US 6,981,292 B1
Cleaning apparatus for hair brushes and combs
Francesco Dassi, Via Dellavecchia, 7, I-28100 Novara (Italy)
Appl. No. 10/89,660
PCT Filed Sep. 28, 2000, PCT No. PCT/IT00/00383
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Jun. 24, 2002,
PCT Pub. No. WO01/22846, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 05, 2001.
Claims priority of application No. MI99A2026 (IT), filed on Sep. 29, 1999.
Int. Cl. A46B 17/06 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 15—38 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for removing hair from one of teeth of a comb and bristles of a brush, comprising:
a first rotating shaft;
at most two whips extending from the first rotating shaft for cyclically passing through one of a comb receiving position and a brush receiving position; and
a suction arrangement generating an air stream in proximity to one of the comb receiving position and the brush receiving position, the air stream sucking the hair from the one of the teeth of the comb and the bristles of the brush,
wherein a first whip of the at most two whips is spaced from a second whip of the at most two whips by a predetermined distance so that, during use of the apparatus, the first whip does not interfere with the second whip, the first and second whips acting on one of the comb and the brush individually.