Abstract: In a hair-cutting system (1) including a hair-cutting apparatus (2) comprising a toothed cutting device (14) having a toothed cutter (15) which is drivable by a motor (17), and a comb device (19) which can be coupled to the toothed cutting device (2) and which comprises an adjustable comb section (22), the hair-cutting apparatus (2) has an adjustment button (48) for adjusting the adjustable comb section (22) of the comb device (19) and an on/off button (74) for switching on and switching off the motor (17), the adjustment button (48) being arranged at the location of a front side (10) of the hair-cutting apparatus (2) and the on/off button (74) being arranged at the location of a back side (11) of the hair-cutting apparatus (2).

Abstract: An attachment comb for use with a hair clipper that includes a series of teeth with lower peripheral surfaces of a particular curve that are configured for comfortable movement along the surface of a subject's head, and where the teeth are also preferably proportioned in such a manner as to permit the hair to be uniformly trimmed to relatively long lengths of an inch or greater. Specifically, in the present attachment comb, at least one of the teeth preferably includes a widened rib portion that extends along at least a portion of the length of the lower peripheral edge of that tooth. In addition, the lower peripheral surfaces of the teeth are preferably curved into a half-teardrop shape that includes both a concave curved surface and a convex curved surface. Finally, the teeth may be flared outwardly as they extend away from the base portion so that the hair being cut can be directed toward the cutting blades on the hair clipper.

Abstract: A hair-cutting system (1) is provided comprising a hair-cutting apparatus (2) having a toothed cutting device (17), and comprising a comb device (20) which can be mounted onto the hair-cutting apparatus (2) and comprises a stationary comb section (22) and an adjustable comb section (23), and comprising positioning means by which the adjustable comb section (23) can be positioned with respect to the stationary comb section (22), the stationary comb section (22) and the adjustable comb section (23) are loaded relative to one another by means of at least one spring (48), and the positioning means comprise an adjustment device (50) arranged on the hair-cutting apparatus (2), which adjustment device is adjustable to a number of settings by the hand in which the hair-cutting apparatus (2) is held during operation, and coupling means (51) are arranged between the adjustment device (50) and the adjustable comb section (23) for automatically coupling the adjustment device (50) and the adjustable comb section (23) when

Abstract: A hair trimmer for trimming hairs including a casing having an actuating device; a cutter head disposed at one end of the casing and including a generally elongated fixed blade and a movable blade adapted to be driven by the actuating device so as to reciprocate relative to the fixed blade in a cutting plane to trim the hairs; and a hair restraint edge for regulating a distance between the cutter head and the scalp to permit the hairs to extend across a space between the cutter head and the hair restraint edge in a substantially layer form of a thickness equal to the distance to the cutter head.

Abstract: Described is an electric hair-cutter with a spacer comb (3) fitted on the cutter head and a sliding switch (11) for switching the hair-cutter on and off. The invention calls for the hair-cutter to have a preselector (60) switch which can be set so that the motor is not switched on until the slider switch locks into a predetermined position.

Abstract: A hair clipper includes, in addition to a cutter head, a hair entrapping member and a hair pressing member which are both movable relative to a cutting edge of the cutter head. The cutter head comprises a toothed stationary blade and a toothed movable blade. The movable blade is driven to reciprocate in shearing engagement with the stationary blade for shearing hairs therebetween. The hair entrapping member is movable between an open position and a closed position. In the open position the hair entrapping member is spaced away from the cutting edge of the cutter head, thus permitting hairs to enter between the hair entrapping member and the cutting edge. In the closed position, the hair entrapping member is held close to the cutting edge to thereby seize the hairs therebetween for shearing the hairs.

Abstract: Apparatus for tipping a horn of a horned animal by removing a selected portion thereof. A positioning member having an aperture which extends between first and second side surfaces thereof is pivotally mounted to a cutting member having a cutting edge formed along a first side surface thereof. The aperture is defined by an inner side surface of the positioning member which includes a first, inwardly tapered, portion and a second, untapered, portion. When the positioning member is placed over the horn, first and second edge surfaces which define first and second boundaries of the inwardly tapered portion circumferentially bite into the horn at first and second locations, respectively. The cutting member is then pivoted towards the positioning member to sever the selected portion of the horn. The cutting member is comprised of a support member having a cut-away portion and a blade member flush mounted in the cut-away portion of the support member.

Abstract: A hair clipper has an elongated housing with a cutter head at its front and an elongated base cover connected thereto for movement between open and closed positions. The cutter head includes a stationary blade with a row of teeth and a movable blade with a like row of teeth which is driven to reciprocate relative to the stationary blade in hair shearing engagement therebetween. The teeth of the stationary and movable blades are cooperative to define a cutting edge. The base cover is formed at its front with a hair entrapping edge which extends substantially parallel with the cutting edge and which is kept spaced from the cutting edge in the open position and comes close to the cutting edge in the closed position. The hairs are introduced past the hair entrapping edge over the cutting edge in the open position, and subsequently seized between the hair entrapping edge and the cutting edge in the closed position for shearing at the cutting edge.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an electric shaving and hair trimming apparatus, with a first cutter arrangement or shaver assembly comprised of upper cutter and lower cutter for cutting short hair, and with a second cutter arrangement or trimmer head comprised of trimmer blade and trimmer plate for shortening long hair, with the use of the trimmer head involving a spacer comb seatable on the first and second cutter arrangement. When the apparatus is turned on, the trimmer head is invariably moved by an ON-OFF slide control means from its lowermost position (OFF position), in which its distance to the tip of the spacer comb is at a maximum, to its uppermost position in which its distance to the tip of the spacer comb is at a minimum and in which the shortest cutting length is set. In this manner, it is ensured that when starting operation of the trimmer head the beard hair is initially cut at the longest cutting length setting.

Abstract: A hair cutter has a housing with a part-cylindrical cutter head and a comb member. The cutter head comprises an outer shear plate having a number of perforations and an inner cutter assembly. The inner cutter assembly includes a rotary shaft carrying a plurality of radially oriented cutter blades in a circumferentially spaced relation about an axis of the rotary shaft. The outer shear plate is arcuately curved in transverse cross section to cover a portion of the curve centered on the rotary shaft axis so as to have its inside surface in hair shearing engagement with the cutter blades. The inner cutter assembly is driven by a drive source in the housing in such a manner that the cutter blades sweep the inside surface of the outer shear plate for shearing hairs introduced through the perforations. The comb member has a number of comb teeth which are spaced along the rotary shaft axis and extend over an perforated area of the outer shear plate for smoothing the hairs into the perforations.

Abstract: A motor-driven hair cutter is provided with a main cutter and a trimmer at a front end of an elongated housing. Each of the main cutter and the trimmer is a reciprocatory cutter comprising a toothed stationary blade and a toothed movable blade driven to reciprocate in hair shearing engagement with the stationary blade. The trimmer is movable between a retracted position in which a cutting edge of the trimmer is behind a cutting edge of the main cutter and a projected position in which the cutting edge of the trimmer projects forwardly of the main cutter so that the trimmer alone can be used. The trimmer blades are formed to be smaller in thickness as well as in cutting edge width than those of the main cutter blades in order to facilitate a delicate trimming of hairs in a restricted area of a user's head by the trimmer.

Abstract: A hair clipper includes a cutter head and a hair entrapping member which is movable toward and away from a cutting edge of the cutter head. The cutter head comprises a stationary blade with a toothed edge defining a cutting edge of the cutter head and a movable blade with a like toothed edge. The movable blade is driven to reciprocate in shearing engagement between the toothed edges of the stationary and movable blades for shearing hairs therebetween. The hair entrapping member is preferably in the form of a comb which is movable between an open position and a closed position. In the open position the comb is spaced away from the cutting edge of the cutter head, thus permitting hairs to enter between the comb and the cutting edge. In the closed position, the comb is held close to the cutting edge to thereby seize the hairs therebetween for shearing the hairs.

Abstract: A template for cutting designs in hair comprising a flexible planar member having a front and back with an aperture defined therein in the desired shape of the design to be cut in the hair with the inner edges of the aperture beveled inwardly from the front to the back, the template adapted to be placed upon the head and bent to the head's curvature with the hair that falls within the aperture of the template to be removed.

Abstract: A shearing device capable of being articulated between open and closed positions for cutting material includes pairs of handle levers and shearing elements rotatably mounted on a pivot mechanism. A clutch assembly comprising plates with complimentary and fixed configurations biased in abutting and intermeshing relationship when in a predetermined rotary alignment is positioned between the pairs of handle levers and switching elements. The clutch assembly is responsible to a predetermined force generated when the handle levers are articulated towards a closed position and the shearing elements encounter cut resistant material for camming the plates out of meshing relationship and operatively disconnecting the handle levers.

Abstract: A hair trimmer is provided having a housing provided with a stationary cutter and a cutter which can be driven relative to the stationary cutter, the housing comprising a comb attachment which is adjustable relative to the housing. The housing is provided with a rotatable annular adjusting element which forms part of a spiral-groove coupling between the housing and the comb attachment.

Abstract: A hair trimmer includes a cutting head 20 with an outer shearing foil 21 and an inner cutter 30 in hair shearing engagement with the shearing foil 21. The cutting head 20 is characterizee to have a hair guide surface 24 on its top and a skin engaging comb 40 for contact with the skin of the user. A number of hair introducing perforations 22 are formed in a portion 25 of the outer shearing foil 21 which is located below the hair guide surface 24 and extends in an inclined relation with respect thereto. The cutting head 20 is adapted in use to be advanced along the hair strands toward the tips thereof with the skin engaging comb 40 ahead of the hair guide surface 24. During this movement, the hair strands are combed into between the hair guide surface 24 and the skin and are then flexed outwardly upon leaving the hair guide surface 24 such that the tips of the hair strands are fed ito the perforations 22 in the inclined portion 25 behind the hair guide surface 24 in the advancing direction of the cutter head.

Abstract: An improvement in precision hair styling shears comprises an enlarged extension of the tip of one shear, drilled and threaded to receive a post having a threaded end and a smooth end. The smooth end of the post rests on the scalp of the person whose hair is to be cut to steady and elevate the blades of the shears. A series of different length posts, or one post having a longer threaded region for advancing more or less as desired through the hole in the shears tip extension, allows adjustment of the distance from the scalp to the shears.

Abstract: An attachment is provided for electric beard trimmers which spaces the teeth on the blades of the trimmer a desired distance from the skin to produce stubble having the appearance of uniform growth. The attachment may be selectively secured to and removed from the trimmer. The attachment covers the cutting teeth on the blades and includes a plurality of openings which expose selected teeth on the trimmer blades. The length of the trimmed stubble may be between about 0.010 inches and 0.090 inches or more, and is determined by the configuration of the blades of the trimmer and the thickness of the attachment.

Abstract: In a hair cutting apparatus, particularly an electric hair cutting apparatus, with a shearing head comprised of a shear plate and a cutting element as well as with a spacer comb adapted to be seated on the shearing head for sliding contact with the skin surface to be treated, with the position of the forward edge of the cutting element being adjustable relative to the skin surface, the spacer comb (3)--upon being seated on the shearing head (2) of the hair cutting apparatus (1)--is adapted to be coupled with the hair cutting apparatus by centrally controlled coupling members (10, 14, 23) cooperating with coupling members (16, 18, 24) of the comb to provide a coupling (13) between the body (7) of the hair cutting apparatus (1) and the spacer comb (3), the coupling members being adapted to move the said spacer comb into its individual ratchet positions producing different lengths of the cut.

Abstract: When thinning scissors, in which the cutting edge of at least one scissor blade is serrated and the cutting edge of the other scissor blade is, for example, smooth, are used, visible steps detrimental to the appearance of the hair-style are obtained during thinning. To prevent the steps from being visible in the finished hair-style, one scissor blade of the thinning scissors has, on its outer side, a serration with stub teeth which overlies its cutting edge at a distance from the latter, the individual teeth projecting relative to the cutting edge of the scissor blade and having differing lengths.

Abstract: A novel comb attachment for use with a hair clipper is disclosed herein. The comb attachment is adapted to fit over the front portion of the hair clipper including a cutter assembly having an elongated cutting edge. The cutter assembly comprises a movable cutter reciprocating with respect to a stationary cutter, these cutters defining therebetween a cutting plane. Formed in the front end of the attachment is a series of spaced comb teeth the row of which is in close and parallel relationship with the cutting edge of the cutter assembly for guiding hairs into the cutting edge. Each of the comb teeth is formed at the location above the cutting plane with at least one barb projecting on its side and upper faces to define therebehind a rearwardly oriented shoulder. These shoulders act as stoppers for the clipped hair strands which have been sheared and fed rearwardly of the cutting edge when advancing the hair clipper through a user's hair for a continuous hair cut.

Abstract: A hair clipper comprised of a stationary blade and a movable clipper blade each provided with teeth cooperating with each other upon the reciprocating swinging movement of the clipper blade to and from the stationary blade to produce hair cut is further provided with an adjusting strip displaceable along the teeth of the stationary blade in the direction of elongation of those teeth so as to adjust the depth of the tooth gaps in the stationary blade.

Abstract: An electrically operated animal hair shear or cutting device including an electric motor housing, hair cutting blade means and a conventional toothed comb member carried by the device, and a second comb member carried by the device with the first comb member disposed between the blade means and the second comb member in spaced relation. The same device mounting apertures and mounting means for the first comb member may be employed to detachably mount the second comb means to the device.

Abstract: The present invention is a cutting unit having multiple sets of tandem blades; each set being composed of a first toothed blade moved reciprocatingly in a cutting motion relative to a second tooth blade. The blades are preferably curved.

Abstract: A manually operated hair cutting device having a movable spring wire extending through the device. The wire has a base end for engaging one's head to regulate the length at which the hair is cut. The other end of the wire is connected to an activator which is adapted to be moved to forward and rear positions. As the activator is moved forward, the wire is moved through the device such that its base end is moved away from the cutting teeth. When the base end of the wire engages the head, and the activator is moved forward, the device moves upward along the wire. A movable stop normally prevents the handles from being moved together to prevent hair cutting action. An adjustable engager on the activator engages the stop and moves it out of the way as the activator moved forward to allow the handles to be moved together for hair cutting purposes.

Abstract: The blade part assembling structure for electric shaver of this invention comprises fitting pins which are rotatably fitted to a blade mounting base, a movable blade mounted on the base in the first rotating positions of the fitting pins, and a stationary blade mounted on the base in the second rotating positions so that, in the case of dismounting the stationary blade, the movable blade will be locked with the fitting pins in the rotated positions of the fitting pins and any occurence of troubles during disassembling and re-assembling of the blade part by the user can be avoided.

Abstract: A powered hair trimmer is described which is provided with a hair thinning comb. The comb guides strands of hair toward cutter teeth of the trimmer for shearing and inhibits the introduction between the cutter teeth of some of the guided strands.

Abstract: An improved hand-held electric powered hair trimming appliance is described comprising a comb and a cutter. The appliance is adapted to be advanced along a bed of hair in the same type of combing motion as is used to style the hair and the cutter is transported simultaneously with the comb. The comb is adapted to apply a force to strands of hair being combed causing distal segments thereof to deflect away from the bed of hair. The cutter is positioned in the path of the deflected segments of hair for shearing thereof by the cutter. Predetermined spacing of the cutter with respect to the comb provides for the majority of the sheared distal segments having a predetermined length.

Abstract: A hair trimming appliance having cutter teeth movable in a reciprocating path is provided with a demountable smoothing comb. The smoothing comb enables trimming of straggling hair strands and cowlicks of a combed hair styling while limiting shearing of hair strands having a predetermined length. The smoothing comb provides for limiting extension of the latter hair strands into the path of the cutter teeth of the hair trimming appliance.

Abstract: A hand-held electrically energized hair trimming appliance is disclosed which is adapted to alternatively utilize a demountable clipper assembly or a demountable trimmer assembly. The demountable trimmer assembly includes an extending segment for supporting a trimmer cutter assembly at a location displaced from a housing of the appliance for enhancing user visibility when trimming mustaches, hair around earlobes, and the like.

Abstract: For use with a hair trimmer of known design having coacting relatively oscillatable shear plates each provided with a series of generally V-shape cutting teeth and wherein a fixed shear plate is in position to engage the head of the party whose hair is being trimmed and an oscillatable shear plate is in contact therewith, a combination is provided of a removable comb plate clipped onto the bottom of the stationary shear plate and having a series of parallel comb teeth extending forwardly of the cutting teeth and spaced a predetermined distance from the shearing level whereby a person may cut his own hair using the trimmer with the comb attachment so as to cut the individual hairs at at uniform length.