Adjustable, positionable guard for hair clippers
View Patent ↗The inventive concept presented is a single, adjustably positionable Clipper Guard attachment for use with clippers. The primary objective of the inventive concept is to provide barbers and hair stylists with a more convenient, better performing appliance. The single clipper guard may conveniently be adjusted and readjusted to enable the selection of different degrees of closeness of hair trimming or cutting. The Clipper Guard is comprised of two components: a Sliding Body and a Retainer. The Sliding Body accepts the outer plane of the Retainer by means of a T-shaped key and shaft on the outer plane of the Retainer, fitting internally into a slot within the Sliding Body. A mechanically-positionable pin mechanism, stored interiorly to the Retainer, is maneuvered so as to lock the two components into different functional relationships, providing differing lengths or heights to which hair or other substance may be cut or trimmed.
1. A two-piece clipper guard device for mechanically adjusting and guiding the cutting and/or trimming height of a set of clippers, the device comprising
(a) a planar Retainer having an inner plane, an outer plane, a left arm and left armrest, and a right arm and right armrest extending from the left and right sides of the Retainer, respectively, and a chamber;
(b) a Sliding Body, the Sliding Body further comprising a left supporter, a right supporter, a planar surface having a rearmost base flange with a certain number of parallel stators emanating orthogonally from the base flange, the stators transitioning into a like number of tapered, symmetrically-spaced prongs, with each prong thereby culminating in a fixed, curved clasp, wherein
(c) the Retainer comprises a T-shaped key and integral shaft constructed onto its outer plane, and the Sliding Body comprises a correspondingly-dimensioned hollow, lengthwise T-shaped slot, whereby the T-shaped key and shaft of the Retainer fit precisely into the T-shaped slot of the Sliding Body, thereby enabling the joining together of the Retainer and Sliding Body.
2. A clipper guard device as in claim 1 , wherein (a) the Retainer comprises a stowage hay for retention of a pin mechanism, the pin mechanism further comprising a housing, a spring-loaded rod and a cylindrical peg attached to the rod; and (b) the Sliding Body further comprising a linear channel, which linear channel branches into a series of circular notches, each notch having dimensions specifically to accommodate a circular diameter of the cylindrical peg of the retainer.
3. An attachment clipper guard for use with hair clippers, comprising:
(a) a Sliding Body having an upper structure comprising three co-planar surfaces separated by a T-shaped slot and a linear channel, the linear channel having a plurality of symmetrically-spaced, circular notches; a left supporter integrally extending from the left edge of the Sliding Body, and a right supporter integrally extending from the right edge of the Sliding Body; and an understructure comprising a plurality of parallel stators transitioning into an equal number of parallel prongs, the end of each prong culminating in a clasp;
(b) a Retainer having an outer plane comprising a T-shaped key and integral shaft, a pin mechanism further comprising a housing, a spring-loaded rod with A circular peg attached to the rod, a rectangular-shaped sunken bay having dimensions corresponding to dimensions of the pin mechanism, a plurality of grooves, an inner plane comprising a bracket having an orthogonal ledge and lip, left and right posts, left and right arms, left and right armrests, with each armrest terminating in a hook; wherein
(c) the outer plane of the Retainer is positioned and secured at specific locations abutting the Sliding Body by means of the T-shaped key and shaft inserted into the slot of the Sliding Body, thereby causing the parallel prongs of the Sliding Body to slide back and forth within the grooves in the outer plane of the retainer, and further, enabling stowage of the circular peg of the pin mechanism within the recessed bay of the outer plane of the Retainer.
4. A clipper guard as in claim 3 wherein the pin mechanism of the Retainer comprises a mechanically positionable, spring-loaded pin and circular peg combination, such that, as the Retainer is moved along the slot of the Sliding Body, placement of the circular peg into one of the notches of the Sliding Body is enabled, serving to control the exposed edges of the teeth of a hair clipper, in accordance with the desired length to which a subject's hair may be cut or trimmed.
5. A two-piece clipper guard device for mechanically adjusting, positioning, and guiding the height and exposed cutting teeth of a set of clippers, the device comprising
(a) a planar Retainer having a left support arm and right support arm extending, in a parallel manner, from the left and right sides of the Retainer, respectively; an outer plane having a T-shaped key and shaft protruding orthogonally therefrom, an internally-stowed pin mechanism terminating an internal, spring-loaded circular peg, a plurality of grooves, an inner plane comprising a bracket having an orthogonal ledge and lip, left and right posts, left and right arms, each arm terminating in a hook; and
(b) a Sliding Body, the Sliding Body comprising a left support, a right support, a planar surface having a rearmost base flange, the base flange having a lengthwise T-shaped slot running therethrough, a linear channel branching into a plurality of symmetrically-spaced, circular notches and further, a number of parallel stators emanating orthogonally from the base flange, the stators transitioning into an equal number of tapered, parallel, symmetrically-spaced prongs, each prong culminating in a fixed, curved clasp; wherein
the Sliding Body accepts adjoinment of the Retainer by means of insertion and fit of the T-shaped key of the Retainer internally into the T-shaped slot of the Sliding body; and
the adjoinment of the Sliding Body and Retainer enable the resulting clipper guard device to adjustably grasp a set of clippers within the left and right posts, bracket, orthogonal ledge, lip, left and right arms, and armrests of the Retainer; wherein
as the Retainer is moved along the slot of the Sliding Body, placement of the circular peg of the Retainer into one of the notches of the Sliding Body is enabled, serving to control the length of the exposed edges of the teeth of a hair clipper, in accordance with the desired length or height to which a substance may be cut or trimmed.