Electric shaver

An electric shaver comprising a housing, a shaving head connected to the housing and comprising a shaving foil and a cutter assembly which comprises a multitude of cutter lamellae, which is reciprocable parallel to a direction of movement and which cooperates with the shaving foil, a motor of the rotary type secured in the housing and having a specific nominal operating speed, and a transmission mechanism which is coupled to the motor shaft of the motor to convert the rotation of the motor shaft into a reciprocating movement and which is coupled to the cutter assembly for the reciprocating drive of this assembly, wherein (1) the motor has a nominal operating speed in a range between 8000 and 10,000 revolutions per minute;

• (2) the motor is covered with a sheath of an elastic material which at least partly surrounds the motor and is situated at least at the location of all the contact areas between the motor and the housing provided for the motor on the housing;
• (3) the transmission mechanism comprises at least one balancing mass which performs a movement in phase opposition to the movement performed by at least a part of the transmission mechanism, and each of the cutter lamellae of the cutter assembly is provided with an indentation in each of its side faces which are each bounded by a cutting edge, which indentation extends parallel to and up to the cutting edge, and exhibits a cutting angle smaller than 90.degree. at both its cutting edges.