Shaving apparatus
AssigneeHybrid Razor LTD
InventorsShai BRENNER, Shoam ZAK
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Abstract
A shaving apparatus having a head portion intended for contact with a skin surface to cut hairs growing therefrom. The head portion may include a cylindrical screen and a cutting component located within a cavity defined by the cylindrical screen. The cylindrical screen includes a plurality of openings so that a user's hairs can pass therethrough to be cut by blades of the cutting component. The cylindrical screen may be rotatable about a rotational axis so that as the cylindrical screen is placed into contact with a skin surface and moved therealong, the cylindrical screen is made to rotate about the rotational axis. The shaving apparatus may include a brake sub-system to intermittently reduce a rotational velocity of the cylindrical screen.
Claims20
A shaving apparatus comprising:
- a cylindrical screen comprising an outer surface, an inner surface defining a cavity, and a plurality of openings, the screen being rotatable about a rotational axis;
- a cutting component comprising one or more cutting blades located within the cavity of the cylindrical screen, the cutting blades configured to cut hairs that pass through the openings in the cylindrical screen;
- wherein upon placing the outer surface of the cylindrical screen into surface contact with a skin surface and moving the shaving apparatus along the skin surface, the cylindrical screen rotates about the rotational axis;
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- a brake sub-system configured to reduce a rotational velocity of the cylindrical screen to cause relative motion between the cylindrical screen and the skin surface as the shaving apparatus is moved along the skin surface.
A head portion of a shaving apparatus comprising:
- a mounting portion;
- a cylindrical screen comprising a plurality of openings, the cylindrical screen rotatably coupled to the mounting portion so as to be rotatable about a rotational axis;
- a brake sub-system coupled to the cylindrical screen and configured to intermittently reduce a rotational velocity of the cylindrical screen;
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- a cutting component comprising one or more cutting blades, the cutting component configured to cut hairs that pass through the openings in the cylindrical screen.
A method of shaving comprising:
- pressing a cylindrical screen of a shaving apparatus into contact with a skin surface, the cylindrical screen comprising a plurality of openings that allow hairs on the skin surface to pass through the cylindrical screen;
- moving the shaving apparatus along the skin surface while the cylindrical screen is in surface contact with the skin surface, thereby causing the cylindrical screen of the shaving apparatus to rotate about a rotational axis;
- intermittently reducing a rotational velocity of the cylindrical screen with a brake sub-system that is operably coupled to the cylindrical screen;
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- cutting the hairs that pass through the cylindrical screen with a cutting component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.