Electric hair dryer with spray

Claim 1

An electric hair dryer apparatus comprising: a dryer unit including a pistol shaped body having a barrel portion and a handle portion disposed at an angle to said barrel portion, said body consisting of two half members that are separable from each other along a longitudinal plane of said body, said body having an air inlet and a hot-air outlet with said hot-air outlet being at the end of said barrel, an air blowing fan and a motor for driving said fan both contained within said body, an electric heater means mounted adjacent said hot-air outlet, trigger means on said handle portion for operating said fan motor and heater to effect the discharge of hot air from said outlet, a spray unit having a pistol like configuration, said spray unit including a fluid reservoir tank, pump means and a spray nozzle disposed above said tank and respectively forming a barrel portion of said configuration, lever means for operating said pump means to cause fluid in the tank to be discharged from said nozzle and forming a handle portion of said configuration, a mouthpiece removably coupling the barrel portions of said spray and dryer units with the barrel and handle portions of said spray unit in closely adjacent relation to the respective barrel and handle portions of said dryer unit, said spray unit lever means being located immediately adjacent said dryer unit trigger means, said lever means and trigger means being on a common side of said dryer unit handle portion, said sprayer unit nozzle and dryer unit outlet causing fluid spray and hot air respectively to be emitted from said apparatus in a common direction, and said dryer unit body being formed with a pawl for resiliently engaging and supporting said reservoir tank in operative relation below said spray unit nozzle and pump means, and said tank being selectively removeable from said spray unit without uncoupling said dryer unit and said spray unit from said mouthpiece.