Suction powered hair-styling device
View Patent ↗A portable hair-styling device is provided for creating attractive ponytails. The device has a primary housing containing a motor, an impeller, a blocking flap, and a filter screen. Connecting to the primary housing is a flexible hose, a plurality of styling tubes, and one or more elastic bands. When powered on, a partial vacuum is generated within the flexible hose and the styling tube attached thereto. The free end of the styling tube is moved around the base of the stylee's neck to gather loose hair into the tube, and an elastic band is then positioned on the captured length of hair. The device operator releases the captured hair by depressing a release button on the housing, which engages the blocking flap and temporarily disrupts the flow of air from the flexible hose. After hair is removed from the styling tube it remains styled in a neat ponytail.
1. A hair-styling device for creating ponytails, comprising:
a primary housing having a hollow interior, wherein said housing has an intake port and an exhaust port;
a motor electrically connected to a power source;
an impeller, electrically connected to said motor, wherein said impeller is positioned within said hollow interior near said intake port;
a power button disposed on an exterior of said primary housing, wherein said button controls flow of electricity to said motor;
a release button disposed on said exterior of said primary housing;
a flexible hose having a first end and a second end, said first end being removably attached to said primary housing at said intake port, wherein said flexible hose is connected to said primary housing via an airtight seal;
a filter screen at said first end of said flexible hose;
a plurality of hollow styling tubes, wherein each of said styling tubes is adapted to removably secure to said second end of said flexible hose, and wherein each of said styling tubes has a diameter substantially different than the other styling tubes;
one or more elastic binding bands designed to fit around an exterior portion of said styling tubes.
2. The hair-styling device of claim 1 , wherein the rotational speed of said impeller is alterable.
3. The hair-styling device of claim 2 , wherein the rotational speed of said impeller is altered via said power button, wherein said power button is connected to an electrical cycle controlling power flow and impeller speed.
4. The hair-styling device of claim 2 , wherein the rotational speed of said impeller is altered via an independent switch disposed on said exterior of said primary housing.
5. The hair-styling device of claim 1 , wherein said exhaust port is a plurality of slits extending through said primary housing exterior and providing pneumatic flow between said hollow interior and an outside environment.
6. The hair-styling device of claim 1 , further comprising:
a blocking flap operatively connected to said motor such that depression of said release button results in deployment of said blocking flap, and wherein said blocking flap is positioned within said hollow interior at said intake port.
7. The hair-styling device of claim 1 , wherein said filter screen is a mesh grating.
8. The hair-styling device of claim 1 , wherein said plurality of tubes are nesting such that the styling tube of largest diameter houses all of the styling tubes of smaller diameter when in a stowed configuration.
9. The hair-styling device of claim 1 , wherein the styling tube of smallest diameter has an outwardly protruding ledge upon which the remainder of said plurality of styling tubes rest, in a concentrically nested configuration, when in a stowed state.
10. The hair-styling device of claim 9 , wherein the diameter of said outwardly protruding ledge of smallest tube is the same as that of the styling tube with the largest diameter.
11. The hair-styling device of claim 1 , wherein a portion of said styling tubes of smaller diameter have an outwardly protruding ledge upon which styling tubes of larger diameter rest, in a concentrically nested configuration, when in a stowed state.