Hair clipper

Abstract

A hair clipper includes, in addition to a cutter head, a hair entrapping member and a hair pressing member which are both movable relative to a cutting edge of the cutter head. The cutter head comprises a toothed stationary blade and a toothed movable blade. The movable blade is driven to reciprocate in shearing engagement with the stationary blade for shearing hairs therebetween. The hair entrapping member is movable between an open position and a closed position. In the open position the hair entrapping member is spaced away from the cutting edge of the cutter head, thus permitting hairs to enter between the hair entrapping member and the cutting edge. In the closed position, the hair entrapping member is held close to the cutting edge to thereby seize the hairs therebetween for shearing the hairs. The hair pressing member is also made movable relative to the hair entrapping member between a pressing position of holding the hairs against the hair entrapping member forwardly of the cutting edge and a release position of being spaced away therefrom. The hair pressing member is interlocked with the hair entrapping member such that the hair pressing member comes into the pressing position before the cutting edge comes into the closed position, whereby the hairs can be pressed against the hair pressing member prior to being sheared by the cutting edge.