Patent ID: 7150285
Filing Date: 2006-12-19
Classification: A45D

Abstract:
1. A cleaning device for a hair removing apparatus, said device comprising: a housing being configured to hold said hair removing apparatus; a basin provided in said housing for accommodating therein an operator head of said apparatus; a tank containing a volume of a cleaning liquid; a supplying means that supplies the cleaning liquid from said tank to said basin for cleaning the operator head; said tank having an inlet and an outlet, said inlet communicating with said basin by way of a fluid intake channel which opens to the atmosphere to permit the entry of an outside air, and said outlet communicating with a liquid supply channel for dispensing the liquid to said basin said supplying means including a pump disposed in one of said fluid intake channel and said liquid supply channel in order to draw said cleaning liquid from the basin and the air into said tank as well as to supply the cleaning liquid from said tank to said basin, wherein said tank is in the form of a hermetically sealed container which is selectively open to the atmosphere by way of an air valve, said device including a controller which selectively gives a supply mode for supplying the liquid to said basin from said tank and a recovery mode for recovering the liquid from said basin to said tank, and said controller controlling to open and close said air valve while actuating said pump, thereby enabling one of said supply mode and said recovery mode, selectively.