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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 1995
Filed:
Nov. 01, 1993
Valentin Buzzi, Klagenfurt, AT;
Ferdinand Sereinig, Velden, AT;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
In a shaving apparatus (1) comprising a foil-like lower cutter in the form of a cutter blade (68) and an upper cutter in the form of a shear foil (63) the cutter blade (68) has hexagonal hair-entry apertures (145) arranged in a honeycomb pattern, and the shear foil (63) has square hair-entry apertures (119) and a slot-shaped hair-entry aperture (120) between every two adjacent square hair-entry apertures (119), the direction of two parallel cutting edges (132, 134) of the square hair-entry apertures (119) of the shear foil (63) and the direction of two parallel cutting edges (153, 156) of the hexagonal hair-entry apertures (145) of the cutter blade (68) subtending an angle between 5.degree. and 25.degree., preferably between 14.degree. and 15.degree..