Therapeutic styling brush with infusion delivery
View Patent ↗The present disclosure is generally directed to styling tools having a therapeutic agent distributed through the styling tool bristles or pad.
1. A hair styling tool, comprising:
a brush head including a pad that is replaceable on said brush head and that is made a polymer material;
one or more rows of bristles extending from said pad and made of a polymer material, wherein said pad and said bristles form a replaceable unit; and
one or more therapeutic agents, wherein said agent is embedded in or stored behind said pad, embedded in said bristles, and distributed to a user's hair through said bristles and said pad,
wherein said therapeutic agent is two or more materials selected from the group comprising jojoba oil, carrot oil, tea tree oil, olive oil, ceramide, questamide, scented oil, ceramics, carbon, silver flake, salicylic acid, behentrimonium methosulfate, cetearyl alcohol, lactamide MEA, wheat amino acids, burdock root citrus bioflavinoids, meadowfoam oil, stearalkonium chloride, PVP/VA copolymer, dimethicone copolyol, cyclomethicone, polysorbate-20, chamomile extract, and birch bark extract, copper, copper oxide and lecithin, wherein said pad and said bristles are molded of a resin comprising about 80% to about 98% by weight of at least one polymer, about 1% to about 5% by weight of at least one softening agent, and about 0.05% to about 20% by weight of said therapeutic agent, wherein said polymer pad, said bristles, or both dispense said therapeutic agent by capillary action.
2. The tool of claim 1 , wherein said brush head includes a displaceable member and said brush head and said displaceable member include pad-retaining elements, wherein the displaceable member is displaceable from a first position in which the pad-retaining elements engage the pad/bristle unit to retain it on the brush head to a second position in which the displaceable member pad-retaining elements do not retain the pad/bristle unit on the brush head so that the pad/bristle unit can be replaced.
3. The tool of claim 1 , wherein said pad, said bristles, or both are molded of a composition comprising about 85% to about 90% by weight of TPE or PE, about 5% to about 10% by weight of EVA, and about 5% by weight of said therapeutic agent.
4. A hair styling tool comprising:
a brush head including a pad;
one or more rows of bristles extending from the pad; and
at least one therapeutic agent that is embedded in or stored behind the pad, embedded in the bristles, and distributed to a user's hair through the bristles and the pad,
wherein the pad and the bristles form a replaceable unit, wherein the brush head includes a closed backwall, a front with a central opening, and a displaceable endcap, wherein the brush head and the displaceable endcap include pad-retaining elements, wherein the displaceable endcap is displaceable from a first position to a second position, wherein in the first position the pad-retaining elements engage the pad but not the bristles to retain the pad/bristle unit on the brush head without clamping on the bristles, and in the second position the displaceable endcap pad-retaining elements do not retain the pad/bristle unit on the brush head so that the pad/bristle unit can be removed from and replaced on the brush head, and wherein said therapeutic agent is two or more materials selected from the group comprising jojoba oil, carrot oil, tea tree oil, olive oil, ceramide, questamide, scented oil, carbon, silver flake, salicylic acid, behentrimonium methosulfate, cetearyl alcohol, lactamide MEA, wheat amino acids, burdock root citrus bioflavinoids, meadowfoam oil, stearalkonium chloride, PVP/VA copolymer, dimethicone copolyol, cyclomethicone, polysorbate-20, chamomile extract, and birch bark extract, copper, copper oxide and lecithin, wherein said pad and said bristles are molded of a resin comprising about 80% to about 98% by weight of at least one polymer, about 1% to about 5% by weight of at least one softening agent, and about 05% to about 20% by weight of said therapeutic agent, wherein said polymer pad, said bristles, or both dispense said therapeutic agent by capillary action.
5. The tool of claim 4 , wherein the pad-retaining elements include lips on the front surface that define the central opening, wherein the brush head further includes support surfaces that cooperate with the pad-retaining lips to define a channel that receives and retains the pad/bristle unit within the central opening spaced apart from the backwall.
6. The tool of claim 5 , wherein two opposing ones of the cap-retaining lips are curved.
7. The tool of claim 4 , wherein the displaceable endcap pivots between the first and second positions without being separated from the rest of the brush head.
8. The tool of claim 4 , wherein said pad is molded of a composition comprising about 85% to about 90% by weight of TPE or PE, about 5% to about 10% by weight of EVA, and about 5% weight of said therapeutic agent.