Patent ID: 7717925
Filing Date: 2010-05-18
Classification: A45D

Abstract:
1. An epilating apparatus comprising: a cylindrical rotating cylinder having a plurality of claw portions for epilation; a plate having a plurality of opening portions in which the plurality of claw portions are exposed, and covering an outside exposed surface of the rotating cylinder; and driving portions for open-close driving the plurality of claw portions while rotationally driving the rotating cylinder so that hairs grasped by the plurality of claw portions are pulled out, wherein each claw portion provided in the rotating cylinder comprises a fixed claw fixed to the rotating cylinder and a movable claw opposed in the longitudinal direction of the rotating shaft of the rotating cylinder to the fixed claw, the movable claw is swingably supported by a support point part provided in the rotating cylinder, such that the movable claw is swingable about the support point part between an open position where the movable claw is inclined relative to the fixed claw with a tip end of the movable claw being spaced from a tip end of the fixed claw, and a closed position where the movable claw is substantially parallel with the fixed claw with the tip end of the movable claw being in surface contact with the tip end of the fixed claw for nipping the hair, and the tip ends of the fixed claw and the movable claw are in a shape of a circular arc having a center at the vicinity of the rotational center of the rotating cylinder; a head frame having an approximately box-like outer shape which opens downward and having an upper opening in an upper end portion, L-shaped ribs, and square mounting holes; boss fixing holes provided on the plate; fixing bent portions provided on the plate to be engaged with the square mounting holes of the head frame; and a plate mounting base having the shape of a plate with openings at the left and right sides thereof, having elastic support pieces protruding toward both of the openings from the center between the upper and lower portions of an approximately central vertical piece with bosses on the top thereof which are inserted into the boss fixing holes of the plate, and having mounting hooks formed respectively at both sides of the openings and mounted on the L-shaped ribs of the head frame.