Hair clipper

A hair clipper for use in cutting human hair comprising a tubular housing having a longitudinal axis and adapted to be grasped by the hand of an operator,

• a power driven cutter assembly mounted transversely across the forward end of the housing and including a movable cutter which is driven by drive means accomodated in the housing to reciprocate for cutting hair, and
• finger hooking means projecting outwardly from the surrounding wall of the housing, the finger hooking means having at least one eye for receiving therein any one of the middle, ring, and little fingers of the hand grasping the housing so as to suspend the housing by the finger received in said eye and means mounting the finger hooking means for movement along said longitudinal axis toward and away from said cutter assembly, the means for mounting the finger hooking means comprising a longitudinally extending groove in the housing and a slider confined behind the groove for longitudinal movement along said groove, a screw passing through said finger hooking means and threaded into said slider so that the screw may be loosened, the finger hooking means and slider moved to a new longitudinal position and the screw tightened to hold the finger hooking means in the new position.