Device for removing hair

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Thus, according to the present invention, there is provided a depilatory device for removing body hair, comprising: a manually-grippable housing; two hair-plucker bodies each rotatably mounted to the housing and each having an exposed section formed with a plurality of gaps in its outer surface which open and close during the rotation of the respective hair-plucker body to receive, pluck and eject body hair growing on a surface over which the hair-plucker bodies are moved; and a drive for driving the hair-plucker bodies in opposite directions.
Each of the hair-plucker bodies includes a flexible member having a cylindrical outer surface formed with the plurality of gaps extending circumferentially thereof.
The two flexible members are individually supported to define two oppositely-extending arcs having concave sides facing each other and convex sides facing away from each other.
The two members are rotated in opposite directions such that the gaps of one member open at its convex side and thereby tend to receive hairs leaning in one direction, and the gaps of the other member open at its convex side and thereby tend to receive hairs leaning in the opposite direction, the gaps of both members closing at their concave sides to clamp the hairs and to pluck them out during the rotation of the two members An important advantage in the above novel construction, particularly in providing the two counter-rotating hair-plucker bodies, is that the device is less sensitive to the direction in which it is moved across the user's skin.
Thus, body hair does not project perpendicularly from the skin but rather leans at an angle in one direction towards the skin: the hair-plucker body, to be most effective, should be moved in the opposite direction from that at which the hair leans.
By using a depilatory device including two counter-rotating hair-plucker bodies, there is better assurance that all the hairs will be effectively engaged in the proper direction by one or the other of the hair-plucker bodies as both are moved together across the user-skin