Claims
- 1. A hair removal device comprising:
- a hair-plucking assembly including at least two arms, wherein one arm may be pressed against the other arm to form a trap for hair; and
- a vibrating assembly attached to said hair-plucking assembly and including a vibrating head coupled to a drive gear such that rotation of the drive gear drives said vibrating head.
- 2. The hair removal device of claim 1, wherein said rotating drive gear linearly drives said vibrating head from a high position to a low position, and from a low position to a high position.
- 3. The hair removal device of claim 2, wherein said vibrating assembly further comprises an eccentric cylinder fixedly mounted to said drive gear and having a geometric center offset from the center of rotation of said drive gear, wherein said vibrating head is slidably coupled to said eccentric cylinder.
- 4. The hair removal device of claim 1, wherein said vibrating assembly is adjacent to said hair-plucking assembly.
- 5. The hair removal device of claim 1, wherein the speed at which said vibrating head is being driven is constant.
- 6. The hair removal device of claim 1, wherein the speed at which said vibrating head is being driven is adjustable.
- 7. A hair removal device comprising:
- a rotatable hair-plucking assembly comprising at least two arms, wherein one arm may be pressed against the other arm to form at least one trap for hair as said hair-plucking assembly is rotated
- a power system comprising a motor and a drive gear, said power system being operatively coupled to said hair-plucking assembly for rotating said hair-plucking assembly; and
- a vibrating assembly comprising a first vibrating head coupled to said drive gear of said power system such that rotation of said drive gear drives said first vibrating head.
- 8. The hair removal device of claim 7, wherein said first vibrating head of said vibrating assembly is adjacent to said hair-plucking assembly such that it may vibrate a user's skin near the hair-removal site.
- 9. The hair removal device of claim 8, further comprising a housing to which said hair-plucking assembly is rotatably mounted and a left bracket and right bracket mounted to said housing for orienting said hair-plucking assembly as it rotates to form said at least one hair trap.
- 10. The hair removal device of claim 9, wherein one of said left and right brackets orients said vibrating head.
- 11. The hair removal device of claim 8, wherein said first vibrating head of said vibrating assembly is no more than approximately 6 mm from said hair-plucking assembly.
- 12. The hair removal device of claim 8, wherein said first vibrating head comprises a rounded top so that said hair removal device may be moved smoothly across the skin in any direction and at any angle.
- 13. The hair removal device of claim 8, wherein said vibrating assembly comprises a second vibrating head coupled to said drive gear of said power system such that rotation of said drive gear drives said second vibrating head.
- 14. The hair removal device of claim 13, wherein said second vibrating head of said vibrating assembly is adjacent to said hair-plucking assembly, opposite said first vibrating head such that it may vibrate a user's skin near the hair-removal site.
- 15. A hair removal device comprising:
- (A) a housing;
- (B) a hair-plucking assembly rotatably mounted to a curved shaft mounted in the housing, wherein said hair-plucking assembly includes six identical disc assemblies, each of which comprise:
- (i) an internal disc assembly comprising an insert disc, having three arms, mounted on a disc carrier;
- (ii) a pair of outer discs mounted on said internal disc assembly, having three pairs of arms, each of which may be alternately pressed against the three arms of said internal disc to form six traps for hair,
- wherein said disc carrier comprises:
- (a) three U-shaped members for engaging said three pairs of arms of said pair of outer discs so as to impart rotational motion to said pair of outer discs upon rotation of said internal disc assembly about an axis of said internal disc assembly;
- (b) three pairs of pinchers which extend axially from each of said three U-shaped members beyond the plane of said arms of each pair of said outer discs for imparting a clamping force on at least one adjacent disc carrier; and
- (c) engagement means for engaging at least said one adjacent disc carrier so that rotational movement of said one disc carrier imparts rotational motion to at least said one adjacent disc carrier;
- (C) a power system for rotating said hair-plucking assembly, comprising a motor and a drive gear; and
- (D) a vibrating assembly comprising a vibrating head mounted to said drive gear such that rotation of said drive gear effects linear movement of said vibrating head.
- 16. The hair removal device of claim 1, wherein said drive gear drives said vibrating head in a linear movement.
- 17. The hair removal device of claim 7, wherein said drive gear drives said vibrating head in a linear movement.
Parent Case Info
This is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 09/112,971, filed Jul. 9, 1998.
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