Patent ID: 7402165
Filing Date: 2008-07-22
Classification: A45D,B26B

Abstract:
1. A hair removing device with a lotion feeder, said device comprising: a housing; a treatment head mounted to said housing and including a hair removing unit which is held against a user's skin for hair depilation or hair epilation, said treatment head also including an applicator which dispenses a lotion on the user's skin; a tank configured to hold the lotion; and a lotion supply mechanism configured to supply said lotion from said tank to said applicator, wherein said treatment head is provided with an actuator which is held in a skin-contact relation with the skin, said actuator being movable relative to said housing so as to activate said lotion supply mechanism to supply said lotion from said tank to said applicator when said actuator is depressed by contact with the skin, said applicator includes a header having a chamber for temporarily storing said lotion supplied from said tank, said header having at least one aperture which communicates with said chamber, said header carrying at least one rotating element that defines said actuator, said rotating element being held rotatable in said aperture so as to come into rolling contact with the user's skin for applying said lotion over the user's skin, and said rotating element is supported on a floating bed which is formed interiorly of said header to be movable together with said rotating element relative to said header, said floating bed being floatingly supported to said header by way of spring means, said lotion supply mechanism including a stop valve formed in a flow path from said tank to said chamber, said floating bed being interlocked with said stop valve so as to open said stop valve only when said floating bed is depressed together with said rotating element.