Abstract: In an automatic shampoo machine a recess is formed in a side wall of a basin to ensure water passage to the nape of the neck of a person being shampooed. A plurality of neck support members each including a bent wire arrangement is provided in a spaced relation in the recess. With the neck resting on top portions of the neck support members, the nape of the neck is rinsed by water sprayed from a stationary nape rinsing nozzle, and movable lower nozzles, through the recess. A pad for receiving the neck resting thereon is releasably attached on a peripheral portion of the basin to prevent fatigue of the neck and splashing of rinse water. Thus, the person can have his hair and nape washed in a comfortable posture.

Abstract: A flexible protective transparent cap to be placed on the head of a user when receiving hair treatment. Holes are provided in the cap's housing to allow for the operator's use, to place the cap on the user and to discharge excess liquids. The discharge outlet holes consists of two distinct sets of holes with one set having larger sized holes placed near the bottom of the cap when in use.

Abstract: A toilet bowl flushing device controls the rate of flow of flushing water supplied to a toilet bowl so that the toilet bowl can be washed out with a minimum amount of flushing water for a maximum flushing effect. The toilet flushing device includes a water supply system for supplying flushing water through a water supply pipe to a toilet bowl, a flow rate control valve disposed in the water supply pipe, for varying the rate of flow of flushing water supplied to the toilet bowl through control of the opening of the valve, an actuator for actuating the flow rate control valve, and a controller for controlling operation of the actuator. The controller controls operation of the actuator to vary the opening of the valve stepwise with time in one flushing cycle according to a predetermined flow rate pattern so that the flushing water is supplied toilet bowl at a flow ate which varies stepwise with time.

Abstract: A permanent wave rinse bag having a membrane for containing and directing rinsing fluid, having a network of conduits embedded in the membrane for distributing and dispensing rinsing fluid to a user's hair. An inlet conduit is connected with the distribution conduits and extends away from the rinse bag for convenient connection with a wash basin faucet or other source of rinsing fluid. A series of apertures are provided along the distribution conduits, on the interior side of the rinse bag, for dispensing rinsing fluid from the conduits to the hair. A drain aperture is also provided in the rinse bag for conduction rinsing fluid, collected within the membrane out of the rinse bag. A drawstring or elastic closure is provided around the perimeter of the bag to hold the bag close to the user's face and minimize seepage past the perimeter of the bag.

Abstract: A hairdressing head support includes a base or sink mount for mounting the support directly to a hairdresser's sink. A support member is detachably secured to the sink mount with a bender column pivotally connected to the support member for disposing the bender column at various angular orientations. A head rest is connected to the bender column for partially enveloping the head of the user.

Abstract: An apparatus for mounting and positioning a wheel chair in a tilted association to a shampoo basin, wherein the organization includes a housing with spaced side walls defining an upper basin and a floor positioned below the basin for orienting a container for receiving fluid directed through the basin from a fluid container mounted overlying the basin. The housing includes spaced parallel slider bars positioned laterally of the basin and extend ible forwardly to position and mount wheel chair handle bars, with a wheel chair forward wheel support mount arranged to position the forward wheels of a wheel chair thereon.

Abstract: The invention provides a shower utensil having a brush and adapted to rapidly and efficiently shampoo pet animals having a large quantity of long hair or persons. The utensil is characterized in that in addition to bristles formed on the outer surface of a water spray wall on the bottom side of a main body container, at least one hollow projection having a hollow portion in communication with the interior of the container is formed on the outer surface of the water spray wall for forcing out water from its outer end.Since water is forced out from the hollow projection as positioned deep in the inner portion of the hairy covering of the animal, i.e., close to the skin, the covering of large amount of long hair can be rapidly soaked with the washing water or shampoo preparation fully to the skin.

Abstract: A portable facial vaporizing device comprising first and second opposing fabric sections joined together along a bottom edge thereof and at adjacent portions of back and front edges thereof to form an interior pocket adapted to contain a volume of hot water. A hanging arrangement is disposed on upper back portions of said fabric portions for supporting said device on a spigot of a bath or sink such that hot water leaving said spigot will flow into said interior pocket and form a contained volume of hot water therein. At least a major portion of upper edges of said fabric portions are unjoined or free and thus form an opening for admitting and surrounding the face of a person using the device such that the person's face is exposed to vapors from said volume of hot water in said interior pocket. A disposable version may be formed from an inexpensive fabric.

Abstract: A head care station for use with a wheelchair and a kit therefore and a method for reclining the occupant of a wheelchair against a head support. The head care station has a foundation member having a front portion and a back portion. A wheelchair jack is mounted to the front portion. The wheelchair jack has a bearing member movable between a floor position and an elevated position. A head support is connected to the back portion of the foundation member. The head support is movable between a lower position and an upper position. A bolster is connected to the back portion of the foundation member. The bolster is disposed at a vertical elevation above the elevated position of the wheelchair jack. The wheelchair jack and the bolster define between them an occupancy space.

Abstract: A head support for supporting the head and the neck of a user in a comfortable position above a sink or basin during hair rinsing or treatment which support has a U-shaped frame with spaced-apart bendable supports which are engageable with the edge or rim of the sink. A perforate headrest plate is supported on the frame and is transversely concave. A support extends from the plate engageable against an interior wall of the sink to adjustably position the device with the frame generally horizontal. In an alternate embodiment, a detachable bonnet may be secured to the frame and placed about a portion of the head of the user.

Abstract: A hair rinsing device is set forth utilizing an inner flexible cover securable about its perimeter to an outer flexible cover. The outer flexible cover includes an inlet hose and an outlet hose enabling directing of rinsing fluid through a matrix of apertures formed in the inner cover. Fluid valving is arranged for optional directing and mixing of cold and heated water from a plurality of sources.

Abstract: A first embodiment of an improved shampoo basin includes an integral spray rinse assembly positioned proximate a neck supporting portion of the basin. The spray rinse assembly facilitates the rinsing of a user's neck and hair in normally difficult to reach areas. Water temperature and pressure control are also provided, and the spray rinse may be selectively operated by a foot pedal arrangement. A modified embodiment of the basin is of a portable design which permits it to be attached to a conventional shampoo basin.

Abstract: A device for use in connection with a hair rinsing procedure is disclosed herein having an inner and an outer shell nested together in conformal spaced apart relationship separated by movable water dispensing elements disposed in holes provided in the inner shell. Each element includes a tapered conical portion having several grooves for conducting water through each inner shell hole into a common rinsing cavity. Each water dispensing element carries resilient legs bearing against the outer shell urging the tapered conical portion into each respective hole and is further provided with a stop adapted to engage with the outer shell when the element is depressed. A pressurized water source is detachable coupled to the outer shell for introducing water into a channel between opposing surfaces of the inner and outer shells while the inner and outer shells include coaxially disposed drainage apertures for conducting waste rinse water into a basin.

Abstract: An automatic hair-washing machine includes an outer shell, an inner shell disposed around a user's skull and hair, a plurality of rubbing rods secured between the two shells and poking inwardly through the inner shell to touch the user's hair and two driving motors for vertically and horizontally reciprocating the two shells and the rods for twisting, rubbing and washing the user's hair as flushed by water and shampoo delivered by a hose through the two shells.

Abstract: A neck cushioning device for engagement with hair shampoo bowls. The cushioning device is comprised of a cushion of resilient material coated with a flexible, water-repellent substance over the entire surface. The cushioning device is adaptable to over-lay the U-shaped neck-receiving notch found on a commercial shampoo bowl and to wrap laterally around the edges of the notch for engagement therewith by means of downwardly projecting walls, one of which includes a protruding lip that curls around the notch and secures the cushioning device to the bowl.

Abstract: A shampoo support for children which includes a support frame with contoured neck support padding and back support padding located between parallel frame sides and a flexible mat for receiving the lower back and hips of a child. A back support end defines one end of the support frame and is positioned adjacent to and beneath the neck support, to support a net or sieve for receiving the hair of the child during a shampoo. Support legs extend beneath the support frame for orienting the support frame in a selected angular configuration on a flat surface and in a preferred embodiment, one end of the flexible mat is attached to the back support edge of the support frame, with the opposite end attached to a spindle and the mat is rolled on the spindle when the shampoo support is not in use.

Abstract: A face and neck shield to be worn under a hood type dryer, involving a wide, annularly shaped band snugly fitting the head of the wearer substantially at the hair line of the wearer and deflecting most of the air exhausted from the dryer forwardly and away from the face and neck of the wearer while nevertheless providing substantial closure of the exhaust face of the hair dryer, the wide band of the shield being held in place by adjustable interconnection means in the rear portion thereof and by over-the-head band support strap means one of which runs from front-to-rear of the band, with diverging over-the-head strap means connected to the front-to-rear strap and diverging to points of attachment at the outboard edge of the band, substantially radially outwardly of the temples of the wearer, to provide positive band support thereat, the front-to-rear strap being frontally connected to the inboard edge of the band so that the front of the band over the face of the wearer, droops slightly in visor-like fashion

Abstract: A cosmetologist's protective device comprising a pre-formed disposable object having an open-ended tapered cavity therein so that a plurality of such devices can be stacked, one on top of the other, the device having a top wall and two side walls depending from the top wall, the top wall of the device being concavo-convex in transverse cross-section and an arrangement on the underneath surface thereof for adhering the device to a beauty salon shampoo sink to cover the cutaway portion in the front wall thereof, whereby a germ-free cushioned surface is provided for supporting the neck of a customer.

Abstract: A hair washing basin or bowl for hairdressers or the like is provided with a recess for the nape of the neck on the edge of the basin or bowl as well as with an opening at the deepest location of the basin or bowl for evacuating the washing and rinsing water. The inside of the basin is provided with an obstacle limiting the water flow path inside the basin which leads to the evacuation opening, forming a wall and imparting a circular motion to the flowing water. Owing to said elements, long hairs will remain in the limited flow path and will be continuously and throughout their length immersed in the washing and rinsing water without the risk for the hair ends of entering the evacuation opening.

Abstract: A head support for a beauty parlor sink includes an elongated flexible band of water resistant material having apertures proximate its opposite ends, a cord extending through said apertures, and hooks attached to the opposite ends of the cord for engaging upper edges of the sidewalls of the sink.

Abstract: A system for use in shampooing the hair and scalp of bed patients provides in a completely biodegradable diposable plastic basin a circular bottom with ringed wall upstanding around it and having at the patient-neck location a first bag sealed along a low wall portion and up the sides thereof, and containing an easily insertable second bag which in turn contains polystyrene granules and which can be adjusted within the first bag to form a water-tight fit around the underside and sides of the patient's neck without sliding friction with the skin of the patient; the second bag can be supplied with any desired quantity of granules necessary to fit a particular patient; a roll-up flat tube of plastic is supplied at one or both sides for draining the basin.

Abstract: A neck rest includes a body member made of flexible elastomeric material which is impervious to shampoos, hair conditioners and other chemicals commonly used in hair treatment. A central compartment is formed in the body member and filled with a padding material to provide a comfortable cushion. To keep the neck rest properly positioned behind the neck of the person whose hair is being shampooed or otherwise treated, a pair of tabs are provided on the neck rest to adjustably and removably attach the neck rest around the person's neck or to a cape placed over the person. Hook and loop material may be provided on the tabs and the cape to secure the tabs together or to the cape. When the tabs are placed around the person's neck whose hair is being shampooed or otherwise treated, the hook and loop material on the tabs can be removably secured together at any point along a predetermined length of the tabs or to the cape to accommodate different sized necks.

Abstract: A sanitary cushioning device for sink bowl edges is disclosed including a platform having a first and a second leg extending downwardly approximately perpendicular with respect thereto to define a slot therebelow. The slot is adapted to receive a sink bowl edge such as often found in a beauty parlor or haircutting salon. The device cushions the edge of the sink such that when a customer places his head in the sink bowl for washing the back of his neck will be cushioned for comfort. The device is usable with a great variety of different types of sink configurations due to the thick, soft resilient nature of the material. A water repellent covering is detachably securable onto the device to prevent water from contacting the foam rubber material. The device is held in place and the water resistant covering is held in place on the sink edge by the inwardly directed bias of the resilient foam rubber downwardly extending legs.

Abstract: An apparatus for covering the hard surface of a barber shop or beauty parlor sink to protect the neck of a customer whose hair is being shampooed, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a flexible, resilient cushion adapted to overlie a portion of a sink. The sink includes a bowl having an inner bowl surface, a substantially horizontal surface connected to and projecting outwardly form a top edge of the bowl, and a downwardly directed surface connected to the substantially horizontal surface. The cushion includes a first portion adapted to overlie a portion of the bowl surface, a second portion integrally connected to the first portion and adapted to overlie a portion of the substantially horizontal surface, and a third portion integrally connected to said second portion and adapted to overlie a portion of the downwardly directed surface. The first and third portions are resiliently inclined toward one another and tend to grip the sink when mounted on the sink.