Patent ID: 7045744

Claim:
A hair curling iron having a pair of curling tongs and a heat generating means installed in the tongs, comprising: a tong control unit to control the up and down movement of the curling tongs, the tong control unit comprises; a tong-returning unit to apply a force to said curling tongs so that the curling tongs return to the original closed position; a tong-opening unit to provide a pivoting force to said curling tongs so that said curling tongs pivot relative to each other by moving said curling tongs upward and downward respectively, the tong-opening unit comprises: a pair of driven units which extend from said curling tongs and placed at the opposite side of said curling tongs in regard to the rotating axis, and which have driven slope surfaces provided at predetermined positions of each of said driven units to be outwardly inclined from the rotating axis, a drive unit having a drive slope surface to be in contact with said driven units correspondently to have said drive units move inward when it slides back along the rotating axis, and a rotating button designed to have said drive unit slide back along the rotating axis when pulled; a rotary body connected to the tong control unit to rotatably support the tongs; a fixed body to support the rotary body so that the rotary body rotates on its own rotating axis; a drive motor mounted at a predetermined portion of the fixed body to rotate the rotary body; and a drive button to actuate the drive motor.