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US 6,684,509 B1Granted
Dry shaving apparatus
AssigneeBraun GmbH
InventorsBernhard Best, Ingeborg Gudat, Rainer Ontl, Matthias Wetzel
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Abstract
A shaving apparatus includes a short-hair cutter unit and a long-hair cutter unit. The long-hair cutter unit includes an outer cutter with slits and segments and an inner cutter that is movable in a vertical direction by means of a carrier structure. The outer cutter has comb elements that are associated with the comb elements of a threader comb. The comb elements of the threader comb are movable jointly with the comb elements of the outer cutter in a vertical direction.
Claims20
A dry shaving apparatus comprising:
- a housing;
- a shaving head frame;
- a single short-hair cutter unit accommodated in the shaving head frame;
- a long-hair cutter unit of an essentially U-shaped configuration on one of the outer sides of the shaving head frame, and laterally adjacent to the single short-hair cutter unit, the long-hair cutter unit including
- a carrier structure,
- an outer cutter having slits defined between segments thereof and two longitudinal side walls, with comb elements protruding beyond the two longitudinal side walls, the outer cutter being movable in a vertical direction, and
- an associated inner cutter,
- wherein the dry shaving apparatus further comprises a threader comb having comb elements associated with the comb elements of the outer cutter, wherein the comb elements of the threader comb are movable jointly with the comb elements of the outer cutter in a vertical direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.