Manicure Device

Abstract

A manicure device including a base having a palm rest, digit rests, fingertip rests and nail rests. Each nail rest includes a nail support having a three-dimensional concavity including a vertical curve for receiving a front curve of a user's nail and a horizontal curve for receiving a top curve of a user's nail. The nail support can further include a pair of lateral nail coating shields extending from the three-dimensional concavity, whereby the three-dimensional concavity and the pair of nail coating shields substantially isolate a user's nail plate. The device may also include a nail coating composition bottle holder for adjustably positioning a nail coating composition bottle. Additionally, the device may include supports provided along a juncture of an upper surface of the base and walls of the base for comfortably yet stably supporting a user's hand that is doing the polishing for optimum precision while polishing.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A nail rest comprising:
 a base; and   a nail support atop the base including a three-dimensional concavity having a vertical curve for receiving a front curve of a user's nail and a horizontal curve for receiving a top curve of a user's nail.   
     
     
         2 . The nail rest of  claim 1 , wherein the nail support further comprises a pair of lateral nail coating shields extending from the three-dimensional concavity, whereby the three-dimensional concavity and the pair of nail coating shields substantially isolate a nail plate of a user's nail when a user's nail is received therein. 
     
     
         3 . The nail rest of  claim 2 , wherein the nail support further comprises:
 a second three-dimensional concavity having a vertical curve for receiving the front curve of a user's nail and a horizontal curve for receiving the top curve of a user's nail; and   a second pair of lateral nail coating shields extending from the second three-dimensional concavity, whereby the second three-dimensional concavity and the second pair of nail coating shields substantially isolate a nail plate of a user's nail.   
     
     
         4 . The nail rest of  claim 3 , wherein the pair of nail coating shields has a first length and the second pair of nail coating shields has a second length longer than the first length. 
     
     
         5 . The nail rest of  claim 2 , wherein, for a selected spacing between the pair of lateral nail coating shields, the three-dimensional concavity can have a plurality of relative curvatures for the vertical curve. 
     
     
         6 . The nail rest of  claim 2 , wherein, for a selected spacing between the pair of lateral nail coating shields, the three-dimensional concavity can have a plurality of relative curvatures for the horizontal curve. 
     
     
         7 . The nail rest of  claim 2 , wherein, for a selected spacing between the pair of lateral nail coating shields, the three-dimensional concavity can have a plurality of relative curvatures for the vertical curve and a plurality of relative curvatures for the horizontal curve. 
     
     
         8 . The nail rest of  claim 1 , wherein a spacing between the pair of lateral nail coating shields is selected to accommodate a width of a nail to be inserted therebetween. 
     
     
         9 . A device for use in applying nail coating composition to a nail comprising:
 a base; and   the nail rest according to  claim 1 .   
     
     
         10 . The device of  claim 9 , wherein the nail rest is removably received in the base of the device. 
     
     
         11 . The device of  claim 9 , wherein the nail rest is reversibly received in the base of the device. 
     
     
         12 . The device of  claim 9 , wherein the base of the device comprises a plurality of sockets for releasably receiving bases of a plurality of nail rests. 
     
     
         13 . The device of  claim 9 , wherein an upper surface of the base of the device slopes upwardly from a fore end to an aft end of the base of the device. 
     
     
         14 . The device of  claim 9 , wherein an upper surface of the base of the device comprises a palm rest. 
     
     
         15 . The device of  claim 9 , further comprising upwardly sloped supports provided along a juncture of an upper surface and a wall of the base of the device. 
     
     
         16 . The device of  claim 9 , further comprising a nail coating composition bottle holder carried by the base of the device. 
     
     
         17 . The device of  claim 9 , wherein the base of the device comprises a socket for receiving a nail coating composition bottle holder. 
     
     
         18 . The device of  claim 9 , wherein the base of the device includes a plurality of digit rests. 
     
     
         19 . The device of  claim 9 , wherein the base of the device includes a plurality of fingertip rests. 
     
     
         20 . The device of  claim 9 , wherein the base of the device includes a plurality of integral digit and fingertip rests. 
     
     
         21 . A nail coating composition bottle holder comprising opposed walls each of which carry a plurality of opposed resilient fingers for frictionally engaging a nail coating composition bottle. 
     
     
         22 . The nail coating composition bottle holder of  claim 21 , wherein the nail coating composition bottle holder is formed from resilient material. 
     
     
         23 . The nail coating composition bottle holder of  claim 21 , wherein the nail coating composition bottle holder has a non-circular periphery. 
     
     
         24 . The nail coating composition bottle holder of  claim 21 , wherein east-west ends of the opposed walls of the nail coating composition bottle holder, as well as an arrangement of the resilient fingers carried thereby, slope downwardly relative to the centers of the opposed walls.