Abstract: An electric shaver having a casing, a shear head and a long-hair cutter, the long-hair cutter being extensible as far as possible when in use and completely retracted into the casing when not in use, the long-hair cutter being slidably supported within the casing and movable from a retracted to an extended position by means of a manually actuable pusher which is also slidably supported within the casing, the pusher being connected to the long-hair cutter by a motion-multiplying coupling which causes the long-hair cutter to move at least twice the distance which the pusher travels when actuated.

Abstract: An electric shaver in which the conventional user actuated on-off switch is eliminated, the shaver being automatically actuated when brought into contact with the area of the body to be shaved and deactuated when removed, the shaver being provided with an electronic sensor switch (5) which is electrically connected to a contact plate (K2) on the outside of the casing (1) within the gripping zone and to the shear face (K1) of the shear head 2, the terminals (53, 54) of the sensor switch being connected to the control circuit of an actuating means (RL) for opening and closing the motor circuit.