Braun Aktiengesellschaft

Raymond G Parsonage

Matthias Wetzel

Rudolf Majthan

Rolf Stuhler

Charles C Packham

Terence G Royle

Dry-shaving apparatus comprises a drive provided in a housing (1) and at least two parallel shaving units (13, 14, 15), each having a respective outer cutter (16, 17, 20), an inner cutter (21, 22, 34) and at least one biasing element (31, 32, 33, 45). In order to improve contact with the face during use, the biasing element (31, 32) of one shaving unit (13, 14, 15) has a characteristic which differs from that of the biasing element (33) of a further shaving unit (13, 14, 15), which characteristic is such that under the effect or a force applied externally to the shaving units (13, 14, 15), motion can be performed by said one of the shaving units (13, 14, 15) relative to the further shaving unit (13, 14, 15).

Dry-shaving apparatus

Dry-shaving apparatus comprises a drive provided in a housing (1) and at least two parallel shaving units (13, 14, 15), each having a respective outer cutter (16, 17, 20), an inner cutter (21, 22, 34) and at least one biasing element (31, 32, 33, 45). In order to improve contact with the face during use, the biasing element (31, 32) of one shaving unit (13, 14 15) has a characteristic which differs from that of the biasing element (33) of a further shaving unit (13, 14, 15), which characteristic is such that under the effect of a force applied externally to the shaving units (13, 14, 15), motion can be performed by said one of the shaving units (13, 14, 15) relative to the further shaving unit (13, 14, 15).

An axially compact hairdryer includes a cylindrical housing having an air inlet and an air outlet at opposite ends thereof. An electric motor is centrally mounted within the housing by a pair of spaced apart support grates secured to the housing perpendicular to the air flow and a cylindrical heating element support body is carried by the support grates and located in concentric spaced relation between the housing and the motor. The heating element is wound about the support element. A fan is operatively connected to the motor for moving air from the inlet to the outlet over the heating element. Air directing vanes are attached to one of the support grates between the motor and the fan.

Compact electric hair dryer

An axially compact hair dryer includes a cylindrical outer housing 1, an air outlet 2 at one end of the housing, an air inlet grate 3 at the other end, an electric motor 4 centrally mounted within the housing and driving a blower fan 5, and a generally cylindrical electric heating element 7 disposed in the otherwise wasted annular space between the motor and the housing.

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Maidenhead, United Kingdom

Raymond G Parsonage