Adjustable Patents (Class 30/201)
  • Patent number: 11950568
    Abstract: A pet comb includes a handle, a mounting head and a comb body. The comb body includes a row of striped comb teeth; a blade side of the striped comb teeth includes a combing portion disposed at an outer section and a blade portion disposed at an inner section; the striped comb teeth are provided with a blade blocking portion extending in the same direction as the striped comb teeth on the side of the blade side; at least part of the combing portion exceeds the free end of the blade blocking portion, and the blade blocking portion blocks at least part of the blade portion; the combing portion is configured to provide a combing function for the comb, and the blade portion is configured to provide a function of cutting hair for the comb so as to disentangle or thin the hair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NINGBO HONGDU MODEL PLASTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinchun Zhang, Xin Di
  • Patent number: 11745369
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Marcus Franciscus Eijkelkamp, Arjen De Boer, Martijn Frans Johan Nab, Roel Alexander Rethmeier, Willem Maat
  • Patent number: 11667045
    Abstract: A hair cutting device kit including a detachable cutting unit actuator, and user-moveable control element. The cutting unit has an extension mechanism configured to vary a cutting length of the cutting unit within a cutting length range. The actuator is configured to cooperate with the extension mechanism of the cutting unit to vary a cutting length of the cutting unit, the actuator being moveable between a first actuator position corresponding to a first extreme cutting length, and a second actuator position corresponding to a second extreme cutting length. The control element is moveable between a range of length control positions between a first control position corresponding to the first actuator position and a second control position corresponding to the second actuator position, and an off position corresponding to deactivation of the drive. The actuator is in the first actuator position when the control element is in the off position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Marcus Franciscus Eijkelkamp
  • Patent number: 11554510
    Abstract: An electric-powered trimmer with a handle. A battery pack positioned in the handle. An electrical circuit positioned in the handle and electrically connected with the battery pack. The electrical circuit including a motor having a drive shaft, and a cutting assembly removeably coupled to the handle. The handle extends along a longitudinal axis and has an inner wall that defines a receptacle in a longitudinal end. The battery pack is configured to rotate about the longitudinal axis relative to the handle between (i) a first position in which the battery pack is secured within the receptacle of the handle and (ii) a second position in which the battery pack is configured to be removed from the receptacle of the handle. A plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) positioned in the inner wall of the handle. The inner wall includes a transparent section that covers the plurality of LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Mir M. Anwar, David-Henry Oliver, Jessica M. Gilbertson, Adam A. Reed-Erickson, Tristan J. Walker
  • Patent number: 11396106
    Abstract: A hair cutting device adapted for cutting one's own hair comprises a comb piece having teeth with smooth comb edges near open ends and sharp cutting edges near closed ends, a moving cutting arm with sharp cutting teeth in contact and rough alignment with the sharp cutting edges of the comb piece, capable of reciprocating sideways back and forth and cutting hair in conjunction with the sharp cutting edges of the comb piece, and a hair guard in close proximity along their lengths. The hair guard can be lowered to expose the sharp cutting edges of the comb piece and moving cutting arm to cut hair or raised above the sharp cutting edges to work as a comb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Inventors: Hsu Kai Yang, Luke Tzenmin Luangrath, Jerin Tzenjie Luangrath
  • Patent number: 11364647
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Marcus Franciscus Eijkelkamp, Arjen De Boer, Martijn Frans Johan Nab, Willem Maat, Roel Alexander Rethmeier
  • Patent number: 11331822
    Abstract: A wirelessly charging hair clipper is provided. The hair clipper includes a housing that includes a plurality of blades that are driven by an electric motor to allow the plurality of blades to oscillate from side to side relative to one another to cut hair. The housing supports a receiving assembly that is electromagnetically coupled to a transmitting assembly of a charging platform to form an inductive charging system. The housing of the hair clipper is configured to be placed against the charging platform, wherein the transmitting assembly transmits a current by an electromagnetic field to the receiving assembly to recharge a battery electrically connected to the receiving assembly, thereby wirelessly charging the hair clipper. The wirelessly charging hair clipper is configured to prevent clutter by eliminating electrical wires that are constantly entangled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Inventor: Jeam Roman
  • Patent number: 11267146
    Abstract: A cutter head (10) for a hair cutting machine, having an upper blade (14) and a lower blade (12) that is adjustable relative to the upper blade using an actuating element (100), having a support (32) with an adjusting element (16) which is adjustable relative to the support using the actuating element (100) and which carries out a relative movement between the upper blade and the lower blade in the direction of cutting. The actuating element can be selectively placed in one of two opposite side areas of the support for actuating the adjusting element connected to the lower blade (12). The actuating element (100) is removably connected to a shaft (62), mounted in the support (32), having a first element. The adjusting element is a second element having, in the cross-section, a U- and/or C-shape, the transverse or base limb being connected to the lower blade (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: EXONDA SALON TOOLS GMBH
    Inventors: Reinhard Kruse, Alfred Isaacs, Katharina Huck, Bernd Schmitt
  • Patent number: 11230021
    Abstract: This application concerns a hair-thinning comb (200) comprising pairs of comb teeth. Each pair comprises a primary comb tooth (216) and an adjacent secondary comb tooth (217). A distal primary tip (218) of the primary comb tooth (216) extends longitudinally beyond a distal secondary tip (219) of the secondary comb tooth (217). A blocking channel (226) between roots of the primary and secondary comb teeth (216, 217) prevent hairs received therein from reaching a cutting element (106) of a hair clipper (100). There is also a cutting gap (225) separating adjacent pairs of comb teeth to permit hair to pass to a cutting element (106) clipper (100). The distal primary tips (218) separate hair in a first separation stage, and the distal secondary tips (219) separate hair between the blocking channel (226) and the cutting gap (225) in a second separation stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Luca Iaccarino
  • Patent number: 11213964
    Abstract: A hair trimming device arranged to detect positions of the hair trimming device in relation to a client's head and to adjust its trimming length automatically and dynamically according to preprogrammed values at any given point during a hair trimming session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Klaus Lauritsen
  • Patent number: 11198229
    Abstract: A flex clipper provides a feature to help the cutting blade set float more effortlessly by adjusting automatically to the contours of a client's head to prevent getting stuck and causing cuts and irritation to the scalp. The hair clippers preferably also uses a self-contained motor-driven adjustment mechanism to adjust the relative position of the stationary and reciprocating blades of a common type of blade set. Two momentary switches operable by the thumb of the hand holding the clipper afford a barber total automatic adjustment with the clipper itself in an on or off condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Inventor: Lonnie Holmes
  • Patent number: 11161262
    Abstract: An electric-powered trimmer includes a handle. A battery pack is positioned in the handle. An electrical circuit is positioned in the handle and electrically connected with the battery pack. A cutting assembly is removeably coupled to the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Walker & Co. Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Mir M. Anwar, David-Henry Oliver, Jessica M. Gilbertson, Adam A. Reed-Erickson, Tristan J. Walker
  • Patent number: 11027441
    Abstract: A hair cutting device includes a hair cutting device body and an interchangeable comb unit for defining a hair length after cutting. The hair cutting device body further includes a comb interface for releasable attachment of the comb unit to the hair cutting device body, and a hair length indicator operatively coupled to the comb interface for indicating the hair length to a user. The interchangeable comb unit includes a comb identification member for identifying a hair length associated with the comb unit, and the comb interface includes a comb recognition arrangement being electrically coupled to the hair length indicator. The comb recognition arrangement is configured to sense the comb identification member when the comb unit is connected to the hair cutting device body, and to provide an electronic signal indicative of the hair length associated with the comb unit to the hair length indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Dirk Hendrik Wevers, Hendrik Jan Mark Van Der Worp, Auke Tuinstra, Johan Willem Berenschot, Hedzer Michiel Adriaan Van Der Kamp, Willem Joosten, Marcel Hilco Zijlstra, Ishay Halmut, Jeroen Christian Nijdam
  • Patent number: 10773400
    Abstract: A hair trimming system arranged to detect the position of a hair trimming device in relation to a client's head, and to adjust its trimming length automatically and dynamically according to preprogrammed values at any given point during a hair trimming session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Klaus Lauritsen
  • Patent number: 10730197
    Abstract: A hair cutting appliance is configured to be moved through hair in a moving direction in order to cut hair. The hair cutting appliance includes a housing portion, a blade set having a skin-facing top surface, and a releasable attachment comb. The blade set is arranged pivotably with respect to the housing portion. The attachment comb includes a supporting frame, at least one spacing guard element configured to space the blade set from a working surface when in operation, a mounting portion configured to be attached to a housing portion of the hair cutting appliance, and an orientation determining portion configured to engage the blade set and to define a locking orientation of the blade set when mounted to the hair cutting appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Luca Iaccarino, Britt Roumen, Martinus Bernardus Stapelbroek, Jan Bennik, Johan Pragt, Remy Amos Abraham Ripandelli, Robbert Freerk Johan Van Der Scheer, Albert Jan Aitink, Roalnd Van Straaten, Everhardus Johannes Hoexum, Jan Van Dalen
  • Patent number: 10702999
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Luca Iaccarino, Oege Smedinga, Everhardus Johannes Hoexum, Willem Maat, Kin Fatt Phoon
  • Patent number: 10668635
    Abstract: A stationary blade for a hair cutting appliance and a method of forming the stationary blade includes providing tooth components obtained from metal material, where the tooth components are arranged in a substantially flat fashion and are at least partially tapered towards a tip end. The method further includes arranging the tooth components next to each other to form a series of spaced apart teeth, where neighboring tooth components are arranged at a distance from one another; providing a blade base acting as a support receptacle, arranged to receive the tooth components; and interconnecting the tooth components and the blade base in a direct or mediate fashion, thereby forming teeth of the stationary blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Siegfried Sablatschan
  • Patent number: 10538004
    Abstract: An attachment of an electric hair trimmer according to the present disclosure is mountable on an electric hair trimmer, and a cutting length which is a length of hair introduced between a fixed blade and a movable blade is adjustable. The attachment of the electric hair trimmer according to the present disclosure includes: a mounting portion which is mounted on a head portion so as to cover a head portion; a slide portion which is mounted on the mounting portion in a slidable manner with respect to the mounting portion such that the cutting length is changed; and a comb which is provided on the slide portion so as to guide hair between the fixed blade and the movable blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Wang, Takashi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10391646
    Abstract: A flex clipper provides a feature to help the cutting blade set float more effortlessly by adjusting automatically to the contours of a client's head to prevent getting stuck and causing cuts and irritation to the scalp. The hair clippers preferably also uses a self-contained motor-driven adjustment mechanism to adjust the relative position of the stationary and reciprocating blades of a common type of blade set. Two momentary switches operable by the thumb of the hand holding the clipper afford a barber total automatic adjustment with the clipper itself in an on or off condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Inventor: Lonnie Holmes
  • Patent number: 10377048
    Abstract: An adjustment drive is provided for an adjustable spacing comb for a hair cutting appliance. The adjustment drive includes an actuator, a sensor element and a control unit. The actuator actuates a movable comb portion of the adjustable spacing comb with respect to a blade set of the hair cutting appliance. The sensor element detects multi-faceted user inputs applied to the sensor element by a user and to output a user input signal that is derived from the multi-faceted user inputs. The actuator is operated on the basis of the user input signal. The control unit is coupled to the actuator and to the sensor element, and converts the user input signal into an actuator operating signal. The multi-faceted user inputs include detected user input speed of an input stroke by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Geert-Jan Darwinkel, Alle Braaksma, Cornelis Johannes Zandsteeg
  • Patent number: 10377049
    Abstract: A comb attachment for a hair clipper includes a base having a depression adjacent a back edge of the attachment and a flexible clip extending outwardly from the back edge. The depression locates a user's finger or thumb when pressing the base until the clip flexes around the edge of the blade. The comb attachment is removed by pulling the clip back around the blade. The flexible clip can be a cantilever having two spaced arch-shaped arms extending from the base and secured to each other at their cantilevered ends by a cross-member. The bottom surface of the cross-member can be angled to facilitate release of the clip and removal of the attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Wahl Clipper Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Whittaker, Dustin Taylor, Scott Melton
  • Patent number: 10307920
    Abstract: A hair clipper variable comb attachment, for use with a hair clipper having a fixed upper blade and a movable lower blade, including a blade mount, a main part, a comb carrier, and a pair of adjustment pegs. The comb carrier has a front and a plurality of longitudinally extending tines that increase in height as they extend rearwardly. The blade mount secures to the fixed upper blade of the clipper. The comb carrier is slidably attached onto the main part so that as the adjustment pegs are rotated the comb carrier can move forwardly with respect to the blade to increase cutting height of the clipper and can move rearwardly to decrease cutting height. Adjustment of the comb carrier position and thus the cutting height can be made without removing the comb attachment from the hair clipper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Inventor: Felix Sanchez
  • Patent number: 10029377
    Abstract: The present application relates to a hair trimming device (10). The hair trimming device has a body (11) with a cutting blade assembly (20). A cutting guide (40) is provided on the body and the position of the cutting guide is adjustable relative to the cutting blade assembly to provide a cutting distance from a user's skin to enable hair to be cut to a desired length. A locking unit (60) is also provided to lock the cutting guide at a desired position relative to the cutting blade assembly. The locking unit comprises a first locking element (64), a second locking element (65) and at least one receiving recess (83). The first and second locking elements are alternately locatable in the or one of the receiving recesses when the position of the cutting guide is adjusted relative to the cutting blade assembly to lock the cutting guide at different positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Marcel Hilco Zijlstra, Reinier Alexander Tijssen, Hendrik Jan Mark Van Der Worp, Hendrik Klaas Haagsma, Vidyadhar Hanumanthappa, Dimitri Peter Heuvel, Bastiaan Hendrik De Raat
  • Patent number: 10011029
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a guide comb having a holdable extension. The guide comb includes a central portion including a plurality of teeth extending at one end thereof and the holdable extension extending from an opposite end with respect to the plurality of teeth. A lower face of the central portion includes an attachment mechanism to reversibly secure a hair clipper. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Inventors: Enrico Bellisario, Lori Bellisario
  • Patent number: 9943972
    Abstract: An adjustable comb for use on a clipper having one of a first lower blade of first size or a second lower blade of second size. One of these lower blades is an active blade when attached to the clipper. The adjustable comb includes an adjustment mechanism for adjusting the position of a retaining tab that engages a rear edge of the active blade. The adjustment mechanism is shifted in a first direction to position the retaining tab for the first lower blade, and is shifted in a second direction to position the retaining tab for the second lower blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Andis Company
    Inventor: Edwin A. Werner
  • Patent number: 9902076
    Abstract: A hair cutting device (10) comprises a blade portion (12) and an adjustable cutting guide (16) moveable with respect to the blade portion to provide a reference guide line (19) on a user's skin/body to enable hair to be cut accurately at a predetermined angle or pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Ishay Halmut, Jeroen Christian Nijdam
  • Patent number: 9427879
    Abstract: A device for trimming hair comprising a housing (3) and a head portion (9) with a cutting blade assembly (10), wherein the head portion (9) is rotatably mounted to the housing (3) and a comb attachment (20) is releasably attachable to the device to extend over the cutting blade assembly (10), the device further comprising a locking means (30,50) configured to fixedly engage the head portion (9) with the housing (3) when a comb attachment (20) is detached from the device such that the head portion (9) is prevented from rotating relative to the housing (3) and configured to disengage the head portion (9) from the housing (3) when a comb attachment (20) is attached to the device such that the head portion (9) is rotatable relative to the housing (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Dirk Hendrik Wevers, Hendrik Jan Mark Van Der Worp, Reinier Alexander Tijssen
  • Patent number: 9393707
    Abstract: A hair cutting device includes a hair cutting device body and an interchangeable comb unit for defining a hair length after cutting. The hair cutting device body further includes a comb interface for releasable attachment of the comb unit to the hair cutting device body, and a hair length indicator operatively coupled to the comb interface for indicating the hair length to a user. The interchangeable comb unit includes a comb identification member for identifying a hair length associated with the comb unit, and the comb interface includes a comb recognition arrangement being electrically coupled to the hair length indicator. The comb recognition arrangement is configured to sense the comb identification member when the comb unit is connected to the hair cutting device body, and to provide an electronic signal indicative of the hair length associated with the comb unit to the hair length indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Dirk Hendrik Wevers, Hendrik Jan Mark Van Der Worp, Auke Tuinstra, Johan Willem Berenschot, Hedzer Michiel Adriaan Van Der Kamp, Willem Joosten, Marcel Hilco Zijlstra, Ishay Halmut, Jeroen Christian Nijdam
  • Patent number: 8938884
    Abstract: An electric hair grooming appliance is configured to have one or more operations to facilitate grooming of hair. The electric hair grooming appliance includes a control circuit, and a touchscreen for receiving one or more inputs from a user and to facilitate communication between the user and the control circuit. The touchscreen is configured to send one or more command signals to the control circuit in response to receiving the one or more inputs from the user. The control circuit is configured to control one or more operations of the electric hair grooming appliance in response to receiving one or more of the command signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Spectrum Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Carl Gottfried Kammer
  • Publication number: 20140331503
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hair clipping system, with a hair clipping device (10) that comprises: —a housing (16); —a cutting assembly (18) which is arranged on one end (14) of said housing (16) and comprises a stationary blade (24) with a front edge (34) and a moveable blade (26) with a toothed edge (36) arranged parallel to said front edge (34) of the stationary blade (24), wherein the moveable blade (26) is displaceably mounted on a surface (28) of the stationary blade (24) and resiliently biased against said surface (28) of the stationary blade (24); —a drive arrangement (30) for driving said moveable blade (26) in an oscillatory movement in a transverse direction (32) substantially parallel to the front edge (34) of the stationary blade (24); —an adjustment unit (42) for adjusting the position of the moveable blade (26) with respect to the stationary blade (24) in a first adjustment direction (50) substantially perpendicular to said transverse direction (32); and with —a comb attachment (12) with
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Raymon Henk Uit De Bulten, Jelle Wouter Wijbrandi, Harold Molendijk
  • Patent number: 8844142
    Abstract: An adjustable comb assembly, which is attachable to an electric hair cutting appliance of the type including opposing cutting blades defining a cutting edge margin for cutting hair, includes a plurality of teeth for regulating a haircut length resulting from the hair being cut by the cutting edge margin of the electric hair cutting appliance. The teeth are selectively movable relative to the cutting edge of the electric hair cutting appliance to any one of a substantially infinite number of different haircut length positions within a range from a maximum haircut length position, in which the comb assembly facilitates cutting hair to a maximum haircut length, to a minimum haircut length position, in which the comb assembly facilitates cutting hair to a minimum haircut length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Spectrum Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Carl Gottfried Kammer
  • Patent number: 8826922
    Abstract: A guided hair-cutting device guides a cutting implement along a user's hairline to evenly cut the front, back, and sides of the user's hair. The device includes a pair of side guards and a front guard coupled to and extending between the side guards. The side guards extend downwardly away from the front guard. Each of the guards comprises a pair of panels. A slot is positioned in each of the guards. Each of the slots has a plurality of teeth positioned therein such that each of the slots is configured to receive teeth from a hair clipper. The panels of each of the guards are slidable such that hair positioned on an inner side of the associated one of the guards is cut when an associated one of the panels is moved along a length of the guard and the hair is engaged by the teeth of the hair clipper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Inventor: Joshua I. Lewis
  • Patent number: 8800152
    Abstract: A comb attachment for use on a hair clipper includes tines that have rounded free ends positioned rearward of the cutting edge of a lower blade and forward of the cutting edge of the upper blade. Because of a radius of curvature of the rounded free ends, the free ends do not cross the cutting edge of the upper blade during attachment and removal of the comb attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Andis Company
    Inventor: Edwin A. Werner
  • Publication number: 20130263457
    Abstract: The hair clipper of the present invention includes an adjusting device for adjusting a clipping height. The adjusting device includes an attachment, a handle ring, and a connection mechanism. The attachment is allowed to move in a predetermined moving direction relative to a blade block. The handle ring is allowed to rotate around a rotation axis extending along the moving direction. The connection mechanism moves the attachment with rotation of the handle ring. The connection mechanism includes a cam groove and a linking pin allowed to move along the cam groove. The cam groove includes a first side and a second side opposite to each other. The first side includes: plural step parts which are formed in different positions in the moving direction and extend in a direction perpendicular to the moving direction; and a slope part configured to connect the step parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Sobagaki, Hitoshi Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20130239416
    Abstract: An apparatus for adjusting a distance between first and second elements, comprising a first rotation member (200) rotatable between first and second stop positions and a second rotation member (300), wherein rotation of the first member between the first and second stop positions comprises a first rotation stage in which the first rotation member rotates through a first rotation angle and a second rotation stage in which the first rotation member is configured to engage with the second rotation member to rotate the second rotation member through a second rotation angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Dirk Hendrik Wevers, Reinier Alexander Tijssen, Ishay Halmut
  • Publication number: 20130219724
    Abstract: An adjustable comb for use on a clipper having a first lower blade of first size and a second lower blade of second size. One of the lower blades is an active blade when attached to the clipper. The adjustable comb includes an adjustment mechanism for adjusting the position of a retaining tab that engages a rear edge of the active blade. The adjustment mechanism is shifted in a first direction to position the retaining tab for the first lower blade, and is shifted in a second direction to position the retaining tab for the second lower blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: Andis Company
    Inventor: Edwin A. Werner
  • Patent number: 8341846
    Abstract: The hair clippers use a self-contained motor-driven adjustment mechanism to adjust the relative position of the stationary and reciprocating blades of a common type of blade set. Two momentary switches operable by the thumb of the hand holding the clipper afford a barber total automatic adjustment with the clipper itself in an on or off condition. Since the small gear motors used for the adjustment are brush type or brushless permanent magnet motors which are operated by direct current, the adjustment feature is most compatible with cordless clippers already using an on-board DC source in the form of a re-chargeable battery to drive the reciprocating blade. The invention will be described as a modification of a cordless clipper, although AC driven corded type clippers can also be modified with this feature by the addition of an on-board AC to DC power supply for the adjustment motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Inventor: Lonnie Holmes
  • Publication number: 20120272532
    Abstract: The hair clipper of the present invention includes an adjusting device configured to adjust a clipping height determined by a relative position of a second comb-like blade to a first comb-like blade. The device includes a connection mechanism connecting a handle ring to a slider such that the slider configured to vary the relative position is moved with rotation of the ring. The mechanism includes a cam groove and a linking pin placed inside the groove. The groove includes first and second sides. The first side includes plural step parts which extend in a direction across the moving direction of the slider and are formed in different positions in the moving direction, and a slope part connecting the step parts. The second side is formed such that the cam groove has a smaller width at the step part than at a border between the step and slope parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Inventors: Satoshi Sobagaki, Hitoshi Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20120272533
    Abstract: The hair clipper of the present invention includes an adjusting device configured to adjust a clipping height determined by a relative position of a second comb-like blade to a first comb-like blade. The device includes a slider configured to vary the relative position, and a handle ring, and a connection mechanism connecting the ring to the slider such that the slider is moved with rotation of the ring. The mechanism includes a cam groove and a linking pin placed inside the cam groove. The cam groove includes plural holding grooves extending in a direction across the moving direction of the slider and a connection groove connecting the holding grooves. The plural holding grooves are formed in different positions in the moving direction respectively associated with the different clipping heights. Each holding groove is configured to hold the pin between its opposite inner sides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Inventors: Satoshi Sobagaki, Hitoshi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 8276278
    Abstract: A pair of hairdressing scissors capable of adjusting the amount of hair cut comprises a first blade, a second blade and an adjustment member. The adjustment member is pivotally mounted on the first blade. The second blade is eccentrically pivoted on the adjustment member. The adjustment member can be rotated to change the relative position and the contact area between the two blades, thus changing the amount of hair cut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Inventor: Hasegawa Makoto
  • Publication number: 20120240414
    Abstract: A device for trimming hair comprising a housing (3) and a head portion (9) with a cutting blade assembly (10), wherein the head portion (9) is rotatably mounted to the housing (3) and a comb attachment (20) is releasably attachable to the device to extend over the cutting blade assembly (10), the device further comprising a locking means (30,50) configured to fixedly engage the head portion (9) with the housing (3) when a comb attachment (20) is detached from the device such that the head portion (9) is prevented from rotating relative to the housing (3) and configured to disengage the head portion (9) from the housing (3) when a comb attachment (20) is attached to the device such that the head portion (9) is rotatable relative to the housing (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Dirk Hendrik Wevers, Hendrik Jan Mark Van Der Worp, Reinier Alexander Tijssen
  • Publication number: 20120233866
    Abstract: An electric hair grooming appliance is configured to have one or more operations to facilitate grooming of hair. The electric hair grooming appliance includes a control circuit, and a touchscreen for receiving one or more inputs from a user and to facilitate communication between the user and the control circuit. The touchscreen is configured to send one or more command signals to the control circuit in response to receiving the one or more inputs from the user. The control circuit is configured to control one or more operations of the electric hair grooming appliance in response to receiving one or more of the command signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: ROVCAL, INC.
    Inventor: Carl Gottfried Kammer
  • Publication number: 20120233865
    Abstract: An adjustable comb assembly, which is attachable to an electric hair cutting appliance of the type including opposing cutting blades defining a cutting edge margin for cutting hair, includes a plurality of teeth for regulating a haircut length resulting from the hair being cut by the cutting edge margin of the electric hair cutting appliance. The teeth are selectively movable relative to the cutting edge of the electric hair cutting appliance to any one of a substantially infinite number of different haircut length positions within a range from a maximum haircut length position, in which the comb assembly facilitates cutting hair to a maximum haircut length, to a minimum haircut length position, in which the comb assembly facilitates cutting hair to a minimum haircut length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: ROVCAL, INC.
    Inventor: Carl Gottfried Kammer
  • Patent number: 8176637
    Abstract: The hair clipper comprises comb-like fixed blade and movable blade each having a plurality of comb-teeth each provided at its both sides with blades, in which the movable blade is reciprocated with respect to the fixed blade in an arrangement direction of the comb-teeth to cut hair, the fixed blade or the movable blade is slid in a projecting direction of the comb-teeth to adjust cutting height, wherein a tip of each comb-tooth of the fixed blade is provided with a guide projection for introducing hair, the guide projection is tapered with an inclination angle which is larger than an inclination angle of the comb-tooth with respect to projecting direction of blades on both sides of the comb-tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Fukutani, Toshio Ikuta, Jiro Inaba
  • Patent number: 7975387
    Abstract: To provide a hair cutting device permitting the user to really know the remaining hair length without having to do trial cuts, a hair cutting device (1) with hair length indicator means (4) is proposed, wherein the hair length indicator means (4) comprises a fixed delimiter (5) and at least one movable delimiter (6) being movable with respect to the fixed delimiter (5), such that the hair length is indicated by the distance (D) between the fixed (5) and the at least one movable delimiter (6). Preferably, the hair length indicator means (4) comprises more than one movable delimiter (6, 7), all movable delimiters (6, 7) being movable in circumferential direction and functionally couplable with a comb unit (19, 20) such that a change between movable delimiters (6, 7) is caused by attachment of the comb unit (19, 20) to the hair cutting device (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Christian Mikula, Bernhard Schratter, Ernst Erich Petzl
  • Publication number: 20110107604
    Abstract: This invention relates to a hair clipper with a cutting mechanism and a cutting guide, said cutting mechanism defining a cutting line and said cutting guide comprising a foot with an angled bearing surface, the distance between said cutting line and said angled bearing surface of the foot determining the length at which the hair is cut, which clipper has a control member which, when the cutting length is adapted, allows said cutting line and said angled bearing surface of the foot to move relative to each other along a curved path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: Faco S.A.
    Inventor: Pierre Julemont
  • Patent number: 7921566
    Abstract: A hair trimmer includes a main body, a cutter block and a comb attachment. The cutter block has a stationary blade and a movable blade, both of which are comb-shaped and are slidably in contact with each other. In addition, the cutter block is protrudingly installed at one end of the main body. The comb attachment has a plurality of comb tooth-shaped sections and covers the cutter block. The comb tooth-shaped sections are provided with cut-off hair deflectors to prevent hairs cut by the cutter block from outwardly scattering away from the comb attachment. Furthermore, cut-off hair deflectors located between two neighboring comb tooth-shaped sections are disposed at relatively inner and outer positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamaguchi, Hitoshi Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20110061241
    Abstract: A pressure adjustable knife set for an electromotive hair cutter comprises: a fixed knife, a movable knife, and a pressure adjust unit; a front edge of the fixed knife having a cutting edge; the fixed knife being formed with a penetrating hole for passing through the adjustable screw of the pressure adjusting unit; a front edge of the movable knife being formed with a cutting edge; a lower side of the movable knife being formed with a supporting leg; the supporting leg being formed with a plurality of heat dissipating holes with a further function of reduction of the friction area of the supporting legs; the movable knife being formed with a penetrating trench; and a fixing plate being installed between the fixed knife and the pressure adjusting unit; an adjustable screw passing through a penetrating hole of the fixed knife, the movable knife and the pressure adjusting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Inventor: Jheng-Mau Jian
  • Publication number: 20100107420
    Abstract: A pair of hairdressing scissors capable of adjusting the amount of hair cut comprises a first blade, a second blade and an adjustment member. The adjustment member is pivotally mounted on the first blade. The second blade is eccentrically pivoted on the adjustment member. The adjustment member can be rotated to change the relative position and the contact area between the two blades, thus changing the amount of hair cut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventor: Hasegawa Makoto
  • Patent number: 7703210
    Abstract: A blade driving assembly for an adjustable hair clipper of the present invention comprises a movable blade holder, a spring, a spring holder and a push lever. The spring is disposed with a coiled portion secured on the spring holder, a first portion which exerts pressure upon the movable blade holder to bias the movable blade towards the stationary blade and a second portion which biases the spring holder towards a retracted position. The push lever is driven to move forward or backward by an external force, and a front end of the push lever abuts against the rear end of the spring holder in such a way to push the spring holder forward when the push lever is driven forward, and when the push lever is driven backward, the spring holder is biased by the spring to retract until the rear end thereof abuts against the push lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Specialife Industries Limited
    Inventor: Tung Yan Lau