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US 5,606,798 AGranted
Hair cutting apparatus
OwnerElliot Kelmaninventor
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Abstract
Hair cutting apparatus including a housing and laser apparatus disposed in the housing and arranged to provide a beam of light impinging on hair to be cut, the beam of light being operative to cut the hair.
Claims1
Hair cutting apparatus comprising:
- a housing having an opening for hair, which is attached to the skin of a person, to be cut;
- a source of laser radiation producing a laser beam substantially parallel to the surface of the skin to which the hair is attached, the laser beam being arranged to impinge on the hair and to cut the hair at a point of impingement only, leaving a portion of the hair in a detached unburnt condition and a further portion of the hair in an attached unburnt condition at the surface of the skin;
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- a vacuum hair collection device for collecting hair in a detached unburnt condition.
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