Abstract: A joining head for the joining of a joining element to a workpiece, wherein the joining head) has a fluid cylinder that acts in an axial direction for actuating a loading pin, and the fluid cylinder has a cross-sectional area and defines a dimension of the joining head in a predetermined radial direction, and the cross-sectional area of the fluid cylinder deviates from a circular shape in order to reduce the dimension of the joining head in the predetermined radial direction.

Abstract: A hair-clipping device comprises a stationary cutter member (2; 52; 102; 152; 202; 252; 302; 352), at least one movable cutter member (7; 57; 407; 457), and a drive (9, 14, 15; 465) coupled to the movable cutter member (7; 57; 407; 457) for driving movement of the movable cutter member (7; 57; 407; 457). The stationary cutter member (2; 52; 102; 152; 202; 252; 302; 352) has an outer surface (3; 53; 103), a chamber (4) bounded by an inner surface (5) and at least one hair-catching opening (6; 56; 406) extending from the outer surface (3; 53; 103) to the inner surface (5). The movable cutter member (7; 57; 407; 457) comprises at least one cutting edge (8), fits in the chamber (4) with a free, close fit and includes a continuous carrier (15; 465) oriented in longitudinal direction of the movable cutter member (7; 57; 407; 457). The cutting edges (8) are provided on cutters (16) projecting radially from the carrier (15; 465). A set of cutter members for such a hair-clipping device is also described.

Abstract: A joining method head is proposed for fixation to a movable frame, in particular to a robot, having a holding means for an element to be joined to a part, a joining drive means to move the holding means along a joining direction for joining, and a feeding means for feeding elements to the joining method head. Here a control means to control the joining drive means is arranged at the joining method head spatially distanced from the holding means and the joining drive means, so that the holding means and the joining drive means form a joining tool of small dimensions, and means are provided to pass on the elements fed to a transfer station of the feeding means in each instance to the holding means from in front.

Abstract: A hair-clipping device includes a main body, a main hair-clipping unite supported by the main body, and additional hair-clipping unit having an active hair-clipping portion extending over a longitudinal dimension and being supported by a supporting unit. The supporting unit, at least in one predetermined working position of the active hair-clipping portion, extends only over a part of the longitudinal dimension. Thereby at least one free end portion of the active hair-clipping portion exists that can, for example, be easily inserted into the nose to remove nose hair.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hair-straightening device (10) comprising: an air inlet portion (12) for receiving an air stream having a first direction (14), a brush or comb (16) having a plurality of tines (18) and intended to be moved in a moving direction (20), and means (22, 24) for redirecting the air stream into a second direction (26), wherein the angle (?) enclosed by the moving direction (20) and the second direction (26) is smaller than 50 degrees, preferably smaller than 30 degrees, and most preferably smaller than 20 degrees.

Abstract: A hair dryer (1) comprises a housing (2) having a central axis (X). The housing (2) comprises an outlet (4) for a stream of air to flow through, and a flow guide means. The flow guide means comprises a static flow guide surface for guiding the stream of air, said flow guide surface being, at least partly, angled with respect to the central axis (X) of the housing (2).

Abstract: A hair-clipping device comprises a stationary cutter member (2; 52; 102; 152; 202; 252; 302; 352), at least one movable cutter member (7; 57; 407; 457), and a drive (9, 14, 15; 465) coupled to the movable cutter member (7; 57; 407; 457) for driving movement of the movable cutter member (7; 57; 407; 457). The stationary cutter member (2; 402 52; 102; 152; 202; 252; 302; 352) has an outer surface (3; 53; 103), a chamber (4) bounded by an inner surface (5) and at least one hair-catching opening (6; 56; 406) extending from the outer surface (3; 53; 103) to the inner surface (5). The movable cutter member (7; 57; 407; 457) comprises at least one cutting edge (8), fits in the chamber (4) with a free, close fit and includes a continuous carrier (15; 465) oriented in longitudinal direction of the movable cutter member (7; 57; 407; 457). The cutting edges (8) are provided on cutters (16) projecting radially from the carrier (15; 465). A set of cutter members for such a hair-clipping device is also described.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hair-straightening device (10) comprising: an air inlet portion (12) for receiving an air stream having a first direction (14), a brush or comb (16) having a plurality of tines (18) and intended to be moved in a moving direction (20), and means (22, 24) for redirecting the air stream into a second direction (26), wherein the angle (?) enclosed by the moving direction (20) and the second direction (26) is smaller than 50 degrees, preferably smaller than 30 degrees, and most preferably smaller than 20 degrees.

Abstract: The invention is related to an electrical hair-cutting device (500) comprising: an external hair-cutting element (502) with hair entry openings and an internal hair-cutting element that is movable relative to the external hair-cutting element (502) a preferred direction of movement (546) over skin;—a hair guiding or hair manipulating member that is arranged in front of the external hair-cutting element (502), seen in the preferred direction of movement (546) over the skin; and an adjustable skin support member (524) that is arranged behind the external hair-cutting element (502), seen in the preferred direction of movement (546) over the skin.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a hair-clipping device (100) comprising: a main body (110), main hair-clipping means (112) supported by the main body (110), and additional hair-clipping means (114) having an active hair-clipping portion (116) extending over a longitudinal dimension (118) and being supported by supporting means (120). In accordance with the invention the supporting means (120) at least in one predetermined working position of the active hair-clipping portion (116) extend only over a part of the longitudinal dimension (118). Thereby at least one free end portion of the active hair-clipping portion exists that can, for example, be easily inserted into the nose to remove nose hair. However, the additional hair-clipping means (114) are preferably not limited to this function, but can also be used, for example, for conventional hair trimming etc.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a disc (10, 12, 14) for an epilating apparatus disc assembly (16), the disc comprising at least one clamping portion (18, 38, 40) intended to interact with a further clamping portion of a neighboring disc when the disc and the epilating apparatus are arranged as the epilating apparatus-disc assembly (16),with a radially outward region (18) of the clamping portion being harder than a radially inward region (38, 40) of the clamping portion.

Abstract: A joining system head (22) is proposed for fixation to a movable frame (12), in particular to a robot (12), having a holding means (66) for an element (36) to be joined to a part (38), a joining drive means (64) to move the holding means (66) along a joining direction (40) for joining, and a feeding means (44) for feeding elements (36) to the joining system head (22). Here a control means (42) to control the joining drive means (64) is arranged at the joining system head (22) spatially distanced from the holding means (66) and the joining drive means (64), so that the holding means (66) and the joining drive means (64) form a joining tool (32) of small dimensions, and means (68) are provided to pass on the elements (36) fed to a transfer station (46) of the feeding means (44) in each instance to the holding means (66) from in front.

Abstract: A joining method head is proposed for fixation to a movable frame, in particular to a robot, having a holding means for an element to be joined to a part, a joining drive means to move the holding means along a joining direction for joining, and a feeding means for feeding elements to the joining method head. Here a control means to control the joining drive means is arranged at the joining method head spatially distanced from the holding means and the joining drive means, so that the holding means and the joining drive means form a joining tool of small dimensions, and means are provided to pass on the elements fed to a transfer station of the feeding means in each instance to the holding means from in front.

Abstract: A cutter unit (16) for a shaver (1) comprises a base part (19) and cutting-edge carriers (21, 22, 23, 24, 25), the base part (19) and the cutting-edge carriers (21 to 25) being formed by means of a single plastics part (36) that is all in one piece and the plastics part (36) being coated with a metal coating (37) in that region of the cutting-edge carriers (21 to 25) that is intended to form the cutting edges (31, 32).

Abstract: In hair-cutting apparatus (1) having a cutting arrangement (9) for cutting hair, there is provided an arrangement that prevents cut hair from flying off the haircutting apparatus and that comprises a boundary wall (22), which boundary wall (22) extends close to the cutting arrangement (9) and comprising a stationary portion (34) and a movable portion (35), the movable portion (35) being intended and arranged to cooperate with hair to be cut.

Abstract: In a hair-cutting apparatus (1) with a cutting device (9) for cutting hair, a suction device (17) is provided for drawing off cut of hair, wherein the suction device (17) is equipped with a suction channel (21), which is bounded by channel walls (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29) and is equipped with a suction opening (30), located in the vicinity of the cutting device (9) wherein the suction device (17) is equipped with at least one component (35, 37) to change the flow rate in the are in the area of the suction opening (30).

Abstract: The invention relates to an electrically driven toothbrush comprising an electric motor for rotationally driving a drive shaft around a drive axis, a brush shaft having a first free outer end provided with a bristle, conversion means for converting the rotational movement of the drive shaft into a reciprocal rotational movement of the brush shaft around a brush shaft axis according to conversion characteristics, and pivoting means for enabling the pivoting of at least part of the brush shaft around a pivot axis, extending perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction of the drive shaft, from a neutral pivoting position and against the action of forcing means, to a non-neutral position due to forces acting on the bristle, the pivoting of the at least part of the brush shaft around the pivot axis to the non-neutral position causing a change in the conversion characteristics.

Abstract: A joining system head (22) is proposed for fixation to a movable frame (12), in particular to a robot (12), having

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).