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US 2004/0163257 A1Published application
Dry shaver with a cradle shaving head
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
InventorsKazhuiro Morisugi, Masanobu Yamasaki
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Abstract
A dry shaver has a shaving head and a trimmer unit both movably supported to a hand grip. The shaving head includes a drive element for driving a cutter for shaving. The trimmer unit has a cutter which is connected to the drive element for trimming. A mechanism is provided to interlock the trimmer unit and the shaving head for holding the shaving head in a fixed position relative to the hand grip when the trimmer is in the operative position.
Claims9
A dry shaver with a trimmer, said shaver comprising:
- a hand grip;
- a shaving head mounted on top of said hand grip to be movable relative thereto, said shaving head including a cutter, a motor and a drive element which transmits a motion of the motor to said cutter for shaving,
- a trimmer unit mounted on the side of said hand grip to be movable relative thereto between a rest position and an operative position, said trimmer unit having a trimming cutter which is drivingly connected with said drive element to be driven thereby for trimming only when said trimmer unit is in the operative position,
- wherein lock means is provided to interlock said trimmer unit and said shaving head for holding said shaving head in a fixed position relative to said hand grip when said trimmer is in said operative position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.