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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 1995
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1994
Gerald Kauer, Ferlach, AT;
Herbert Piber, Klagenfurt, AT;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A shaving apparatus (1) is provided which includes a housing (5), a shaving-head frame (6), which is detachably mounted on the housing (5), a lower cutter (12), a foil-type upper cutter (11) cooperating with a cutting area (14) of the lower cutter (12) and mounted in a foil-cutter frame (21) which is pivotably mounted in the shaving-head frame (6), which upper cutter has at least two aperture fields (31, 32) which differ as regards the form of the hair-entry apertures (33, 34), and a control member (35) for actuating the foil-cutter frame (21), which control member is coupled to the foil-cutter frame (21) via an actuating device (36), the control member (35) is movably mounted on the housing (5) of the shaving apparatus (1), and the actuating device (36) comprises an actuating frame (38) which engages underneath the foil-cutter frame (21) at a location remote from the foil-type upper cutter (11), which actuating frame is mounted in the shaving apparatus (1) so as to be pivotable about a pivotal axis (43) parallel to the pivotal axis (26) of the foil-cutter frame (21).