Hair oil applicator

Claim 1

An applicator for guiding a heated treating material to the person of the user, comprising: an elongated hollow body member generally circular in cross-section throughout its length; a handle portion fixed to said body member; container means defining a chamber for confining the treating material, said container means composed of heat conducting material to permit the material to be heated in said chamber; up to four hollow tube-like teeth being connected in fluid communication with the interior of said container means in a widely spaced apart manner by more than twice the thickness of one of said teeth and depending from said body member terminating in an opposite open distal end for flowing the heated material from said container means through the hollow interior of said tooth and out its open distal end, said container means having an open mouth at the top side thereof, said hollow body includes means defining an access opening therein opposite said mouth of said container means for permitting access to the container means so that the material can be inserted through said access opening and said open mouth into said container means, a door being movably mounted on said body portion to move between an open position and a closed position over said access opening; electrical heating means mounted in said body member for heating said container means, said heating means including resistance heating wires positioned in engagement with the outer walls of said container means, said outer walls being composed of metal material, said hollow body member being composed of plastic material; said container means having a slidably mounted bottom wall, said wall including holes extending therethrough corresponding to said teeth, said wall being slidable laterally to move said holes out of axial alignment with the teeth to retain the material in said container means and to move said holes into axial alignment with the teeth to permit the material to flow from said container means through said holes and into the hollow interiors of said teeth; said slidably mounted wall including a pull member fixed to it externally of said body member; and said slidably mounted wall including a single stop member removably fixed thereto externally to said body member and adapted to be removed to free said slidably mounted wall from said hollow body member.