Abstract: An electric shaver having a shaving unit and a sensor with a first sensor unit fixed to a main body and a second sensor unit fixed to a sensor unit carrier, for indicating a distance between the sensor units. The shaving unit and the sensor unit carrier are suspended to the main body for displacement along a z-axis between a rest position and a pushed-in position in response to a pushing force exerted onto a shaving face of the shaver. The first and second sensor units are located in positions offset from the z-axis over a distance (d) in an x-direction. An anti-tilting guide is provided for guiding the sensor unit carrier against tilting about a y-axis.

Abstract: An electromagnetic machine includes a stator, a movable armature and a device for mechanically connecting the movable armature to the stator. The connecting device includes a plurality of leaf springs. The stator includes at least one first electrical coil and at least one first magnetic core forming at least one open loop between first and second terminal ends of said first loop in order to define an air gap between said terminal ends. The plurality of leaf springs extends on a single side of an air gap plane perpendicular to a first loop plane. The plurality of leaf springs is arranged so as to authorise the translation of the movable armature in relation to said stator in a direction that is perpendicular to the loop plane and to prohibit any movement of said movable armature in any direction within said loop plane.

Abstract: A blade set for a hair cutting appliance is described. The blade set (26) is arranged to be moved through hair in a moving direction to cut hair, and includes a stationary blade including a support insert and a metal component. The metal component and the support insert are force-fitted to one another. The metal component is at least sectionally deformed to define at least one toothed leading edge having double-walled stationary blade teeth. The metal component forms a first wall that is arranged to serve as a skin-facing wall when in operation, and a second wall that is facing away from the first wall. A guide slot for a movable blade is defined between inwardly facing inner surfaces of the metal component and the support insert and a movable blade having a plurality of movable blade teeth.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electric razor that can further suppress irritation to a skin. An electric razor of the present disclosure includes a body configured to be gripped by a user, a head having three or more blade blocks, and a head support connecting the head and the body to each other. The head support supports the head in a floatable-and-sinkable way with respect to the body. The head includes a case that supports the three or more blade blocks, and a blade float that allows each of the three or more blade blocks to float and sink with respect to the case. A first urging force with which the head support urges the head in a floating direction is larger than a second urging force with which the blade float urges the plurality of blade blocks which are one or more less than three or more blade blocks in a floating direction. The first urging force is smaller than a third urging force with which the blade float urges all of the three or more blade blocks in the floating direction.

Abstract: A hair cutting appliance, a blade set for a hair cutting appliance, and to an integrally formed metal-plastic composite stationary blade for said blade sett and a method of manufacture is disclosed. The stationary blade includes a first wall portion arranged to serve as a skin facing wall when in operation, a second wall portion at least partially offset from the first wall portion such that the first wall portion and the second wall portion define therebetween an inner guide slot arranged to receive a moveable cutter blade. At least one toothed leading edge is jointly formed by the first wall portion and the second wall portion, and a plastic component comprising at least one mounting element.

Abstract: Provided is a cutting assembly (100) for cutting hairs on skin. The cutting assembly comprises a guard plate (102) for contacting the skin. The guard plate has a first toothed edge (104A) which extends along an axis. The first toothed edge comprises guard teeth (106A). The cutting assembly further comprises a cutter plate (108) which is disposed on the guard plate. The cutter plate is slidable relative to the guard plate in directions parallel with the axis. The cutter plate comprises a second toothed edge (110A) extending parallel with the axis. The second toothed edge comprises cutting teeth (112A). The cutter plate and the guard plate are aligned such that the hairs are cut by the cutting teeth against the guard teeth when the cutter plate slides. The cutting teeth each include a cutting portion (114A) and a tip (116A). The tip is outwardly enlarged relative to the cutting portion in at least one direction parallel with the axis.

Abstract: A stationary blade for a blade set of a hair cutting appliance includes a top wall, a bottom wall, and a guide slot formed between the top and bottom walls to accommodate a movable blade. The stationary blade further includes a plurality of stationary blade teeth each having a frontal end. The top and bottom walls are mutually joined at the frontal ends, where the top and bottom walls are, at least at the frontal ends, made from sheet metal material. Further, at the frontal ends, two or more sheet metal folded edges are present.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing a stationary blade (102) and to a stationary blade (102), the method comprising providing a metal component (106), involving applying a first bending procedure, thereby forming a top wall (112) and two legs (114, 116) at opposite ends of the top wall (112) that are spaced away from one another in a longitudinal direction, wherein, subsequent to the bending procedure, each of the two legs (114, 116) is arranged at a first angle (?) with respect to the top wall (112), and wherein two bending edges (152, 154) are formed between the top wall (112) and the two legs (114, 116), providing a support insert (108) having a longitudinal extension (ls) that is at least slightly greater than a receiving space (lb) between the two bending edges (152, 154), joining the metal component (106) and the support insert (108), wherein the metal component (106) is at least slightly pretensioned due to the longitudinal extension (ls) of the support insert (108), and applyin

Abstract: Embodiments of present disclosure relates to a shaving assembly and a hair cutting appliance comprising the shaving assembly. The shaving assembly comprises: a supporting arm extending in a first direction; a cutting element comprising at least one moving tooth arranged along the first direction; a guard foil extending in the first direction and surrounding the cutting element, the guard foil comprising: a contact surface and a bent part, wherein an angle between the contact surface and the supporting arm is an acute angle, and at least one guard tooth slot is formed across the contact surface and the supporting arm, wherein the shaving assembly further comprises: a blocking member extending between the moving tooth and the supporting arm in a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the contact surface, wherein the blocking member is adapted to facilitate hair being released from the guard tooth slot when the guard tooth slot is moved against the hair.

Abstract: A hair removal device comprising a working head attached to a handle for moving the working head along a skin surface is provided. The working head includes at least one hair removal tool defining a skin contact contour of the working head, wherein the at least one hair removal tool is movable relative to the handle under a skin contact pressure by a support structure to allow for pivoting of the working head's skin contact contour relative to the handle. The support structure movably supporting the hair removal tool relative to the handle is configured to allow for pivoting of the skin contact contour relative to the handle about an angle of about +/?15° or more under a contact force of about 0.75 N or less and/or about an angle of about +/?20° or more under a contact force of about 1.5 N or less.

Abstract: There is disclosed an attachment (22) for a cutting head (100) of a hair cutting device (1). The attachment (22) comprises first and second side portions (24, 26) configured to cover, respectively, first and second sides (112, 114) of a stationary cutting member (115) of the cutting head (100), and an intermediate portion (28) interconnecting the first and second side portions (24, 26) and configured to cover an outer surface (120b) of a first wall portion (120) of the stationary cutting member (115). The first and second side portions (24, 26) are configured to protrude relative to the plurality of primary cutter teeth (118) of the stationary cutting member (115), which define a cutting zone of the cutting head. The first and second side portions (24, 26) and the intermediate portion (28) define a recess exposing the primary cutter teeth (118) of the stationary cutting member (115). The recess is non-interrupted over a distance of at least 50% of the length of the cutting zone.

Abstract: A shaving and grooming apparatus includes a handle and a cartridge attached to the handle. A plurality of upper blades are positioned in the cartridge, where at least some of the plurality of upper blades include curved tips with a curvature that sufficient to prevent the curved tips from contact a cutting surface during use. A plurality of lower blades is positioned adjacent to the plurality of upper blades in the cartridge, where at least some of the plurality of lower blades comprises curved tips with a curvature that sufficient to prevent the curved tips from contact a cutting surface during cutting. At least one of the plurality of upper and the plurality of lower blades has a thickness and flexibility that results in deflection during cutting that increases effectiveness of cutting action. A drive motor moves the plurality of upper blades relative to the plurality of lower blades.

Abstract: A method of forming a sheet-metal based double-walled stationary blade includes providing a first and second pre-product layers, providing a guide slot for a cutter, and bonding longitudinal ends of the first and second pre-product layers together to include an offset forming a guide slot to receive a to-be-mounted cutter. The bonding includes melting or depositing material at transition zone, thereby forming tips of the stationary blade teeth which are arranged adjacent to the transition zone between the pre-product layers.

Abstract: A trimmer includes a blade assembly including a stationary blade and a movable blade. Each of the stationary blade and the movable blade includes blade teeth. The stationary blade includes a first transverse edge portion, a second transverse edge portion, and a middle portion. The first transverse edge portion includes a first upper surface extending from a first edge to the upper surface. The second transverse edge portion includes a second upper surface extending from a second edge to the upper surface. In some embodiments, the trimmer includes a toothed blade guard.

Abstract: A reciprocating-type electric shaver includes an outer blade, an oscillator that is driven to reciprocate by a motor, and an inner blade that reciprocates in cooperation with the oscillator. The oscillator includes attachment portions that are respectively attached to a main body, a movable base, both end sides of which are supported by the attachment portions via support portions having a substantially U-shape, and a cooperation portion that cooperates with the inner blade. In the respective support portions, a portion on a side connected to the attachment portion in a base portion, which is one linear portion of the U-shape, is formed in flexible oscillating pieces. The respective oscillating pieces are formed to be tilted in a direction orthogonal to a reciprocating direction of the movable base so that a lower portion side of the respective oscillating pieces is open outward in the reciprocating direction of the movable base.

Abstract: A reciprocating electric razor head includes a fixed blade and a fixed blade support for supporting and fixing the fixed blade. The fixed blade is provided with hair entrance holes for body hair to enter, and an inner side of the fixed blade is provided with a movable blade capable of moving backward and forward in a reciprocating manner relative to the fixed blade to cut off the body hair inside the hair entrance holes, such that the fixed blade obtains a very flat cutting working face contacting the movable blade without the need for additional precision machining.

Abstract: A shaving apparatus, shaving head and/or at least one cutting unit for shaving both short and long hairs. The shaving apparatus, shaving head and/or at least one cutting unit includes an external cutting member and an internal cutting member movably arranged with respect to the external cutting member. A driver may be provided for moving the internal cutting member. The external cutting member is provided with a shaving section having two mutually connected lateral borders forming hair entry apertures. The internal cutting member is provided with cutting elements having cutting edges for cooperation with cutting edges of the external cutting member. A number of the hair entry apertures are formed by two substantially flat lamellae of the external cutting member which have free ends positioned between the borders of the shaving section.

Abstract: Provided is a method of producing an outer blade for a hair cutting device from a material including bars that each have a shape of a rectangular stick and are arranged at predetermined intervals. The material is placed on a base. Next, a first tool having a leading end that has a gradually increasing width in a direction away from the material is used to press at least one part of each of the bars in a direction from a counter base-side first face of each of the bars toward a base-side second face of each of the bars. An edge of the first face of each of the bars is caused to project widthwise and to move toward the second face to be farther from an intermediate part of the first face.

Abstract: A stationary blade for a blade set in a hair cutting appliance and method of manufacturing the stationary blade. The stationary blade comprising a first wall portion arranged as a skin facing wall in operation, a second wall portion at least partially offset from the first wall portion. The first and second wall portions defining a guide slot therebetween, arranged to receive a movable cutter blade. At least one toothed leading edge comprising a plurality of teeth jointly formed by the first wall portion and the second wall portion. The stationary blade being an integrally formed metal-plastic composite blade. The first wall portion being at least partially made from a metal material. The second wall portion being at least partially made from a plastic material. The first and second wall portions being arranged to receive the movable cutter blade in the guide slot in a defined mating manner.

Abstract: A cutting appliance and a blade set that includes a cutter and a stationary blade. The stationary blade has a guide slot. A cutter is movably arranged within the guide slot. The cutter includes, at a side thereof facing away from a skin facing wall of the stationary blade, an elevated spacing arrangement associated with a toothed leading edge of the cutter, and being configured for spacing a substantially flat bottom surface of the at toothed leading edge of the cutter away from the skin facing wall.

Abstract: The invention refers to an electric shaver with a first cutter element and a second cutter element which are movable relative to each other in an oscillating manner along a first horizontal cutter oscillation axis. Each cutter unit is mounted in the cartridge pivotably about a second horizontal tilting axis and axially displaceably parallel to a vertical axis. The first horizontal cutter oscillation axis is perpendicular to the vertical axis and perpendicular to the second horizontal tilting axis.

Abstract: A hair cutting appliance including a blade set including a first wall portion and a second wall portion, each wall portion defining a first surface, a second surface, and at least one toothed leading edge including a plurality of mutually spaced apart projections provided with respective tips, wherein the first surfaces of the first wall portion and the second wall portion face each other, at least at their leading edges, wherein facing projections, along the leading edges of the first and second wall portions are mutually connected at their tips to define a plurality of teeth, wherein the first surfaces of the first wall portion and the second wall portion define therebetween a guide slot for a movable blade and wherein the second surface of the first wall portion includes a smoothed transitional region at least at the forwardly extending projections.

Abstract: A portable communication device is provided with a power arbitration module formed with hardware logic configured to detect attachment of a battery and determine whether the battery is one of: an intrinsically safe (IS) battery or a standard, non-intrinsically safe (non-IS) battery. The power arbitration module enables a converged platform mode of operation in response to determining that the battery is a standard, non-intrinsically safe battery. The power arbitration module enables a land mobile radio (LMR) mode of operation in response to determining that the battery is an intrinsically safe battery. The determination of the battery type and enablement of operating mode is handled by hardware logic of the power arbitration module without use of a software protocol.

Abstract: The invention refers to an electric shaver comprising a shaver housing, a shaver head and at least one cartridge mounted in or on said shaver housing. The adaption of the cutter element to the contour of the skin to be shaved is improved by permitting at least one additional movement of the at least one cutter unit relative to the shaver head.

Abstract: An oscillatory linear actuator includes: an output movable element which is reciprocated by a periodically varying magnetic field and performs work on an object; and a vibration absorbing movable element which is reciprocated at a phase opposite to a phase of the output movable element and reduces vibration of the oscillatory linear actuator. The output movable element includes: a first driver which generates a thrust force which is reciprocated by a magnetic field; a work part which performs work on the object at a predetermined distance away from the first driver; a shaft which connects the work part and the first driver; a first weight opposite to the work part relative to the first driver; and a weight support which connects the work part and the first weight.

Abstract: An upright vacuum cleaner includes a cleaning head having a suction opening defined along a bottom thereof, a handle assembly connected to the cleaning head, a motor, and a blower connected to the motor and operable to generate suction through the suction opening upon operation of the motor. The vacuum cleaner further includes an electrical connection interface selectively connectable to a direct current (DC) power source and an alternating current (AC) power source. The electrical connection interface is electrically connectable to the motor via an electrical path such that an AC current is supplied to the motor when the AC power source is connected to the electrical connection interface, and a DC current is supplied to the motor when the DC power source is connected to the electrical connection interface.

Abstract: In a hair grooming appliance, a head is detachably mountable on a handle having a motor and a receptacle configured to receive at least a portion of the head therein when the head is mounted on the handle with the head in operative connection with the motor. The handle has a first attachment member positioned at least partially within the receptacle and arranged to detachably engage the head when the at least a portion of the head is inserted into the receptacle and a second attachment member positioned at least partially within the receptacle and arranged to engage the head when the at least a portion of the head is inserted into the receptacle. The second attachment member is a different type of attachment member than the first attachment member. In a particular embodiment, the hair grooming appliance is a shaver.

Abstract: An electrically driven device provided with a housing, an electric motor with a drive shaft having a first rotary axis and a drive pin connected to the drive shaft eccentrically with respect to the rotary axis, and a driven shaft mounted in the housing for performing a pivoting is disclosed. The driven shaft is indirectly coupled to the drive shaft by means of a gear mechanism converting a rotary motion of the drive shaft into a reciprocating pivoting motion of the driven shaft. The gear mechanism comprises one intermediate shaft having a second rotary axis extending in the longitudinal direction of the intermediate shaft and at least one crank arm coupled to the drive pin. The crank arm is pivotably mounted in the housing and is coupled to the intermediate shaft thereby converting a rotary motion of the drive shaft into a reciprocating pivoting of the intermediate shaft about the second rotary axis.

Abstract: A method and a device are provided for ascertaining the time required to fully charging a battery of the device. The device ascertains the type of power supply being used when charging the device by ascertaining the time required to fully charge the device based on a historical charging speed and an empirical charging speed corresponding to the power supply's type. Using the method and device provided by the present disclosure can ascertain the required charging time with more accuracy.

Abstract: A cosmetic device includes a housing having a handle portion, a head assembly coupled to the handle portion, and a drum assembly within the head assembly. The drum assembly includes a drum having an outer surface configured to abrade the skin or nails of a user during rotation of the drum. The device further includes a electromechanical drive system located within the housing and configured to rotate the drum. The head assembly is configured to rotate about an axis that is substantially perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the drum.

Abstract: This slit blade block includes multiple comb teeth adjacent to multiple outer blade pieces. Each comb tooth has a leading end surface, and a protruding part protruding in a direction away from the outer blade pieces. The protruding parts include an apical part that is the outermost end in said direction away from the outer blade pieces. The leading end surfaces of the protruding parts are positioned between the leading end surfaces and the base end surfaces of the adjacent outer blade pieces. Length L1 in the height direction, defined by the apical part of the protruding parts and the leading end surfaces of the protruding parts, is less than or equal to thickness L2 of the outer blade pieces, defined by the leading end surface and the base end surface of the outer blade pieces.

Abstract: A shaving unit for a dry shaver includes at least one outer cutter and one under cutter. Driven by a motor, the outer cutter and the under cutter are movable relative to each other in an oscillatory motion. The under cutter and the outer cutter, which are biased into relative engagement by at least one spring, slide along a common contact surface. The spring is arranged in such a way that its biasing force always acts at an angle to the direction of oscillation.

Abstract: An energy storage system is disclosed. The energy storage system includes a first energy storage cell, a second energy storage cell, and a first interconnect connecting the first and second cells. The interconnect includes a support member and a plurality of protrusions extending away from the support member. At least two protrusions are spaced relative to each other along a longitudinal axis of the interconnect.

Abstract: A shaving head for an electric dry shaver includes a base element for carrying at least three cutter units. Each unit provides an outer cutter and an inner cutter arranged to be moved in sliding contact relative to each other. At least one cutter unit includes a foil-type outer cutter. The shaving head further includes a first trimmer-type cutting unit that has a plurality of slots defined by a plurality of adjacent bar elements featuring cutting edges. The shaving head also includes a second trimmer-type cutting unit having an outer cutter that includes a plurality of teeth featuring cutting edges and spaced apart from each other so as to define a plurality of slits.

Abstract: In a reciprocating-type electric shaver, an inner blade has an attachment groove which is open downward in a lower end of a side edge. An inner peripheral portion of the attachment groove has an engagement groove which is recessed in an in-plane direction on a wall surface of the side edge and in a longitudinal direction of the inner blade. An inner blade base has a projection at a position corresponding to the attachment groove. The projection can be elastically deformed in the in-plane direction on the wall surface of the side edge and in the longitudinal direction of the inner blade, and is formed so that an engagement claw disposed in a distal end of the projection can enter and engage with the engagement groove. The engagement claw engages with the engagement groove, thereby causing the inner blade to be fixed to the inner blade base.

Abstract: An elastic plate is located between the support portion at the head portion of the holder and the supported portion of the razor head. The outer circumference of the annular elastic portion of the elastic plate is supported by the inner circumference of the annular portion of the support portion. The supported portion of the razor head is inserted into the inner circumference of the annular elastic portion of the elastic plate. As a result of the support structure to support the razor head to be movable from a neutral position against the elastic force of the elastic plate, the razor head can be moved during use from the neutral position to positions in three dimensions against the elastic force of the elastic plate.

Abstract: An electric shaver includes a rod-shaped body part, a head part, and an interposer. The head part projects from one end portion, in a longitudinal direction, of the body part and swingably attached to the body part. The head part includes a shaving portion and a drive mechanism. The interposer is configured to support the head part swingably about a first swing axis parallel with a longitudinal direction of the shaving portion, and to be supported on the body part swingably about a second swing axis orthogonal to the projecting direction of the head part and orthogonal to the first swing axis.

Abstract: In the transmission of mechanical movements, a mechanical angular positioning device is provided, and applies notably to optical instruments necessary to position an element such as a mirror according to three predefined positions. The angular positioning device comprises an assembly of connecting rods and an assembly of pivot connections, the axes of which are parallel to one another. A first input connecting rod, a second output connecting rod and a third connecting rod are in pivot connection with a frame of the device. A fourth and a fifth connecting rod are each connected by two pivot connections to two other connecting rods. The input connecting rod can be rotated by a motor. The angular positioning device is configured such that the output connecting rod can adopt three distinct angular positions, for each of which two connecting rods in pivot connection with one another generate a dead center in the device.

Abstract: A blade of a reciprocating electric shaver includes a newly provided guide frame freely detachably held on a holding frame provided on a shaver body, in which, in the guide frame, there are provided: coupling portions to which an outer edge frame that fixes an outer edge thereto is coupled; and spring receiving portions which support lower ends of inner edge push-up springs.

Abstract: A rotary electric shaver includes a handle assembly having a housing, a motor disposed in the housing, a drive shaft operatively connected to the motor and extending through the housing, and a socket for securing a shaver head thereto. The shaver head assembly includes a coupling for detachable coupling to the socket. The coupling is configured to allow the shaver head to be detachably coupled to the handle assembly in at least two different orientations of the shaver head relative to the handle assembly.

Abstract: A cutting head for an electric razor is provided. The cutting head has at least one upper blade and a lower blade associated with the upper blade, which upper and lower blades are movably supported relative to one another and can be driven accordingly by a drive device. The upper blade has a contact surface for the skin to be shaved, which contact surface is formed by a plurality of webs that are each bounded by slots. The longitudinal extent of the webs runs substantially perpendicular to a threading edge bounding the contact surface. The contact surface is designed to be concave and rises towards the threading edge, where the threading edge has an outer radius and this outer radius encloses an angle of less than 90°.

Abstract: A tooth for a blade of a hair cutting apparatus includes a root secured to a base of the blade, a tip opposite the root, and a longitudinal axis of the tooth defined between the root and the tip. A lower, planar cutting surface is provided on the tooth, as is an upper surface opposite the lower surface, and sidewalls separating the upper surface from the lower surface. At least a portion of the upper surface and the sidewalls is elliptical in the direction of the longitudinal axis, beginning at the tip.

Abstract: An open cutter for a foil type shaver includes a plurality of arch-shaped cutting strips formed by bending a metal plate formed with alternating parallel slots and cutting strips. A plurality of spaced apart protruding cutting edges having a first acute cutting angle is formed along two opposite sides of the cutting strips. A plurality of recessed cutting edges having a second acute cutting angle is formed between the plurality of protruding cutting edges. The protruding cutting edges of one cutting strip are facing the recessed cutting edges of an adjacent cutting strip, thereby generating continuous hair-lifting and hair-cutting actions as the open cutter is driven in oscillating directions by a motor. A method for fabricating the open cutter is also disclosed.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a pair of blades, one or both of which is adapted to be reciprocated along a longitudinal axis, comprises a first blade and a second blade, each blade having a cutting edge extending along a portion of the blade length. The cutting edge includes a series of teeth. A width of each blade is stepwise reduced along the cutting edge to the distal end so that one or more teeth from the series of teeth has a cutting surface that is receded relative to a tooth from the series of teeth that is closer to the proximal end. The teeth of the series of teeth are uniformly oriented relative to the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A pair of blades, one or both of which reciprocates along a longitudinal axis, comprises a first blade and a second blade, each blade having a proximal end, a distal end, a length extending between, and a cutting edge extending along a portion of the length to the distal end. A width of each blade is stepwise reduced along the cutting edge to the distal end so that one or more teeth from a series of teeth has a cutting surface that is receded relative to a tooth from the series of teeth that is closer to the proximal end. The teeth of the series of teeth are uniformly oriented relative to the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: An electric shaver including a hand grip 10 configured to be gripped by a user's hand, and a blade head 20 provided on an upper end of the hand grip. The blade head carries at least one shaving unit 50 comprising an outer blade foil 70 and an inner blade 80 driven in a shearing engagement manner with the outer blade foil. The outer blade foil has a plurality of holes in which hairs are introduced. The outer blade foil is elongated and has a length, and is curved along a width direction to form a generally C-shaped cross section, and is curved convexly and uniformly along its length to have a longitudinal curved outline. A radius of curvature of the longitudinal curved outline is 150 mm to 350 mm.

Abstract: A blade guide for a hair clipper bladeset, the guide configured for slidable engagement in a transverse track of a stationary blade, and including a blade guide body having a first edge and a second edge being generally parallel to and spaced from the first edge, each of the edges having a pair of opposed free ends. At least one arched load beam connects a corresponding opposed pair of the free ends of the first and second edges for exerting a torsion-resisting biasing force between the edges.

Abstract: A hair clipper attachment guide which attaches on hair clippers, particularly hair clipper blades, for the use of hair cutting guidance and assistance having a Base Plate with utilizes the functions of attached Wheels or Guidance Tracks to elevate as it travels across a scalp, resulting in various hair length cuts within its path.

Abstract: The invention relates to an animal shearing machine with a housing, a shearing head connected to the housing and a drive unit arranged in the housing. The drive unit comprises an electric motor and a reduction gear connected to the shaft of the electric motor. The shearing head of the animal shearing machine has a stationary shearing blade and a movable shearing blade. A planetary gear is used as reduction gear. The driven shaft of the planetary gear is arranged parallel, in particular coaxially to the shaft of the electric motor. If oscillatingly driven shearing heads are used, the drive unit comprises an eccentric connected to the driven shaft of the reduction gear and an oscillating lever. The oscillating lever is in engagement with the movable shearing blade via the first front end and with the eccentric via a sliding element in the area of the second rear end.

Abstract: An electric shaver generally includes a handle and a head connected to the handle. The head includes an outer cutter blade and an inner cutter blade arranged in shearing contact with the outer cutter blade. The electric shaver further includes a drive system having a motor and a plurality of drive components drivingly connecting the motor to the inner cutter blade for driving rotation of the inner cutter blade relative to the outer cutter blade. The plurality of drive components includes a first drive component and a second drive component connected to the first drive component. At least one of the first drive component and the second drive component has a liner for cushioning the interface between the first drive component and the second drive component to mitigate noise associated with operation of the shaver.