| US 7,562,665 B2 | ||
| Cleaning device for a hair removing apparatus and method of cleaning the same | ||
| Atsuhiro Saito, Hikone (Japan); Hiroyuki Kameoka, Hikone (Japan); Jyuzaemon Iwasaki, Nagahama (Japan); Fumio Taniguchi, Hikone (Japan); Yasuo Ibuki, Hikone (Japan); and Hiroshi Shigeta, Fujiidera (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd., Osaka (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Feb. 15, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/57,235. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2004-052310 (JP), filed on Feb. 26, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0189003 A1, Sep. 01, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. B08B 3/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 134—111 [134/109; 134/110; 134/186; 30/537; 30/541; 206/207; 206/208; 206/351] | 7 Claims |
| 1. A cleaning device for a hair removing apparatus, said device comprising:
a housing configured to hold said hair removing apparatus;
a basin configured to be mounted in said housing for receiving therein an operator head of said apparatus;
a cleaning liquid composed of a solvent and a solute dissolved therein;
a tank provided in the housing and configured to store said cleaning liquid;
a circulator configured to supply said cleaning liquid to said basin from said tank for cleaning the operator head and to
recover the liquid from the basin back into said tank;
wherein said device includes a container formed separately from said tank and mounted to said housing, said container being
disposed in a circulation path between said basin and said tank in order to replenish the solute into the solvent circulating
between the basin and the tank,
said container being disposed immediately downstream of said basin within said circulation path,
said container being configured to hold said solute to replenish said solute in the cleaning liquid being recovered from said
basin to said tank and,
said container being provided with a filter for trapping a dirt included in the cleaning liquid being recovered from said
basin to said tank.
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