Dry shaving apparatus with pivotally mounted long-hair trimmer

US5701673A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The Braun Corporation · DE

Inventors

• Roland Ullmann · Mühlheim am Main, DE
• Helmut Faulstich · Frankfurt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 15, 1996
• Grant date: Dec 30, 1997
• Expiry date: Mar 15, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01H15/06
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A dry shaving apparatus includes a housing, at least one short-hair cutter, a long-hair trimmer that is pivotally-mounted to the housing such that the long-hair trimmer can pivot into and out of an operating position, an electric drive mechanism which during operation drives said short-hair cutter and said long-hair trimmer, a pivotally-mounted lever, a control rod, and a single control switch mechanism which during operation moves the long-hair trimmer into and out of the operating position and turns the electric drive mechanism on and off, the control switch mechanism being coupled to the long-hair trimmer by the pivotally mounted lever and the control rod and having an ON position and a first and second OFF position. The control switch mechanism in the first OFF position deactivates the long-hair trimmer and maintains the long hair trimmer in the operating position.