Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Jan Van Driel

Martinus Bernardus Stapelbroek

Jan Van Dalen

Peter Daniel Martijn Van Zoest

Willem Minkes

Hette Akkerman

Martijn Stapelbroek

Peter Van Zoest

A stationary blade for the blade set suitable for use with a hair cutting appliance that includes of wall segments fixedly interconnected forming a segmented stack, wherein an intermediate wall segment is disposed between a first wall segment and a second wall segment jointly forming, at an end of the segmented stack at least one toothed leading edge comprising a plurality of mutually spaced apart projections defining a plurality of teeth and respective tooth spaces, wherein the intermediate wall segment comprises a cutout and wherein the cutout in the intermediate wall segment, the first wall segment and the second wall segment define therebetween a guide slot for a movable blade.

Blade set, hair cutting appliance, and related manufacturing method

A hair cutting appliance, a blade set for a hair cutting appliance, and to a stationary blade for the blade set, the blade includes a first segment, a second segment, and an intermediate segment fixedly interconnected, forming a segmented stack, wherein the intermediate segment is disposed between the first segment and the second segment, jointly forming, at an end of the segmented stack, at least one toothed leading edge comprising a plurality of mutually spaced apart projections defining a plurality of teeth and respective tooth spaces wherein the intermediate segment comprises a cutout portion and wherein the cutout portion in the intermediate segment, the wall segment and the second segment define therebetween a guide slot for a movable blade.

A method of manufacturing a cutting member () of a shaver () includes the steps of providing a plate-shaped carrier (), cutting at least one cutting element () free from the carrier except for a residual connection between a base () of the cutting element and the carrier, and bending the cutting element relative to the carrier. The steps of cutting free and bending are performed simultaneously using a tool () having a combined punching and bending effect. By using such a tool, the action of cutting free is obtained by a tearing process which does not lead to a free space and a loss of material between the cutting element () and the carrier (). As a result, the strength of the carrier is not reduced by such a free space or loss of material.

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Eindhoven, Netherlands

Jan Van Driel