JP2727458B2 - Hair removal unit of wig flocking machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a wig transplanter for automatically implanting hair on a wig base so that the already implanted hair does not hinder the next implant. And a hair removal unit for aligning the hair.

[Conventional technology]

Generally, when hair made of human hair and / or artificial hair is implanted on a wig base, a portion of the wig, such as a frontal portion, a parietal portion, a temporal region, and an occipital region, is used in order to realize a natural hair volume and flow. It is necessary to perform the flocking operation while appropriately mixing several types of flocking methods according to the conditions.

As such a hair transplanting method, typically, a method such as V planting, single planting, bun single planting, or insertion planting is known.

By the way, conventionally, the hair transplanting operation of the wig has been performed manually one by one according to these hair transplanting methods. However, this manual flocking operation is heavy labor and requires a high level of skill, so that one wig is required. Even a skilled technician takes a long time of about 10 to 20 days to finish a wig.

For this reason, as disclosed in, for example, JP-A-59-36707 to JP-A-59-36711 by the present applicant, a new wig flocking machine for automating the manual flocking operation has been proposed. I have.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

However, any of these wig transplanters can perform only one type of planting, V-planting, single-planting, and pan-single planting, with a single device. In order to complete one wig, It is necessary to prepare a plurality of types of wig flocking machines, and to set the wig base to another wig flocking machine during the flocking operation every time the flocking method is changed according to the wig site. In addition, there is a problem in terms of operability, and in particular, hair that is being implanted one after another on the wig base may be obstructed by covering the hair implantation position or winding around the hair implantation needle at the time of the next hair implantation operation. There is.

In view of the above, the present invention can be carried out by a single hair transplanter while appropriately mixing various hair transplanting methods, for example, V planting, single planting, bread single planting, and the like. An object of the present invention is to provide a hair wiping unit in a wig hair transplanter, which can be attached and can continuously perform a hair transplant operation without disturbing the next hair transplant operation by the already planted hair. And

[Means and actions for solving the problems]

According to the present invention, there is provided a head unit having a head portion for fixing and holding a wig base, a hair feeding unit for supplying hair to a position where the wig base fixed and held on the head portion is to be implanted, In the wig flocking machine, comprising: a flocking unit having a flocking needle for transplanting the hair supplied by the bristle feeding unit to a predetermined position on the wig base; and a control unit for controlling each of these units according to a pre-programmed procedure. When the hair is implanted in the hair implantation unit, the hair that has already been implanted on the wig base is swingably supported while being circulated to align the hair in a certain direction so as not to hinder the next hair implantation. Further comprising a hair brushing unit provided with hair alignment means for pulling out the hair implanted by the belt-shaped brush. It is achieved.

According to the present invention, the hair already set on the wig base is arranged in a certain direction by brushing or by wind pressure before the setting operation so that the hair already set on the wig base does not disturb the next setting operation. Will be. Therefore, the hair transplanting operation can be performed continuously without the hair being planted covering the flocking position or winding the flocking needle or the like to cause a failure.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail based on one embodiment shown in the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a wig flocking machine provided with a hair brushing unit according to the present invention. This wig flocking machine 10
Are the head unit 21, the hair supply unit 31, the hair transplant unit 41
And a hair brushing unit 51, each of which is preferably fixedly arranged on a movable frame 11.

Note that each of these units does not necessarily need to be disposed on the frame 11 as a single unit as long as it has a configuration and a function to be described later.Each unit includes, for example, a hair feeding portion and a hair transplant portion. It is also possible to constitute them by being integrated as one unit, and these arrangements can be arbitrarily changed variously without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

 First, the head unit 21 will be described.

The head unit 21 has a substantially hemispherical head portion 22 for fixing and holding a wig base (not shown) to be planted.
A wig base made of, for example, a soft synthetic resin separately made of polyurethane, silicone, or the like or made of a net having a fine mesh is fixed on the head portion 22 by an appropriate method such as tacking or sticking. Is done. The head section 22 is pivotally driven by a motor 24 about a center axis A 'perpendicular to the head section 22 with respect to the center A of the substantially hemispherical shape, and together with the rotation drive mechanism about the center axis A', the head section 22 is rotated. The motor 23 is driven to rotate around a horizontal axis (this is defined as an X axis).

Further, in the illustrated embodiment, the head unit 22 including the above-mentioned turning drive mechanism is driven by the motor 25 in the vertical direction (that is, the Z-axis direction).
, And the entire head unit 21 is turned around the Z axis by the motor 26.

Thus, the head section 22 of the head unit 21 is
By the operation of 23, 24 and 25, any position on the surface
It is brought to the shaft implantation position B on the shaft and can be set in a desired direction by the operation of the motor 26.

Here, in the above embodiment, the head unit 21 includes:
The head 22 including the rotation drive mechanism of the motors 23 and 24 is
Although it is configured to be driven in translation in the vertical direction at 5, even if the entire head unit 21 is driven to translate as in the wig flocking machine disclosed by the present applicant in Japanese Patent Application No. 62-106590. Good. Further, in the above embodiment, the entire head unit 21 is configured to be swiveled around the Z axis, thereby enabling the setting of the flocking direction, that is, the setting of the hair flow. When it is not necessary to automatically adjust the head unit 21, the motor 26 for rotating the head unit 21 as a whole is unnecessary.

Above the head portion 22, an optical position sensor portion 27 is fixedly arranged on the frame 11 as a positioning means for detecting the height of the wig base at the flocking position and adjusting the height. . Accordingly, the head 22 adjusts the height of the surface of the wig base at the position on the Z-axis by the motor 25 before the flocking operation based on the detection signal from the position sensor 27, thereby accurately setting the flocking position B.
Can be brought to

Here, the position sensor unit 27 is disposed on the frame 11 above the head unit 22.
The set position is arbitrary as long as the surface at the position on the axis can be adjusted in height. Further, the position sensor unit 27 is not limited to the optical detector shown in the figure, and various means may be selected. For example, the position sensor unit 27 may be constituted by a limit switch, a stopper provided at a predetermined position of the flocking machine 10, or the like.

The head portion 22 is formed of, for example, an epoxy resin or a rubber material so that a flocked needle described later is not broken, and the substantially hemispherical surface has a concave curved portion of a wig base manufactured according to a user's head shape. It is preferably shaped to have a convex curved surface that conforms to the inner surface and is removably supported and secured on a base.

As shown in the enlarged view of FIG. 2, the hair supply unit 31 has a main body fixedly arranged obliquely with respect to the frame 11 and hair supplied from a hair supply unit (not shown). A hair gripper 32 provided with two clamps 32a and 32b for gripping H on the opposite side in the diameter direction, and the hair H gripped by the two clamps 32a and 31b are placed near the flocking position B of the head 22. It has two parallel hair feeding rods 33 each having a fork-shaped tip to be brought (see FIG. 2 (C)).

The hair gripper 32 is a motor with a clutch brake.
34, the hair is intermittently driven in the direction of arrow C by 180 degrees every one flocking operation, so that the two clamp portions 32a, 32a,
32b is stopped by, for example, a click mechanism or the like so as to be located side by side so as to face the head portion 22.

Each of the clamp portions 32a and 32b has two frustoconical disks 3
5a and 35b are vertically opposed and the lower disk 35a is fixed to the hair gripper 32, and the upper disk 35b is along the center axis of the lower disk 35a with respect to the lower disk 35a. It is slidably held up and down, and a lower disk 35a is held by a spring 36.
Is abutted against A rod 35 extending downward from the center of the upper disk 35b in the central axis direction.
The lower end of c is always in contact with the annular cam surface 37 formed on the upper surface of the main body of the hair supply unit 31 in accordance with the rotation of the hair gripper 32, so that the clamps 32a and 32b The hair H is firmly gripped at a position in front (that is, the position of the clamp portion 32b), and the other one of the clamp portions 32 is held.
In the position a, the hair H is loosely gripped so that the supplied hair H is kept in tension, and the hair H is opened to grip the hair H in a position rearward with respect to the head portion 22. It has become.

The hair supply rod 33 is moved in the thrust direction by the operation of the cylinder 38, and the two fork-shaped tips of the hair supply rod 33 respectively hook the hair H while the head portion of the head unit 21 is moved.
22 and reaches the position sandwiching the flocking position B,
Abuts the surface of the wig base attached to 22. Further, one or both of the hair supply rods 33 are telescopically constructed so as to be telescopic as shown in FIG. 2D, for example, and are held in an extended state by a spring or the like. Accordingly, when the two hair supply rods 33 come into contact with the wig base near the flocking position B, they can surely come into contact with the wig base. In FIG. 2 (B), reference numeral 300 denotes a cutting means comprising a burning iron or a cutter for cutting the hair H after the hair implantation.

Thus, the hair supply rod 33 supplies the hair H gripped by the clamps 32a, 32b of the hair gripper 32 by the operation of the cylinder 38 to the vicinity of the flocking position B of the head 22 of the head unit 21, which will be described later. So that the flocking unit 41 V
In conjunction with the flocking operation such as planting, bread single planting, single planting, etc., the hair H is transplanted to the flocking position B by operating the cylinder 39.
And constitute a part of the flocking operation.

The main body of the flocking unit 41 is fixedly arranged with respect to the frame 11, and the head portion 22 of the head unit 21 is
The flocked needle 42 is provided on a straight line P inclined with respect to the flocked position B. The flocking needle 42 is moved by a motor 43 to a crank 43
A large translation drive in the direction of the straight line P along the guide 43b through the guide a causes the motor to be brought from the retracted position to the vicinity of the flocking position, and to position the flocking needle 42 at an appropriate flocking position. In the direction of the horizontal axis Q by the motor 45, in the direction of the horizontal axis Q by the motor 45,
46, the R direction perpendicular to the P direction and the Q direction,
Are driven in translation in three axial directions. Further, the flocking needle 42 is configured to perform a predetermined flocking operation by being rotationally driven by the motor 47 in the axial direction, that is, around the straight line P.

The flocking needle 42 does not necessarily have to be provided on a straight line inclined with respect to the flocking position B of the head portion 22, and may be arranged, for example, along a horizontal axis. , Translational drive in three axial directions with respect to the central axis of the needle coinciding with the horizontal axis. Furthermore, the direction in which the flocking needle 42 is driven to translate is not limited to the triaxial direction. For example, the hair implantation operation may be performed by moving the head portion 22 up and down by the motor 25 without moving the hair implantation needle 42 up and down in the R direction. However, in the case of such a configuration, when the flocking needle 42 performs the flocking operation, the other head unit 21 and the bristle feeding unit 31 are also adjusted.

Next, a preferred example of the brushing unit 51 according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

The hair brushing unit 51 is constituted by a belt-shaped brush that is circulated and swingably supported as a means for aligning the already-planted hair. That is, as shown in an enlarged manner in FIG. 3, a substantially wedge-shaped guide body 52 is
The cylindrical tip 52a is supported below the flocking unit 41 so that the flocking needle 42 extends to a position beyond the flocking position B where the flocking operation is performed, and further behind the guide body 52. Is a roller 54 driven to rotate by a motor 53
A swing arm 55 having The swing arm 55 can be rotated by a cylinder 56 around a horizontal axis 55a so that the tip 52a of the guide body 52 can swing up and down, and the entire cylinder is horizontally moved in the longitudinal direction of the guide body 52.
57 allows it to be moved along a horizontal guide 58.

A belt-shaped brush 59 is wound around the guide body 52 and the roller 54 as shown in the figure. When the roller 54 rotates through the motor 53, the end of the guide body 52
It may be circularly driven to move from top to bottom as indicated by the arrow at 52a. At this time, in order to restrict the displacement of the brush 59 to the side, the swing arm 55 is provided with side guides 55b on both sides at the end thereof.

Preferably, in order to eliminate the slack of the brush 59, the guide body 52 is supported so as to be able to swing slightly in the longitudinal direction with respect to the swing arm 55, and is pressed in the direction of its tip by the spring 52b. As a result, the brush 59 can always be stretched. Further, if the tip of the guide body 52 is formed to be flexible along the convex curved surface of the head portion 22, the planted hair can be effectively aligned in a certain direction.

Thus, the hair removing unit 51 moves the tip of the guide body 52 by the operation of the cylinder 57 before the flocking operation of the flocking unit 41.
The head 52a is brought below the flocking position B where the flocking needle 42 performs the flocking operation below the flocking unit 41, and then the distal end 52a of the guide body 52 is swung downward by the operation of the cylinder 56 to thereby move the head 52a. The wig is brought into contact with the surface of a wig base (not shown) attached to the head portion 22 of the unit 21, and then the belt-like brush 59 is circulated and driven by the operation of the motor 53 under the tip 52 a of the guide 52. The hair already implanted in a certain wig base is pulled out to the front, brushed, and then the guide body 52 is retracted.

In addition, the hair brushing unit 51 may be constituted by a brush having a large number of comb hairs by the belt-shaped brush, in which case the comb hairs extend in the front-rear direction along the convex curved surface of the wig base. It is preferable to be configured to be driven. On the other hand, without using such a brush as the aligning means, a fan or blower capable of adjusting the air volume can be provided on the body of the hair transplanter, and the hair can be aligned in a certain direction by blowing air.

If the already planted hairs are aligned in a certain direction by such brushing or blowing, the hairs are continuously implanted without disturbing the next hair implantation operation. Will be able to do it.

The head unit 21, the hair feeding unit 31, the hair transplanting unit 41, and the hair brushing unit 51 described above are connected to a control device (not shown), and the control device operates the motor 34, Cylinder 38,
By controlling the motors 39 to 43 and the motors 43 to 47 of the flocking unit 41, for example, any one of V planting, single planting, pan single planting, and insertion planting based on the data of the flocking system input in advance to the controller. A hair transplant operation of a system is performed. By controlling the motors 23, 24, 25, and 26 of the head unit 21, the head portion 22 of the head unit 21 The wig base attached to the head section 22 of the head unit 21 is already planted near the flocking position by controlling the motor 53 and the cylinders 56 and 57 of the hair brushing unit 51. Pull out the set hair and align it.

The hair transplanter equipped with the hair removing unit according to the present invention is configured as described above, and the flocking operation is performed as follows.

First, before starting the flocking operation, the flocking data of the user or the flocking data of the wig corresponding to each flocking style, that is, the flocking position related to the wig base to be flocking and the flocking method at the flocking position (V planting, single planting, pan single Various methods such as planting) and data on the direction of hair flow are input to the control device in advance. Then, a wig base (not shown) to be implanted is set in the head section 22 of the head unit 21, and the hair H is set in the hair supply unit 31 from a hair supply section (not shown) as shown in the drawing. From this state, the flocking operation of the present wig flocking machine 10 is started.

First, the motors 23, 24, 25 and 26 of the head unit 21 are operated based on the data of the flocking position, respectively.
The head section 22 is rotated by a motor 23 around the X axis.
Is driven in the Z-axis direction by the motor 25 on the basis of a signal from the position sensor 27, and the arbitrary position to be implanted is height-adjusted on the Z-axis so that the implantation position is B and the entire motor 26
Is driven to rotate around the Z axis and set in an arbitrary direction. As a result, the wig base attached to the head portion 22 of the head unit 21 is brought in a desired direction at a flocking position B on the Z-axis at a desired flocking position.

Subsequently, when the cylinder 38 of the hair supply unit 31 is operated, the hair H in which the hair supply rod 33 is stretched between the clamp portions 32a and 32b is implanted into the head portion 22 by the fork-shaped point. Bring it near position B.

Simultaneously, by operating the motors 43 and 44 of the flocking unit 41, the flocking needle 42 is brought to the flocking position B, penetrates the wig base, and the needle tip is exposed to the surface. And
When the hair H stretched on the hair supply rod 33 is hooked on the hair implantation needle 42, the hair supply rod 33 is returned to the position shown in FIG.

Here, the motors 44, 45, 46, 47 of the flocking unit 41 and the cylinder 39 of the bristle feeding unit 31 are each operated according to a procedure programmed in advance based on the data of the flocking method, so that the flocking needle 42 is It is driven in translation in the P, Q, and R directions, and is pivotally driven about its axis P, and thus, at a predetermined flocking position of the wig base set on the head portion 22 of the head unit 21, a predetermined flocking method, that is, V The planting is performed in a predetermined planting direction by planting, single planting, bread single planting, or insertion planting.

After flocking, the cutting means 300 (see FIG. 2 (B))
The hair H implanted at a predetermined position on the wig base is cut near the crumb 32a of the hair gripping portion of the hair feeding unit 31, and the motor 34 of the hair feeding unit 31 is operated, so that the hair gripping portion 32 is moved to the arrow C. The clamp portion 32a is moved to the position of the illustrated clamp portion 32b, and the clamp portion 32b is moved to the position of the illustrated clamp portion 32a. Then, the hair H is pulled by the turning drive, whereby the hair H is stretched between the clamp portions 32b and 32a.

Lastly, by operating the cylinders 56 and 57 of the hair brushing unit 51, the tip of the brush 59 of the hair brushing unit 51 is implanted next to the wig base attached to the head section 22 of the head unit 21. The brush 59 is brought to a position beyond the expected position and is brought into contact with the surface of the wig base, and the brush 59 is circulated in the direction of the arrow (see FIG. 3 (B)) by the rotation of the motor 53 so that the tip of the brush 59 The already planted hair underneath is pulled forward.

In this manner, one flocking operation is completed, and the above operation is performed again based on the next flocking data. Thus, the head portion of the head unit 21 is repeated by repeating the flocking operation.
Wig base flocking set at 22 is completed.

It should be noted that the respective units such as the head unit, the flocking unit and the hair feeding unit are not limited to those described above, and it is obvious that various units can be applied.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, according to the hair removing unit according to the present invention, the hair already implanted in the wig base is aligned in a certain direction by brushing before this hair transplanting operation so as not to disturb the next hair transplanting operation. Will be done.

Therefore, the hair transplanting operation is sequentially performed based on the data of the predetermined input flocking position and the flocking method without the hair being planted covering the flocking position or being wound around the flocking needle or the like and causing a failure. V in place on the wig base
This can be performed automatically and continuously by a predetermined flocking method such as planting, single planting, bread single planting, or insertion planting.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic side view showing an embodiment of a wig hair transplanter provided with a hair brushing unit according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is an enlarged view showing details of a hair feeding unit in the embodiment of FIG.
(A) is a plan view, (B) is a side view, (C) is a perspective view of a hair supply rod, (D) is a schematic cross-sectional view of the hair supply rod, and FIG. 3 is a hair brush in the embodiment of FIG. The details of the unit are shown in an enlarged manner, wherein (A) is a plan view and (B) is a side view. 10… wig flocking machine; 11… frame; 21… head unit; 22… head unit; 23, 24… motor; 25… cylinder… 26 motor… 27… position sensor unit; … Hair supply unit; 32… hair gripping part; 32a, 32b… clamp part; 33… hair supply rod; 34… motor; 35a, 35b…
Disc; 35c …… Rod; 36 …… Spring; 37 …… Cam surface; 38,39…
... Cylinder; 41 ... flocking unit; 42 ... flocking needle; 43, 44, 45, 46, 47 ...
Motor; 51… Hair removal unit; 52… Guide body; 53… Motor; 5
4 ... Roller; 55 ... Swing arm; 56,57 ... Cylinder; 58
…… Horizontal guide; 59 …… A belt-like brush.

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Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A head unit having a head portion for fixing and holding a wig base, a hair feeding unit for feeding hair to a position of the wig base fixed and held on the head portion to be implanted, and a hair feeding unit for supplying the hair In a wig flocking machine having a flocking unit having a flocking needle for grafting the set hair to a predetermined position on a wig base, and a control unit for controlling each of these units according to a pre-programmed procedure, A hair aligning means for pulling out the hair implanted by the belt-like brush supported as possible to the near side, and when the hair implantation needle of the hair implantation unit performs the hair implantation operation, near the hair implantation position at that time. The hair which has been already planted is arranged in a predetermined direction so as not to hinder the next hair implantation, Payment unit.