1. A multi-functional folding tool comprising:
an enclosure;
a plurality of retrievable parts each pivotally attached at one end to said enclosure, wherein some of said retrievable parts when unfolded to extend to outside said enclosure, form together with the attached enclosure, various combinatorial objects;
wherein at least some of the retrievable parts are shaped so as to also serve as useful utensils, each of said useful utensils defining a tool from a list comprising a knife, a letter opener, a nail file, a screwdriver, a wine bottle opener, a beer bottle opener, and a magnifying glass;
wherein said retrievable parts resemble animal limbs, heads and tails such that, combinatorial objects resembling animal figurines are formed out of said unfolded parts; and
wherein same retrievable parts serve as limbs of different animal figurines.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
What is claimed is:
1. Collapsible Hair Brush comprising:
a brush retaining housing;
said housing being open on one end
a bristle holding plate and attached bristles;
said bristle holding plate capable of sliding into said housing and out to the said open end of said housing;
a bristle plate end block having an outwardly protruding stop pin that interacts with a longitudinally disposed slot in one side of said inner brush retaining housing;
said bristles each being comprised of a shaft member whose bottom portion terminates in a spring retaining shoulder and integral downwardly disposed flexible shaft member;
an extension spring surrounding each said downward shaft; and
said downward shaft penetrating said bristle holding plate and being retained by said bristle holding plate by passing said downward shaft through an aperture in said bristle holding plate and deforming said downward post tip into a head that is larger than the aperture in said bristle holding plate.
2. Collapsible Hair Brush as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a spring member such as latex tubing or the like that is stretched on the outside of said brush retaining housing and attached at both ends to said housing and engaged with said outwardly protruding stop pin so that said spring causes said bristle holding plate and attached bristles to pop out of the end of said brush retaining housing;
said end block having a spring plunger ball that can interact with an aperture in said housing to releasably retain said bristle plate within said housing until the user presses on said ball to release it from said aperture causing said bristle plate to pop out of said housing.
3. Collapsible Hair Brush as claimed in claim 1 further comprising an outer housing that encloses said brush holding housing that also covers said spring member.