| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20120165833 | NOVEL TWEEZER HEAD FOR EPILATION - The invention relates to an epilation head for an epilation device, in particular for plucking hair from human skin having a rotating cylinder rotating around a rotational axis having a number of plucking units for grasping and plucking out hair, wherein each plucking unit comprises a movable clamping unit, a stationary clamping unit, wherein the movable clamping unit and the stationary clamping unit form a closable plucking gap, characterized in that the movable clamping unit has a hair guiding device which is associated with the movable clamping unit. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120165834 | NOVEL TWEEZER ARRANGEMENT FOR AN EPILATION HEAD - The invention relates to a motor-driven epilation head for an epilation device for plucking hairs of the human skin. Specifically, the invention relates to an epilation head having a rotation cylinder that can be rotated about a rotation axis and comprises a plurality of plucking units for capturing and plucking the hairs. Each plucking unit comprises a first clamping element, a second clamping element and a third clamping element, wherein the first clamping element together with the second clamping element forms a first closeable plucking gap and the second clamping element together with the third clamping element forms a second closeable plucking gap. The first and the second clamping element are movably mounted and can be jointly actuated by means of an actuation element in order to close the first and the second plucking gap. The first and the second clamping element move in the same direction. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120165835 | TWEEZER HEAD FOR EPILATION - The invention relates to an epilation head for an epilation device, in particular for plucking hair from human skin having a rotating cylinder and rotating around a rotational axis, the rotating cylinder having a number of plucking units for grasping and plucking out hair and having a skin oriented surface, wherein each plucking unit comprises a movable clamping unit, a stationary clamping unit, wherein the movable clamping unit and the stationary clamping unit form a closable plucking gap and characterized in that the movable clamping units have a skin contacting surface and the total area of the skin contacting surfaces of the movable clamping units is greater than 5% of the area of the skin oriented surface. | 06-28-2012 |
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