Abstract: Provided is a cooking apparatus (10). The cooking apparatus comprises a food chamber (12), and a steam supply (16, 20, 23) for supplying steam to the food chamber. A control arrangement (22, 28) controls the steam supply to maintain a steam concentration in air inside the food chamber which is below saturation. Further provided is a method of cooking.

Abstract: To minimize the risk for injuries due to hooked hair catching teeth, but still have a reasonable hair-cutting efficiency, a cutting unit (107) for a hair-cutting device (100) having two blades (202, 206) moving relatively to each other with at least one of the blades (202, 206) being toothed is proposed, wherein at least some teeth (208) have a larger cross-sectional area (CA) at their free end (210) than at their end (212) making the junction with the blade (206), wherein the larger cross-sectional area (CA) is 0.32 mm2 or more and wherein the shape of the larger cross-sectional area (CA) is such that the tooth (208) surface oriented to face the surface (305) with hair (301) to be cut when cutting has a larger distance to the middle axis (M) than the equivalent surface of the blade-side-end (212).

Abstract: To minimize the risk for injuries due to hooked hair catching teeth, but still have a reasonable hair-cutting efficiency, a cutting unit (107) for a hair-cutting device (100) having two blades (202, 206) moving relatively to each other with at least one of the blades (202, 206) being toothed is proposed, wherein at least some teeth (208) have a larger cross-sectional area (CA) at their free end (210) than at their end (212) making the junction with the blade (206), wherein the larger cross-sectional area (CA) is 0.3 mm2 or more and wherein the shape of the larger cross-sectional area (CA) is such that the tooth (208) surface oriented to face the surface (305) with hair (301) to be cut when cutting has a larger distance to the middle axis (M) than the equivalent surface of the blade-side-end (212).

Abstract: To minimize the risk for injuries due to hooked hair catching teeth, but still have a reasonable hair-cutting efficiency, a cutting unit for a hair-cutting device having two blades moving relatively to each other with at least one of the blades being toothed is proposed, wherein at least some teeth have a larger cross-sectional area at their free end than at their end making the junction with the blade, wherein the larger cross-sectional area is 0.3 mm2 or more and wherein the shape of the larger cross-sectional area is such that the tooth surface oriented to face the surface with hair to be cut when cutting has a larger distance to the middle axis than the equivalent surface of the blade-side-end.

Abstract: To minimize the risk for injuries due to hooked hair catching teeth, but still have a reasonable hair-cutting efficiency, a cutting unit for a hair-cutting device having two blades moving relatively to each other with at least one of the blades being toothed is proposed, wherein at least some teeth have a larger cross-sectional area at their free end than at their end making the junction with the blade, wherein the larger cross-sectional area is 0.3 mm2 or more and wherein the shape of the larger cross-sectional area is such that the tooth surface oriented to face the surface with hair to be cut when cutting has a larger distance to the middle axis than the equivalent surface of the blade-side-end.

Abstract: To minimize the risk for injuries due to hooked hair catching teeth, but still have a reasonable hair-cutting efficiency, a cutting unit (107) for a hair-cutting device (100) having two blades (202, 206) moving relatively to each other with at least one of the blades (202, 206) being toothed is proposed, wherein at least some teeth (208) have a larger cross-sectional area (CA) at their free end (210) than at their end (212) making the junction with the blade (206), wherein the larger cross-sectional area (CA) is 0.3 mm2 or more and wherein the shape of the larger cross-sectional area (CA) is such that the tooth (208) surface oriented to face the surface (305) with hair (301) to be cut when cutting has a larger distance to the middle axis (M) than the equivalent surface of the blade-side-end (212).

Abstract: To minimize the risk for injuries due to hooked hair catching teeth, but still have a reasonable hair-cutting efficiency, a cutting unit (107) for a hair-cutting device (100) having two blades (202, 206) moving relatively to each other with at least one of the blades (202, 206) being toothed is proposed, wherein at least some teeth (208) have a larger cross-sectional area (CA) at their free end (210) than at their end (212) making the junction with the blade (206), wherein the larger cross-sectional area (CA) is 0.3 mm2 or more and wherein the shape of the larger cross-sectional area (CA) is such that the tooth (208) surface oriented to face the surface (305) with hair (301) to be cut when cutting has a larger distance to the middle axis (M) than the equivalent surface of the blade-side-end (212).

Abstract: To provide for different cut width, it is proposed to use a cover means (4) to be mounted on the casing (2) and/or cutting unit (3) of a clipping device for partially covering the cutting members (31) of the cutting unit (3) to reduce the cut width. The cover means (4) may be, for example, a comb unit (41) or movable covering parts (42, 44) integrated in the cutting unit (3).

Abstract: A depilation device (1) comprising a heating device (23) and contact brackets (74, 75, 76, 77), which heating device (23) is designed for heating a depilation tape (2) provided with a hair removal medium capable of softening, wherein the contact brackets (74, 75, 76, 77) are designed for keeping the depilation tape (2) applied against the heating device (23).

Abstract: In a depilating apparatus (1), a housing (2) of depilating apparatus (1) contains a supply (10) of a depilating tape (11), and a heating device (25) for heating the depilating tape (11) and an application roller (40) for applying the heated depilating tape (11) to the skin of a person are provided, wherein, in addition, a determination device (45) is provided, which is designed to determine, as desired, different application lengths (L), along which application length (L) the depilating tape (11) adheres to the skin of a person after application of the depilating tape (11).

Abstract: In a depilating apparatus (1), a housing (2) of the depilating apparatus (1) contains a supply (10) of a depilating tape (11), and a heating device (25) for heating the depilating tape (11) and an application roller (40) for applying the heated depilating tape (11) to the skin of a person are provided, wherein, in addition, a wind-up reel (60) for winding up depilating tape (11) that has already been used, and a motor (69) for driving the wind-up reel (60) are provided.

Abstract: An apparatus (1) for peeling the skin of a person has a drivable peeling tool (19), the drivable peeling tool (19) being mounted such that it can pivot about a pivot axis (21) within a specific pivoting angle range (&bgr;), said pivot axis (21) being perpendicular to the operating direction (20) of the apparatus (1) in a preferred design of the apparatus (1).

Abstract: A personal care apparatus (1) with a housing (2) and with apparatus parts (6) for treating body parts of a person, which apparatus parts (6) are provided in a head region (5) of the personal care apparatus (1), is fitted in its head region (5) with a noise protection cap (9) which is designed with a closed circumference and which has a cap edge (12) which can be placed on the skin of a person during operation of the personal care apparatus (1) in order to fulfill a noise protection function.

Abstract: In a personal care apparatus (1) with a housing (2) and with a frame (3) which is connected to the housing (2) and has two longitudinal walls (4, 5) and two transverse walls (6, 7), a disc (12, 13) arranged and rotatably mounted in a cutout (14, 15) in the relevant transverse wall (6, 7) is provided as a friction reducing part in the region of each transverse wall (6, 7), which two discs (12, 13) can roll on the skin of a body part of a person during the cosmetic operation.

Abstract: In a depilation system a depilation device and a cooling device are detachably connected to one another by snap connection means which consist of a snap projection, which preferably projects from the cooling device, and a snap catch, which is preferably provided in the depilation device.

Abstract: A personal care apparatus (1) with a housing (2) and with apparatus parts (6) for treating body parts of a person, which apparatus parts (6) are provided in a head region (5) of the personal care apparatus (1), is fitted in its head region (5) with a noise protection cap (9) which is designed with a closed circumference and which has a cap edge (12) which can be placed on the skin of a person during operation of the personal care apparatus (1) in order to fulfill a noise protection function.

Abstract: An apparatus (1) for peeling the skin of a person has a drivable peeling tool (19), the drivable peeling tool (19) being mounted such that it can pivot about a pivot axis (21) within a specific pivoting angle range (&bgr;), said pivot axis (21) being perpendicular to the operating direction (20) of the apparatus (1) in a preferred design of the apparatus (1).

Abstract: In a personal care apparatus (1) with a housing (2) and with a frame (3) which is connected to the housing (2) and has two longitudinal walls (4, 5) and two transverse walls (6, 7), a disc (12, 13) arranged and rotatably mounted in a cutout (14, 15) in the relevant transverse wall (6, 7) is provided as a friction reducing part in the region of each transverse wall (6, 7), which two discs (12, 13) can roll on the skin of a body part of a person during the cosmetic operation.

Abstract: A depilation system which comprises a depilation device and a cooling device and in which the cooling device comprises a housing in which a certain quantity of cooling agent is contained, and in which the cooling device is provided with a skin contact portion having a certain skin contact surface area, and in which the cooling device has a certain power for cooling skin regions through the skin contact portion (13), and in which the value of the power of the cooling device (3) is at least 3 W, the value of the quantity of cooling agent contained is at least 20 ml, and the value of the contact surface area of the skin contact portion (13) is at least 3 cm2.

Abstract: In a depilation system (1) comprising a depilation device (2) and a cooling device (3) which are detachably connected to one another, and in which the cooling device (3) comprises a housing (11) in which a cooling agent is contained, the cooling device (3) is provided with an envelope (30) of a thermally insulating material, which envelope (30) covers the housing (11) of the cooling device (3) in a thermally insulating manner at least in that region which is in contact with a hand during operation of the depilation system (1), and which envelope (30) is detachably connected to the housing (11) of the cooling device (3) and is constructed such that it can be taken by hand from the housing (11) of the cooling device (3).