Patent ID: 6701937
Filing Date: 2004-03-09
Classification: A45D

Abstract:
A hair-shaping appliance, in particular steam styling tongs, having a tubular drum which treats the hair and is provided with through-passages, having a dosing device, upon the actuation of which liquid passes out of an outlet of a liquid container via a liquid-channeling device, and having an evaporating device which is supplied with heat by a heating device and comprises an evaporator surface which is in thermal contact with the heating device and on which liquid which has passed out evaporates into steam, which then passes into a steam-distributor chamber and, there, passes outward via the through-passages, the heating device being formed in a combustion chamber of the drum, in which, during the heating operation, flame-free combustion of a gas takes place by means of a catalyst, of which the combustion gases pass out via outlets formed in the drum and/or in the combustion chamber, characterized in that the combustion chamber and the steam-distributor chamber are formed by a common chamber, and in that means which prevent water penetrating into the common chamber are provided.