Method and apparatus of face lifting that move facial tissues up and hold
The method and apparatus of face lifting are invented for reducing facial sagging of aged people. The method comprises: 1) move up sagged temple, cheek and forehead tissues from sagged location to a higher location, 2) hold the tissues in the lifted location, 3) put a pressure on the lifted tissues. The apparatus comprises a cheek lifting band, a forehead lifting headwear and a facial pressure mask. Users can wear these for minutes or hours, depending on their preference and they can also use heat and/or massage to facilitate lifted facial tissues to stay in the lifted location.
This application is a continuation of Application No. 61/751,870, filed Jan. 13, 2013.
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION1. Field of the Invention
This invention includes methods and apparatus of face lifting for aged people.
2. Description of Related Art
Aged looking=aged facial skin+aged facial contour. The later is basically shown as facial sagging and deep wrinkles. To make aged people looked younger, it is not enough only to improve facial skin with skin care. The improvement of facial contour has the same importance.
There are many previous arts of toning facial muscles, lifting face, thinning face and reducing wrinkles, such as:
U.S. Pat. No. 7,384,377 is the method and apparatus for training facial muscles to reduce wrinkles which employs a flexible stretchable membrane held in contact with the skin over a muscle group while manipulating a hand-held device with a motorized rotary brush over the membrane, so that the bristles stimulate and train the muscle group while the flexible membrane protects and stabilizes the skin.
U.S. Pat. No. 7,632,217 is a facial exercising device comprising: a stretchable mask having a central aperture for a wearer's face; two connectable top straps connected behind the wearer's head for securing the top to the wearer's forehead; two connectable bottom straps for attaching the mask to the wearer's chin; and a top strap affixed to the top of the mask for attaching to the back of the wearer's head.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,823,778 add a weight on stiffeners which attached to the facial skin where the muscles are to exercise the tissues.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,728,028 applies liquid latex to the skin of face, and exercise muscles after it dries up.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,527,357 uses a facial mask with electrodes to apply electric current to facial tissues to tighten the tissues.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,694,823 is an apparatus engaging the lower chin and posterior jaw portions to provide substantially uniform lifting on all of the engaged skin and neck areas.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,658,811 is a facial contouring mask of long soft pad surrounding head vertically engaging bottom of chin and cheeks to lift chin and cheeks up.
U.S. Pat. No. 7,608,090 applies pieces of sticky and stretch tapes to local area where wrinkles are to use the contraction force to pull and tighten the skin.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,039,710 uses a head strap to hold the apparatus on the face and to pull the cheek support into engagement with the cheeks to reduce the sagging of the cheeks.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,239,037 uses straps connected with adhesive pads adhered to the woman's skin adjacent to her temples to pull upwardly on the skin and thus remove wrinkles.
Some of these arts have effects of toning facial muscles. But they do not have the effect of lifting fat and connective tissues, which are also sagged and need to be lifted. Other arts, such as face thinner masks and some jaw and cheeks holding bands only put a vertical pressure onto facial tissues, which forces sagging facial tissues to stay in the sagged location and do not move the tissues up to a higher location.
Facial tissue sagging is caused by a constant pulling force of gravity from down below. If we use a constant force to lift the tissues up and hold it in the lifted location, then use some technique to make it stay there, over the time, facial sagging will be elevated.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONThe method and apparatus of face lifting are invented for reducing facial sagging of aged people. The method comprises: 1) move up the sagged facial tissues from the sagged location to a higher location, 2) hold the tissues in the lifted location, 3) put a pressure on the lifted tissues. The apparatus comprises a cheek lifting band, a forehead lifting headwear and a facial pressure mask. Users can wear these for minutes or hours depending on their preference and they can also use heat and/or massage to facilitate the lifted tissues to stay in the lifted location.
Cheek lifting band is made of a material with elastic and sticky property. The band is placed with its center on top of head and two sides dropping down along cheeks. The tissues in temple and cheeks areas is lifted up by the contraction movement of the band by pulling down both ends of the band, making both sides adhere to the skin of temples and cheeks, and then reduce the pulling force.
The forehead tissue lifting headwear comprises an elastic circular band, a sticky layer material and two elastic connection straps. The band surrounds forehead horizontally with its front section adhered to forehead skin by the sticky layer material. The two elastic straps connect the front section of the band to the back section of the band, cross over on top of head. Forehead tissue is lifted up by pulling down the back section of the band.
The facial pressure mask comprises a plural of circular elastic fabric bands, which surrounds head horizontally, and a nose pad. The mask covers and put a pressure on the whole facial area. The nose pad is in the shape of an upside down “Y” and is placed underneath of the elastic bands to relay the pressure from the bands to frown area and to the tissue hills along two sides of nose. The advantage of this invention is that it provides a method of moving sagged facial tissues up to a higher location, hold the tissues there and then apply a pressure to keep the tissues to stay there, while other existing arts only apply a vertical pressure to sagged tissues. By using this procedure over a period of time, sagged facial tissues will be elevated. Therefore, it will make seniors looked much younger.
This invention includes a method and apparatus of lifting sagging facial tissues caused by aging.
The method comprising the following steps: 1) place the center of an elastic band with sticky property on the top of head and make its both sides drop down along cheeks equally, 2) grab the both ends of the band with both hands, 3) pull down both ends to make the band stretch for a predetermined degree, 4) move the both ends toward each other, 5) adhere the inside membrane of the band to the skin of cheeks and temple area, 6) reduce the pulling force to the both ends gradually to let the band contract upwardly and move temple and cheek tissues upwardly together with its contraction, 7) make the both ends of the band overlap and adhere together under the bottom of chin, after the tissues moved up to a predetermined degree, 8) put on the circular elastic band of predetermined width to surround forehead horizontally and let the layer of material with sticky property, which is adhered to the inner membrane of the front section of the band, bind the band to forehead skin, 9) pull down the back section of the band in the back of head, in turn, to pull up the front section of the band through connection straps, which connect the top edge of front section, cross over the top of head, to the back section of the band, 10) adjust connection straps to make forehead tissues move up for a predetermined degree, 11) put on the nose pad with its head portion covering frown area and its two legs covering the areas along two sides of nose, 12) put on the circular elastic bands, which surround head horizontally, one by one to cover the whole face and apply a pressure onto the whole face, 13) keep all of the components mentioned above on for a predetermined period of time, 14) apply heat and/or massage to the lifted facial tissues for a predetermined period of time.
The forehead lifting portion of the device comprises a layer of sticky material 10, an elastic circular band 20 and two elastic connection straps 30. The layer of sticky material 10 is adhered to the inner membrane of the front section of band 20 sandwiched between forehead skin and the front section of band 20. The two elastic straps 30 connect the top edge of the front section of band 20 to the back section of band 20.
Nose pad 50 takes the shape of an upside down “Y”, with its top portion covering frown area and its two legs covering the areas along two sides of nose, where the tissue hills are for seniors. Elastic bands 60, 70 and 80, partially overlapped, cover the whole facial areas with two gaps, one for eyes and one for nose, and form a facial pressure mask to put a pressure on the whole face. Mouth area is covered by elastic circular band 80 to prevent the formation of thick lips. Nose pad 50 is placed underneath of elastic circular bands 60, 70, 80 to relay the pressure from the bands to the area of forehead and the areas along two sides of nose.
The forehead lifting portion of the device is showing in
The facial pressure mask portion of the device is shown in
The material of cheek lifting band 40, the sticky layer material 10 of forehead lifting headwear and nose pad 50 is either Septon, Polyurethane, Silicon rubber or other thermoplastic rubbers with hardness between 1 IRHD and 90 IRHD.
A hair protection helmet, which has many supporting pins inside, can be used for people with hair styles. The helmet can be worn as the first step, before putting on the device in this invention.
Heat and/or massage can be used to facilitate the lifted tissues stay in the lifted location after put on the device in this invention.
Claims
1. The method of lifting sagging facial tissues comprising the following steps: 1) place the center of an elastic band with sticky property on the top of head and make its both sides drop down along cheeks equally, 2) grab the both ends of the band with both hands, 3) pull down both ends to make the band stretch for a predetermined degree, 4) move the both ends toward each other, 5) adhere the inside membrane of the band to the skin of cheeks and temple area, 6) reduce the pulling force to the both ends gradually to let the band contract upwardly and move temple and cheek tissues upwardly together with its contraction, 7) make the both ends of the band overlap and adhere together under the bottom of chin, after the tissues moved up to a predetermined degree, 8) put on the circular elastic band of predetermined width to surround forehead horizontally and let the layer of material with sticky property, which is adhered to the inner membrane of the front section of the band, bind the band to forehead skin, 9) pull down the back section of the band in the back of head, in turn, to pull up the front section of the band through connection straps, which connect the top edge of front section, cross over the top of head, to the back section of the band, 10) adjust connection straps to make forehead tissues move up for a predetermined degree, 11) put on the nose pad with its head portion covering frown area and its two legs covering the areas along two sides of nose, 12) put on the circular elastic bands, which surround head horizontally, one by one to cover the whole face and apply a pressure onto the whole face, 13) keep all of the components mentioned above on for a predetermined period of time.
2. The device of lifting sagging tissues of cheeks and temple areas comprises: an elastic band of sticky property, with predetermined length, width and thickness, placed with its center on top of head, its two sides dropping down parallel to the skin of temple and cheeks and its two ends overlapped under the bottom of chin.
3. The said band in claim 1, 2, wherein: the sticky property of the band allows the band to adhere to facial skin and to be removed easily without hurting the skin.
4. The said band in claim 2, wherein: the predetermined dimension is length 10-80 cm, thickness 0.01-1.0 cm and width 0.1-25 cm.
5. The said band in claim 2, wherein: the band is alternatively made of fabrics elastic material with at least one of its membrane coated with a layer of material with sticky property as specified in claim 3.
6. The device for lifting forehead tissues, comprising: a circular elastic band, with predetermined width, surrounds head horizontally to cover forehead area, a layer of material, with sticky property as specified in claim 3, adhered to the inner membrane of the front section of the band and a plural of connection straps, with one end secured to the top edge of the front section of the band and the other end to the back section of the band, cross over on the top of head.
7. The said circular elastic band in claim 6, wherein: the band is made of elastic fabrics with a dimension of 20-60 cm in circumference, 2-20 cm in width and 0.01-1.0 cm in thickness.
8. The said circular elastic band in claim 6, wherein: the band is alternatively made of a layer of elastic polymer with sticky property as specified in claim 3.
9. The said layer of material with sticky property in claim 6, wherein: the layer has a predetermined dimension to cover the skin of forehead.
10. The said material of sticky property in claims 2, 6 and 8, wherein: it is made of Silicon Rubber.
11. The said material of sticky property in claims 2, 6 and 8, wherein: it is made of Septon.
12. The said material of sticky property in claims 2, 6 and 8, wherein: it is made of Polyurethane.
13. The said material of sticky property in claims 2, 6 and 8, wherein: it is made of thermoplastic rubber.
14. The method of using a pad underneath of a facial mask, which put a pressure onto human face, to relay the pressure from facial mask to frown area and to the areas along two sides of nose.
15. The said elastic band in claim 2, 8, the layer material in claim 6 and the pad in claim 14, wherein: their hardness is between 1 IRHD and 90 IRHD.
Type: Application
Filed: Aug 23, 2013
Publication Date: Jul 17, 2014
Inventor: Yufei Hou (Kent, WA)
Application Number: 13/974,046
International Classification: A45D 44/22 (20060101);