Patent ID: 7597696

Claim:
A depilator assembly for trapping hair for removal, said assembly including: a disk comprising: two lobes, a first face, a second face, first and second sloping regions between said lobes and sloping away from a common portion of said disk to terminate at least one edge, said first sloping region being on said first face and said second sloping region being on said second face of said disk; at least two pressure-transferring protrusions on said first face; at least one rotation-transferring protrusion on said first face and disposed apart from said at least two pressure-transferring protrusions by a predetermined angle; at least two pressure-transferring protrusions on said second face; at least two spacer elements on said second face and being disposed to prevent an accumulation of debris between the disk and an adjacent disk and to allow for periodic tilting of the disk about an axis including the spacer elements when pressure is provided to said depilator assembly, and at least one recess in said second face shaped to accommodate at least one rotation-transferring protrusion of an adjacent disk so as to allow a rotational force to be transferred between the disk and the adjacent disk such that, in response to a rotational force applied to said assembly, said at least one rotation-transferring protrusion is operative to transfer rotation to said adjacent assembly; and first and second pincers, each of said first and second pincers having a plurality of arms, each arm having a pinching surface at an end, wherein: said first pincer is between the lobes along said first sloping region on said first face, said second pincer is between the lobes along said second sloping region on said second face, and said first and second pincers tilt synchronously in their respective first and second sloping regions when pressure-transferring protrusions from the adjacent disk presses on one of said arms of each of said first and second pincers so as to cause opposing pairs of said arms to contact each other at the corresponding said pinching surfaces with sufficient force to trap hair therebetween.