Outer cutter for an electric shaver and an electric shaver
AssigneeIzumi Products Company
InventorHiromi Uchiyama
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Abstract
An outer cutter of a reciprocating type electric shaver in which an inner cutter makes sliding contact with an inside surface of a curved portion of the outer cutter, the curved portion being formed by bending a thin metal plate, which has numerous hair entry apertures, into a curved shape; and the curved portion being provided at both ends thereof with blocking portions that cover both ends of a space defined by the curved portion so as to prevent cut hair from being discharged to outside of the outer cutter, the blocking portions being formed integral with the curved portion.
Claims3
An outer cutter of a reciprocating type electric shaver in which an inner cutter makes sliding contact with an inside surface of a curved portion of said outer cutter, said curved portion being formed by bending a thin metal plate, which has a plurality of hair entry apertures, into a curved shape;
- wherein said curved portion is provided at both ends thereof with blocking portions that cover both ends of a space defined by said curved portion so as to prevent cut hair from being discharged to outside of said outer cutter, said blocking portions being formed integral and of a single unit with said curved portion by said thin metal plate, a thickness of at least portions of said blocking portions and of boundary areas between said curved portion and said blocking portions is greater than a thickness of said curved portion and holes are formed in said boundary areas between said curved portion and said blocking portions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.