Abstract: A motorized device for removing nail coatings such as fingernail polish or the like and usable by either a professional manicurist or by an individual caring for her own nails, the invention includes a container controllably rotatable in both clockwise and counter-clockwise directions, the container receiving a single-use cartridge filled with a flexible foam body saturated with a solvent capable of removing the coating. In the environment of a beauty salon, a client inserts each nail sequentially into a finger-receiving slit in the foam body of the cartridge and the cartridge-bearing container is rotated after each insertion to remove the coating, the cartridge then being discarded so that only one client uses a given cartridge. Sequential reversing of the cartridge-bearing container according to the invention speeds removal of the nail coating especially in cuticle areas from which nail coatings are difficult to remove according to prior methodology.

Abstract: A motorized device for removing nail coatings such as fingernail polish or the like and usable by either a professional manicurist or by an individual caring for her own nails, the invention includes a container controllably rotatable in both clockwise and counter-clockwise directions, the container receiving a single-use cartridge filled with a flexible foam body saturated with a solvent capable of removing the coating. In the environment of a beauty salon, a client inserts each nail sequentially into a finger-receiving slit in the foam body of the cartridge and the cartridge-bearing container is rotated after each insertion to remove the coating, the cartridge then being discarded so that only one client uses a given cartridge. Sequential reversing of the cartridge-bearing container according to the invention speeds removal of the nail coating especially in cuticle areas from which nail coatings are difficult to remove according to prior methodology.

Abstract: A device for treating the fingernails and particularly for removal of nail polish from the nails, the invention provides a treatment container having an absorbent member disposed therein which is soaked with a liquid nail polish removal solvent, at least one finger being received within an aperture formed in the absorbent member to contact the nail with the solvent and with surfaces of the aperture to remove a polish coating from the nail. The invention particularly provides a supply container on which the treatment container can be carried, the interior of the supply container connecting with the interior of the treatment container through a valve in a cap element closing the supply container, thereby to allow liquid nail polish removal solvent stored within the supply container to be dispensed as desired into the treatment container.