Catalytic support for a curling device

Claim 1

In a hand-held curling device having a tubular body defining a heating chamber therein and having first and second ends and a hair winding portion disposed between the first and second ends and surrounding the heating chamber, an ignition means disposed in the tubular body proximate the second end, a housing mounted proximate the tubular body including a fuel supply means for storing a fuel in a liquid state, and aspirating means coupled between the fuel supply means and the heating chamber for vaporizing the fuel and for mixing the vaporized fuel with air, the improvement comprising: an inner member positioned coextensive with the tubular body having an air-pervious portion and an end portion, said end portion being substantially air-impervious and including an aperture proximate the ignition means, said end portion diverting most of the vaporized fuel/air mixture through said air-pervious portion of said inner member; an outer member, positioned coextensively with the tubular body and concentrically disposed about said inner member, said outer member having an air-pervious portion; and a catalytic substrate disposed between said air-pervious portions of said inner and outer members.