Hair Styling Device

Abstract

A hair styling device is described with two arms that can be adjusted relative to one another in an articulated manner for receiving and shaping a strand of hair. Each arms carries on its side facing the other arm a shaping plate with a shaping surface that makes contact with the hair strand to be shaped during the hair styling process. It is especially characteristic that a blocking rib is provided adjacent to the shaping surfaces of each of the two shaping plates on their side remote from the pivot axis of the arms and projecting in the direction of the particular other arm and running transversally to the longitudinal extension of the particular arm. The two blocking ribs are arranged offset to one another and adjacent in the closed position of the arms and which run parallel to one another and overlap above a certain height, and which do not extend to the particular other arm in this position of the two arms to one another.

I claim: 
     
         1 . A hair styling device with two arms that can be adjusted relative to one another in an articulated manner for receiving and shaping a strand of hair, said device comprising
 each of said arms having on a side facing the other arm a shaping plate with a shaping surface that makes contact with a hair strand to be shaped for the process of a hair styling;   a blocking rib located adjacent to each of said shaping surfaces on a side remote from a pivot axis of the arms and projecting in the direction of the other arm, said blocking rib running transversally to a longitudinal extension of the particular arm   said two blocking ribs being offset to one another and adjacent in a closed position of the arms and which run parallel to one another and overlap above a certain height, and which do not extend to the particular other arm in this position of the two arms to one another.   
     
     
         2 . The hair styling device of  claim 1 , wherein least one of the two shaping plates is supported in a floating manner against a return force. 
     
     
         3 . The hair styling device of  claim 2 , wherein at least one shaping plate is held for the purpose of its support in a frame supported in a floating manner and that the blocking rib is arranged on the frame. 
     
     
         4 . The hair styling device of  claim 1 , wherein the blocking ribs are stiff bodies. 
     
     
         5 . The hair styling device of  claim 1 , wherein the blocking ribs have a curved surface on their particular upper side in the transverse direction. 
     
     
         6 . The hair styling device of  claim 1 , wherein one of the two arms further comprises a hair support on its side carrying the shaping plate, which hair support is arranged at a distance to the shaping surface of this arm in order that the other arm fits in between the hair support and the shaping plate of this arm and that the two arms can be adjusted to one another in the manner of scissors relative to the two shaping plates and that a plane of the shaping surfaces of the two arms is inclined relative to a movement plane of the arms for their articulated adjustment. 
     
     
         7 . The hair styling device of  claim 6 , wherein the angle of inclination of the shaping surfaces of the two arms relative to the movement plane of the arms to one another is inclined by a maximum of 20°, in particular by not more than 10°. 
     
     
         8 . The hair styling device of  claim 6 , wherein the arm that is adjustable relative to the arm carrying the hair support, comprises an outer side that is suitably constructed for shaping a strand to a curl or a wave. 
     
     
         9 . The hair styling device of  claim 6 , wherein the arm carrying the hair support has a V-shaped cross-sectional geometry, that the two shanks of the V-shaped design enclose an arm receptacle, that the shaping plate is arranged on the inner side of one of its shanks ( 25 ) and that the outer side of the other arm is constructed and dimensioned in a complementary manner to fit into the arm receptacle and carries its shaping plate on it outer side facing the shaping plate of the other arm. 
     
     
         10 . The hair styling device of  claim 9 , wherein the other shank that does not carry the shaping plate and of the arm forming the hair support, and the outer side of the other arm facing the inner side of this shank carry hair guide structures. 
     
     
         11 . The hair styling device of  claim 1 , wherein at least one of the blocking ribs has a bend on its free end in the direction of the adjacent shaping plate. 
     
     
         12 . The hair styling device of  claim 11 , wherein the both blocking ribs have a bend on their free end in the direction of the adjacent shaping plate.