Apparatus and methods for maintaining an equal length for sideburns

Abstract

A sideburn guard device for maintaining a substantially equal length for each sideburn of a user. The device comprising a support member that may be mounted on the head of a user. The support member may engage with two housings, which may adjusted up and down so as to cover an optimum amount of each sideburn. At their ends, the housings may have sideburn covering members. The housings may also have windows capable of indicating the various lengths that the sideburn covering members may be adjusted to cover the sideburns. The support member may have setting indictors visible from the front end of the sideburn guard device.

1 . A sideburn guard device, comprising:
 a support member adapted to be mounted on and dismounted from a portion of the head of the user, the support member having two opposite end portions, each of the opposite end portions having a plurality of detents and being associated with a plurality of indicators;   two housings, each having a distal and proximal end, the housings adjustably engaged with the support member, wherein opposite end portions of the support member slide through the proximal end and in to and out of interior portions of the two housings, whereby the two housings traverse to and from the support member;   each housing including a spring arm adapted to engage and disengage the plurality of detents as the opposite end portions of the support member slide through the proximal end and in to and out of the interior portions of the two housings;   each housing obscuring a plurality of indicators when the opposite end portions of the support members are fully inserted within the interior portions of the two housings, and exposing the plurality of indicators, seriatum, as the housing is slidably moved away from the fully inserted position; and   each of the two housings further comprising a sideburn cover at its distal end, the two sideburn covers being substantially equally positioned on the sideburn guard device when an equal number of the plurality of indicators is visible from in front of a user when the user has the sideburn device mounted his head.   
     
     
         2 . The device of  claim 1 , wherein each housing makes an audible clicking sound as the opposite end portions of the support member slide through the proximal end and in to and out of the interior portions of the two housings. 
     
     
         3 . A sideburn guard device, comprising:
 a support member adapted to be mounted on and dismounted from a portion of the head of the user, the support member having two opposite end portions, each of the opposite end portions having a plurality of detents and being associated with a plurality of indicators;   two housings, each having a distal and proximal end, the housings adjustably engaged with the support member, wherein opposite end portions of the support member slide through the proximal end and in to and out of interior portions of the two housings, whereby the two housings traverse to and from the support member,   each housing including a spring arm adapted to engage and disengage the plurality of detents as the opposite end portions of the support member slide through the proximal end and in to and out of the interior portions of the two housings;   each housing revealing at least one specific indicator of a plurality of indicators when the opposite end portions of the support members are fully inserted within the interior portions of the two housings, and exposing at least one other specific indicator of the plurality of indicators, as the housing is slidably moved away from the fully inserted position; and   each of the two housings further comprising a sideburn cover at its distal end, the two sideburn covers being substantially equally positioned on the sideburn guard device when an equal number of the plurality of indicators is visible from in front of a user when the user has the sideburn device mounted his head.   
     
     
         4 . The device of  claim 3 , further comprising:
 widows on exterior surfaces of the two housings, wherein partial portions of the support member are visible via the window.   
     
     
         5 . The device of  claim 4 , further comprising:
 a first widow on an exterior surface of the first housing, wherein the first rod is visible via the first window; and   a second widow on an exterior surface of the second housing, wherein the second rod is visible via the second window.   
     
     
         6 . The device of  claim 5 , further comprising:
 indicators on the partial portions of the support member, wherein a subgroup of the indicators are visible via the window.   
     
     
         7 . The device of  claim 1 , wherein the indicators are numerical markings. 
     
     
         8 . The device of  claim 1 , wherein the indicators are colored markings. 
     
     
         9 . The device of  claim 1 , wherein the support member is made of polyacetal material. 
     
     
         10 . The device of  claim 1 , wherein the housings are made of polyacetal material. 
     
     
         11 . The device of  claim 3 , wherein the indicators are numerical markings. 
     
     
         12 . The device of  claim 3 , wherein the indicators are colored markings. 
     
     
         13 . The device of  claim 3 , wherein the support member is made of polyacetal material. 
     
     
         14 . The device of  claim 3 , wherein the housings are made of polyacetal material. 
     
     
         15 . A method for maintaining sideburns, comprising the steps of:
 mounting an sideburn guard device on the head of a user, wherein the sideburn guard device comprises a support member adjustably engaged with a first housing and second housing, the first and second housings each having sideburn covering members, wherein the position of each such housing with respect to the support member is associated with an indicator;   determining an optimum length for each sideburn of the user, wherein the optimum length for each sideburn is approximately equal;   adjusting the first housing so that the sideburn covering member covers the optimum length of the sideburn;   viewing in a mirror the indicator associated with the position of the first housing with respect to the support member;   adjusting the second housing using the mirror such that the indicator associated with the position of the second housing with respect to the support member shows that the first housing and the second housing are in the same relative position with respect to the support member; and   cutting the exposed portion of the sideburns.   
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 15 , wherein adjustment of each housing produces a sound notification.