Electric shaver

US6226869A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The Braun Corporation · DE

Inventors

• Hans-Eberhard Heintke · Wächtersbach, DE
• Peter Hilfinger · Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, DE
• Klaus Oprach · Schwalbach, DE
• Roland Ullmann · Mühlheim am Main, DE
• Matthias Wetzel · Straubing, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 21, 1998
• Grant date: May 8, 2001
• Expiry date: Dec 21, 2018

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 electrically operable shaving apparatus (1) including at least one short-hair cutter (3) and a long-hair trimmer unit (2) disposed on a housing, with at least one cutting edge formed by cutting teeth of an outer cutter and an inner cutter, in which a component (4), which acts as a guard protecting the skin, is associated with the cutting edge in at least one operating position, said component (4) ceasing to act as a guard protecting the skin in at least one further operating position, wherein said component (4) is displaceable in conjunction with the long-hair trimmer unit (2) into at least one operating position in which said component (4) acts as a guard protecting the skin, and wherein on displacement into a further operating position the long-hair trimmer unit (2) is released by relative opposing movements of the long-hair trimmer unit (2) and the component (4).