This invention relates to a one piece portable nail care device assembly having a variety of fingernail grooming accessories stored in a covered compact casing.
Several manicuring devices for fingernail grooming are known. Fingernail grooming includes trimming, shaping, filing, cuticle removing, cuticle pushing, polishing, buffing and cleaning. These devices usually includes a casing enclosing a motor for operating a detachable grooming accessory or hereinafter also referred to as bit. These accessories or bits are not housed with the motor. Only one bit can be left attached with the motor. Consequently, the other accessories or bits are left loose individually. The latter pose the problem of losing these bits which entail cost to replace. This problem may be solved by providing another casing for the accessories which now requires one to carry two casings instead of one to be able to do several desired grooming functions. The problem with this is to remember bringing both casings. An alternate approach is one proposed by U.S. Pat. No. 4,137,926 which stores the casing holding the motor inside a larger casing holding the bits. Consequently, the casing of this invention is of a size not easily carried in a ladies"" purse or bag especially when one already carries in it cosmetics, a telephone, a wallet, a palm, a brush and others.
It is therefore an object of this invention to provide a portable nail care device having the fingernail grooming accessories or bits stored in the same casing as the motor.
It is also an object of this invention to provide a nail care device that is capable of being manufactured at a low cost.
It is a further object of this invention to provide a nail care device that is simple to use and operate.
A compact one piece nail care device assembly comprising a handle housing a motor having an output shaft and a power supply; a spindle connected to the shaft for receiving a removable grooming accessory referred to as bit having a bit head and a bit stem; a bit holder attaching on top of the handle for carrying and storing the bit; a cover for the bit holder to secure the bit inside the bit holder; a switch to trigger the device; and, means for attaching parts of the nail care device assembly together. The power to run the motor may be supplied by a regular nonrechargeable battery, a rechargeable battery or by plugging into a current supply. The spindle may be covered by a spindle cover to shield the shaft and the spindle. The bit holder may attach to the spindle cover instead of the handle when a spindle cover is used. The main feature of the claimed invention is the covered bit holder having a plurality of tubular openings attached to the handle or the spindle cover for carrying the and storing the bit.