Nail care apparatus

Abstract

A nail care apparatus including a hand-or-foot of a person with nails having been applied with nail caring substances, nail curing means for curing nails of said person, a first air-moving means, and a first odor-removing means, wherein said first-air-moving means being adapted for moving air from said hand-or-foot receptacle to said first odor-removing means, said first odor-removing means including means for substantially removing smells, odors or other volatile substances emanated from said applied nail caring substances.

1 . A nail care apparatus including: 
 hand-or-foot receptacle for receiving a hand or a foot of a person with nails having been applied with nail caring substances,    nail curing means for curing nail caring substances, already applied on the nails of said person,    a first air-moving means, and    a first odour-removing means,    wherein said first air-moving means being adapted for moving air from said hand-or-foot receptacle to said first odour-removing means, said first odour-removing means including means for substantially removing smells, odours or other volatile substances emanated from said applied nail caring substances.    
     
     
         2 . A nail care apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein said nail curing means including an ultra-violet radiation source.  
     
     
         3 . A nail care apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein said nail curing means including a heater and an air blower.  
     
     
         4 . A nail care apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein said hand-or-foot receptacle for receiving a hand or a foot being intermediate of said nail curing means and said first air-moving means.  
     
     
         5 . A nail care apparatus according to  claim 4 , wherein said nail care apparatus including a first housing and a second housing, said nail curing means being accommodated by said first housing, said first air-moving means being accommodated by said second housing, said first housing and said second housing being inter-connected by a support housing.  
     
     
         6 . A nail care apparatus according to  claim 5 , wherein said supporting housing including means for adjusting separation between said foot-or-hand receptacle and said first housing.  
     
     
         7 . A nail care apparatus according to  claim 5 , wherein said nail curing means including a heater and an air blower, said first housing being tiltable relative to said support housing.  
     
     
         8 . A nail care apparatus according to  claim 5 , wherein said first housing being pivotable about said support housing, the separation between said first housing and said hand-or-foot receptacle being adjustable by pivotally tilting said first housing about said support housing, further including latching means to latch said first housing at a inclination selectable by a user.  
     
     
         9 . A nail care apparatus according to  claim 5 , wherein said first odour-removing means including a de-odourizing filter such as an activated carbon filter or the like.  
     
     
         10 . A nail care apparatus according to  claim 9 , wherein said first air-moving means including a propeller fan the rotation plane of which being substantially parallel to the absorption plane of said de-odourizing filter.  
     
     
         11 . A nail care apparatus according to  claim 1 , further including a hand-or-foot support, said hand-or-foot support including a perforated surface and a second air-moving means, said second air-moving means being also adapted for moving air from said perforated surface to a de-odourizing filter along a second predefined channel.  
     
     
         12 . A nail care apparatus according to  claim 11 , wherein said second air-moving means being adapted to move air from said hand-or-foot receptacle to said odour-removing means via a first pre-defined channel, said first and second pre-defined channels being configured for alternative operation.  
     
     
         13 . A nail care apparatus according to  claim 11 , wherein said first and second pre-defined channels being communicable via a valve.  
     
     
         14 . A nail care apparatus according to  claim 13 , further including sensing means and valve control means, said sensing means being adapted to detect the presence of a hand or a foot at said hand-or-foot receptacle or said hand-or-foot support and generates corresponding control signal, said valve control means activate one of said alternate pre-defined channels upon detection of said control signals.  
     
     
         15 . A nail care apparatus according to  claim 13 , including switching means to switch operation of said apparatus alternating between said first and said second pre-defined channels.  
     
     
         16 . A nail care apparatus according to  claim 11 , wherein said first and said second air-moving means being a single air-moving device.  
     
     
         17 . A nail care apparatus according to  claim 1 , further including a hand-or-foot support, a second air-moving means, a second odour-removing means, said hand-or-foot support being adapted for supporting a hand or a foot of a person to facilitate application of nail care substances, said second air-moving means being adapted for moving air from said hand-or-foot support to said second odour-removing means so that when nail care substances are being applied onto the hand or the foot of a person with said hand or said foot resting on said hand-or-foot support, smell, odour or other volatile substances emanating from said nail care substances will be drawn towards said second odour-removing means for removal.  
     
     
         18 . A nail care apparatus according to  claim 17  and including a first housing, a second housing and a support housing interconnecting said first and said housing, wherein said hand-or-foot support and said hand-or-foot receptacle respectively formed on said first and said second housing, said hand-or-foot support being on a surface of said first housing distal from said hand-or-foot receptacle.  
     
     
         19 . A nail care apparatus according to  claim 18 , wherein said hand-or-foot support includes an ergonomically shaped surface for receiving the palm or the plantar surface of the foot of a user during application of nail care substances.  
     
     
         20 . A nail care apparatus according to  claim 18 , wherein said first housing being generally hollow and said hand-or-foot support including a percolated surface, said second air-moving means being disposed so that, when said apparatus operating as a de-odourizing means during application of nail care substances, air in the vicinity of said hand-or-foot support will be drawn into a hollow compartment inside said first housing, a de-odourizing means being disposed in said hollow compartment for removing smell, odour or other volatile substances.