Multi-Color Hair Applicator With Rotating Segmented Brush
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing hair color applicators struggle to evenly and simultaneously apply multiple colors, requiring multiple tools and leading to inefficiencies in achieving complex hair color styles.
Innovation Solution
A single hair color applicator with a brush head and handle, featuring a pivotable center shaft, removable dividers in a trough for multiple color compartments, and a shield to prevent color spillage, allowing simultaneous application of various colors by rotating the brush head and controlling its rotation with a locking trigger.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a single applicator tool is used to apply multiple hair colors, then device complexity is reduced and ease of operation is improved, but the ability to evenly and simultaneously apply multiple colors deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The brush head is segmented into multiple sections with bristles of different lengths, where longer bristles access one color compartment and shorter bristles access another color compartment in the trough, enabling simultaneous pickup of multiple colors in a single rotation
Solution Approach 2:
The brush head is designed to rotate dynamically as the user squeezes the handle, allowing the bristles to sequentially dip into different color compartments and pick up multiple colors simultaneously through rotational motion
2Manufacturing precision
If multiple applicator tools are used to apply multiple hair colors, then application precision is improved, but device complexity increases and ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple applicator functions are merged into a single tool by integrating a multi-compartment trough and a rotating brush head with varied bristle lengths, consolidating what would traditionally require multiple separate applicators into one device
Solution Approach 2:
The single applicator is designed with universal functionality to apply multiple hair colors simultaneously through its multi-compartment trough and rotating brush mechanism, eliminating the need for separate tools for each color
3Productivity
If the brush head rotates to pick up multiple colors, then productivity is improved and ease of operation is improved, but harmful factors such as color spillage increase
Solution Approach 1:
The shield is positioned to preemptively block the path of centrifugally thrown color, preventing spillage before it can reach surrounding areas, while allowing the brush head to rotate freely for color pickup
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention is directed to a hair color applicator. The hair color applicator may comprise an applicator brush and a base. The applicator brush may be operable to apply one or more hair colorings to hair. A trough in the base may hold the one or more hair colorings. One or more removable dividers may be coupled to the trough to separate the one or more hair colorings. The one or more hair colorings may be applied to a brush head of the applicator brush by placing the applicator brush on the base and rotating a plurality of bristles of the brush head through the trough. The one or more hair colorings may be applied to the hair by brushing the hair with the applicator brush.