The Bindi Holder

a simple patented device to facilitate wearing of decorative, spiritual, and healing bindi elements on the third-eye chakra

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⚠️ ANY MAKING, USING, OR SELLING OF EYEWEAR OR HEADWEAR
THAT SIMPLY SUPPORTS BINDI-LIKE ELEMENTS
COULD BE AN ACT OF INFRINGEMENT
OF ONE OR MORE PATENTS OF THE BINDU® PATENT FAMILY.

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The Patents

Patents valid in several countries of the world.

Patent Family

Bindu^® IP comprises a positive PCT, a granted European Patent, and multiple national patents, a majority of them granted.

Property & Authorship

Patents and patent rights associated to the invention are owned by Taurum Technologies SL. Sole inventor is Mr. Sáenz Löbsack.

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Abstract

The invention relates to a forehead bindi-holding device (BH) for holding at least one bindi (BI) and configured to be arranged on a supporting object (SO) worn by a user (US), such that, when the user wears the supporting object (SO) with the forehead bindi-holding device (BH), the at least one bindi (BI) is on a desired specific spot of the user’s forehead; the forehead bindi-holding device (BH) comprising: one or more cups (CU) each of them supporting, holding and containing each of the one or more bindis (BI); one cups-holder (CH) to support the one or more cups (CU); one stem element (ST) to support the cups-holder (CH) at the upper end of the stem element (ST); one attachment unit (AU) for attaching the lower end of the stem element (ST) to the supporting object (SO).

Introduction

The present invention relates to a forehead bindi-holding device created to facilitate, improve and enrichen the experience of wearing bindis.

Bindis (from Sanskrit word ‘bindu’, meaning ‘drop’ or ‘spot’) are generally defined as simple small decorative marks or elements that many people (principally women from Meridional and Southeast Asia) carry on a precise horizontally-centered point of their foreheads (on the position of the so called ‘third eye’). People wear bindis for different often-mixed reasons: to beautify themselves, to socially-identify themselves, or to try to positively influence themselves (or their surrounding environment) in aspects such as health, wellbeing, spirituality, intellectual capacity, physical performance, and luck.

Disadvantges of current systems

A wide majority of users of bindis stick them directly on the approximate center of the skin of their foreheads via some kind of adhesive material. This system implies quite many inconveniencies, namely:

noxiousness of materials used to adhere the bindi to the skin (e.g. causing dermatoses);

risk of skin damage when the bindis (or their remains) are removed;

uncomfortable cleaning of remnants of adhesive material from the skin after removing the bindi;

high risk of displacement, deterioration, or loss (even unnoticed) of the bindi, when it is worn, put on or removed, or as a consequence of deficiencies in its fixation, especially with changes of ambient temperature or with the sweating of the user’s forehead;

significant risk of damage of the bindis after only one usage, circumstance that forces a majority of bindis to be disposable and of very low quality;

bindis’ enormous limitation in the variety of shapes (generally flat), of weights (generally minimal) and of economic/emotional value (generally negligible);

difficulty in placing and maintaining the position of the bindis at a precise point of the forehead, a location that may vary with the physical characteristics and functions of the bindi and that depends greatly on the specific morphology of the body of the user (disposition and shape of eyes, nose, eyebrows, forehead) and the specific desires of the user;

cumbersome repetitiveness of the daily efforts to accurately place and wear the bindis;

involuntary variability of the exact positioning of the bindi due to lack of sufficient hand skills or other physical impairments;

risk of inconvenient or unhealthy staining the hands with the materials of the bindi;

impossibility or strong limitations to carry bindis that, due to their specific functions, must always be worn in real or apparent contact with the skin, or at an exact distance from it;

impossibility or strong limitations to carry bindis that should be worn not facing the exterior of the forehead’s skin (‘external bindis’) but oriented towards the inside of the body touching or almost-touching the forehead skin (‘internal bindis’);

impossibility or considerable limitations to carry more than one bindi at a time, e.g. when the user desires to simultaneously wear a pair of bindis, one external and one internal.

Advantages of the invention

The device object of the present invention allows the user many advantages, such as the ones described below: :

to place and wear one or more bindis, or auxiliary elements to them, for as long as wanted, on a specific spot of the center of the forehead;

to carry, put on and take off bindis, in a quick and easy way, with nil or minimal risk of loss, damage and soiling of the bindis;

to carry, put on and take off bindis without worrying about damages on the skin and without having to clean the skin from bindi-gluing remains;

to significantly amplify the range of possible bindis to wear, extending it for example to all those bindis (such as jewels and curative gems) that do not present a flat form or that do not have an insignificant weight or that do have a much higher economical or emotional value than that of commonly used bindis;

to voluntarily adjust the exact tridimensional position of bindis in relation to the forehead, this is, not only regarding vertical and horizontal dimensions on the surface of the forehead, but also regarding the precise distance separating a bindi from the forehead skin (distance that may be nil, apparently nil, or established in a concrete minimal distance), as well as regarding the orientation (degrees of inclination) of a bindi relative to the surface of the forehead skin;

to carry, put on and take off bindis with nil or minimal risk of modifying or losing the configuration of their exact location and orientation on the forehead, which is very particular and specific to each user;

to carry, put on and take off bindis without the need of touching the bindi with the hands;

to wear interchangeable bindis (easily mountable and dismountable);

to wear a bindi in direct contact and minimal continuous pressure with the forehead skin or at an exact distance from it;

to wear external bindis that can fully or almost-fully hide a simultaneously-worn internal bindi;

to adjust position of bindis via gradual incrementation systems;

to be able to adjust the position and orientation of bindis relative to different inclinations of surfaces of potentially-bindi-holding supporting objects also worn on the user’s head.

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patentable,
novel,
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industrially applicable, and
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patentable subject-matter (must present concrete and technical character, in any field of technology),
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