U.S. Philips Corporation

Paul A Ackermans

Gerardus N Van Veen

Andreas J Garenfeld

Petrus Henricus De Leeuw

Adriaan Netten

Peter E Wierenga

Maarten Barmentlo

Robert E Einerhand

Jan Peter Elkhuizen

Gerrit Bijker

An appliance for removing hairs growing from skin is provided with a clamping device and a cutting device cooperating therewith. The clamping device clamps the hairs to be removed and subsequently extracts them at least partly from the skin, whereupon the hairs extracted partly from the skin are cut through adjacent the skin by the cutting device. The hairs thus cut through return to below the surface of the skin, so that a smooth shaving result is achieved which remains intact during a considerable period. According to the invention, the appliance is provided with structure for adjusting an extraction distance over which the clamping device extracts the hairs from the skin before they are cut through by the cutting device. In a special embodiment, the structure is adjustable to a first mode in which the appliance purely has a shaving function and to a second mode in which the appliance purely has a depilation function.

Hair removal appliance with adjustable hair extraction distance

The recharging time for reheating the soleplate of an iron can considerably be reduced by accumulating energy from an energy supply, e.g. the mains, in a stand for the iron and by transferring this energy to the iron when the iron is attached to the stand. The iron is reheated very quickly, e.g. by exchanging cooled down liquid from the iron with hot liquid accumulated in the stand every time the iron is put back in the stand.

Iron and accumulated energy transferring stand

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Eindhoven, Netherlands

Paul A Ackermans