Abstract: An oil stripping device for removing oil from hair includes a plate that has a handle is coupled to an end. A pad, which comprises a sorbent and is configured to absorb oil, is coupled to an upper face of the plate. A plurality of bristles is coupled to and extends from the upper face of the plate through the pad. The handle is configured to be grasped in a hand of a user positioning the bristles to brush a strand of hair. Each bristle comprises a wall that is annular so that the bristle is tubular. A plurality of barbs is coupled to and extends from the wall. The barbs are configured to scrape oil from hairs and to direct the oil toward the wall. The oil enters the bristle through set of holes. The bristle directs the oil to the pad, positioning the pad to absorb the oil.

Abstract: A hair dye applicator includes an applicator base having a comb and a dam configured to capture hair dye for dispensing during application, and including a handle having a first section extending from the applicator base and a second section extending from the first section at an angle relative to the first section. The dam may further include a carrier material configured to capture the hair dye, and the second section of the handle may be tapered. A method of applying hair dye using the hair dye applicator includes loading hair dye onto the applicator dam at the carrier material, and applying hair dye to the hairline by inserting the comb of the applicator at a start of the hairline and running the applicator starting at the comb in a direction away from the start of the hairline toward the remainder of the hair to receive the hair dye.

Abstract: A hair dye applicator includes an applicator base having a comb and a dam configured to capture hair dye for dispensing during application, and including a handle having a first section extending from the applicator base and a second section extending from the first section at an angle relative to the first section. The dam may further include a carrier material configured to capture the hair dye, and the second section of the handle may be tapered. A method of applying hair dye using the hair dye applicator includes loading hair dye onto the applicator dam at the carrier material, and applying hair dye to the hairline by inserting the comb of the applicator at a start of the hairline and running the applicator starting at the comb in a direction away from the start of the hairline toward the remainder of the hair to receive the hair dye.

Abstract: A hair brush includes a body having a head and a water absorbent material carried by part of the body. The hair brush can have a plurality of bristles. The body has one or more vents. The water absorbent material can be a foam material, a microfiber fabric, or other suitable material.

Abstract: This invention relates to an oil absorbing comb and methods for its use. The novel comb of this invention is capable of absorbing significant amounts of oil from mammalian hair or other substrates and methods of using said comb.

Abstract: A brush includes a handgrip defining a retaining recess, a cap disposed frontwardly of the handgrip and defining an insertion recess, and a felt-mounting member extending between the cap and the handgrip, and having a rear end section received in the retaining recess of the handgrip. A felt sheet is disposed on the felt-mounting member, and has a front end snugly inserted into the insertion recess of the cap, and a rear end section received in the retaining recess in the handgrip. A clamp unit includes upper and lower clamping members that releasably clamp the rear end sections of the felt sheet and the felt-mounting member therebetween.

Abstract: An attachment for quickly, easily, inexpensively and efficiently cleaning brushes, combs, or other cleaning and grooming implements is disclosed which removes built-up dirt, lint, hair, and other unwanted foreign material which has been deposited by use of the implement near the base of toothed and bristled cleaning and grooming implements.

Abstract: A fluid dispensing comb for applying a fluid to the hair has a body upon which a plurality of teeth are formed such that they are configured to have a V-shape, thereby defining a groove. An absorbent pad is disposed within the groove defined by the teeth and functions as a reservoir and application means for containing and dispensing a fluid such as hair oil, coloring, or conditioner to the hair. The absorbent pad is preferably replaceable and may be inserted into the groove of the teeth from the end of the comb, from the top of the comb, or alternatively by pivoting the teeth along a living hinge, formed at the apex or one end thereof. Alternatively, the absorbent pad may be permanently molded into the groove of the teeth. A cuff may optionally be disposed upon the comb to catch and/or absorb excess fluid which would otherwise tend to drip therefrom.

Abstract: A hair conditioning and styling pad is provided which comprises a shaped body of a resilient, open-celled, hydrophilic polyurethane foam matrix integrally incorporating an aqueous phase incorporating about 70-90% water, about 5-25% of a hair conditioning agent, and a nonionic surfactant. The pad is preferably affixed to the tines of a styling brush or comb to yield a composite brush or comb which is effective to condition and style hair.

Abstract: An improved device for continuous application of a hair dye to a person's hair, without wetting the scalp, incorporates a hair dye reservoir consisting of a first porous material within a housing and teeth made of a second porous material, inserted into the first porous material and in capillary connection with it. The teeth in the surface area of their free ends are free from open pores, and the main pore direction of both the second porous material of the teeth and the first porous material of the reservoir is essentially parallel in the same direction as the longitudinal direction of the teeth. The first porous material of the reservoir extends over several times the penetration depth of the teeth in the penetration direction, and the pore size in the teeth is smaller than in the remainder of the reservoir.

Abstract: A brush for drying hair has a body with a hollow interior. The body has opposed surfaces with the surface on one side having teeth arranged in a more open or less dense pattern than the teeth on the opposite surface. The teeth on each face pass through a non-woven fabric sheet of water absorbant material with inner ends of the teeth seated in recesses in the inner body of the head of the brush. The non-woven fabric on one surface of the brush is isolated from the non-woven fabric on the other face so that its water absorbing function is isolated from the fabric on the other surface.

Abstract: An apparatus for applying lotion and permitting simultaneous manual massage of an individual's scalp is provided, including an elongate flexible bladder body mounting a rigid head member thereon. The rigid head member includes a series of parallel finger members longitudinally aligned with the bladder body, wherein fluid contained within the bladder body is directed through the finger members and exteriorly thereof through portals positioned adjacent to and spaced forward remote tips of the fingers to permit effective directing of lotion onto an individual's scalp. Modifications of the invention include replaceable fingers, wherein the fingers are provided with massaging elements and selectively include sponge sheets mounted thereon to permit a sponge application of fluid and massage.

Abstract: A hair conditioning and styling pad is provided which comprises a shaped body of a resilient, open-celled, hydrophilic polyurethane foam matrix integrally incorporating an aqueous phase incorporating about 70-90% water, about 5-25% of a hair conditioning agent, and a nonionic surfactant. The pad is preferably affixed to the tines of a styling brush or comb to yield a composite brush or comb which is effective to condition and style hair. In a further modification of the invention, color-modified aqueous phases will further comprise about 5-25% of a temporary hair coloring agent, and the percentage of water in the color-modified aqueous phase will be about 60-80%.

Abstract: There is disclosed a dispenser for hair treating solution and the like in the form of a comb or brush having a hollow spine and teeth of absorbent material inserted therein in capillary-active communication with treatment solution in a reservoir in the spine, the flow of solution from the spine through the teeth to the hair being dependent solely on the quantity of solution applied to the hair through capillarly action. Spacers may also be provided to hold the teeth in spaced relation to the scalp.

Abstract: A hair cleaning and conditioning pad is provided which comprises a shaped body of a resilient, open-celled, hydrophilic polyurethane foam matrix integrally incorporating an aqueous phase incorporating about 70-90% water, about 1-20% of a water-immiscible organic solvent, about 0.05-1.5% of a hair conditioning agent and a mixture of surfactants comprising a nonionic surfactant, a cationic surfactant and, optionally, an amphoteric surfactant. The pad is preferably affixed to the tines of a styling brush to yield a composite brush which is effective to clean and condition dry hair.

Abstract: An apparatus for applying color to hair includes a color-applying comb having several teeth which are substantially triangularly shaped in a top view, are arranged on a comb back, are spaced by relatively large distances, and are tapered toward their tips. The gaps which lie between the teeth are substantially triangularly shaped in a top view and taper toward the comb back. Each tooth has in its enlarged part and in the vicinity of the comb back a color chamber, and has a narrow slot which extends perpendicular to the comb back from the tooth tip into the color chamber.

Abstract: The valve for a pressure-medium-operated hydraulic arrangement has a housing provided with an inlet and an outlet, a slide piston located downstream of the inlet and seal-tightly movable in an opening of the housing under the action of the pressure medium entering the same so as to subdivide the pressure medium into a first stream flowing directly to the outlet and a second constant stream, a laminar throttle member located downstream of the slide piston and associated with a spring-biased control member wherein the laminar throttle member and the control member are arranged so that the constant stream flows through the laminar throttle member and generates pressure drop which acts upon the control member against its bias, and the control member subdivides the constant stream into two partial streams which flow to the outlet means and one of which is throttled, whereby the pressure drop between the inlet and the outlet is maintained at a constant level and thereby the viscosity of the pressure medium is maint

Abstract: A combing device is provided which has a comb having a number of teeth, the comb being separable along the longitudinal axis thereof so as to be formed by a pair of complementary comb members of a substantially like construction. An insert of an absorbent material is removably retained between the pair of complementary comb members, and the insert extends laterally from the sides of the respective ones of the teeth and is discontinuous between adjacent pairs of the teeth so as to permit the combing device to be combed through the hair and to provide wiping surfaces between adjacent pairs of the teeth for engaging and thereby conditioning the hair as the combing device is combed through the hair. In addition, means are provided for releasably securing the pair of complementary comb members together with the insert therebetween.