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 Title: |
US5793018:
Handheld hair braid fusing tongs with bell-shaped fusing members
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Jett, Ricki Rene; Riverside, CA 92518
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1998-08-11
/ 1996-11-18
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| Application Number: |
US1996000751654
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A45D 1/00;
IPC-7:
A45D 1/04;
A45D 1/14;
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| ECLA Code: |
A45D1/00; K45D1/00F;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
219/225;
081/426.5;
132/224;
219/227;
294/003;
0D8/052;
Original:
219/225;
132/224;
132/219;
227/081;
426/426.5;
294/003;
0D8/052;
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| Field of Search: |
219/225,227-229,222,221
132/224,232,234
081/418,424.5,426.5
294/99.2,3,8.5,11,106
D08/052,53
606/207,205
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| Priority Number: |
| 1996-11-18 |
US1996000751654 |
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| Abstract: |
A braid fuse assembly including a pliers mechanism with a bell-shaped fuse unit coupled thereto. The fuse unit has two halves coupled to the pliers mechanism wherein upon the pliers mechanism having an open orientation, the halves of the fuse mechanism are situated distant with respect to each other and upon the pliers mechanism having a closed orientation, the halves abut each other. In use, the fuse mechanism is adapted to be heated via an electric heater embedded in the bell-shaped fuse unit.
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Jeffery, John A.;
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| Family: |
None
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| Claim |
What is claimed as being new and desired to be protected by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:
1. A braid fuse assembly comprising, in combination:
- a pliers assembly including a pair of tongs each including a linear inboard extent, an outboard linear extent, and an intermediate extent coupled between the inboard extent and the outboard extent wherein the linear inboard extent and the outboard extent are parallel and offset a predetermined distance, whereby the intermediate extents of each tong are pivotally coupled at a central extent thereof via a rivet, wherein the outboard linear extents are bent inwardly;
- a pair of elastomeric heat resistant handles each having a tubular configuration with a length equivalent to that of the outboard extents of the pliers for being situated about the outboard extents of the pliers;
- a bell-shaped fuse mechanism having two halves each with an inboard portion with a curved cross-section, an outboard portion with a flanged cross-section, and an intermediated portion with a linear cross-section, the inboard portion of each half coupled to an outboard end of the an associated outboard extent of the pliers, wherein upon the pliers having an open orientation, the halves of the fuse mechanism are situated distant with respect to each other and upon the pliers having a closed orientation, the halves abut each other such that the fuse mechanism is in the shape of a bell with an axis about which the bell is formed residing in a parallel relationship with respect to the inboard extents and outboard extents of the pliers, wherein an interior surface of each of the halves is lined with a slippery material; and
- a heating assembly including an insulated heating coil serpentinely situated within each of the halves of the fuse mechanism, a double stranded first connecting wire situated within each of the outboard extents and intermediate extents of the pliers and further connected at a first end thereof to the heating coil of the associated half of the fuse mechanism, an exterior wire coupled at a first end thereof to a second end of one of the first connecting wires and further spliced with a second end of the other first connecting wire within a common tong, and a second connecting wire positioned within the inboard extent of one of the tongs and further extending distant the pliers for coupling with a conventional power receptacle for providing power to the connecting wires and further heating the fuse mechanism.
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