Manicure Device

Abstract

An adjustable hand support is designed to help one paint nails easily with beautiful results. The device comprises a base, digit rests, fingertip rests and nail rests. The base may resemble a human hand with five digit rests. A human hand is inserted into the device and the length is adjusted allowing the fingertip protecting membrane reside at the optimum place to protect all of the fingers. The fingertip rests slide forward and back by the use or rails which engage with slots in the extension. The nail rest fits that the free edge to protect the finger skin from getting nail cover composition on the skin. The nail rest may also have a nail fold mask is to protect the nail fold from polish. Optionally, the fingertip rest comprises an accessory allowing for stamping, stenciling and French nail ornamentations.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is related to and claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 63 / 177,583, filed on 21 Apr. 2021. The provisional application is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention is directed to a device in the field of personal care and manicure. More specifically, the present invention is in the field of devices used to apply nail polish and decorations to a fingernail.DESCRIPTION OF RELATED TECHNOLOGY[0003]Human beings have been decorating themselves with clothing, jewelry, piercings, body art, and makeup for thousands of years. The most common areas that humans like to decorate are their hands and fingernails. People have been coloring and decorating them for at least 3000 years. We used natural pigments and tints to color our hands, fingers, and fingernails in the early days.[0004]It's thought that people decorate their fingernails as an extension of who t...

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Benefits of technology

The present invention provides a adjustable hand support for women who want to paint their nails with beautiful results. The device allows people with shaky hands or no previous experience to apply nail polish. It includes a protective membrane to quickly protect skin from nail polish, an integrated nail polish bottle holder, and an integrated flip-up tool for stampings and stencils. The base of the device has a unibody or modular structure, with an integrated palm / heel rest for optimal comfort and elevating the fingers or toes to a proper working height without straining. The nail rest is attached to a nail fold mask that also protects the eponychium and perionychium during polishing. The invention ensures time-consuming steps in the nail polish application process are saved and allows people to keep their nails polished for longer periods of time.

Problems solved by technology

The drawback of using a salon to prepare and maintain your nails is the cost.

Many people just cannot afford it.

More time-intensive procedures like acrylics can cost substantially more.

People are also hesitant to pay a salon for all of their nail care because the job is often ruined prematurely.

Women who work with their hands or do gardening or housework can chip polish and nails or ruin an expensive salon manicure.

If women were to get their nails done professionally every time it was needed, it would be prohibitively expensive.

This was that nail polish takes at least 10 minutes and perhaps up to two hours to dry.

Sales in this sector seem to be trend driven and cyclical.

However, many people do a sloppy job applying nail polish to their dominant hand using their non-dominant hand.

Many people have difficulty applying nail polish with either hand.

People have all different skill levels and many are just not very skilled with fine motor functions.

There are many disadvantages with that product, including, (a) a great chance of stencils being pushed or moved due to no connectivity with other stencils resulting in smearing of the nail polish; (b) the stencils are awkward on the user's hand; (c) the stencils do not have the benefit from providing a stable base to give the non dominant hand better ability to polish properly; (d) the stencils are difficult to work with short nails below the free edge; (e) it is difficult to clean nail polish from stencils; (f) the plastic part at the fingers tips is straight across so it doesn't provide a sealed barrier.

Some of the disadvantages of this product include use for protection sides of fingers when doing stamping or water marbling technique and not optimized for polish application; a likelihood of protector separation from the nail; long application times; and a likelihood of smearing due to the possibility of protector removal while the polish is still wet; a great chance of protectors being pushed or moved due to no connectivity with other stencils resulting in smearing of the nail polish; the protectors being awkward on the user's hand; and the protectors do not have the benefit from providing a stable base to give the non-dominant hand better ability to polish properly.

Some of the disadvantages of this product include being very time-consuming because the user has to apply the product one finger at a time.

The product doesn't allow the user to wrap the tip of the nail with polish to prevent chipping as the paint on latex.

Further, the product does not provide a sealed barrier.

Other methods of protecting skin from nail polish are challenging to work with because some people have shaky hands and other products are time-consuming.

A latex masking agent that is brushed on is one time-consuming and failure-prone method.

There have been many inventions over the years that are not helpful or would not work in this field.

The related art still requires excellent dexterity and does not consider someone with shaky hands applying polish with their non-dominant hand.

This would not allow the polish to be applied precisely and would ruin the job when they are removed.

Several others appear to be mostly a sort of finger rest but would not aid the non-dominant hand in producing a precise manicure for someone with shaky hands.

None of these provides an accurate device to mask the eponychium or perionychium.

None of these provides for a stamping / stenciling device.

Although many advances in the art of devices used to apply nail polish have been made, many challenges still remain.

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