Abstract: A cutting unit having a blade carrier carrying a cutting blade, and a guard. The guard includes a blade-facing surface engaging the cutting blade at a cut location, a planar guard contact surface for contacting the user's skin, where the guard contact surface is angled with respect to the blade-facing surface, and a guard extender separate from the guard. The guard extender includes a planar extension contact surface cooperating with the guard contact surface to provide an extended contact zone across the guard and the guard extender for contacting a user's skin. The blade-facing surface and the guard contact surface converge towards a tip of the guard, such that a cutting direction extends along the guard contact surface towards the tip. The extended contact zone may provide for improved stability and reliable orientation of the cutting unit for cutting while limiting material use.

Abstract: A hair cutting device having a cutting unit, the cutting unit including a blade carrier carrying a cutting blade that has cutting teeth; a guard blade that has guard teeth. The blade is movable along the blade carrier relative to the cutting blade within a guard length range between a first guard position corresponding to a shortest hair cutting length of the cutting unit and a second guard position corresponding to the longest hair cutting length of the cutting unit. The blade carrier includes a stop configured to prevent movement of the guard blade past the first guard position and outside of the guard length range, thereby preventing the cutting length from being below the shortest cutting length.

Abstract: A blade set for a hair cutting appliance includes a stationary blade and a cutter blade. The stationary blade has a blade base and a plurality of teeth extending from the blade base in a longitudinal direction. The teeth are arranged in a series alternating with tooth gaps therebetween, where the tooth gaps define hair entry slots. The teeth have a first side arranged to cooperate with the cutter blade to cut hair and a second side arranged as a skin-facing side. The teeth have processing edges at the first side at their longitudinal extension, where the smoothened processing edges have smoothened edge transitions.

Abstract: A cutting unit having a blade carrier carrying a cutting blade, and a guard. The guard includes a blade-facing surface engaging the cutting blade at a cut location, a planar guard contact surface for contacting the user's skin, where the guard contact surface is angled with respect to the blade-facing surface, and a guard extender separate from the guard. The guard extender includes a planar extension contact surface cooperating with the guard contact surface to provide an extended contact zone across the guard and the guard extender for contacting a user's skin. The blade-facing surface and the guard contact surface converge towards a tip of the guard, such that a cutting direction extends along the guard contact surface towards the tip. The extended contact zone may provide for improved stability and reliable orientation of the cutting unit for cutting while limiting material use.

Abstract: A blade set for a hair cutting appliance includes a stationary blade and a cutter blade. The stationary blade has a blade base and a plurality of teeth extending from the blade base in a longitudinal direction. The teeth are arranged in a series alternating with tooth gaps therebetween, where the tooth gaps define hair entry slots. The teeth have a first side arranged to cooperate with the cutter blade to cut hair and a second side arranged as a skin-facing side. The teeth have processing edges at the first side at their longitudinal extension, where the processing edges have smoothened edge transitions.

Abstract: A blade set assembly for a hair cutting appliance includes a stationary blade and a movable blade. The movable and stationary blades are arranged one on top the other and movable relative to each other. A guide unit is formed between the movable blade and the stationary blade, where the blades engage each other. The guide unit includes longitudinally spaced, laterally extending guideways, each defined between a stationary blade guide surface and a movable blade guide surface that overlap each other. Rolling elements are arranged at the guideways between the guide surfaces. The guide surfaces have a height extension greater than a radius of the rolling elements such that the guide surfaces overlap in a vertical direction. The guide surfaces provide for coupling in a longitudinal direction between the blades such that the guide unit provides for a set longitudinal distance for any force applied in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: There is disclosed a cutting unit (14, 60, 80, 100) for a hair cutting device (10), comprising: a blade carrier (16) carrying a cutting blade; a guard (18) comprising: a blade-facing surface engaging the cutting blade at a cut location; a planar guard contact surface (30) for contacting skin of a user, wherein the guard contact surface (30) is angled with respect to the blade-facing surface; and a guard extender (40, 70, 90) separate from the guard (18), wherein the guard extender (40, 70, 90) comprises a planar extension contact surface (46, 76, 96) configured to cooperate with the guard contact surface (30) to provide an extended contact zone (50) across the guard (18) and the guard extender (40, 70, 90) for contacting skin of a user. The blade-facing surface and the guard contact surface (30) converge towards a tip of the guard, wherein a cutting direction extends along the guard contact surface (30) towards the tip.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a blade set assembly (116) for a hair cutting appliance comprises a stationary blade (134) having a leading edge (148) and a movable blade (152) having a leading edge (158). The movable blade and the stationary blade are arranged on top of one another and operable to be moved with respect to one another in a lateral direction (Y). A guide unit (166) is formed between the movable blade and the stationary blade, the blades engaging one another at the guide unit, arranged to set a longitudinal distance (d) between the stationary blade leading edge and the movable blade leading edge and to define a movement path for the relative movement between the blades in the lateral direction. The guide unit comprises at least two longitudinally spaced, laterally extending guideways (168, 170), each defined between a stationary blade guide surface (172) and a movable blade guide surface (174) that overlap one another.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a blade set (16) for a hair cutting appliance (10), comprising a stationary blade (20) and a cutter blade (22), the stationary blade comprising a blade base (40), and a plurality of teeth (44) extending from the blade base in a longitudinal direction (48), wherein the teeth are arranged in a series alternating with tooth gaps (46) therebetween, the tooth gaps defining hair entry slots, wherein the teeth comprise a first side (54) arranged to cooperate with a cutter blade to cut hair and a second side (52) arranged as a skin-facing side, wherein the teeth comprise at the first side at their longitudinal extension processing edges (70, 74), and wherein the processing edges comprise smoothened edge transitions. The present disclosure further relates to a hair cutting appliance (10).

Abstract: There is disclosed a hair cutting device (10) comprising a cutting unit (30), the cutting unit comprising: a blade carrier (32) carrying a cutting blade (33), the cutting blade comprising cutting teeth (34); a guard blade (40) comprising guard teeth (42); wherein the guard blade is movable along the blade carrier relative to the cutting blade within a guard length range between a first guard position corresponding to a shortest hair cutting length of the cutting unit and a second guard position corresponding to the longest hair cutting length of the cutting unit; and wherein the blade carrier comprises a stop (35) configured to prevent movement of the guard blade past the first guard position and outside of the guard length range, thereby preventing the cutting length from being below the shortest cutting length.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a blade set assembly, a blade set assembly, and a hair cutting appliance, wherein the method includes providing a base component including a stationary blade, providing a movable component comprising a cutter blade, providing a coupling element, the coupling element being arranged to be interposed between the base component and the movable component, providing a plastic contact bridge, arranging the stationary blade and the cutter blade at a defined relative assembly position, securing the assembly position between the stationary blade and the cutter blade, involving attaching the plastic contact bridge to one of the base component and the movable component, attaching a retaining portion of the coupling element to the other one of the base component and the movable component, and penetrating the plastic contact bridge with at least one insertion end of the coupling element.

Abstract: There is disclosed a cutting unit (14, 60, 80, 100) for a hair cutting device (10), comprising: a blade carrier (16) carrying a cutting blade; a guard (18) comprising: a blade-facing surface engaging the cutting blade at a cut location; a planar guard contact surface (30) for contacting skin of a user, wherein the guard contact surface (30) is angled with respect to the blade-facing surface; and a guard extender (40, 70, 90) separate from the guard (18), wherein the guard extender (40, 70, 90) comprises a planar extension contact surface (46, 76, 96) configured to cooperate with the guard contact surface (30) to provide an extended contact zone (50) across the guard (18) and the guard extender (40, 70, 90) for contacting skin of a user. The blade-facing surface and the guard contact surface (30) converge towards a tip of the guard, wherein a cutting direction extends along the guard contact surface (30) towards the tip.

Abstract: A spacing comb arrangement for a hair cutting appliance includes a comb piece configured to be disposed at a skin-facing side of a stationary blade of a blade set. The comb piece has a plurality of comb teeth that define a cutting length of the blade set when the comb arrangement is mounted thereto. The comb piece further has a flexure section configured to urge a frontal portion of the comb piece against the skin-facing side of the stationary blade.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a spacing comb arrangement (30) for a hair cutting appliance (10), the comb arrangement (30) comprising a comb piece (32, 232, 332) that is arranged to be disposed at a skin-facing side (26) of a stationary blade (22) of a blade set (20), the comb piece (32, 232, 332) comprising a plurality of comb teeth (36) that define a cutting length of the blade set (20) when the comb arrangement (30) is mounted thereto, and a flexure section (72) that is arranged to urge a frontal portion (68) of the comb piece (32, 232, 332) against the skin-facing side (26) of the stationary blade (22). The disclosure further relates to a cutting head (18) comprising a respective comb arrangement (30), and to a hair cutting appliance (10).

Abstract: A stationary cutting blade for a hair clipping device has a base body and a coined cutting teeth. The coined cutting teeth are spaced apart from each other, arranged on a front side of the base body, and each extend parallel to a longitudinal axis of the stationary cutting blade. A thickness ratio between the thickness of the base body and the thickness of the cutting teeth is larger than 1.1. Each cutting tooth has a substantially wedge-shaped cross-section with a scissor angle and a wedge angle, where the sum of the scissor angle and the wedge angle is smaller than 70°.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to method of manufacturing a blade set assembly (16), a blade set assembly (16), and to a hair cutting appliance (10).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a stationary cutting blade (12) for a hair clipping device (100) with a base body and a plurality of coined cutting teeth (22) which are spaced apart from each other and arranged on a front side (38) of the base body and each extend parallel to a longitudinal axis (40) of the stationary cutting blade (12). The stationary cutting blade (12) is a full metal cutting blade. A thickness ratio between the thickness of the base body (ti) and the thickness of the cutting teeth (t2) is larger than 1.1. Each of the plurality of cutting teeth (22) has a substantially wedge-shaped cross-section with a scissor angle (a) and a wedge angle (y), wherein a sum of the scissor angle (a) and the wedge angle (y) is smaller than 70°.