Patents by Inventor Henri Smal
Henri Smal has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 6191387Abstract: Hairdressing tongs have a pair of arms extending from handles. Each arm has a heating pad affixed thereto. The handles have opposed openings. A central element is positioned between the handles and fitted within the openings such that the central element is slidable toward the handles. The central element has guide openings. Springs are positioned in the guide openings for biasing apart the handles. The springs enable hand pressure to move the handles and arms together from a completely open position to a completely closed position and, in absence of the hand pressure, to maintain the handles and arms in relatively parallel configuration, biased against stops of the central element.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2000Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Assignee: Conair CorporationInventor: Henri Smal
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Patent number: 6039482Abstract: A hot wax hair remover apparatus comprising a heating sleeve (1) for depilatory wax equipped with a wax applicator (6) wherein the heating sleeve (1) is provided with a retractable foot (5) equipped with a spring (7) holding the foot (5) in the deployed position and with means (7, 9) for locking the toot (5) in a retracted position, against the force of the spring (7), controlled by a catch (11) arranged at the base of the sleeve (1) which releases the locking means (7, 9) when the sleeve (1) is put down on a support surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 1999Date of Patent: March 21, 2000Assignee: Conair CorporationInventor: Henri Smal
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Patent number: 5168641Abstract: The travel hair-dryer consists of two telescopic components (1, 2), one of the components (1) being provided at its base with an air inlet grille (6) and comprising the conventional components (3, 4, 5) of a hair-dryer, and the other component (2), sliding over the first component (1), being closed at the top thereof and being provided with a lateral grille (8) for the discharge of air, the said grille being released when the apparatus is extended.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 1991Date of Patent: December 8, 1992Assignee: Continental Products S.A.Inventor: Henri Smal
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Patent number: 4739151Abstract: An electric hair styling tong includes a pair of elongated arms pivotally articulated to each other at one end and each carrying at its other end an electrically heated pad arranged with its face confronting the face of the other pad and with the face of one pad being smooth for hair straightening and the face of the other being undulating for hair crimping. An intermediate arm movably mounted between the articulated arms carries an intermediate plate provided on on side with a smooth face selectively engageable smooth pad face and on the opposite side with an undulating face complementary to and selectively engageable with the undulating pad face. The intermediate arm may be selectively latched to one or the other of the articulated arms to maintain either the confronting undulating faces or the confronting two smooth faces in engagement, enabling the other of the confronting smooth or undulating faces to be used to treat the hair.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 1986Date of Patent: April 19, 1988Assignee: S. A. FacoInventor: Henri Smal
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Patent number: 4733655Abstract: The appliance is of the type in which a plurality of fingers move in succession towards and away from one another. The fingers are each covered with an elastic cap having a rounded crown. The cap consists of a cylindrial portion and a bellows-shaped base, a sleeve of rigid material being fixed in the cylindrical part of the cap while being capable of turning and sliding on its finger.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1986Date of Patent: March 29, 1988Assignee: S.A. FacoInventor: Henri Smal
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Patent number: 4293760Abstract: An apparatus and uniformly heating a plurality of hair curlers by passing a current of hot air longitudinally through the hair curler body includes a hollow case having an upper wall forming a support surface in which is formed a central air inlet opening into which the hot air discharge nozzle of a portable electric air heating device is inserted. A plurality of hot air discharge ports are radially centered around the inlet opening and each port is provided with a holding member for supporting a hair curler in the path of hot air discharged from the port. The curler body is provided with an inner element able to accumulate and conserve heat. When the curlers are mounted at the ports on the holding members, hot air blown into the case will pass into the curlers and heat them. Each curler may include a cover for receiving hot air from within the curler and deflecting the hot air to flow in the reverse direction along the outer wall of the curler.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 1978Date of Patent: October 6, 1981Assignee: Societe Anonyme FACOInventor: Henri Smal
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Patent number: 4061381Abstract: A twist-prevention device comprising two connecting members, respectively, for the incoming and outgoing current, mounted such that they can rotate relative to one another. The connecting members have a stepped section so as to permit easy assembly and disassembly relative to each another, and the connecting member for the incoming current is provided with annular contact strips or cable shoes which are connected to a power supply and located in stepped manner with respect to the axis of the member, whereas the connecting member for the outgoing current is provided with helically wound conductors also arranged in stepped manner on the steps of the member to separately make contact with the corresponding stepped cable shoes.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1976Date of Patent: December 6, 1977Assignee: Societe Anonyme FACOInventor: Henri Smal
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Patent number: D272662Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1981Date of Patent: February 14, 1984Assignee: Societe Anonyme F A C OInventor: Henri Smal
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Patent number: D300853Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1986Date of Patent: April 25, 1989Assignee: S.A. FacoInventor: Henri Smal
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Patent number: D317964Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 1989Date of Patent: July 2, 1991Assignee: Faco S.A.Inventor: Henri Smal
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Patent number: D323040Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 1989Date of Patent: January 7, 1992Assignee: S.A. F A C OInventor: Henri Smal
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Patent number: D331296Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 1990Date of Patent: November 24, 1992Assignee: S.A. SOFACInventor: Henri Smal
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Patent number: D331641Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 1990Date of Patent: December 8, 1992Assignee: S. A. SofacInventor: Henri Smal
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Patent number: D341904Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 1991Date of Patent: November 30, 1993Assignee: FACO S.A.Inventor: Henri Smal
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Patent number: D377694Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1994Date of Patent: January 28, 1997Assignee: Faco S.A.Inventor: Henri Smal
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Patent number: D381766Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 1994Date of Patent: July 29, 1997Assignee: Faco S.A.Inventor: Henri Smal
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Patent number: D392414Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 1995Date of Patent: March 17, 1998Assignee: Faco S.A.Inventor: Henri Smal
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Patent number: D403868Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1996Date of Patent: January 12, 1999Assignee: Faco S.A.Inventor: Henri Smal