Abstract: The invention is directed to a dry shaving apparatus with at least one short-hair cutter disposed on a housing and an actuating switch for turning an electric drive mechanism on and off as well as for adjusting a switch slide provided with a long-hair trimmer by means of a transmission device, wherein the transmission device is comprised of two pivotally mounted transmission elements, the first transmission element is pivotally mounted on the actuating switch and acted upon by a spring element, the second transmission element which is provided with notches and a control cam is pivotally mounted on the housing, is coupled to the switch slide through a control element engaging the control cam as well as a spring element, and is actuatable by the first transmission element through a detent element.

Abstract: A pair of scissors with an identification attachment for distinction and decoration, comprising two blades, two injection molded handles respectively put onto the two blades at their lower parts, two halves of a slot respectively made at the opposing inner sides of the two handles on the front face or even on each of the front and back faces to form a complete slot, a plurality of pins (or pin holes) disposed on one of the two halves, and a marking piece shaped like that of the slot but smaller in size and having a plurality of pin holes (or pins) on the underside corresponding to the pins (or pin holes) disposed on one of the two halves, so that the marking piece can be inlaid to properly cover the two halves of the slot for identification purpose when tile two handles are closed.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an electric shaving apparatus having a short-hair cutter assembly (2) arranged on a housing (1) and at least one control switch (9) slidably mounted on the housing (1) for setting a long-hair trimmer assembly (4) from an "Off" position to at least one or several positions of use. The long-hair trimmer assembly (4) is adjustably mounted on the housing (1) of the shaving apparatus in such a way that it follows the surface of the skin.

Abstract: A blade holder assembly including a casing having a series of teeth along one side for smoothing the hairs or whiskers to be cut and a center opening, a slide plate received in the casing and two bottom mounting rods extended out of the center opening of the casing and coupled to a reciprocating mechanism, a lower blade holder coupled to the slide and having a series of fine cutting teeth and a series of coarse cutting teeth disposed at two opposite sides, an upper cutter blade having a series of fine cutting teeth at one side acted against the fine cutting teeth of the lower blade holder to cut hairs or whiskers, and an upper blade holder fastened to the casing to hold the upper cutter blade above the lower blade holder and having a sloping wall at one side pressed on the upper cutter blade and a series of coarse cutting teeth at an opposite side acted against the coarse cutting teeth of the lower blade holder to cut hairs or whiskers.

Abstract: A locking pliers includes first and second handles. The first handle includes two spaced, parallel plates and a jaw received therebetween. The plates and at least a portion of the jaw are surrounded by a molded plastic element that defines the hand engaging surface of a handle. A similar construction can be used for the second handle. The plates provide rigidity to the handle, while the molded plastic element provides an ergonomically shaped hand engaging surface. The disclosed handles can be adapted for use in other hand tools, including pliers, wire cutters, snips, and the like.

Abstract: The present invention relates to hinged tools such as scissors, shears, pruners, or the like, having a force applying end with formed handles and an opposed working end consisting of a pair of blades disposed across a hinged joint through which a force may be transmitted. In these tools the handles, which are formed integrally with the hinge, are provided with ridge support in the form of heel elements to establish suitable contact between the blades.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electric shaver with at least one short-hair cutting system fitted on a housing and at least one sliding actuating switch fitted on the housing to set a long-hair cutting system from an "off" position to at least one operative position. The actuating switch is operatively connected to at least one of the cutting systems via a coupling gear reducing the switching path.

Abstract: A hand tool includes at least one handle connected to a tool head in a secure and stable manner to accommodate loads incurred during normal use, wherein the handle is adapted for quick and easy removal and replacement. The tool includes a mounting tang projecting rearwardly from the tool head and having a handle adapter at a rear end thereof. The handle adapter defines a rearwardly open socket for slide-fit reception of a front end of the handle. At least one clamp is provided for securely but releasably clamping the handle front end within the adapter socket. In the preferred form, the handle is constructed from a lightweight fiber resin composite material and has an adapter cuff mounted on the front end thereof for mating slide-fit reception into the adapter socket.

Abstract: A shaving apparatus (1), which has an inclined housing side wall (9) comprising a first wall portion (22) and a second wall portion (23) connected to the first wall portion (22) by a curved transitional wall portion (24), comprises a movable trimmer (8) at the location of the first wall portion (22) and an actuating element (59) for controlling the movement of the trimmer (8), which element is arranged in the area (25) of the second wall portion (23). The trimmer (8) comprises a cutter support (26) which is coupled to the actuating element (59) via a coupling device (61). The coupling device (61) is formed by a single flexible coupling member which extends over the transitional wall portion (42) of the inclined side wall (9) and which is adapted to the curvature of the transitional wall portion (24).

Abstract: A hair trimmer comprising a body, a cutting assembly supported by the body and having a reciprocable cutter, a drive mechanism for reciprocating the cutter, the drive mechanism including a rotating cam, a drive lever engaged with the cam and with the cutter, and a hinge element for flexibly supporting the drive lever in engagement with the cutter and with the cam, the hinge element including a base fixed to the body, a bar fixed to the drive lever and a hinge arm extending between the base and the bar, the hinge arm including a first web and a second web closely spaced to and parallel with the first web.

Abstract: Interchangeable finger and thumb ringlets are described for improving the comfort and control of scissors and pivoted grasping instruments. Flexible ringlets having various sizes are removably attached to the handle portions of such instruments, thereby providing proper fit to the user's fingers.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an electric shaving apparatus with a first slide switch slidably arranged on a housing for operating a short-hair cutter assembly K1, K2, with a long-hair trimmer L displaceable by means of a slider as well as a second adjustable slide switch for operating at least one of the cutters. The second slide switch automatically follows in a defined range the control movement of the first slide switch into at least one further control position. The second slide switch is then movable into a cutter assembly locking position in opposition to the direction of the movement of the first slide switch.

Abstract: Scissors or shears of the pivoted cross-blade type, adapted for relief of carpal tunnel syndrome and other hand repetitive stress injuries. The scissors upper and lower handles are characterized by especial contours which immobilize the thumb and index finger, while presenting the stronger middle finger, ring finger and little finger for flexing or gripping action to operate the scissors.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a long-hair trimming device for dry shaving apparatus, with a stationary cutting comb provided with a bent flange on its rear side, with a toothed blade assembly capable of reciprocating longitudinally thereof in a rectilinear direction and urged there-against by means of springs, and with a spring mounting means fastened to the flange and providing the abutment for the springs, wherein the blade assembly is configured as a thin cutting blade mounted flat and fixedly on a supporting structure, wherein at least one angle lever cooperating with the springs is pivoted at the spring mounting means, the free lever arm extending in the direction of the supporting structure in the area of the teeth of the cutting blade and cooperating with the supporting structure under spring action, and wherein, next to the guide of the blade assembly directly on the inner surface of the flange further means for guiding the blade assembly are provided on the side of the spring mounting means proximate

Abstract: Interchangeable finger and thumb ringlets and a hand-adjustable tensioning device are described for improving the comfort and control of scissors and pivoted grasping instruments. Flexible ringlets having various sizes are removably attached to the handle portions of such instruments, thereby providing proper fit to the user's fingers. Additionally, tensioning for such devices is generally provided by an adjustable screw or by a non-adjustable rivet. The subject invention teaches the use of a single-piece, hand-operated tensioning device installed at the pivot location for providing this function.

Abstract: Scissors, in particular hairdresser's scissors, in which the finger loop for the thumb is pivotable in a limited manner is simplified and improved under maintenance of the conventional shape in that the movable finger loop is mounted on at least one pin the axis of which extends obliquely relative to the center line of the scissors. The finger loop may preferably be mounted on two pins.In order to be able to take the finger loop more easily with the thumb, the pivoting angle is limited to about 50.degree., i.e. the most advantageous region in ergonomic aspects, in that a finger loop having a broader wall is mounted in a handle ring on two pins, or the finger loop is mounted at the shorter handle on a pin and at the finger loop there is provided a projection which abuts the edge of the handle.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an electric shaving and hair trimming apparatus, with a first cutter arrangement or shaver assembly comprised of upper cutter and lower cutter for cutting short hair, and with a second cutter arrangement or trimmer head comprised of trimmer blade and trimmer plate for shortening long hair, with the use of the trimmer head involving a spacer comb seatable on the first and second cutter arrangement. When the apparatus is turned on, the trimmer head is invariably moved by an ON-OFF slide control means from its lowermost position (OFF position), in which its distance to the tip of the spacer comb is at a maximum, to its uppermost position in which its distance to the tip of the spacer comb is at a minimum and in which the shortest cutting length is set. In this manner, it is ensured that when starting operation of the trimmer head the beard hair is initially cut at the longest cutting length setting.

Abstract: Scissors with replaceable cutting blades include a pair of handles to which cutting blades are detachable, the handles being pivotally connected to each other by a screw. Each handle has a longitudinally extending groove in which a shank of the corresponding cutting blade is inserted, and a retaining plate is disposed so as to cross a portion of the groove. The shank of the cutting blade inserted into the groove is supported on the handle by the retaining plate so that screws are not needed to attach the cutting blade to the handle.

Abstract: A dry shaver has a trimmer plate with a trimmer cutter at its upper end. The trimmer plate is slidably mounted on a vertically elongated front face of a shaver housing with the trimmer cutter projecting forwardly of the housing. The trimmer plate is pivotally connected at its lower end to a slider handle also slidable on the front face such that the trimmer plate is vertically movable together therewith along the front face between a lower inoperative position where it is kept lain flat against the front face and an upper operative position where it is pivoted into an inclined condition with respect to the front face so as to project the trimmer cutter forwardly by a greater distance from the front face than at the lower inoperative position.

Abstract: A cutting tool including a pair of jaws wherein each jaw has a first and second end. The jaws are pivotally coupled to each other such that the first ends engage with one another when the jaws are in a closed position. The tool further includes a pair of hollow tubular extensions each having a bend therein and first and second portions merging into one another at said bend. Each second end of one of the jaws extends into the first portion of a respective extension which includes a crimped section that fixedly secures the jaw thereto. When the jaws are in the closed position, the first portions converge toward each other and the second portions diverge from the first portions.

Abstract: The invention provides a combination of a shower shaver and a steam free mirror. A nipple fits between a plumbing pipe and a shower head. A T-shaped fitting is coupled to the nipple to receive a certain amount of shower water which is bled off during a shower. The other ends of the T-shaped fitting are coupled to said shower shaver and to a steam free mirror, respectively, whereby water from the shower is used both to lubricate and rinse said shaver and to control the temperature of said mirror.

Abstract: A motor-driven hair cutter is provided with a main cutter and a trimmer at a front end of an elongated housing. Each of the main cutter and the trimmer is a reciprocatory cutter comprising a toothed stationary blade and a toothed movable blade driven to reciprocate in hair shearing engagement with the stationary blade. The trimmer is movable between a retracted position in which a cutting edge of the trimmer is behind a cutting edge of the main cutter and a projected position in which the cutting edge of the trimmer projects forwardly of the main cutter so that the trimmer alone can be used. The trimmer blades are formed to be smaller in thickness as well as in cutting edge width than those of the main cutter blades in order to facilitate a delicate trimming of hairs in a restricted area of a user's head by the trimmer.

Abstract: An electric shaver is provided with a shaving part for short hair and a trimmer for long hair which can be moved relative to the shaving part, one wall of the shaver having a first control element which is coupled to an ON/OFF switching device for a drive mechanism, and another wall of the shaver having a second control element for movement of the trimmer. The shaver is provided with a third control element which is situated near the second control element, and which is also coupled to an ON/OFF switch for the drive mechanism.

Abstract: A resilient sealing means is provided in an electric dry shaver to restrict the entry of shaver cuttings and foreign debris into the interior of the shaver housing. The resilient means is positioned in an aperture of the housing through which the short hair cutter and hair trimmer actuating members extend. The resilient sealing means includes apertures through which these members extend and fits snugly with the members. The sealing means seals the housing in top wall segments and side wall segments.

Abstract: A shaving apparatus comprising a housing having a shaving part for short hairs and a trimmer for long hairs which is rotatable with respect to the housing, the housing comprising an operating member which is coupled to the trimmer via a connection element, one end of the connection element being journalled in the trimmer so as to be rotatable. An "over-center" mechanism is present between trimmer and connection element, with a resilient element at one component, which resilient element engages a cam of the other component.

Abstract: Shears are provided with a cutting mechanism for obtaining maximum leverage at the point in the cutting stroke corresponding to the maximum resistance. The cutting mechanism comprises cooperating first and second shearing members and a lever arm. The lever arm is pivotally connected to the first shearing member and a sliding connection is effected between the second shearing member and the lever arm.

Abstract: A razor assembly includes dual razor heads mounted on a single handle. One razor head is adapted to hold a conventional size blade. The other razor head is adapted to hold a much smaller blade for convenient shaving around one's nostrils and for trimming of moustaches, beards and sideburns. The user can choose between either razor head simply by rotating the handle with his fingers.

Abstract: A shaver having a clipper comprises a single elongated handle with one end detachably connected with a shaving unit and the other end connected with a clipper adapted for trimming user's nose hair by inserting an indented end into the user's nose and trimming the hair therein through a smooth operation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rotary shaving head (2) for an electric shaving apparatus, the shaving head comprising a rotary cutter (23) which is driven by an electric motor (3) and which comprises a cutter disc (54) whose periphery is provided with an annular configuration of cutter blades (52) which are offset from the plane of the disc and whose cutting edges (59) co-operate along a cutting plane with a shear plate (24) formed with hair entry apertures (57). The rotary cutting (23) and the shear plate (24) are constructed for rotation of the rotary cutter (23) in both directions of rotation and the rotary cutter (23) is adapted to be driven by a single-phase synchronous motor (3, 3') having a permanent-magnet rotor (9, 65).

Abstract: The invention is directed to a dry shaving apparatus with a short-hair cutter, a manually operated first switch slide slidably arranged on the housing for turning on and off the associated second switch slide carrying a long-hair trimmer which is adapted to be moved from a position of rest into an operating position lying in the area of the short-hair cutter by means of the second switch slide as well as two interengageable gear arrangements and which in the operating position is coupled to the drive of the dry shaving apparatus.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a long-hair trimming device for dry shaving apparatus, with a cutting comb arranged fast with a housing and having an abutment surface for engagement with an abutment surface of a cutting blade which is coupled to a carrier body via at least one driving member, the carrier body being adapted to be driven by a drive means, and with at least one pressure spring bearing with one end against the carrier body while its other end takes support upon the housing, wherein the carrier body provides on the side close to the cutting teeth of the cutting blade a slightly protruding seating edge made of a plastics material and having its cross-sectional profile tapering in the direction of the cutting blade, wherein the seating edge rests against the cutting blade in the area of the root of the cutting teeth, and wherein an optimum abutting engagement of the cutting blade with the cutting comb is accomplished by deformation of the seating edge and the cutting blade by means of the force the pre

Abstract: The invention is directed to an electric shaving apparatus having a shaving head pivotable about a pivot axis Z and a control means for the shaving head by means of which the extent of pivot movement of the shaving head is limited within a predetermined pivot area and also by means of which the shaving head is pivotable from any pivot position to a locked position.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an electric shaving apparatus having a housing (1), a drive assembly and a shearing head (2) movable about a pivot axis (Z) and including an arcuate short hair cutter assembly (K) and a long hair cutter assembly (L) associated therewith.The shearing head (2) is arranged to pivot about the pivot axis (Z) intermediate two support lugs (4,5) provided on the housing (1), such that by suitably positioning the pivot axis (Z) the entire shearing area usable for shaving is placed in contact with the skin surface and that the shearing area cannot become disengaged from the skin surface as the directions of sliding movement of the shearing head change.

Abstract: The invention relates to a shaving apparatus comprising a housing, at least one shaving unit and a trimmer, which is movable relative to the housing between an operational position and an operating position by means of a push-button, a spring being arranged between the trimmer frame and the housing. The housing is provided with a pivotable catch having a hook-shaped end which engages behind the latching projection on the trimmer frame in the rest position, and which is situated before the latching projection in the operational position, and around the latching projection the trimmer frame is provided with guide walls which define a forward path and a return path for the hook-shaped end.

Abstract: A heavy-duty industrial tool has a working jaw mechanism operated by a pair of handles that are squeezed together. The upper handle has a main non-metallic handle member to whose sides are fastened a pair of stamped metal side members. These side members are in-laid into recesses in the sides of the non-metallic member to form a gripping portion. Forwardly of the gripping portion, the widths of the metallic members increase to form a throat within which the lower handle is pivotally mounted. The lower handle contains a stack of laminations, including a cutting blade that is forward of the pivot to form the upper jaw of the tool. The lower jaw is an anvil member that joins to flanges of the metal side members of the upper handle. When the tool is used to cut tensioned strapping, a resilient metal bracket attached to the blade presses the strapping against the anvil on opposite sides of the blade and deforms to absorb energy that is released by the strapping upon severing.

Abstract: An improved dry shaver has a shaving head mounting thereon a main shaving unit with a rounded shearing foil and at least one trimmer unit which is disposed in adjacent relation to the main shaving unit with its cutting edge directed away therefrom. A skin guide is provided outwardly of the trimmer unit in spaced relation thereto for contact with the skin of the user when manipulating the shaver across the skin. The skin guide has a contact end positioned at an elevation around an extension line connecting the apex of the shearing foil and the leading edge of the trimmer unit so that it can guide the shaving head along the skin while allowing the trimmer unit and the main shaving unit to be simultaneously in positive shearing contact with the skin.

Abstract: This invention is directed at a cartridge shaving razor with the cartridge having three razor blades mounted therewith. All of the razor blades are positioned on substantially the same plane with the first blade in angular relation to the second and third blades and the second and third blades in spaced parallel relation to each other.

Abstract: An electric shaver has a shaving head and a trimmer handle mounting at its top a trimmer block. The trimmer handle is in the form of a flat plate slidably attached to a flat surface on the outer wall of a shaver housing for vertical movement between an inoperative position and an operative position. Formed in the inner surface of the flat plate trimmer handle is a shallow recess within which is located a trimmer drive interconnecting the trimmer block and a main drive element for the shaving head in order to drive the trimmer block from the same source as the shaving head. The trimmer block includes a stationary blade and a movable blade which define therebetween a cutting plane in parallel relation to the plane of the trimmer handle. This arrangement is to reduce the dimension of the trimmer block and the thickness of the trimmer handle.

Abstract: An electric shaver wherein the motor housing carries a separable frame for confinement of the cutter and the frame carries a separable casing for an apertured foil which overlies the cutter in assembled condition of the shaver. The frame has a window which is adjacent one side of the cutter and serves for insertion of the casing so that the latter can be attached to or detached form the frame only when the frame is separated from the motor housing. The coupling between the frame and the casing has complementary male and female coupling elements which are designed to confine the casing to movements at right angles to the longitudinal direction of the motor housing. The latter carries a reciprocable slide for a trimmer which can be moved to several positions with reference to the apex of the foil but remains in the general plane of the slide.

Abstract: Disposable scissors for medical use comprising two plastic handles, two shaped stainless steel blades disposed between the handles and in contact with each other, pivot means coupling the handles and the blades, characterized in that the part of each handle through which the pivot extends defines an integral extension extending from the pivot outward over part of the blades to support and apply pressure thereon during the shearing movement.

Abstract: An improved foil type of electric dry shaver is described wherein an inner assembly of cutter blades for a short hair cutter and a cutter member for a long hair trimmer are simultaneously actuated for reciprocating motion in opposite directions by first and second drive bodies which are mounted to first and second housing segments for the shaver.

Abstract: An electric dry shaver is described having a long hair trimmer which includes an elongated cutter member having a generally U-shaped configuration and elongated comb member having a U-shaped cross sectional configuration. The comb member is assembled with the cutter member to provide a relatively compact and rigid assembly.

Abstract: A cutting instrument, such as a thread nipper, is provided with a safety breakaway finger loop. In use should the cutting instrument inadvertently be engaged and pulled into a textile machine, for example, the finger loop engaging the hand of the user will automatically breakaway from the body of the cutting instrument.

Abstract: A scissors having first and second members movable with respect to one another to facilitate cutting and including a conventional handle as well as an obliquely oriented thumb loop. The thumb loop is oriented approximately 45 degrees downwardly and 45 degrees laterally with respect to the axis of the handle to which it is attached. The thumb loop also allows for flexible rotational movement of approximately 45 degrees and flexible vertical movement of approximately 45 degrees. The loop is held in position by a flexible connecting member having a flexible intermediate section to allow for the desired movement as well as allowing for return of the thumb loop to the steady state position upon release.

Abstract: A reduced thickness trimmer unit for electric shavers is mounted within and partly on a head casing. The unit has a frame, a stationary cutter on one end and a movable cutter which cooperates with the stationary cutter. The frame contains a resilient leg which extends interiorly thereof and within the plane thereof so as to resiliently support at its free end a coupling element for connection with the movable cutter. The coupling element engages with an eccentric cam carried on the driving shaft of the motor so that it is driven by the driving shaft to reciprocate relative to the frame within the plane of the frame as the resilient leg limits the coupling element to move in the reciprocating direction within the plane of the frame. The resilient leg and the coupling element combine to convert rotary motion of the driving shaft into reciprocatory motion of the movable cutter in the trimmer unit and are received within the thickness of the frame.

Abstract: A lopper has first and second pivotably interconnected blades arranged on opposite sides of a cutting plane. The blades have arcuate cutting edges defining a crescent shaped opening which maintains the same configuration as it gradually diminishes in size before eventually disappearing as the cutting edges bypass each other during a cutting operation. Preferably, one of the blade tips extends angularly away from the cutting plane.

Abstract: A scissors construction is disclosed including a first and second member pivotally mounted with respect to one another with conventional blade means being adjacent. A movably mounted thumb loop means is included interconnected with respect to the handle of the second member by way of a ball and socket interconnection allowing free movement longitudinally along and perpendicularly around the axis of the second handle. Also, a tab means is included to limit the rotational movement of the thumb means about the ball within the socket itself. A telescoping slide means is biased into contact with a slot defined therein extending circumferentially around the handle means and across the neck of the ball when positioned within the socket to thereby secure the ball therein in a movable fashion as described above.

Abstract: A hand operated cutting tool, having a pair of blades pivotally connected together at a pivot point and having a handle joined to each blade, is provided. A relatively short handle on one of the blades extends upwardly and rearwardly from a line defined by the blade points and the pivot point. A ring is attached to a short handle to receive the thumb of the user. A relatively long handle is on the other blade and it extends upwardly and rearwardly. The long handle receives the user's fingers in a line substantially parallel to the line defined by the blade points and the pivot point.

Abstract: A washable electric shaver apparatus an outer blade frame of which is mounted on the top of the shaver so as to be movable by a limited distance away in parallel from the top of an outer casing in response to the depression of a pair of releasable push buttons mounted on opposite sides of the outer casing. A gap is formed between the outer blade frame and the top of the outer casing as a result of such movement of the outer blade frame relative to the outer casing, so that shavings accumulated around an inner blade member can completely be removed away through the gap when washing the shaver in water.

Abstract: A trimmer for dry shavers having cutting screen mounted integral with the appliance and a cutter movable reciprocally along said cutting screen, formed of a cutter blade and a support. The support of the cutter is manufactured by the injection-molding technique and the cutter blade is injection-molded onto it when manufactured. Recesses of different shapes with central constrictions are provided in the cutter blade to receive the support material, said constrictions, despite the shrinkage of the support material, ensuring a secure zero-play material connection between the support and the cutter blade.