Patent ID: 6618893
Filing Date: 2003-09-16
Classification: A46B

Abstract:
A hairbrush comprising:a plurality of bristles, each of which has an enlarged head portion, and a slender bristle segment extending from said enlarged head portion; and a pad body formed integrally from a flexible material, said pad body extending in a longitudinal direction, and having a top surface and a bottom surface opposite to said top surface in a vertical direction, said bottom surface being formed with a plurality of bristle-retention blind holes that extend in the vertical direction toward said top surface, each of said bristle-retention blind holes having an open end adjacent to said bottom surface, a closed end opposite to said open end, a small-diameter hole portion adjacent to said open end, and a large-diameter hole portion adjacent to said closed end, said large-diameter hole portion being larger than said small-diameter hole portion; each of said bristles being retained on said pad body at a respective one of said bristle-retention blind holes such that said enlarged head portion is disposed in said large-diameter hole portion and is prevented from removal therefrom by said small-diameter hole portion, and such that said slender bristle segment extends out of the respective one of bristle-retention blind holes via said small-diameter hole portion; said top surface of said pad body being formed with a groove unit to form a spacing between said enlarged head portions of adjacent ones of said bristles in at least a transverse direction transverse to the longitudinal direction.