HAIR BRUSH HAVING UNIT STRUCTURE OF BRUSH BRISTLE MODULES

Abstract

A hair brush having a unit structure of brush bristle modules, includes a body having a first side provided with a handle and having a second side provided with a pair of fixing supports which are spread in opposite directions and which are connected with each other in a straight line, a brush bristle module unit detachably coupled along positions spaced apart at equal intervals on the fixing supports, and fixing covers which cover the brush bristle module unit and which are coupled to the fixing supports of the body. Therefore, since a simple assembling structure of the hair brush having a paddle shape is provided, ease of assembly production is provided, so that the defective rate is capable of being minimized and also high-efficiency product productivity is capable of being realized by reducing the assembling time.

Description

CROSS REFERENCE

The present application claims priority to Korean Patent Application No. 10-2022-0158743, filed Nov. 23, 2022, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein for all purposes by this reference.

BACKGROUND

The present disclosure relates to a hair brush. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a hair brush having a structure of modular brush bristle modules capable of increasing manufacturing productivity of the hair brush by being provided with a body that is a component configuring the hair brush and with a brush bristle module unit that is for providing convenience in an assembling process.

Generally, various types of apparatuses are used for styling the hair. Among the apparatuses, brushes are the most typical, and paddle brushes and round brushes have been developed and used as they were intended.

Conventional round brushes are constituted of a cylindrical brush body and a handle which is integrally molded to a lower end portion of the brush body so that a user is capable of gripping the round brush.

In addition, round brushes are divided into brushes with straight brush bristles inserted into a cylindrical body, and brushes with multiple brush bristles inserted in to the cylindrical body in a widened form.

Such a round brush is proposed in Korean Patent Application Publication No. 10-2008-0039600 (invention title: HAIR BRUSH).

In addition, “ROLL BRUSH” is disclosed in Korean Patent No. 10-2078003 that is filed and registered by the inventor of the present specification. In Korean Patent No. 10-2078003, since a lower end side of a body having brush teeth that protrude is fixed in a shape surrounding an upper end cylindrical member, an effect that can prevent the user's hair from getting caught when the brush is used may be provided and a soft feeling of use when the brush is used may be provided. Furthermore, adhesives are filled in mounting grooves, the mounting grooves positioned in an upper end cap to which upper and lower ends of a brush teeth supporting member having a twisted wire shape fixing the brush teeth, and the mounting grooves positioned in a center of the cylindrical member of a handle part. Therefore, a sense of stability during use and a sensuous wavy hair styling effect for the user may be maximized due to the complete prevention of horizontal movements of the brush teeth supporting member when the brush is used, so that product satisfaction and reliability may be improved.

In contrast to the roll brush as described above, a conventional paddle type brush is disclosed in Korean Utility Model Publication No. 20-2010-0000290. The conventional paddle type brush includes a body having a handle, a plurality of fixing holes formed in a first surface of a second end of the body, a pad having a rubber material and having one air hole, and a plurality of brush teeth having respective first ends provided to be inserted into and provided on the fixing hole of the pad.

In such a conventional type brush, since the plurality of brush teeth is press-fitted and fixed one by one in the body portion having the handle and the pad that has the air hole during a manufacturing process, there is a problem that a considerable amount of time in a production process is required and production efficiency is reduced.

In addition, in a conventional brush having a conventional paddle shape in which a plurality of brush teeth and so on are press-fitted, there are problems in use of the brush such as loss of the brush teeth, and also the life cycle of use of the brush is short. Furthermore, there are many cases in which dead skin cells generated from the scalp or the hair falling out from the scalp and so on are fixed to surfaces of the brush teeth or are remain entangled, so that unsanitary problems may occur.

• • References: 1) Korean Patent Application Publication No. 10-2008-0039600; Korean Patent No. 10-2078003; and Korean Utility Model Publication No. 20-2010-0000290.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Accordingly, the present disclosure has been made keeping in mind the above problems occurring in the related art, and an objective of the present disclosure is to simplify components constituting a paddle type hair brush, to minimize defective rate during a product assembling process by allowing a coupling work using the components to be easily performed, and to increase a production efficiency of a product by reducing the assembling time.

In addition, another objective of the present disclosure is to configure a brush bristle constituting a hair brush bristle to be unitized so that the brush bristle has a detachable structure capable of being attached to or detached from a body, thereby being capable of using the hair brush bristle in a clean condition at all times since a user can clean the hair brush bristle by detaching the brush bristle unit from the body when dead skin cells, the hair, and so on in the brush bristle unit due to long-term use of the brush are fixed and entangled on the brush bristles.

In addition, still another objective of the present disclosure is to provide a visual enjoyment to a user by configuring the color of a brush bristle unit to be different.

In order to achieve the above objectives, there is provided a hair brush including: a body having a first side provided with a handle and having a second side provided with a pair of fixing supports which are spread apart in opposite directions and which are connected with each other in a straight line; a brush bristle module unit detachably coupled along positions spaced apart at equal intervals on the fixing supports; and fixing covers which cover the brush bristle module unit and which are coupled to the fixing supports of the body.

According to the present disclosure, since the assembling structure of the hair brush having a paddle shape is configured to be easily performed, ease of assembly production is provided, so that there are effects that defective rate is capable of being minimized and also high-efficiency product productivity is capable of being realized by reducing the assembling time.

In addition, since the brush bristle constituting the hair brush bristle is unitized so that the brush bristle has a detachable structure capable of being attached to or detached from a body, the hair brush bristle is capable of being used in a clean condition at all times since a user can clean the hair brush bristle by detaching the brush bristle unit from the body when dead skin cells, the hair, and so on in the brush bristle unit due to long-term use of the brush are fixed and entangled on the brush bristle.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The above and other objectives, features, and other advantages of the present disclosure will be more clearly understood from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view illustrating a state in which a body and fixing covers applied in the present disclosure are separated from each other;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view illustrating a brush bristle unit applied in the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view illustrating a separated state of a hair brush that is before being coupled to a complete product using components in FIGS. 1 and 2;

FIG. 4 is a partially enlarged view enlarging and illustrating a main part when fixing and coupling is performed by using the fixing covers while the brush bristle unit is coupled to the body;

FIG. 5 is a view illustrating a state in which an entire configuration of the present disclosure is separated; and

FIG. 6 is a view illustrating the hair brush completed by using the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

In the following description, the structural or functional description specified to exemplary embodiments according to the concept of the present disclosure is intended to describe the exemplary embodiments, so it should be understood that the present disclosure may be variously embodied, without being limited to the exemplary embodiments. The exemplary embodiments according to the concept of the present disclosure may be variously modified and may have various shapes, so examples which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, it should be understood that the exemplary embodiments according to the concept of the present disclosure are not limited to the embodiments which will be described hereinbelow with reference to the accompanying drawings, but various modifications, equivalents, additions and substitutions are possible, without departing from the scope and spirit of the present disclosure. All terms or words used in the specification and claims have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which inventive concepts belong. It will be further understood that terms, such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries, should be interpreted as having a meaning that is consistent with their meaning in the context of the relevant art and will not be interpreted in an idealized or overly formal sense unless expressly so defined herein. Therefore, the description proposed herein is just an exemplary embodiment for the purpose of illustration only and not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure, so it should be understood that other equivalents and modifications could be made thereto without departing from the scope of the present disclosure at the time at which the present application is filed.

In addition, unless defined otherwise, all terms used herein including technical or scientific terms have the same meanings as generally understood by a person having ordinary knowledge in the art to which the present disclosure pertains. The terms defined in general dictionaries are construed as having meanings consistent with the contextual meanings of the art, but not interpreted as ideal meanings or excessively formal meanings unless explicitly defined in the present application.

Hereinafter, an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure will be described with reference to accompanying drawings.

The present disclosure is intended to propose a hair brush having a paddle shape as illustrated in FIGS. 5 and 6, and includes a body 100, a brush bristle module unit 200 forming a hair brush bristle and being provided as an integrated module, and a fixing cover 300 finishing a space between the body 100 and the brush bristle module unit 200 and maintaining a state in which the body 100 and the brush bristle module unit 200 are fixed to each other.

The body 100 has a first side provided with a handle 110, and has a second side provided with fixing supports 120 which are spread in opposite directions and which are connected with each other in a straight line.

Such a handle 110 and fixing supports 120 of the body 100 may be integrally formed by injection molding.

The fixing supports 120 has shapes which are spread in the opposite directions from the handle 110 and which are spaced apart from each other as a pair. Preferably, a space between the fixing supports 120 that are formed as the pair is open.

The space is formed between the fixing supports 120, and a plurality of brush bristle module units 200 that will be described later may be arranged and coupled at equal intervals in the space.

As illustrated in FIGS. 1, 3, and 4, the fixing supports 120 are provided with coupling grooves 121 which are open upwardly along inner side surface of the fixing supports 120 and which are provided at equal intervals, and a plurality of cylindrical coupling bodies 122 having coupling holes 123 are provided along inner lower surfaces of the fixing supports 120 at equal intervals.

The coupling grooves 121 are configured to accommodate and couple opposite ends of the brush bristle module units 200.

The brush bristle module units 200 are configured to detached from and attached to respective positions spaced apart from each other along the fixing supports 120 of the body 100.

As illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 4, the brush bristle module units 200 respectively includes a body portion 210 which is rounded and which extends long in a longitudinal direction thereof, brush bristles 220 provided on an upper surface of the body portion 210, and couplers 230 that protrude toward opposite end sides of the body portion 210.

As illustrated in FIG. 4, the couplers 230 is configured to be fitted into the coupling grooves 121 that are provided on inner sides of the fixing supports 120 of the body 100 of a hair brush 1 at equal intervals.

Such couplers 230 include extension protrusions 231 that respectively protrude toward the opposite sides of the body portion 210, and include bent protrusions 232 that are respectively and perpendicularly bent from end portions of the extension protrusions 231.

As illustrated in FIG. 4, the extension protrusions 231 is inserted into and coupled to the coupling grooves 121 that are formed inside the fixing supports 120 of the body 100 at the equal intervals 121. Furthermore, as it can be seen in the drawing, the bent protrusions 232 integrally provided on the end portion sides of the extension protrusions 231 are bent perpendicularly from the end portions of the extension protrusions 231, so that a structure in which bent protrusions 232 are caught on vertical walls 124 that are naturally formed between the coupling grooves 121.

The fixing covers 300 are configured to cover the brush bristle module units 200 and to be coupled to the fixing supports 120 of the body 100.

Such fixing covers 300 serve to fix a state in which the brush bristle module units 200 are coupled to the fixing supports 120 while the fixing covers 300 are coupled to the fixing supports 120.

As illustrated in FIGS. 1, 3, and 4, the fixing covers 300 have same lengths corresponding to lengths of the fixing supports 120, have insertion members 310 which have cylindrical shapes and which protrude toward lower surface sides of the fixing covers 300 at equal intervals, and have fixing cover coupling grooves 320 which are open downwardly along inner side surfaces of the fixing covers 300 at equal intervals.

As the insertion members 310 are inserted into the coupling holes 123 of the cylindrical coupling bodies 122 provided on the fixing supports 120 of the body 100, the brush bristle module units 200 that are fitted into the coupling groove 121 of the fixing supports 120 by a structure coupled to the fixing supports 120 are completely fixed.

As the fixing covers 300 are coupled to the fixing supports 120, the fixing cover coupling grooves 320 cover and couple upper surface sides of the extension protrusions 231 that constitute the couplers 230 of the brush bristle module units 200.

By the fixing covers 300 having structures as described above, a firmly fixed state of the insertion members 310 and the fixing supports 120 by the coupling holes 123 may be secured in a shape in which the couplers 230 provided on the opposite end sides of the brush bristle module units 200 are gripped by the coupling grooves 121 provided on the fixing supports 120 of the body and by the fixing cover coupling grooves 320 of the fixing covers 300.

By the present disclosure having the structure as described above, the body 100, the brush bristle module units 200, and the fixing covers 300 as semi products in each fittings shape are obtained by injection molding.

The semi products obtained as described above may be assembled by a worker or may be supplied and assembled through an automated robot assembly line and so on, so that the hair brush 1 as a finished product may be obtained.

In describing an assembling process briefly, the brush bristle module units 200 are sequentially supplied toward the fixing supports 120 of the body 100 that is supplied, and the couplers 230 positioned at the opposite end portion sides of the brush bristle module units 200 are accommodated in and coupled to the coupling grooves 121 that are positioned on the fixing supports 120 of the body 100.

In this manner, the brush bristle module units 200 fill the space between the pair of fixing supports 120 that are spread toward the opposite sides of the body 100, and the plurality of brush bristle module units 200 may be coupled to the fixing supports 120 according to the process as described above.

The upper surface sides of the fixing supports 120 are covered by the fixing covers 300 in order to fix the brush bristle module units 200 which fill the space between the fixing supports 120 and which are coupled to the fixing supports 120, and the brush bristle module units 200 are fixed and coupled, thereby being capable of obtaining the finished hair brush 1.

The hair brush 1 coupled as described above has a detachable structure unlike a conventional hair brush. Therefore, when brush bristles are damaged due to carelessness in use, the brush bristle module units 200 may be replaced and used, so that life cycle of use of the hair brush 1 may be increased.

In addition, during an assembling process for obtaining the hair brush 1 by using the present disclosure, defective rate of the hair brush 1 that is the finished product may be significantly reduced by performing a selection process of defective units among the brush bristle module units 200.

In addition, in the present disclosure, brush bristles of the brush bristle module units 200 may be formed in different colors, or the entire brush bristle module units 200 may be formed in different colors.

For example, when the brush bristle module units 200 are coupled to the fixing supports 120 of the body 100 and when the brush bristle module units 200 are arranged and coupled so that the brush bristle module units 200 have different colors in each cluster unit, various colors of brush bristles may be produced so as to realize customer value.

Although the present disclosure has been described with the limited embodiments and the drawings, the present disclosure is not limited to the above embodiments, and it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art to which the present disclosure pertains that various modifications and changes may be made from the above description.

Accordingly, the scope of the present disclosure should be defined by the appended claims, and it would be obvious to those of ordinary skill in the art that other equal or equivalent modifications thereto fall within the scope of the present disclosure.

Claims

1. A hair brush having a unit structure of brush bristle modules, the hair brush comprising:

a body having a first side provided with a handle and having a second side provided with a pair of fixing supports which are spread apart in opposite directions and which are connected with each other in a straight line;

a brush bristle module unit detachably coupled along positions spaced apart at equal intervals on the fixing supports; and

fixing covers which cover the brush bristle module unit and which are coupled to the fixing supports of the body.

2. The hair brush of claim 1, wherein a space between the fixing supports that are formed as the pair is open.

3. The hair brush of claim 1, wherein the fixing supports are provided with coupling grooves which are open upwardly along inner side surfaces of the fixing supports and which are provided at equal intervals, and are provided with a plurality of cylindrical coupling bodies having coupling holes, the plurality of cylindrical coupling bodies being provided along inner lower surfaces of the fixing supports at equal intervals.

4. The hair brush of claim 1, wherein the brush bristle module unit comprises:

a body portion rounded and elongated in a length direction thereof;

a brush bristle provided on an upper surface of the body portion; and

couplers that protrude toward opposite end sides of the body portion.

5. The hair brush of claim 4, wherein the couplers comprise:

extension protrusions that respectively protrude from the opposite end sides of the body portion; and

bent protrusions that are respectively and perpendicularly bent from end portions of the extension protrusions.

6. The hair brush of claim 1, wherein the fixing covers have same lengths corresponding to lengths of the fixing supports, have insertion members which have cylindrical shapes and which protrude toward lower surface sides of the fixing covers at equal intervals, and have fixing cover coupling grooves which are open downwardly along inner side surfaces of the fixing covers at equal intervals.