Patent ID: 6669704
Filing Date: 2003-12-30
Classification: A45D

Abstract:
A hand-held epilating device comprising:a housing to be grasped by a hand of a user; a rotary cylinder mounted to said housing and having a longitudinal axis, said rotary cylinder carrying a plurality of pinching row units circumferentially spaced about said longitudinal axis, each of said pinching row units comprising at least one set of blades arranged along said longitudinal axis, a plurality of actuator bars being arranged circumferentially about said longitudinal axis and associated with said pinching row units, respectively, each of said actuator bars extending through said rotary cylinder and being driven to shift along said longitudinal axis to move at least one of the blades in each pinching row unit against and away from an adjacent blade catching and pinching hairs therebetween; a drive mechanism for driving said actuator bars to reciprocate along said longitudinal axis while rotating the rotary cylinder about the longitudinal axis for pinching the hairs between the adjacent blades and plucking the hairs from the user's skin, wherein all the circumferentially spaced actuator bars are coupled commonly to a single return spring so as to be urged thereby in a direction of disengaging the blade from the adjacent blade.