cosmetic set or the cosmetics capable of raising the above top portion of the housing to permit selection of any one to be required among the cosmetic set or the cosmetics when the cover is opened, and being entered into the housing when the cover is closed, thereby attaining simple and convenient carrying and storage thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Inventor: Young-Kwang Byun
  • Patent number: 7013901
    Abstract: A kit for the grooming of hair includes a lower shell having a flat lower surface, the lower shell having an upper peripheral edge, an interior cavity of the shell provided with a selectably replaceable absorptive pad substantially filling a base of the interior cavity. The kit also includes an upper shell having a flat upper surface and a lower peripheral edge, the edge proportioned for selectable engagement with the upper peripheral edge of the lower shell. The kit further includes a multiplicity of brush bristles, each having one end embedded within a base of an internal cavity of the upper shell, the bristles having a length sufficient to project into the absorptive paid when the lower edge of the upper shell is secured to an upper edge of the lower shell. The flat upper surface of the upper shell may include a surface defined by a peripheral edge proportioned for selectable engagement within the upper peripheral edge of the lower shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Inventor: Wayne Morris