Cutter for a cutting device of an electric shaving apparatus or beard trimmer

A cutter which performs the function of either the outer cutter or the inner cutter in a cutting device comprised of an outer cutter and an inner cutter of an electric shaving apparatus or an electric beard trimmer, the cutter comprising:

• a plurality of teeth extending from a comb strip with slots therebetween and with cutting edges formed on the edges of the teeth, the teeth being in the cutter's cutting area configured as a plane sliding surface, and a wall portion arranged on the cutter and angled relative to the cutting area, with the outer cutter and the inner cutter being caused to perform parallel relative movements against each other during cutting action, such that hair entering the slots in the outer cutter and the inner cutter will be cut off by the cutting edges, wherein the cutting area of the cutter includes a blade made of hardened sheet steel and the teeth produced by etching the hardened sheet steel, and the etched blade is carried by the wall portion formed from at least one sheet metal section welded to the etched blade by a weldment, such that the resulting rise in temperature of the blade when the weldment is formed is so low that the hardened sheet metal is neither adversely deformed nor exposed to significant losses with respect to hardness and wear resistance.