Shaving apparatus

US5343621A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The Braun Corporation · DE

Inventors

• Gerhard Hildebrand · Steinbach, DE
• Gunther Seidel · Frankfurt, DE
• Hans-Eberhard Heintke · Wächtersbach, DE
• Klaus Ramspeck · Frankfurt am Main, DE
• Reinhold Eichhorn · Idstein, DE
• Helmut Durr · Frankfurt am Main, DE
• Wolfgang Franke · Langen, DE
• Gebhard Braun · Kelkheim, DE
• Manfred Ohle · Walldürn, DE
• Roland Ullmann · Mühlheim am Main, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 20, 1993
• Grant date: Sep 6, 1994
• Expiry date: May 20, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B26B19/102
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention is directed to an electric shaving apparatus having a housing and a shaving head assembly which is adapted to pivot relative to the housing about a pivotal axis Z and is comprised of a shaving head frame, a shaving plane formed by at least one outer cutter having arcuate extensions to the longitudinal sides of the shaving head frame, and of at least one inner cutter operatively associated with the outer cutter and driven by a drive mechanism, wherein the outer cutter is arranged in an outer cutter frame member and the outer cutter frame member is mounted in the shaving head frame so as to be pivotal about the pivotal axis Z.