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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7350258 | Extendable improved cleaning system and method A system for cleaning includes a handle and a head having a cleaning surface. The head is connected to the handle and is extendable to selectively widen or narrow the cleaning surface. A gear is fixedly connected to the handle and rotatingly connected to the head, s... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7320148 | Hairbrush assembly A hairbrush assembly includes an elongated first cylinder having a first end and a second end. An elongated second cylinder is positioned on and is rotatable with respect to the first cylinder. The second cylinder has a distal end and a proximal end with respect to ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7284556 | Cleaning-tissue comb The present invention is a comb, whose staples can be easily kept clean by ripping a tissue on a base of staples. ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7225815 | Self-cleaning hair brush A self cleaning hair brush includes a handle (12), a bristle-holding head (14) having a plurality of spaced-apart bristles (16) projecting laterally therefrom, and a combing plate (18) having a plurality of bristle-receiving apertures ( | 06/05/2007 |
| 7065947 | Powered ZRT sand grooming vehicle and grooming brush rake A sand grooming vehicle comprises a vehicle having zero radius turn capability. The vehicle includes a front caster wheel, two independently driven rear wheels, and twin control sticks for allowing spin turning of the vehicle by driving the outboard drive wheel and ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7051395 | Disposable and foldable toothbrush A disposable toothbrush that can folded and unfolded upon it self is shown and described. The toothbrush is constructed of two folding sections that each contain bristles each half can join to the other half and so provide a rigid toothbrush for brushing. Prior to u... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6968848 | Retractable bristle brush A retractable bristle brush of the type for retracting the bristles into the brush is provided. The retractable bristle brush includes a handle adapted for grasping by a user and an elongated, cylindrical inner mandrel extending from the handle; a plurality of brist... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6631831 | Self-cleaning hairbrush system A self-cleaning hairbrush system has a housing with a wall formed with apertures and with a hollow interior with an open end and a closed end. A core has an interior end positionable adjacent to the closed end and an exterior exposed end extending through... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6477732 | Folding bristle hairbrush An ultra-thin folding bristle hairbrush, capable of being operated with one hand, suitable for back-pocket storage. A base enclosure comprising a plurality of spaced transverse bristle bars, each bristle bar pivotally mounted within the base enclosure. At... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6345405 | Two-in-one toothbrush The two-in-one toothbrush provides for dual sets of brushing bristles facing in opposing directions to allow the toothbrush to clean both the upper and lower teeth simultaneously. Another form of the toothbrush design allows for the movement of at least o... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6283930 | Travel massage brush The disclosed travel massage brush is an ultra-compact vibrating hair brush that comfortably fits an average woman's or man's hand in the hair brushing or massage modes. It is light in weight and portable permitting grooming and/or soothing scalp or body ... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6088868 | Folding compact push broom A cleaning implement such as a broom which has a head divided into multiple sections which are hinged together with a hinge that will remain in an open position. It also has a handle which is made in multiple sections, and which are hinged together.... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6070594 | Brush with retractable bristles A retractable brush for brushing, cleaning and curling hair comprises an outer tubular member having a pattern of bristle apertures, and an inner tubular member extending lengthwise within the outer tubular member and being mounted to undergo angular disp... | 06/06/2000 |
| 5943727 | Foldable cleaning implement A foldable cleaning implement is foldable into a compact form for ease in transporting and storing. The cleaning implement has a handle and a head. The handle may be formed from a plurality of segments coupled together by foldable elements. The head is at... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5815877 | Brush with retractable bristles A compact, self-cleaning brush having minimal number of components and being easier to assemble which makes the design more cost effective. The bristles of the brush are mounted between a base and a sliding actuating member which are constructed so that a... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5511274 | Integrally fused brush construction There is disclosed therein a tufted construction formed of a thermoplastic sheet which defines a two-dimensional projection of a three-dimensional tufted construction design which has integrally mutually spaced prefused tufts mounted at preselected areas ... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5432971 | Foldable toothbrush A toothbrush split axially into two halves which are hinged together along their length. The toothbrush can be used in a first position as a conventional toothbrush and can be pivoted to a second position wherein the bristles on the heads extend towards o... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5335390 | Structure of foldable comb An improved structure of a foldable comb having a handle and a hollowed frame pivotally connected therewith, the hollowed frame has an elastic member for implanting thereon a plurality of brush pins. The handle provides an eccentric wheel at the pivotal c... | 08/09/1994 |
| 4847937 | Hair brush In the case of hair brushes the arcuately shaped bristle members of which are studded with bristles, mounted in the side walls of a housing being U-shaped in cross section, are arranged in a plurality adjacently and with a distance from one another and ar... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4507818 | Collapsible hairbrush A collapsible hairbrush comprises a base plate and a plurality of bristle supporting plates arranged in side by side parallel relationship with each other, the bristle supporting plates having upper surfaces and being rotationally situated in the base pla... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4498211 | Retractable brush A folding brush comprises a case having parallel first and second walls respectively having first and second interior faces spaced from each other to form a cavity. The first wall includes a matrix of cylindrical like slots extending between the first fac... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4494269 | Hairbrush device A hairbrush device composed of upper wall, lower wall and movable flat board, and by the back and forth movement of the movable flat board, the brush tips can be raised up or pushed down. A stopper member is provided so as to fix the brush tips vertically... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4467491 | Reversible hair and clothing brush A combination hair and clothes brush which exposes only one brush for use at a time, the other brush being folded within the cavity of the body.... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4346496 | Foldable implement An implement includes first and second elongated legs that are joined by a first hinge between respective one ends thereof to permit those legs to be folded toward and away from one another. The legs are mutually shaped to define a cavity within a handle ... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4321723 | Travel hair brush A compact hair brush particularly suitable for traveling. A flat housing is provided with a plurality of rows of transversely mounted bristles. Each row of bristles is individually mounted on a pivoted bar. A longitudinal operating rod pivotally connects ... | 03/30/1982 |
| 4250590 | Cover protected brush with collapsible bristles A cover protected brush with collapsible bristles, more specifically a collapsible brush for ladies, characterized in that the bristles of the brush can be collapsed and protected with a cover so as to reduce its volume and make it easier for a lady to ca... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4202361 | Pocket brush An improved and extremely economical brush for hair-brushing and the like folds flat with bristles retracted for pocket carriage; in preferred embodiment the structure includes a plurality of tufts of bristles in unitary ranks, each rank having pivotal co... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4137596 | Collapsable brushes A compact portable pocket brush has retractable bristles arrayed in groups attached to a plurality of bristle group holders or supports mounted upon pivot pins in a brush case. The top wall of the case has a plurality of downwardly sloping apertures respe... | 02/06/1979 |
| 4121314 | Collapsible brush A collapsible brush is provided with bristle members having bristles of varying length so that a curved top surface is provided to aid in the brushing of a woman's hair. Also provided is an extension which receives in sliding relationship a sliding handle... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4103387 | Brush with retractable bristles A collapsible hair or massage brush has a body divided into two flat, superposed members in the form of slotted plates or frames which are limitedly relatively shiftable in a predetermined direction to swing a multiplicity of bristle carriers, normally re... | 08/01/1978 |
| 4077081 | Sweeper brush section A sweeper brush section comprising a deformed metal channel with a plurality of outwardly-opening cups or sockets at regularly spaced intervals in which are positioned the inner U-shaped ends of tufts or bunches of wire bristles mounted in non-metallic sl... | 03/07/1978 |
| 4057868 | Collapsible brush A brush frame is provided which supports a slidable handle and a plurality of rotatable bristle-carrying rods arranged with their longitudinal axes parallel to one another. The handle includes projections extending into curved grooves within the rods wher... | 11/15/1977 |
| 4057867 | Pocket hair brush A pocket hair brush having a self-contained cover in an integral unit formed of a thermoplastic polymeric resin and includes a backing plate flexible rectangular panel having integrally formed bristles projecting from a face thereof. Rectangular side pane... | 11/15/1977 |
| 4028768 | Retractable brush There is provided a collapsible brush structure comprised of a body portion, a bristle bed movable in the longitudinal direction of the body, a plurality of bristles being set in the bristle bed, and means for moving the bristle bed between first and seco... | 06/14/1977 |
| 4028767 | Foldable brushes A brush composed of slim rectangular segments hinged together at their edges with bristles protruding from the hinged edges such that when the segments are folded together accordion style the bristles stick out for brushing. Simultaneously the segments ac... | 06/14/1977 |
| 3977420 | Retractable comb A retractable comb having metallic tines or teeth, each of which are attached to a separate pinion gear and each pinion gear being rotatably carried by a sheath having a slot in the top portion thereof and being coplanar with the tines. A rack slidably ca... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3967338 | Brush assembly An inexpensive sanitary hairbrush assembly is provided which is equipped with a cover that hinges down over the bristles of the brush when the brush is not in use bending the bristles down into the plane of the base, so as to provide a compact enclosure f... | 07/06/1976 |
| 3947914 | Collapsible brush A collapsible brush includes an open topped housing provided with a removable lid and a plurality of longitudinally spaced transverse bars which are located in the housing and have flat top faces, angularly related front and rear faces gear sector under f... | 04/06/1976 |
