Including Means To Apply Increased Tensile Force To Hair Patents (Class 119/618)
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Patent number: 8720381Abstract: A pet grooming tool includes a plurality of tine members and dematting members juxtaposed with one another along a shaft axis of a mounting shaft to be secured to a handle assembly. Each tine member has front and rear edge surface extending to join with each other to form a tine tip. Each dematting member has a dematting blade region extending to terminate at an inclined distal edge surface, and having a blade cutout portion which extends from the inclined distal edge surface to form a dematting blade tip that is disposed rearward from the tine tip for preventing injury to a user or a pet. The pet grooming tool will rake or comb a pet by means of the tine members while cutting tangles and mats of the undercoat of the pet by means of the dematting members.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2011Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Inventor: Huo-Pia Wang
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Patent number: 8528501Abstract: An improved pet grooming tool is provided for grooming pets and removing loose or detached hair from their fur coats, while removing substantially no or acceptably little live hair and without the need to include any blade portion for engaging the loose or dead hairs. The tool can also collect the removed hair as opposed to permitting most of it to fall to the floor. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the grooming tool includes an elongated handle portion having proximal and distal ends, a head portion at the distal end of the handle, and a carding portion on the head. A tool axis extends in a proximal direction from the head to the proximal end and in preferred embodiments of the invention, corresponds to the direction in which the tool is drawn across the animal's coat (the grooming direction). The grooming tool also has a plurality of tines, with a generally triangular shape when viewed from their sides or top, such that they narrow when extending from base to tip.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2011Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: The Hartz Mountain CorporationInventor: Sascha Prochaska
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Publication number: 20120304938Abstract: A grooming tool that includes a de-shedding rake and a method for assembling the de-shedding rake and the grooming tool. The grooming tool includes a handle portion, and the de-shedding rake is operatively attached to the handle portion. The de-shedding rake includes an axle, a spacer block disposed along the axle and having a plurality of spaced-apart slots and a plurality of de-shedding blades disposed along the axle and within the spaced-apart slots. The use of a spacer block to separate the de-shedding blades significantly reduces the assembly time and cost associated with manufacturing the grooming tool. The invention also includes a method for assembling the de-shedding rake and the grooming tool. The grooming tool is particularly useful for the grooming of furred animals such as dogs and cats.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2011Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: TOPET INTERNATIONAL CO., LIMITEDInventor: Yueh Yu Wang
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Patent number: 7748350Abstract: An apparatus and blade assembly includes a first array of single-edged parallel metal blades, each blade in the first array having rounded ends with a sharpened interior curve, and a second array of parallel double-edged blades with a sharpened interior curve, both arrays being fixably attached such that the first array and the second array are sufficiently spaced to create a blade assembly. A two-sided blade assembly includes a first shorter projecting side including a first plurality of blades configured with interior cutting curves, the first plurality of blades including single-edged blades; and a second projecting side coupled to the first shorter projecting side, the second projecting side including a second plurality of blades having a decreased number of blades as compared to the first plurality of blades, each blade in the second plurality of blades being double-edged including a blade edge for the first shorter projecting side and a second blade edge configured for the second projecting side.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2007Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Inventor: Dorrie Vandervoet
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Patent number: 7509926Abstract: A pet grooming tool, for use with a furry pet such as a dog or cat having loose hair and non-loose hair, is adapted for removing the loose hair from the pet. The grooming tool comprises a handle portion and a pet engageable portion secured to the handle portion. The pet engageable portion includes a blade portion and a plurality of teeth. The blade portion includes a blade edge. The teeth extend from the blade edge. The blade edge is adapted to engage the loose hair of the pet and pull it from the pet without cutting or pulling the non-loose hair from the pet.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2008Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignee: Furminator, Inc.Inventors: David R. Porter, Angela L. Porter
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Publication number: 20080190376Abstract: A pet grooming tool, for use with a furry pet such as a dog or cat having loose hair and non-loose hair, is adapted for removing the loose hair from the pet. The grooming tool comprises a sharp edged comb with short tines mounted in front of an atrium open near the comb, and is also connected to a suction hose attached to a vacuum cleaner or similar. The comb is drawn through the pet's hair where it pulls loose undercoat and guard hairs, fleas, ticks, dander, and other items out of the animal's fur. When the tines are full, the comb is tipped on its trailing side and passed over a stripping pad or the animals hide. This pulls the hair mass out of the tines and deposits it at the entrance of the suction nozzle from whence it is whisked away by vacuum to a collection chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2007Publication date: August 14, 2008Inventor: Evan I. Matsumoto
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Patent number: 7334540Abstract: A pet grooming tool, for use with a furry pet such as a dog or cat having loose hair and non-loose hair, is adapted for removing the loose hair from the pet. The grooming tool comprises an handle portion and a pet engageable portion secured to the handle portion. The pet engageable portion includes a blade portion and a plurality of teeth. The blade portion includes a blade edge. The teeth extend from the blade edge. The blade edge is adapted to engage the loose hair of the pet and pull it from the pet without cutting or pulling the non-loose hair from the pet.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2007Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: FURminator, Inc.Inventors: David R. Porter, Angela L. Porter
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Publication number: 20070193530Abstract: A device for the removal of pet and human hairs from hard to reach places such as crevices, narrow openings and folds in upholstery, as well as from confined clothing areas such as pockets is disclosed. The pet hair removal device comprises a flexible elongated handle body having a hand grip end portion together with an opposing pet hair collector end portion on the handle. The handle has an elongated flexible shaft and a pet hair collection member secured to the collector portion of the handle. The collection member is adapted to engage and retain pet hair on the pet hair removal device for removal from the item or surface being cleaned. The pet hair removal device can be manually cleaned of pet hair and reused.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2006Publication date: August 23, 2007Inventor: James Joseph Deroo
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Patent number: 7222588Abstract: A pet grooming tool, for use with a furry pet such as a dog or cat having loose hair and non-loose hair, is adapted for removing the loose hair from the pet. The grooming tool comprises an elongate handle portion extending generally along a handle axis, and a pet engageable portion secured to the handle portion. The pet engageable portion includes a blade portion and a plurality of teeth. The blade portion includes a blade edge. The teeth extend from the blade edge. The blade edge is adapted to engage the loose hair of the pet and pull it from the pet without cutting or pulling the non-loose hair from the pet.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: FURminator, Inc.Inventors: Angela L. Porter, David R. Porter
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Patent number: 7077076Abstract: A pet grooming tool, for use with a furry pet such as a dog or cat having loose hair and non-loose hair, is adapted for removing the loose hair from the pet. The grooming tool comprises an elongate handle portion extending generally along a handle axis, and a pet engageable portion secured to the handle portion. The pet engageable portion includes a blade portion and a plurality of teeth. The blade portion includes a blade edge. The teeth extend from the blade edge. The pet engageable portion is secured to the handle portion in a manner so that pulling the handle portion generally along the handle axis while the pet engageable portion is in engagement with the pet causes the blade portion to engage the loose hair of the pet and pull it from the pet without cutting or pulling the non-loose hair from the pet.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2004Date of Patent: July 18, 2006Assignee: FURminator, Inc.Inventors: Angela L. Porter, David R. Porter
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Patent number: 6782846Abstract: A pet grooming tool, for use with a furry pet such as a dog or cat having loose hair and non-loose hair, is adapted for removing the loose hair from the pet. The grooming tool comprises an elongate handle portion extending generally along a handle axis, and a pet engageable portion secured to the handle portion. The pet engageable portion includes a blade portion and a plurality of teeth. The blade portion includes a blade edge. The teeth extend from the blade edge. The pet engageable portion is secured to the handle portion in a manner so that pulling the handle portion generally along the handle axis while the pet engageable portion is in engagement with the pet causes the blade portion to engage the loose hair of the pet and pull it from the pet without cutting or pulling the non-loose hair from the pet.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2000Date of Patent: August 31, 2004Inventors: Angela L. Porter, David Porter
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Patent number: 6668758Abstract: A combing device to facilitate de-matting or untangling of animal hair comprises a pair of combs, a handle unit and a switch. The handle unit comprises an internal energy conduit device through which energy or force can be caused to flow and effectuate a forceful movement of at least one of the combs. In operation, a user places the pair of combs in or near the area of an animal's matted hair and controls the switch to repeatedly cause one of the combs to forcefully move forward and then back, thereby generating repeatedly strong combing actions.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2003Date of Patent: December 30, 2003Inventor: Albert H. Davis, Jr.
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Patent number: 6336428Abstract: A vacuum pet brush for collecting debris loosened by a grooming brush or comb. The vacuum pet brush includes a main housing that has an open end and closed end. The closed end of the main housing has a plurality of venting apertures. The main housing has enclosed inside a vacuum bag, a fan connected to a motor, and a battery operationally connected to the motor. In addition, a grooming head member that has a debris collection conduit is selectively coupled to the open end of the main housing.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2000Date of Patent: January 8, 2002Inventor: Laura H. Locke