US 5,673,711 A · Fingertip control mustache shaving device

Abstract

Several small-size mustache shaving devices, each grippable between a user's forefinger and thumb, for enabling the user to precisely shave and edge his own mustache to a desired shape, and related trimming accessories, are disclosed. Each device is lightweight and has as an elongated narrow body having a forward head portion and an integral offset rear fingertip grip portion. Each device has a small elongated razor blade strip mounted upon the head portion. The blade's razor sharp edge, which in some designs is straight and in other designs is curved, extends laterally outwardly from the head portion. The razor-sharp blade edge of the device is placed by the user against his skin adjacent the periphery of the desired mustache line and then, through fingertip movement, shaves and shapes the hairs of the user's mustache. The several embodiments of the shaving device include guarded, blunted and assembled blade designs, all-metal designs, and designs featuring a symmetrical appearance. An optional removable cover fits over the head portion and encases the blade sharp edge and is frictionally held upon the head portion for manual removal and replacement. An optional removable trimming cage fits over the head portion for enabling a user to trim his mustache hairs to any one of several chosen lengths.

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Dependent claims

A small lightweight fingertip control shaving device for enabling a user to edge and shave his own mustache hair, comprising:

an elongated body having an elongated forward cutter end portion and an elongated rear fingertip pinch grip portion rigidly joined to the cutter end portion, the fingertip grip portion having an overall size approximately as large the area between tips of the user's thumb and forefinger when the tips are pressed together;
a generally flat, elongated blade having an elongated razor sharp edge no longer than about an inch and having a substantially straight elongated dull edge section mounted to the cutter end portion, and wherein
the overall size of the fingertip pinch grip portion is at least as large as the overall size of the cutter end portion, and the forward head portion has a major centerline and the fingertip pinch grip portion has a major centerline which is offset from the centerline of the cutter end portion in a direction that places the pinch grip portion further away from the sharp edge of the blade.

A small lightweight fingertip control razor blade shaving system for precision shaving and trimming of a mustache or other facial hair, the system comprising:

a small lightweight shaving device having an elongated body no more than about two inches long provided with a forward elongated head portion and a rear fingertip grip portion joined to the head portion, the fingertip grip portion being sized to be grasped by the free tips of a user's thumb and forefinger, and the head portion including an elongated chamber for receiving a portion of a razor blade strip;
and
a razor blade strip of predetermined configuration having a razor sharp edge no more than one inch long that is at least substantially exposed and is partially encased by and extends laterally outwardly from the head portion;
and
an accessory structure of predetermined configuration having a chamber therein, the accessory being arranged to be removably placed over at least that part of the head portion of the shaving device in which the blade strip is at least partially encased, the accessory structure having a cage portion which is arranged to substantially surround and guard the razor sharp edge of the blade strip, the cage portion having a plurality of finger sections, each having a substantially uniform exterior surface, with openings being provided between adjacent finger sections, which openings are each sufficiently large to enable facial hair that is to be trimmed to protrude therethrough into the path of the razor edge when a portion of the exterior surfaces of the finger sections are stroked over a user's facial skin underlying that hair, whereby the razor sharp edge cuts that hair to be trimmed to a length which is predetermined and at least as long as the spacing provided between exterior surface portion contacting the user's skin and the razor edge.

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