Device for cutting split ends used with electric hair clippers

A split end cutting device (20) for cutting split ends from a lock of hair (28), said split end cutting device (20) consisting of an attachment for a hair cutting machine (21), said hair cutting machine (21) including a cutting head (27) for cutting said hair;

• and wherein said split end cutting device comprises
• a first deflecting section (41) and a second deflecting section (42) arranged parallel to each other and spaced apart from each other by a distance (X);
• a third deflecting section (43) pivotally mounted by means of a pivot (14, 14.1, 14.2) so as to be movable from a first position (A) passing between said first deflecting section (41) and said second deflecting section (42) into a second position (B) parallel to said first deflecting section (41) and to said second deflecting section (42) so that said lock of said hair placed underneath said first deflecting section (41) and said second deflecting section is engaged from underneath by said third deflecting section (43) and essentially takes an upside-down U-shape;
• and
• means (11) for detachably mounting said cutting head (27) of the hair cutting machine (21) in a fixed position in relation to said lock of said hair (28) when said lock of said hair (28) is engaged underneath by said third deflecting section (43) and essentially takes said upside-down U-shape, so that, when said lock of said hair is drawn through said deflecting sections (41, 42, 43) and said hair cutting machine (21) is operated, only split ends (30) protruding from said lock of said hair (28) in an upper region (Y) of said third deflecting section (43) are cut off by said cutting head (27).