Electric rotary shaver
AssigneeIzumi Products Company
InventorToshihide Miyasaka
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Abstract
An electric rotary shaver, in which the cutter head that includes outer and inner cutters is washable while the inner cutter(s) is being rotationally driven, including agitating vanes that agitate the liquid in which the cutter head is immersed and discharge shaving debris out of the cutter head by generating a flow of the liquid. The agitating vanes are provided on a drive shaft(s) that engages with and rotates the inner cutter(s) and rotationally drives the inner cutter(s).
Claims7
An electric rotary shaver in which a cutter head includes a plurality of cutters each comprising an inner cutter and an outer cutter disposed so that cleaning thereof is performed while said inner cutter of each of said plurality of cutters is rotationally driven, said shaver further comprising a plurality of agitating vanes and a plurality of drive shafts, wherein at least one of said plurality of agitating vanes is provided on each of a plurality of drive shafts independently of said inner cutter, each of said drive shafts engage separate inner cutters of said plurality of cutters and rotationally drive said inner cutters of said plurality of cutters, said agitating vanes agitates a cleaning liquid in which said cutter head is immersed to cause said cleaning liquid to flow from the agitating vanes through the inner cutters and haircutting openings in said outer cutters from the inside to the outside of the cutter head to discharge substantially all shaving debris out of said haircutting openings in said outer cutters of said plurality of cutters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.