U.S. Philips Corporation

Herbert Piber

Norbert Schneider

Gerald Kauer

Gunther F Schmid

Alfred Nowak

Adam Koroncai

Johann Schuhfleck

A shaving apparatus (1) is provided which includes a housing (5), a shaving-head frame (6), which is detachably mounted on the housing (5), a lower cutter (12), a foil-type upper cutter (11) cooperating with a cutting area (14) of the lower cutter (12) and mounted in a foil-cutter frame (21) which is pivotably mounted in the shaving-head frame (6), which upper cutter has at least two aperture fields (31, 32) which differ as regards the form of the hair-entry apertures (33, 34), and a control member (35) for actuating the foil-cutter frame (21), which control member is coupled to the foil-cutter frame (21) via an actuating device (36), the control member (35) is movably mounted on the housing (5) of the shaving apparatus (1), and the actuating device (36) comprises an actuating frame (38) which engages underneath the foil-cutter frame (21) at a location remote from the foil-type upper cutter (11), which actuating frame is mounted in the shaving apparatus (1) so as to be pivotable about a pivotal axis (43) parallel to the pivotal axis (26) of the foil-cutter frame (21).

Shaving apparatus with adjustable foil-type upper cutter

An epilation apparatus is provided having at least one pair of rotatably mounted epilation rollers (3, 4), which are arranged in the region of an opening (2) provided in the housing (1) of the apparatus, are rotatingly drivable in opposite directions and cooperate with one another at their periphery. Associated with the epilation apparatus is a skin protection device, which is arranged in the region of the opening (2), partially covering the epilation rollers (3, 4) and through which the hairs reach the epilation rollers (3, 4) the skin protection device is a strip-shaped web (11) of wave-shaped design in relation to the longitudinal extension of the epilation rollers, (3, 4) the web, has wave troughs (9) and wave crests (10) alternately on both sides and is comb-like on both sides.

Epilation apparatus

A dry shaver comprises a basic unit housing together with a shaver head having a longitudinally extending upper blade and a reciprocatorily drivable longitudinally extending lower blade acting in conjunction therewith. A swinging bridge is secured in the basic unit housing and has a reciprocatory output part for driving the lower blade and a stationary base part provided with an aperture. An electric motor having an essentially-cylindrical housing has one end of the motor housing connected to the stationary base part of the swinging bridge, the drive shaft of the motor extending through the aperture in the base part into the output part of the swinging bridge. An eccentric on the drive shaft drives the output part. A frame-like motor support has a transverse U-shape, one end of such support being connected to the stationary base part of the swinging bridge. The support has two longitudinal sections parallel to the motor drive shaft and partially enclosing the motor housing to form motor bearing surfaces, and a transverse section at its other end to support the other end of the motor housing. Two spring-action tongues are connected to the stationary base part of the swinging bridge respectively adjacent the opposite ends of the shaver head. Two catches are respectively provided at the free ends of the tongues for securing the shaver head. Two shaver-head bearing surfaces are provided on the stationary base part of the swinging bridge respectively adjacent the tongues, the catches pressing the shaver head against such latter bearing surfaces. The swinging bridge, the motor support, the tongues, and the shaver-head bearing surfaces are formed from a plastic as a single-piece component.

Dry shaver

A cutter reciprocatingly drivable in opposite directions and adapted to co-operate with the shear foil of a dry-shaving apparatus comprises support means and a plurality of pairs of arcuate cutter lamellae mounted on such support means. The distance between the two cutter lamellae of each pair is smaller than the distance between either cutter lamella of such pair and the adjacent cutter lamella of the adjacent pair at the location of the top of the cutter lamellae. The two cutter lamellae of each pair respectively include angular portions oriented towards each other at the location of the top of the cutter lamellae, the angular portions of the two cutter lamellae of each pair being urged against each other under pre-load. The cutter lamellae of each pair are elastically movable in both directions of reciprocation of the cutter, the leading cutter lamella of each pair, viewed in the direction of reciprocation of the cutter, acting as an elastic hair-pulling blade and the trailing cutter lamella of such pair acting as a rigid cutting blade.

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Ferlach, Austria

Herbert Piber