Abstract: A shaving apparatus (1) is provided which includes a housing (5), a shaving-head frame (6), which is detachably mounted on the housing (5), a lower cutter (12), a foil-type upper cutter (11) cooperating with a cutting area (14) of the lower cutter (12) and mounted in a foil-cutter frame (21) which is pivotably mounted in the shaving-head frame (6), which upper cutter has at least two aperture fields (31, 32) which differ as regards the form of the hair-entry apertures (33, 34), and a control member (35) for actuating the foil-cutter frame (21), which control member is coupled to the foil-cutter frame (21) via an actuating device (36), the control member (35) is movably mounted on the housing (5) of the shaving apparatus (1), and the actuating device (36) comprises an actuating frame (38) which engages underneath the foil-cutter frame (21) at a location remote from the foil-type upper cutter (11), which actuating frame is mounted in the shaving apparatus (1) so as to be pivotable about a pivotal axis (43) para

Abstract: An epilation apparatus is provided having at least one pair of rotatably mounted epilation rollers (3, 4), which are arranged in the region of an opening (2) provided in the housing (1) of the apparatus, are rotatingly drivable in opposite directions and cooperate with one another at their periphery. Associated with the epilation apparatus is a skin protection device, which is arranged in the region of the opening (2), partially covering the epilation rollers (3, 4) and through which the hairs reach the epilation rollers (3, 4) the skin protection device is a strip-shaped web (11) of wave-shaped design in relation to the longitudinal extension of the epilation rollers, (3, 4) the web, has wave troughs (9) and wave crests (10) alternately on both sides and is comb-like on both sides.

Abstract: A dry shaver comprises a basic unit housing together with a shaver head having a longitudinally extending upper blade and a reciprocatorily drivable longitudinally extending lower blade acting in conjunction therewith. A swinging bridge is secured in the basic unit housing and has a reciprocatory output part for driving the lower blade and a stationary base part provided with an aperture. An electric motor having an essentially-cylindrical housing has one end of the motor housing connected to the stationary base part of the swinging bridge, the drive shaft of the motor extending through the aperture in the base part into the output part of the swinging bridge. An eccentric on the drive shaft drives the output part. A frame-like motor support has a transverse U-shape, one end of such support being connected to the stationary base part of the swinging bridge.

Abstract: A cutter reciprocatingly drivable in opposite directions and adapted to co-operate with the shear foil of a dry-shaving apparatus comprises support means and a plurality of pairs of arcuate cutter lamellae mounted on such support means. The distance between the two cutter lamellae of each pair is smaller than the distance between either cutter lamella of such pair and the adjacent cutter lamella of the adjacent pair at the location of the top of the cutter lamellae. The two cutter lamellae of each pair respectively include angular portions oriented towards each other at the location of the top of the cutter lamellae, the angular portions of the two cutter lamellae of each pair being urged against each other under pre-load.