US 8,458,910 B2Granted

Hair removing device

AssigneeBraun GmbH

InventorsWerner Haczek, Bernhard Kraus, Thorsten Piesker, Markus Sabisch

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Abstract

Described herein is a hair removal apparatus with a housing and an actuator head movable in the housing. The actuator head accommodates an actuator system that removes the hairs and is adapted to be driven by an electric drive mechanism arranged in the hair removal apparatus. The actuator system is movable into at least one active position for hair treatment. The actuator head is freely rotatable in the housing about an axis of rotation for adjustment of an active position. Using a single hair removal apparatus it is thus possible to employ various hair treatment systems such as long-hair cutters, short-hair cutters, or epilators, requiring only the actuator head to be turned about its bearing axis until the cutting unit provided for the respective hair treatment operation is turned into the actuator plane.

Claims2

Dependent claims

A hair removal apparatus, comprising;

(i) a housing;
(ii) an electric drive;
and
(iii) a hair removing head comprising a hair removal region, said hair removal region being driven by the electric drive to engage and remove hairs,
wherein the head is rotatable 360° about an axis extending through the head, from a positioning which the hair removal region is directed away from the housing for removing hair, to a position in which the hair removal region is directed toward the housing, and wherein the head is configured to lock in the position in which the hair removal region is directed away from the housing;
and
wherein the housing further comprises arms between which the head is rotatably mounted;
and
wherein the head is rotatable by hand about the axis of rotation;
and further comprising an electically drive adjusting unit, wherein the head is rotatable about the axis of rotation by the adjusting unit, said electrically driven adjusting unit comprising an electric motor and a transmission arranged to turn the head to the position in which the hair removal region is directed away from the housing, said transmission comprising a cooperating gearwheel unit;
and
wherein the position in which the hair removal region is directed away from the housing is adjustable by a user within predefined limits;
said apparatus further comprising an electric control configured to automatically adjust the head such that the hair removal region is returned to the position in which the hair removal region is directed away from the housing following rotation about the axis of rotation of the head by external forces.

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Facts

Application: 13/356,877Filed 24 Jan 2012 · continuation
Priority: DE 10 2005 044 17516 Sep 2005
Published: US 2012/0137525 A17 Jun 2012
Granted: 11 Jun 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

B26B 19/20
Clippers or shavers operating with a plurality of cutting edges, e.g. hair clippers, dry shavers: with provision for shearing hair of preselected…
A45D 26/0023
Hair-singeing apparatus; Apparatus for removing superfluous hair, e.g. tweezers: with rotating clamping elements
B26B 19/048
Cutting heads therefor; Cutters therefor; Securing equipment thereof: complete cutting head being movable
B26B 19/063
Involving co-operating cutting elements both of which have shearing teeth: movable or adjustable cutting head

Family

PCT/EP2006/007993Parent of this continuation · filed 12 Aug 2006
US 2012/0137525 A1Pre-grant publication · published 7 Jun 2012
Application12/066,455Parent of this continuation
US 8,127,453 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2008/0313909 A1Published application
US 8,458,910 B2This patent

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