Free forum hair care brush

A free form hair care brush is provided, which consists of a handle with a collar formed on one side of the handle and a shaft extending from the collar. A bristle attachment is rotatively positioned onto the shaft. A retainer cap is mounted onto a distal end of the shaft opposite from the collar, to keep the bristle attachment on the shaft. A rotating action of the bristle attachment will glide through hair rather than pull the hair, thereby making hair styling easier and reduce hair damage.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
The instant invention relates generally to hair grooming implements and 
more specifically it relates to a free form hair care brush, which 
provides a rotating action bristle attachment to reduce hair damage. 
There are available various conventional hair grooming implements which do 
not provide the novel improvements of the invention herein disclosed. 
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
A primary object of the present invention is to provide a free form hair 
care brush that will overcome the shortcomings of the prior art devices. 
Another object is to provide a free form hair care brush with a rotating 
action bristle attachment that will allow the brush to glide through hair, 
rather than pull it to make hair styling easier and reduce hair damage. 
An additional object is to provide a free form hair care brush in which the 
rotating action of the bristle attachment can be adjustably changed to 
give the brush a multi-purpose function. 
A further object is to provide a free form hair care brush that is simple 
and easy to use. 
A still further object is to provide a free form hair care brush that is 
economical in cost to manufacture. 
Further objects of the invention will appear as the description proceeds. 
To the accomplishment of the above and related objects, this invention may 
be embodied in the form illustrated in the accompanying drawings, 
attention being called to the fact, however, that the drawings are 
illustrative only, and that changes may be made in the specific 
construction illustrated and described within the scope of the appended 
claims.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS 
Turning now descriptively to the drawings, in which similar reference 
characters denote similar elements throughout the several views, FIG. 1 
illustrates a free form hair care brush 10, which consists of a handle 12, 
a collar 14 formed on one side of the handle and a shaft 16 extending from 
the collar 14. A bristle attachment 18 is rotatively positioned onto the 
shaft 16. A retainer cap 20 is provided. A structure 22 is for mounting 
the retainer cap 20 onto a distal end of the shaft 16 opposite from the 
collar 14, to keep the bristle attachment 18 on the shaft 16. A rotating 
action of the bristle attachment 18 will glide through hair rather than 
pull the hair, thereby making hair styling easier and reduce hair damage. 
The mounting structure 22 includes the shaft 16 having a socket 24 formed 
in its distal end. A shank 26 extends from an inner side of the retainer 
cap 20, which fits snugly into the socket 24 in the shaft 16. 
The bristle attachment 18 contains a sleeve 28, sized to rotatively fit 
onto the shaft 16. A plurality of bristles 30 extend radially from the 
sleeve 28 to engage with the hair. The bristles 30 in FIG. 1, are plastic 
bristle fingers. The bristles 30 in FIG. 2 and 3, are groups of natural 
bristles 34. 
FIG. 4 shows a modified free form hair care brush 10a further including the 
socket 24 in the shaft 16, having internal threads 36. The shank 26 on the 
retainer cap 20 has external threads 38, so that the shank 26 can be 
screwed into the socket 24. The retainer cap 20 has an annular groove 40 
in its inner side and is of a size as the diameter of the sleeve 16. A 
ball bearing race 42 fits into the annular groove 40 adjacent an end of 
the sleeve 28. A finger grip 44 is formed on an outer side of the retainer 
cap 20. The retainer cap 20 can be tightened and loosened to change the 
rotation action of the bristle attachment 18, when the ball bearing race 
42 moves towards and away from the end of the sleeve 28. 
OPERATION OF THE INVENTION 
To use the free form hair care brush 10, a person simply grips the handle 
12, slips the sleeve 28 of the bristle attachment 18 over the shaft 16 and 
inserts the shank 26 on the retainer cap 20 into the Socket 24 on the 
shaft 16. The bristle attachment 18 will rotate about the shaft 16 when 
used on the hair. In a modified brush 10a, a person can turn the finger 
grip 44 on the retainer cap 20, to change the rotating action of the 
bristle attachment 18, to give the brush 10a a multi-purpose function. 
While certain novel features of this invention have been shown and 
described and are pointed out in the annexed claims, it will be understood 
that various omissions, substitutions and changes in the forms and details 
of the device illustrated and in its operation can be made by those 
skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the invention.