Patent ID: 8132572

Claim:
A permanent wave treatment apparatus comprising: a housing; a blower which is installed within the housing to suck air and blow air to supply heated air; a steam separator which is provided on the blower to remove water content from said heated air sucked by suction force of the blower; an outlet hole formed in the housing through which air is spouted from the blower; tubes to keep an interior thereof in a negative pressure by the suction force of the blower; and a plurality of rods, each having a generally cylindrical side wall extending between first and second ends, which are rotatably attached to the respective ends of the tubes, on which the hair of an object person is to be wound and in which air circulation holes are formed in said substantially cylindrical side wall to allow the heated air to pass through the hair of the object person by way of said negative pressure in the tubes; hoods mounted on the housing and including a first hood and a second hood tightened by tightening members to rotate about a vertex portion thereof relative to said housing such that they are capable of being overlapped with each other such as to be opened/closed freely, said first hood and said second hood being adapted to cover a rear head side and a forehead side of the object person; and an extraction member which holds said plurality of tubes such as to be extracted freely.