With the development of society, hair styling has become a lifestyle in the pursuit of beauty of people, thus various hair styling tools have come into being, such as hair straighteners, hair curlers and the like. The hair curler is a hand-held electronic product used for curling hair, and main components thereof are a handle and a heating drum. In the design of the hair curler, a circuit panel is used for controlling the temperature, and the heating drum is made of a tourmaline ceramic panel, which can averagely disperse heat, circularly heat, improve hair protein structures to generate curls and protect the hair during the curling.
The existing hair curlers on the market can be divided into manual hair curlers and semiautomatic hair curlers based on ways of using them, and heating parts of the hair curlers are generally exposed at the outside, so scald is likely to occur in use. If the manual hair curlers are used for curling hair at home, it can be completed only with the help of others, so the operation is inconvenient. If the semiautomatic hair curlers are operated by the users themselves, they have to choose hair curlers with clips, because hair curlers without clips are difficult to operate by the users themselves, and thus having certain limitation in use.
This summary is provided to introduce a selection of concepts that are further described below in the detailed description. This summary is not intended to identify key or essential features of the claimed subject matter, nor is it intended to be used as an aid in limiting the scope of the claimed subject matter.
In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an automatic hair curler that includes a handle, a hair curling component installed on the handle, wherein the hair curling component includes a heating rod extending from the handle, a shell disposed at least partially around the heating rod, a rotating seat that is sleeved around the heating rod and rotatable relative to the heating rod, and a hair curling cavity formed between an inner surface of the rotating seat and an outer surface of the heating rod, the hair curling cavity having an upper end opening, and a driving device operatively connected to the rotating seat to rotate the rotating seat relative to the heating rod.
In another aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an automatic hair curler that includes a handle, a heating rod extending from the handle, a rotating seat extending at least partially around a circumference of the heating rod and extending a height from the handle at least partially overlapping a height of the heating rod, and a hair curling cavity formed between an inner surface of the rotating seat and an outer surface of the heating rod.
In yet another aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an automatic hair curler that includes a handle, a heating rod extending from the handle, a rotating seat extending at least partially around the heating rod, and a hair curling cavity formed between an inner surface of the rotating seat and an outer surface of the heating rod, the hair curling cavity having an opening formed at an upper end of the rotating seat opposite the handle.
Other aspects of the invention will be apparent from the following description and the appended claims.
Reference signs: 10: handle, 20: shell, 21: notch, 30: heating rod, 31: cover body, 40: rotating seat, 41: shifting part, 41′: shifting part, 42: positioning elastic part, 43: sleeving part, 44: shifting piece, 45: elastic piece, 51: motor, 52: mounting shaft, 53: gear, 54: bearing and 60: hair curling cavity.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to hair styling tools, and particular embodiments relate to an automatic hair curler.
Automatic hair curlers according to embodiments of the present disclosure, which can achieve automatic hair curling, may improve hair curling efficiency while also being simple to operate.
According to embodiments of the present disclosure, an automatic hair curler may include a handle, a hair curling component installed on the handle. The hair curling component may include a shell arranged on the handle, a heating rod arranged on the handle and a rotating seat that is sleeved at the outside of the heating rod and rotatable relative to the heating rod. A hair curling cavity with an upper end opening may be formed between an inner surface of the rotating seat and an outer surface of the heating rod. A notch extending downwards from a top end face of the shell for placing hair may be formed at an upper end of the shell, where the notch may be communicated with the opening of the hair curling cavity. A shifting part for shifting the hair to wind the hair on the heating rod when the rotating seat rotates may be arranged on the rotating seat. The automatic hair curler may also include a driving device used for driving the rotating seat to rotate relative to the heating rod. When hair is inserted into a hair curling cavity of the automatic hair curler and the driving device drives the rotating seat, one or more features on the rotating seat (e.g., a shifting part or a positioning elastic part) may wind the hair around the heating rod as the heating rod is heated, thereby automatically curling the inserted hair.
The driving device may include a motor installed on the handle, a mounting shaft fixedly connected with the handle, a bearing for pivoting the rotating seat on the mounting shaft and a gear that is fixed on the rotating seat and is synchronously coupled with a rotating shaft of the motor. The heating rod may be installed at an upper end of the mounting shaft.
A rotating seat may include a sleeving part that is sleeved on an outer ring of the bearing and fixedly connected with the outer ring of the bearing and a shifting piece distributed on the periphery of the sleeving part, where the hair curling cavity may be located between an inner surface of the shifting piece and the outer surface of the heating rod.
A shifting part may be composed of projections that are convexly arranged on a side wall of the shifting piece, and a positioning elastic part may be arranged on an inner wall of the shifting piece.
An elastic piece gradually inclined outwards from bottom to top may be arranged at an upper end of the shifting piece, and the shifting part may be located at a juncture of the shifting piece and the elastic piece.
The automatic hair curler may further include a cover body installed at a top end of the heating rod, where an outer surface of the cover body is an arc surface.
According to embodiments of the present disclosure, hair may be put in a notch formed in the shell of an automatic hair curler, and since the notch is communicated with the opening of the hair curling cavity, the hair put in the notch can enter the hair curling cavity, and the shifting part can wind the hair on the heating rod during rotation of the rotating seat to achieve automatic hair curling in a simple operation. In addition, due to the arrangement of the shell and the rotating seat, the heating rod may be effectively prevented from scalding a user, and thus may be safer to use when compared with prior art hair curlers.
Specific embodiments according to the present disclosure will be further described below in combination with the drawings.
An automatic hair curler, as shown in
The hair curling component may include a shell 20, a heating rod 30 and a rotating seat 40. The shell 20 may extend at least partially around (and up to entirely around) the circumference of the heating rod 30, and may extend a height axially overlapping the entire height of the heating rod 30. The shell 20 may be radially spaced from the heating rod 30, such that hair may be inserted between the shell 20 and the heating rod 30. In some embodiments, the rotating seat 40 may be disposed between the heating rod 30 and the shell 20, wherein the heating rod 30, rotating seat 40 and shell 20 may be radially spaced apart from each other, and wherein hair may be inserted between the heating rod 30 and the rotating seat 40. The rotating seat 40 may extend at least partially around a circumference of the heating rod 30 and may extend a height from the handle 10 that at least partially overlaps the heating rod 30.
As shown in
The shifting piece 44 may extend at least partially around a circumference of sleeving part 43 (such that the shifting piece may extend at least partially around an assembled heating rod). For example, in the embodiment shown in
In some embodiments, a rotating seat may adopt the structure as shown in
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, an automatic hair curler may include a handle, a heating rod extending from the handle, a rotating seat extending at least partially around the heating rod, a hair curling cavity formed between an inner surface of the rotating seat and an outer surface of the heating rod, a motor installed in the handle, a mounting shaft fixedly connected to the handle, and a gear fixed on the rotating seat and synchronously coupled with a rotating shaft of the motor, wherein the heating rod is installed at an upper end of the mounting shaft. A sleeving part of the rotating seat may be sleeved around at least a partial axial length of the mounting shaft, such that the sleeving part may be axially retained to the handle of the automatic hair curler and rotatable around the mounting shaft. For example, the hair curler shown in
In some embodiments, such as shown in
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While the present disclosure has been described with respect to a limited number of embodiments, those skilled in the art, having benefit of this disclosure, will appreciate that other embodiments may be devised which do not depart from the scope of the disclosure as described herein. Accordingly, the scope of the disclosure should be limited only by the attached claims.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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201520627529.6 | Aug 2015 | CN | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/US2016/047757 | 8/19/2016 | WO | 00 |