Patent ID: 6973931

Claim:
An apparatus for the relative movement of hairs through and facilitation of their controlled isolation, comprising: A hair isolation area means for substantially isolating at least one surface-attached hair-like fiber from any said surface-attached hair-like fibers trailing it; a cued hair supply means for supplying cued surface-attached hair-like fibers in which the hair-like fibers are cued substantially in the order that they will be supplied and between two supply cycles said cued surface-attached hair-like fibers remain substantially cued so that a substantially defined set of the trailing cued hairs can be supplied immediately after those leading hairs that were supplied in the immediately prior supply cycle and yet to be successfully supplied hairs wait their turn substantially in cue to be supplied in the following supply cycle; a repeating dispensing means for repeatedly dispensing substantially intact a substantially controlled amount of hair into said hair isolation area means by repeatedly receiving hair from said cued hair supply means and dispensing it into said hair isolation area means.