Patent ID: 9144284
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: A45D,D04C

Abstract:
1. A handheld device for intertwining strands of a flexible material, comprising: a plurality of sector gears disposed in a group, each sector gear having at least one adjacent sector gear in the group; at least four elliptical gears, each of the at least four elliptical gears being arranged to rotate with any one of the plurality of sector gears that said elliptical gear comes into contact with, wherein each of the at least four elliptical gears has a hollow center portion for receiving one or more strands of a flexible material, positioning of the elliptical gears preventing adjacent sector gears from simultaneous rotation; only non-adjacent sector gears of the group being simultaneously rotatable; at least one motor, engaged to rotate at least one of the sector gears; and a controller, having a processor, configured to execute a set of instructions from any of a plurality of pattern modules by controlling the at least one motor to selectively rotate one or more of the plurality of sector gears and move the adjacent elliptical gears in an intertwining motion according to the set of instructions of one of the pattern modules.