Nose hair trimmer

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Two electric nose hair trimmers of different designs

A nose hair trimmer , also known as a nose hair trimmer or a nose hair razor , is a handy mechanical or electromechanical device that can be used to remove bothersome nose hair and hair in the area of ​​the ear or eyebrows . Beards can also be trimmed, and there are also special beard trimmers or trimmers on razors or as independent devices.

Designs

There are mechanical models in which a knife is set in rotation or oscillation by rotating a part or by pressing a spring-loaded handle. To protect the nose, the knife is in a cage with regular openings.

In the electromechanical models, a small motor powered by batteries or accumulators drives the rotating knife. There are designs in which the rotor is located in a cage with openings. The other design, in which a shaving comb moves back and forth, can lead to injuries if handled carelessly.

history

Manual nose hair trimmer DOVO Klipette

The first nose hair trimmer, the Klipette , was created around 1935 in the US state of New Jersey by an inventor named Clark. The commercial breakthrough was initially denied for the product, so Clark had to sell his company. The buyer was a customer of masseuse Elsa Bauml, a niece of US Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau . She and her Jewish husband had fled Germany in 1938, whose family owned a bookstore that Richard Wagner had already been a customer. The customer offered the Baumls the company for a purchase of 1200 US dollars, which they paid in 12 monthly installments.

The Baumls marketed the klipette through advertisements in magazines such as National Geographic and Parade, which warned that pulling out nasal hairs could cause fatal infection . In addition, they sold the product wholesale to various Frisöraustatter.

It took a relatively long time before there were competitors. One of them, PHR Systems, developed the Groom Mate in 1989, a relatively exact copy of the original. This became legally possible because the patent for the Klipette had expired. In Germany, the protection of the Klipette word mark from 1970 was extended by 10 years on February 24, 1990. With the end of the New York company Hollis Co. in early 2001, the word mark Klipette also ended.

In Germany, a product called Klipette is now being sold by DOVO Solingen ; competing products, for example, come from Zwilling JA Henckels . The battery-powered version is now also produced by large electronics companies such as. z. B. Panasonic, Philips or Remington.

reception

Ever since the German comedian Wigald Boning saw a nose hair trimmer on board a Delta Air plane on his first flight to the USA in 1991 that could be bought in the duty-free shop, he has been collecting nose hair trimmers in their original packaging.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ helpfull.de: Nose hair razor - handy helper for men . Retrieved May 22, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b c d Gersh Kuntzman: Out from under our noses . Salon.com, January 5, 2001, accessed May 27, 2012.
  3. ↑ flickr.com: death by nose hair plucking . Retrieved May 27, 2012.
  4. ↑ register information of the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA): Registration number: 877817 , accessed on 27 May 2012 found.
  5. ↑ herrenzimmer.de: Wigald Boning ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.herrenzimmer.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 5, 2011, accessed May 22, 2012.
  6. ↑ Hella von Sinnen , Cornelia Scheel : Des Wahnsinns fat booty. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2011, ISBN 9783499627637 , p. 418 f.