Patent ID: 7316045

Claim:
A hair brush including hair removal means, comprising: a hair brush frame having a handle portion and a body portion; an arcuate bristle retaining plate having a multiplicity of bristle receiving holes extending between a frame recess engaging major surface and an upper major surface of the plate, each of said holes having a chamfer adjacent the frame recess engaging major surface of said bristle retaining plate; the body portion of said frame having a recess adapted to receive said bristle retaining plate, said recess having an arcuate bottom surface adapted to contact said frame recess engaging major surface of said bristle retaining plate; and an elongated generally cylindrical bendable bristle slidably disposed in each of said holes of said bristle retaining plate, each bristle having a wedge-shaped frame engaging end adjacent said recess engaging major surface and an enlarged bulbous other end adjacent said upper major surface of said bristle retaining plate, each of said ends having a diameter greater than the diameter of the corresponding hole, so that each bristle may slide within the corresponding hole until one of said ends engages an adjacent major surface of said bristle retaining plate, said wedge shaped end of each bristle being dimensioned so as to engage the chamfer of the corresponding hole when the recess engaging major surface of the bristle retaining plate is in contact with the arcuate bottom surface of said recess; whereby the bristle retaining plate can be removed from the recess of said hair brush frame to facilitate removal of hair from said bristle retaining plate and bristles, and wherein when the retaining plate is held in one position, the bristles may slide through the corresponding holes in the bristle retaining plate until the bulbous ends engage the upper major surface of the bristle retaining plate, and when the bristle retaining plate is inverted the bristles may slide through the corresponding holes in the bristle retaining plate until the wedge-shaped ends engage the chamfers of the corresponding holes in the bristle retaining plate so as to facilitate re-engagement of the recess engaging surface of the bristle retaining plate with the recess in the body portion of the brush frame.