US 7,451,770 B2
Cleaning device for an electrical hair removing apparatus
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 Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd., Osaka (Japan)
Filed on Jun. 14, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/151,268.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-176182 (JP), filed on Jun. 14, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2005/0274402 A1, Dec. 15, 2005
Int. Cl. B08B 3/00 (2006.01); B08B 9/00 (2006.01); B08B 6/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 134—92  [134/111; 134/135; 134/166 R; 134/174; 134/183; 134/186] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cleaning device with an electric hair removing apparatus having an operator head at its top end, comprising:
a housing having a basin configured to receive the operator head of the apparatus,
a tank configured to store a volume of a 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;
a stand provided on said housing and is configured to hold said apparatus upside down with said operator head disposed within said basin, said stand being composed of a fixed support upstanding from said housing and a movable arm which extends from said support and is formed at its top end with a header,
said hair removing apparatus being formed on its bottom with an electric terminal for receiving an external signal that controls said apparatus,
said housing accommodating therein a control circuit which provides said external signal;
said header carrying a contact which comes into contact with said terminal on the bottom of apparatus;
wherein said movable arm is movable relative to said support between an extended position where said header is around the bottom of said apparatus when held upside down in said basin and a retracted position where said header is lower than at said extended position in the absence of said apparatus, and
wherein, in said extended position, said apparatus is held upside down with said electric contact kept in electrical connection with said contact.