Hair iron

• Main Authors: CARBALLADA JOSE A, NISHIMURA SHINJI, KUHLMAN DENNIS E, STENTZ DAVID M, NAKASAI KAZUNORI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 03.06.2008
• Subjects: HAIRDRESSING OR SHAVING EQUIPMENT; HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MANICURING OR OTHER COSMETIC TREATMENT; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; SPECIFIC USE OF COSMETICS OR SIMILAR TOILETPREPARATIONS

A hair iron that can set hairstyles by heating and spraying a treatment agent comprises a pair of holding parts ( 1, 1 ); each having heating block ( 2 ), the surface of which acts as a holding surface ( 7 ); at least one holding part ( 1 ) containing liquid container ( 5 ), liquid holder ( 4 ) that brings the liquid in liquid container ( 5 ) in contact with heating block ( 2 ) as the liquid in liquid container ( 5 ) is transferred to heating block ( 2 ), and steam path ( 19 ) that sprays from holding surface ( 7 ) the steam generated as the liquid transferred from inside liquid container ( 5 ) is heated by the contact surface with heating block ( 2 ) of liquid holder ( 4 ). Hair is held between the holding surfaces ( 7, 7 ) of the pair of holding parts ( 1, 1 ), and under the action of the steam sprayed from the steam path ( 19 ), the hairstyle is set. In this hair iron ( 40 ), the liquid container ( 5 ) is set on the side of the heating block ( 2 ) opposite to the holding surface ( 7 ), and at the same time, the liquid holder ( 4 ) is set between the heating block ( 2 ) and the liquid container ( 5 ).