Patents Examined by Robyn K Doan
  • Patent number: 6021783
    Abstract: A braid removal tool has a comb, a strap, and a plurality of prongs. The strap is used to fasten the comb to a user's thumb. To remove a section of braids, a user first engages prongs with braids by grasping a section of unbraided hair between an index finger and the comb. Once the prongs are engaged with braids, use a downward motion and comb braids toward a hair end. Repeat this procedure until braids are completely removed. The tool may be worn on the thumb of a second hand to assist the second hand in grasping the braids to prevent excessive pulling on a scalp during combing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: Alton H. Phillips
    Inventor: Alton Hugh Phillips
  • Patent number: 6019108
    Abstract: A hair holder includes a first body, a second body, and an elastic member. The first body includes a mounting seat formed on an end thereof and a first retaining groove defined in the end thereof. The mounting seat includes a protruded member on each of two opposite end faces thereof. The first body further includes two restraining blocks formed thereon. The second body includes two spaced engaging pieces formed on an end thereof and a second retaining groove defined in the end thereof. Each engaging piece includes a device for rotatably pivotally holding the protruded members of the mounting seat of the first body. The elastic member is mounted in the mounting seat of the first body and restrained by the restraining blocks. The elastic member has a first end retained in the first retaining groove and a second end retained in the second retaining groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Inventor: Chin-Chin Chen
  • Patent number: 6012462
    Abstract: This is a device that will allow the user to apply four different hair color formulas simultaneously. The device has four color containers inverted on the top of the device. Air pressure is applied through the air pump in the handle, which increased the pressure in the color containers that are threaded into the base. The pressure forces the color product through the color tubes out to the color applicator. The entire device is drawn from the base of the hair to the ends of the hair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Inventor: Rodney L Schmittou
  • Patent number: 6009885
    Abstract: A powder puff case for powder adhesion is provided to permit face powder to directly and uniformly adhere to a powder puff through an adhesion net when turning upside down and shaking a powder case that is filled with face powder. The adhesion net may be injection-molded integrally at bottom of the powder puff case, or outer circumference of the adhesion net is bent upward, to be received into a middle portion of bottom of the powder puff case, and a support body is inserted into bottom of the powder puff case, to hold the outer circumference of the adhesion net. Here, the adhesion net, the powder puff case, and the support body are in contact with one another by ultrasonic joint, etc. This powder puff case has a simple adhesion structure, in that meshes of the adhesion net are not stopped up and there is no separate case to hold face powder. Accordingly, face powder directly and uniformly adheres through the adhesion net to the powder puff from the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Pacific Corporation
    Inventor: Ho Keun Nam
  • Patent number: 6009881
    Abstract: A device for applying a hair product to the base of the hair includes an enclosure having tapered ends able to separate the hair on either side of a part. An applicator end-piece is designed to be mounted on a receptacle containing the product, optionally via an applicator end-piece surmounting the receptacle in such a way as to enable the product to be applied in a localized manner in the vicinity of the part. A wall which may be solid or made of bristles is associated with the enclosure for spreading the applied product on the base of the hair situated on either side of the part. The device is designed so that a single movement of the device effects separation of the hair, application of the product and spreading of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Gilles Baudin, Valerie Vieu
  • Patent number: 6003525
    Abstract: This invention involves a stretchable elastomer floss and elastomer floss disposable units, plus related devices for packaging the floss, dispensing the floss, and for holding the ends of the elastomer floss when the elastomer floss units are in use. The elastomer floss units are manufactured by extrusion or injection molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Inventor: Harry S. Katz
  • Patent number: 6000410
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a decorative toothbrush, which will encourage children to brush their teeth more frequently. The brush includes a brush component and handle component. The handle component, in the preferred embodiment, is constructed from a transparent, plastic material. A decorative fluid is placed within the hollow interior of the handle component.A variety of decorative fluids are disclosed for use within the handle. One such fluid contains a plurality of phosphorescent characters, which are suspended within a glycerin-water mixture.In an alternative embodiment, the brush and handle components are releasably interconnected. The two-component nature of the alternative embodiment allows multiple handles to be used with the same brush component. In this way, a user can collect various handle components featuring different characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Inventor: Laurie P. Tortorice
  • Patent number: 6000409
    Abstract: A barrette includes two decorative elongate plates of the same structure combined together. Each decorative plate has an insertable end portion, a two-holed end portion and an intermediate twisted portion. One decorative plate has its insertable end portion with two projections extending in the two holes portion of the other decorateive plate, with the intermediate portions intertwisting and overlapping with each other so that the two decorative elongate plates may be combined together in a stabilized condition, with the two projections respectively stopped by an upper edge and a lower edge of the two holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: Chian Tai Attire Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wen-Chien Chung
  • Patent number: 5996590
    Abstract: A conical nail file having a handle and two conical files each formed of a convex conical surface and concave conical surface confocally arranged to terminate in a conical apex is provided and designed to interfit underneath an acrylic nail and reach and file the area of the acrylic nail adjacent to the free end of the natural fingernail and the nail bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Inventor: Melissa L. Steege
  • Patent number: 5992422
    Abstract: A device for removing toe nail polish that operates while the user sits or stands with one or more feet in the device with the toe nails of the feet/foot positioned beneath a toe nail polish remover assembly including a toe nail polish removing sponge that is periodically refilled with nail polish remover from a reservoir and that moves back and forth in a reciprocating motion across the user's toes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Inventor: Linda F. Ivory
  • Patent number: 5988178
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a nail tip sizing tool is performed by providing a handle with at least one slot and a set of artificial nail tips of different widths and lengths with each nail tip having a cuticle end and a tip end. The tip ends of at least selected ones of the nail tips are cut to establish a substantially uniform nail tip length as measured between the cuticle end and the cut tip end. The cut tip ends are then inserted equal distances into at least one slot of the handle such that the cuticle ends of the nail tips are substantially aligned and the nail tips are in adjacent side-by-side relationship in progressively nail tip width size. Since the nail tip sizing tool has nail tips identical to the nail tips stored in "tip boxes" of the operator, once sizing is performed, the selected artificial nail tip is identical to the sized artificial nail tip of the nail tip sizing tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Inventor: Christina S. Bair