US 9,427,880 B2 · Personal grooming apparatus and blade assembly

Abstract

A personal grooming apparatus includes a handle defining a central longitudinal axis, first and second blade sets mountable relative to the handle with each blade set including a stationary blade member and a movable blade member, and a drive mechanism disposed within the handle and operatively coupled to the movable blade members of the first and second blade sets. The drive mechanism is operable to cause corresponding reciprocating movement of the movable blade members relative to the stationary blade members of each of the first and second blade sets. The second blade set may be releasably mountable to said first blade set. The first and second blade set each may include a housing for at least partially accommodating respective stationary and movable blade members.

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Dependent claims

A personal grooming apparatus, which comprises:

a handle defining a central longitudinal axis;
a blade housing;
first and second blade sets mountable relative to said handle and configured and positioned to depend outwardly from said blade housing to concurrently cut hair, said second blade set being releasably mountable to said first blade set, each blade set including a stationary blade member and a movable blade member;
a drive mechanism disposed within said handle and operatively coupled to said movable blade members of said first and second blade sets, said drive mechanism operable to cause corresponding reciprocating movement of said movable blade members relative to said stationary blade member of each of said first and second blade sets;
and
wherein said first and second blade sets include respective first and second housings for at least partially accommodating respective stationary and movable blade members, said first and second housings forming said blade housing.

3 more elements

A blade apparatus for use with a hair clipper, which comprises:

a first blade set for mounting to the hair clipper, said first blade set including a first housing, a first movable blade member and a first stationary blade member, said first moveable member being adapted for reciprocal movement relative to aaid stationary blade member;
and
a second blade set including a second housing, a second movable blade member and a second stationary blade member, said second housing being movable between an operative condition mounted to said first housing of said first blade set with said second movable blade member operatively coupled to said first movable blade member, and a release condition released from said first housing, said first and second blades set configured and dimensioned to depend outwardly relative to each said first and second housings to concurrently cut hair when in said operative condition.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Personal grooming apparatus and blade assembly

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Personal grooming apparatus and blade assembly

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Abstract

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