Patent Application
20200275754
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The disclosure and prior art relates to beard grooming tools and more particularly pertains to a new beard grooming tool for straightening beard hairs.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a handle having a proximal end, a distal end, a dorsal side, and a ventral side. A hair iron is coupled to the distal end and comprises a heating plate and a heating element. The heating element warms a bottom side of the heating plate. A power source is coupled to the handle and is in operational communication with the heating element. A guide is coupled to the ventral side proximal the distal end and extends to rest adjacent the bottom side of the heating plate.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A power source 38 is coupled to the handle 12 and is in operational communication with the heating element 28. The power source 38 may be a power cord with a wall plug. A control dial 40 is coupled to the handle 12 and may be rounded and coupled to the dorsal side 18. The control dial 40 is in operational communication with the power source 38 and the control chip 32 to set the temperature of the heating plate 28. A status light 42 is coupled to the handle 12 adjacent the control dial 40 and is in operational communication with the control chip 32 to show when the heating plate 28 is hot.
A guide attachment 44 is coupled to the handle 12. The guide attachment 44 may comprise an attachment arm 46 coupled to the ventral side of the handle and a sleeve 48 coupled to the attachment arm 46. A guide 50 is coupled to the sleeve 48. The guide 48 comprises an adjustment arm 52 and a comb 54 coupled to the adjustment arm 52. The comb 54 may be wooden and defines a spine 56 coupled to the adjustment arm 52 and a plurality of teeth 58 coupled to the spine 56. The plurality of teeth 58 may extend at an angle of 25° relative to the heating plate 28 to enable the user to adjust the distance of the heating plate 28 from his face. Each of the plurality of teeth 58 may be tapered. The sleeve 48 has a protrusion 60 and the adjustment arm 52 has a plurality of recessions 62. When the adjustment arm 52 slidingly engages the sleeve 48, the protrusion 60 engages one of the plurality of recessions 62 to maintain the position of the adjustment arm 52 while in use. The adjustment arm 52 secures the comb 54 at a variable distance from the distal end 16 of the handle to allow the plurality of teeth 58 to partially align with the heating plate 28 or to extend past the heating plate 28.
In use, the control dial 40 is used to adjust the temperature of the heating plate 28. The user places the adjustment arm 52 in the desired position based on beard length and secures the handle 12 to pass the heating plate 28 against the beard hairs.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded.
A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
