Shaving apparatus
AssigneeU.S. Philips Corporation
InventorsEppe Bakker, Ebbe Boiten, Eildert Kingma, Gerard J. Lenting, Willem S. Wijma
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Abstract
The disclosure relates to a shaving apparatus having a shear plate with hair entry apertures and a drivable cutting unit with at least one cutting element provided with a cutting edge. Owing to the presence of the shear plate a shaving apparatus of this type does not allow the hairs to be shaved as closely to the skin as a shaving apparatus without such a shear plate, where the cutting element is in direct contact with the skin. In order to eliminate this drawback a construction is proposed in which the cutting element is provided with a hair pulling element which leads in the direction of the driving and which is immobile relative to the cutting element.
Claims9
A shaving apparatus having a shear plate provided with hair entry apertures and a cutting unit associated with and drivable relative to the shear plate;
- said cutting unit comprising a cutting member, cutting elements extending from said cutting member toward the shear plate, each cutting element being formed with a cutting edge, and hair-pulling elements respectively associated with the cutting elements and positioned in front of said cutting elements in the direction of driving, each hair-pulling element being immobile relative to the associated cutting element and being formed with a hair-contact edge, said hair-contact edge being located at a greater distance from the shear plate than said cutting edge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.