US 12,201,202 B2
Hair styling appliance
Richard David Nicolaou, Bristol (GB); Frederick Stuart Grotrian, Swindon (GB); George Normile Elliot Baxter, Singapore (SG); Nathan Haruna Waters Imhasly, Bath (GB); Rory William Beaumont, Bristol (GB); Stephen Benjamin Courtney, Gloucester (GB); Maurizio Ballarati, Swindon (GB); Alexander Edward Hughes, Swindon (GB); and Robert Mark Brett Coulton, Bristol (GB)
Assigned to Dyson Technology Limited, Wiltshire (GB)
Appl. No. 17/420,311
Filed by Dyson Technology Limited, Wiltshire (GB)
PCT Filed Nov. 20, 2019, PCT No. PCT/GB2019/053283
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 1, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/141295, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 9, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 1900012 (GB), filed on Jan. 2, 2019; application No. 1900013 (GB), filed on Jan. 2, 2019; and application No. 1900014 (GB), filed on Jan. 2, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0087391 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. A45D 2/00 (2006.01)
CPC A45D 2/001 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A hair styling apparatus comprising:
a first arm and a second arm pivotably coupled together at a hinge to allow the first arm and the second arm to be moveable between a closed position, in which a facing side of the first arm and a facing side of the second arm are adjacent, and an open position, in which the facing side of the first arm and the facing side of the second arm are spaced apart;
a central pack disposed between the first arm and the second arm and coupled to the hair styling apparatus proximate the hinge; and
at least one biaser configured to symmetrically support the central pack between the first arm and the second arm.