US20120205949A1

US20120205949A1 - Salon technician seat stool

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Publication number: US20120205949A1
Application number: US12/931,980
Authority: US
Inventors: Quoc Nguyen
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2011-02-16
Filing date: 2011-02-16
Publication date: 2012-08-16

Abstract

A seat stool including a top surface and a plurality of legs supporting a bottom surface which terminate in a caster or wheel roller assembly for easy moving about, with open side compartments for storing bottles of nail polish, nail polish remover, alcohol and acetone, for example, as employed in pedicure and hand/nail administrations, and with a pull-out drawer for storing files, clippers, cuticle cutters, cotton balls and permastone implements employed in such administrations, and being constructed of a strength for characteristic fabrication to support a salon nail technician sitting on the top surface in administering to a client.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED. APPLICATIONS

None.

STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT

Research and development of this invention and Application have not been federally sponsored, and no rights are given under any Federal program.

REFERENCE TO A MICROFICHE APPENDIX

Not applicable

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to foot stools, in general, and to a seat stool suitable for use by a salon technician carrying on foot or hand/nail treatment administrations, in particular.
2. Description of the Related Art
During typical foot treatment procedures administered by nail technicians (such as pedicures or the trimming of toenails), it is typical for the person administering the treatment to sit on a stool while working. As will be appreciated by those knowledgeable in the art of these administrations, the various implements that are employed are laid out on an adjacent table to be reached for when necessary. Depending on their placement, the technician frequently has to rise from the stool to reach what is needed—whether it be for a file, a clipper, a cuticle cutter, permastones, nail polish and its removers, alcohol, acetone, cotton balls, and similar such items—and to then sit back down, shuffling about to get into position to do the actual foot treatment process. Getting up and down in these manners is an inconvenience, at best, and a hardship on technicians with back problems, at worst.

OBJECTS OF THE PRESENT INVENTION

It is an object of the present invention, therefore, to provide a new and improved type of nail technician seat stool configured to allow storage of all these components in the seat stool itself.
It is an object of the present invention, also, to provide a mobile seat stool, which allows the technician to easily place himself/herself in the best and most comfortable position to work on these foot treatments while substantially always remaining seated.
It is a further object of the invention to provide a combined seat stool and cabinet including holding racks and/or drawers that are manually movable into and out of the seat stool through openings on one or both sides of the seat stool.
It is yet another object of the invention to provide this combination seat stool and cabinet in a manner that is simple and practical in construction, neat and attractive in appearance, inexpensive to manufacture, and well suited for the purposes involved.
It is an additional object of the invention to provide such a stool for the nail technician to use in hand/nail treatment administrations as well as in pedicure, foot administrations.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

As will become clear from the following description, the present invention is generally directed to a seat stool including a plurality of legs supporting its base which terminate in wheels or casters for an easy moving about. With a preferred embodiment comprising three such legs spaced at 120° intervals at the underside, a pair of pen storage compartments are provided at opposing sides of the stool, slotted to receive bottles of such liquids as are used in a foot or hand/nail treatment process. In accordance with the invention, an additional drawer is further provided along with the storage compartments for opening and closing to access and store those other items that are typically utilized in pedicure and other foot workups.
With sufficient surface area at the top for the technician to sit upon, a combined seat stool and cabinet results where the technician is able to rotate and glide about—from left-to-right and from front-to-back—in administering to a customer or client seated on any design of salon chair provided with a footrest support.
And, just by modifying the length of the supporting legs, the seat stool can be used by any technician working on a client's nails at a salon table workstation.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

These and other features of the present invention will be more clearly understood from a consideration of the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying Drawings, in which:

FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate perspective views of a salon technician seat stool constructed in accordance with the teachings of the invention, helpful in an understanding of its features and benefits;

FIG. 3 is a front view of the seat stool of FIGS. 1 and 2 with its storage drawer removed; and

FIGS. 4 and 5 are sectional views of the technician seat stool of FIGS. 1 and 2.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The seat stool of the Drawings is generally in the form of a drum table 10 having front and back surfaces 12, 14, a drawer in the front surface 12, and a pair of open storage compartments 18, 20 in opposing surfaces 22, 24: The seat stool has a top surface 26 on which the foot or hand/nail technician sits, and a bottom surface 28 from which a plurality of legs 30 (in this case, three legs), preferably spaced at 120° intervals downwardly extend. Each leg 30 is shown terminating with individual casters 32 (either of an industrial or furniture nature), although any appropriate type of roller wheel may be employed instead.
As shown in FIG. 1, the storage compartment 18 includes a base 34, configured with a series of slots 36 to receive bottles of nail polish, nail polish remover, acetone, alcohol, as used in foot and hand/nail treatment operations. The storage compartment 20 is similarly shown with its own base 40 and slots 42, in which two such bottles 44, 46 are fitted. Reference numeral 38 represents a removed bottle being reinserted into one of the slots 36 in the base 34.
FIG. 1—and more particularly FIG. 2—depicts the seat stool with the drawer 16 between the storage compartments 18, 20, fully depressed to be pulled out from the stool so as to access whatever instruments may be stored there as needed for the foot or hand/nail treatment procedures. A “pull” 48 is shown for the drawer 16, which instead of just being in the form of drawer for general storage as in FIG. 2, may instead be laid out with individual sectionalized compartments in forming a rack to separate each instrument rather than just having them stored one atop the other. As illustrated in FIG. 5, a similar drawer 50 with its own “pull” 52 may be further included in the back surface 14 of the table 10.
In this respect, FIG. 3 is an elevational view of the chair showing the compartments 18, 20 where the bottles would be inserted. FIG. 4 is a sectional view in this regard along the lines 4-4 of FIG. 1 through the storage compartments 18 and 20. FIG. 5 is a similar section view to illustrate the drawer 16 along the lines 5-5 of FIG. 1.
A construction which is neat and attractive in appearance, inexpensive to fabricate and suited for the purposes involved, the table 10 constituting the seat stool is of a strength characteristic to fabricate in supporting the salon nail technician to seat thereon with the height of the table between its top and bottom surfaces 26, 28 and the length of the legs 30 being adapted for the technician to adjust to a pedicure client's leg supported on a pedicure chair's footrest or to the client's hands and nails at a nail salon table workstation. To facilitate movement, the caster and wheel roller assembly 32 is of a construction to facilitate a rotation of the seat stool table and an easy gliding about in its use.
So as to satisfy these preferred benefits, the drawer 16 is of depth, width and height dimensions for storing the files, clippers, cuticle cutters, cotton balls, permastones and like instruments employed in a pedicure or hand/nail administration. The storage compartments 16, 18, therefore, are of depth, width and height dimensions for storing the individual bottles of polish, nail polish remover, alcohol and acetone conventionally employed in the pedicure nail administrations. The height of the storage compartments are selected so that with their slotted bases, individual ones of these bottles could then stand in an upright orientation. A fiberglass manufacture for the stool table 10 and its components would then meet the required criteria.
While there has been described what is considered to be a preferred embodiment of the present invention, it will be readily appreciated by those skilled in the art that modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the teachings herein. For at least such reason, therefore, resort should be had to the claims appended hereto for a true

Claims

1. A seat stool comprising:

a top surface, a bottom surface, a plurality of legs downwardly extending from said bottom surface, one of a caster and wheel roller assembly secured at a lower extremity of each of said legs, opposing front and back surfaces, opposing side surfaces, and at least one open storage compartment in at least one of said side surfaces;

with said caster and wheel roller assembly being of a construction to facilitate at least one of a rotation of said stool and a gliding thereof; and

with said stool being of a strength characteristic fabrication to support a salon nail technician to sit thereupon, and with a height of said stool between said top and bottom surfaces and a length of said legs adapted for the technician to administer to a pedicure client's feet with the client's leg supported by a pedicure chair footrest or to a client's hands and nails at a salon table workstation.

2. The seat stool of claim 1, also including a pull-out drawer in at least one of said front and back surfaces of said stool.

3. The seat stool of claim 2 wherein said drawer is of depth, width and height dimensions for storing files, clippers, cuticle cutters, cotton balls and permastones employed in pedicure nail administrations.

4. The seat stool of claim 3 wherein said open storage compartment is of depth, width and height dimension for storing individual bottles of nail polish, nail polish remover, alcohol and acetone employed in pedicure and hand/nail administrations.

5. The seat stool of claim 4, including an individual storage compartment within each of said side surfaces, with each storage compartment having a slotted base for receiving individual bottles of nail polish, nail polish remover, alcohol and acetone standing in an upright orientation.

6. The seat stool of claim 5 wherein three legs downwardly extend from said bottom surface of said stool, spaced apart one from another at 120° angle intervals about said bottom surface.

7. The seat stool of claim 6 wherein said stool is constructed of fiberglass.