Rotary electric shaver
AssigneeSpectrum Brands, Inc.
InventorPaul Allen Schmitt
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Abstract
A rotary electric shaver includes a handle assembly having a housing, a motor disposed in the housing, a drive shaft operatively connected to the motor and extending through the housing, and a socket for securing a shaver head thereto. The shaver head assembly includes a coupling for detachable coupling to the socket. The coupling is configured to allow the shaver head to be detachably coupled to the handle assembly in at least two different orientations of the shaver head relative to the handle assembly.
Claims18
A rotary electric shaver comprising:
- a handle assembly including a housing, a socket, a motor disposed in the housing, and a drive shaft operatively connected to the motor, and
- a shaver head assembly comprising a plurality of cutters and enclosing a space beneath the cutters to define a hair pocket which collects hair cut by the cutters,
- wherein the shaver head assembly further comprises a coupling situated beneath the hair pocket, the coupling insertable into the socket along an insertion axis of the coupling such that the coupling flexibly engages the handle assembly within the socket at an engagement plane substantially perpendicular to the insertion axis and permits pulling disengagement of the shaver head assembly from the handle assembly.
A detachable shaver head assembly for a rotary electric shaver, the rotary electric shaver having a handle assembly including a housing, a socket, a motor, and a drive shaft accessible by the shaver head assembly exterior of the housing, the shaver head assembly comprising a plurality of cutters and enclosing a space beneath the cutters to define a hair pocket which collects hair cut by the cutters, wherein the shaver head assembly further comprises a coupling situated beneath the hair pocket, the coupling comprising an insertion axis and a flexible clip having an engagement surface oriented substantially perpendicular to the insertion axis such that, upon insertion of the coupling into the socket along the insertion axis, the clip flexibly engages the handle assembly within the socket at the engagement surface and permits pulling disengagement of the shaver head assembly from the handle assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.