Patent Application
20240058976
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The disclosure relates to sleeve devices and more particularly pertains to a new sleeve device for inhibiting a hair clipper from traveling on a surface due to vibration. The device includes a sleeve that is structured to insertably receive a hair clipper. The sleeve has a pair of lever slots to accommodate a blade adjustment lever of the hair clipper. Additionally, the sleeve has a power button hole for exposing a power button on the hair clipper. The sleeve has a power cord hole for accommodating a power cord of the hair clipper. Furthermore, the sleeve is comprised of a friction enhancing material to inhibit the hair clipper from traveling along a support surface due to vibration produced by the hair clipper when the hair clipper is turned on.
The prior art relates to sleeve devices including a hair clipper cover that includes a flap and a snap fastener for securing the flap around a hair clipper. The prior art discloses a dry shaver that includes a resilient housing for protecting the dry shaver from damage. The prior art discloses a cover for electric hair clippers that has arms and legs to simulate a humanoid appearance for comforting a child. The prior art discloses a variety of covers for a variety of objects that do not include hair clippers.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a sleeve for insertably receiving a hair clipper. The sleeve is comprised of a friction enhancing material thereby facilitating the sleeve to frictionally engage a surface upon which the hair clipper is placed. In this way the sleeve inhibits the hair clipper from traveling on the surface as a result of vibration produced by the hair clipper when the hair clipper is turned on. Thus, the sleeve inhibits the hair clipper from falling off of a table. The sleeve has a pair of lever slots that is each integrated into the sleeve thereby facilitating a respective one of the lever slots to accommodate a blade adjustment lever on the hair clipper. The sleeve has a power button opening and a power cord opening to accommodate a respective power button and a power cord of the hair clipper.
An additional embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a hair clipper which has a blade adjustment lever, a power button and a power cord. A sleeve is included for insertably receiving the hair clipper. The sleeve is comprised of a friction enhancing material thereby facilitating the sleeve to frictionally engage a surface upon which the hair clipper is placed. In this way the sleeve inhibits the hair clipper from traveling on the surface as a result of vibration produced by the hair clipper when the hair clipper is turned on. Thus, the sleeve inhibits the hair clipper from falling off of a table. The sleeve has a pair of lever slots that is each integrated into the sleeve thereby facilitating a respective one of the lever slots to accommodate a blade adjustment lever on the hair clipper. The sleeve has a power button opening and a power cord opening to accommodate a respective power button and a power cord of the hair clipper.
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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The sleeve 12 has a pair of lever slots 18 that is each integrated into the sleeve 12 thereby facilitating a respective one of the lever slots 18 to accommodate a blade adjustment lever 20 on the hair clipper 14. The sleeve 12 has a power button opening 22 that is integrated into the sleeve 12 thereby facilitating the power button opening 22 to expose a power button 24 on the hair clipper 14 such that the power button 24 is accessible when the sleeve 12 is positioned around the hair clipper 14. Additionally, the sleeve 12 has a power cord opening 26 that is integrated into the sleeve 12 thereby facilitating the power cord opening 26 to accommodate a power cord 28 of the hair clipper 14.
The sleeve 12 has a back end 30 and an outer wall 32 extending forwardly from the back end 30, and the outer wall 32 has a top side 34, a bottom side 36, a first lateral side 38 and a second lateral side 40. The outer wall 32 has a distal edge 42 with respect to the back end 30 to define a hair clipper opening 44 extending into an interior of the sleeve 12 for insertably receiving a rear end 46 of the hair clipper 14. The outer wall 32 flares outwardly between the back end 30 and the distal edge 42 such that the hair clipper opening 44 has a length and a width that is greater than a length and a width of the back end 30. The top side 34 curves downwardly toward the bottom side 36 at a point that is spaced from the distal edge 42.
Each of the lever slots 18 extends through a respective one of the first lateral side 38 and the second lateral side 40 of the outer wall 32, and each of the lever slots 18 extends from the distal edge 42 toward the back end 30. Each of the lever slots 18 is positioned closer to the bottom side 36 of the outer wall 32 than the top side 34 of the outer wall 32. Each of the lever slots 18 has a terminal end 46 with respect to the distal edge 42 and the terminal end 46 of each of the lever slots 18 is rounded. The power button opening 22 extends through the top side 34 of the outer wall 32 of the sleeve 12. The power button opening 22 has a bounding edge 48 and the bounding edge 48 has a rear side 50 and a front side 52. The power button opening 22 is elongated along an axis extending through the front side 52 and the rear side 50 and the power button opening 22 is centrally positioned on the top side 34.
The outer wall 32 has a slit 54 extending through the bottom side 36 and the slit 54 has a bounding edge 56, and the bounding edge 56 of the slit 54 has a straightened portion 58 extending between a pair of rounded portions 60. Each of the rounded portions 60 is continuously arcuate about a center of the rounded portions 60 such that each of the rounded portions 60 has a circular shape. The straightened portion 58 has a first side 62 and a second side 64 that are spaced apart from each other and are oriented parallel with each other. Furthermore, the slit 54 is elongated along an axis extending between the back end 30 of the sleeve 12 and the distal edge 42 of the outer wall 32 of the sleeve 12.
In use, the power cord 28 of the hair clipper 14 is extended into the hair clipper opening 44 in the sleeve 12 and outwardly through the power cord opening 26 to facilitate the hair clipper 14 to be inserted into the sleeve 12. Furthermore, the blade adjustment lever 20 on the hair clipper 14 extends into a respective one of the lever slots 18 when the hair clipper 14 is inserted into the sleeve 12 to facilitate the hair clipper 14 to be fully seated into the sleeve 12. In this way the hair clipper 14 can be employed as it would normally be when it is not positioned in the sleeve 12. Furthermore, the sleeve 12 inhibits the hair clipper 14 from traveling along the table, for example, or other surface upon which the hair clipper 14 is positioned when the hair clipper 14 is turned on. Thus, the hair clipper 14 can be temporarily stored on the table, for example, while the hair clipper 14 is turned on without falling off of the table and potentially being damaged.
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.
