US 12,089,675 B2
Hair feeding device
Jiro Obama, Tokyo (JP); Hideki Iijima, Tokyo (JP); Toru Ichita, Tokyo (JP); and Honoka Iimura, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to JUKI CORPORATION, Tama (JP); and ARTNATURE INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by JUKI CORPORATION, Tama (JP); and ARTNATURE INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 13, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/097,402.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-206747 (JP), filed on Nov. 15, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0145101 A1, May 20, 2021
Int. Cl. A41G 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC A41G 3/0075 (2013.01) 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A hair feeding device configured to perform a feeding operation for pulling out flocking hairs one by one from a bundle of flocking hairs, the device comprising:
a feeder configured to hold the bundle of flocking hairs and separate hair ends of a plurality of the flocking hairs in a direction different from that of the bundle;
a head configured to hold the hair ends of the flocking hairs;
a conveyance mechanism configured to convey the head; and
a control device configured to perform an operation control of the feeding operation, wherein
the feeder includes
a bundle holder configured to hold the bundle of flocking hairs, and
a separator configured to separate a plurality of the flocking hairs from the bundle of flocking hairs held by the bundle holder in a state where the hair ends of the plurality of the flocking hairs are oriented in a direction different from that of the bundle,
wherein the separator includes a separation plate having a flat plate surface that is inserted from an outer periphery of the bundle of flocking hairs and separates the plurality of the flocking hairs, and
wherein the separation plate includes a recess portion configured to allow a state where the hair ends of each of the plurality of the separated flocking hairs are widened on the flat plate surface.