Depilatory device

DETAILED DESCRIPTION An object of the present invention is to provide another type of depilatory device which tends to catch fewer hairs at one time, thereby decreasing the pain caused in the use of the device.
According to the present invention, there is provided a depilatory device for removing body hair, comprising: a housing having an opening therein; an electrical motor within the housing; and a hair-plucker body coupled to the motor to be driven thereby for plucking hair via said opening.
The hair-plucker body includes a plurality of pairs hair-plucker elements each formed with a plurality of jaws projecting from the outer edge of each element to define a plurality of pairs of jaws adapted to sequentially traverse said opening when the hair-plucker body is driven by the electrical motor.
The jaws of each pair are normally spaced apart in an open condition to receive a hair between them, but are movable towards each other to a closed condition to clamp the hair received between them; and are angularly staggered with respect to the jaws of the other pairs of hair-plucker elements.
The device further includes camming means carried by the housing for moving said pairs of jaws to said closed and open conditions as they sequentially traverse said housing opening.
According to further important features in the preferred embodiment of the invention described below, the hair-plucker body includes a plurality of pairs of hair-plucker elements, the camming means being effective to close and open each pair of jaws of the plurality of pairs of hair-plucker elements sequentially as the jaws traverse the housing opening.
According to further features in the described preferred embodiment, the hair-plucker elements are discs having a common rotary axis and are rotated by the electrical motor; in addition, each of the discs is formed with a plurality of radiating legs each terminating at its outer tip with one of the jaws.
Each of the discs is further formed with with a hub portion of greater thickness than its radiating legs so as to normally space the jaws apart to their open condition, the radiating legs being deflectable by the camming means to move the jaws together to their closed condition