The present invention relates to hairdressing device, more particularly, the present invention is directed to a hair curler connector adapted different heating component and facilitate changing.
Hair curler is a common hairdressing device. The main portion of the hair curler includes a heating component, which engages with the hair and keep the hair in certain curl state, and it pass the heat energy to the hair to style the hair after power up.
In most of the cases, hairs in different quality probably need different heating components respectively. Moreover, the heating components with different shapes or structures are requirement in order to make different hair styles. If special hair curler are respectively prepared for the hair in different quality and styles, the hair curling cost will be greatly increased.
The technical problem of the present invention to be solved is providing a hair curler connector adapted different heating component and facilitates changing.
In order to solve the above technical problem, the present invention provides with a hair curler connector, which includes a locking assembly and a buckle, the locking assembly including a lock and a spring assembly, with the lock being equipped with hooks engaged with the buckle.
While the hair curler connector applying on the hair curler, one of the buckle and the lock is coupled to the handle of the hair curler, and the other one is coupled to the heating component of the hair curler, whereby the hair curler connector facilitate to connect the handle with the heating component together, which is convenient for disassembly. When changing different heating components based on the requirement of the hair curling, it only needs to change the heating component directly, and the original connector and the handle do not need to change. The function of the spring assembly is to move or distort the lock when assembling and disassembling, so as the hooks depart from the buckles, or the hooks are inserted into the buckle for reposition.
On this basis, the other embodiments of the present invention are as follow:
As one embodiment of the present invention, the lock is a elastic member to integrate with the spring assembly, and the spring assembly and the lock are one-piece structure in this case. The lock itself acts as an elastic member, e.g. plastic member, which makes the lock characterize of elasticity, and the lock is easy to press to be distorted when assembling and disassembling, so as the hooks depart from the buckles.
As another embodiment of the present invention, the spring assembly includes a spring component, with one end of the spring component engaging with the lock. In this case, the spring component is independent of the lock. The user presses the lock when assembling and disassembling, then the elasticity of the spring component is overcome, to make the hooks depart from the buckles; elasticity of the spring component makes the lock to reposition when the user releases the lock. The spring component could be spring or shrapnel.
In order to make things convenient for the user to press the lock when assembling and disassembling the heat component, the lock is equipped with buttons.
The number of the lock is two or above according to the embodiment of the present invention.
Preferably, the number of the lock is two, two locks are in symmetrical arrangement, and two ends of the spring component are engaged with the locks respectively.
The composite structure of the lock and the buckle could be: the buckle is ring shape, and stoppers are symmetrically arranged on the buckle to engage with the two hooks, with the two hooks extending far away from the centre line of the buckle ring in the direction further from the buckle respectively.
In the purpose for guaranteeing stability of the structure, the hair curler connector further comprises a housing, and recessions are symmetrically formed on the housing to engage with the two locks; a mounting portion is formed on the housing to receive the spring component.
For the convenience of making the lock insert into the buckle, a location beam is positioned on the housing, and a location hole is formed on the buckle to engage with the location beam.
The hair curler according to the embodiment of the present invention further comprises conductive pins adapted for electrically connecting to a heating component a hair curler; conductive bores are formed on the housing to receive the conductive pins, and the conductive bores are electrically connected to power lines under control. In this case, only when the lock is coupled to the buckle, and the conductive pins are electrically connected to the conductive bores, the heating component of the hair curler then is connected to power lines.
The advantages of the present invention are sum up as: simple structure, easy to operate; adapted for different heating components for the convenience of changing.
The accompanying drawings facilitate an understanding of the various embodiments of this invention. In such drawings:
Various preferred embodiments of the invention will now be described with reference to the figures, wherein like reference numerals designate similar parts throughout the various views.
In order to illustrate more clearly, the whole body of the hair curler having the hair curler connector is shown in
As shown in
The handle 4 is equipped with a housing 6, two recessions 61 engaged with two locks 2 are symmetrically arranged on the housing 6 to position the locks 2; a mounting portion 62 is formed on the housing 6 to receive the spring 10. A location beam 63 is positioned in the center of the housing 6, and correspondingly a location hole 13 is formed in the center of the buckle 1 to engage with the location beam 63.
Four conductive pins 7 are respectively electrically connected to the electric heating element within the heating component 3, and the corresponding structures are arranged on the lock 1 to position four conductive pins 7; four conductive bores 64 are formed on the housing 6 correspondingly to received four conductive pins 7 respectively, a PCB plate 8 is arranged on the housing 6 to electrically connect to power lines, four contact rings 81 are arranged on the PCB plate 8 to engaged with four conductive pins 7, wherein the contact rings 81 are electrically connected to the PCB plate 8, and the contact rings 81 are electrically connected to the PCB plate 8, with the left end of the contact ring 81 inserting into bores 64 to form the conductive bores.
Whiling assembling, referring to
When changing of the heating component is needed, the button 23 is pressed to make the spring 10 compressed, then two hooks 21 are got closer. Pull the handle 4 apart from the heating component 3, two hooks 21 are respectively released from the two holes 12 of the buckle 1, four conductive pins 7 are respectively released from the bores 64, until the hooks 21 are released from the buckle 1. Releasing the button 23, four conductive pins 7 are respectively released from the contact rings 81, whereby the power supply is cut off. Assemble the changed heating component 3 together with the buckle 1 and the conductive pins 7, and then assemble the heating component 3 and the handle 4 together according to the assembling process.
While, it is to be understood that the invention is not to be limited to the disclosed embodiments, but on the contrary, is intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the invention.
As indicated above, the invention has been described in connection with what are presently considered to be the most practical and preferred embodiments, but it is not intended to limit the scope of protection of the present invention through the above description. The field technician can easily reach all of the changes and improvements should fall within the scope of protection is not the invention, and such modifications and variations that may be apparent to those skilled in the art are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.
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