Abstract: A method for making the shaving head of a dry-shaving apparatus with an effective shaving area of a desired shape, in which a shear foil is mounted in an arcuate condition in a shaving-head frame without the cutter so that the foil assumes a free clamping curvature which is not influenced by the cutter, a normal-pressure distribution is applied perpendicular to the foil curvature which simulates the pressure distribution between the cutter and the foil in conformity with a desired effective shaving area, so that the shear foil experiences in said effective shaving area a deformation relative to the free clamping curvature, the simulated pretension curvature thus obtained corresponding to the desired normal-pressure distribution on the cutter in the desired effective shaving area relative to the shear foil.

Abstract: An ice-cream maker with a cylindrical container (1), inside which at least one cooled surface is provided for ice-cream formation, and with an electric motor (4), which through a gear unit (5) drives a shaft (6) running central to the container, said shaft bearing a scraper and stirrer tool (8) acting at least together with the cooled surface. An autosynchronous single-phase motor is provided as the electric motor and the scraper and stirrer tool has for both directions of rotation of the shaft at least one scraper and stirrer tool section (10,11) effective principally in the relevant direction of rotation.