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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 24, 1998
Siegfried Sablatschan, Ferlach, AT;
Manfred Tautscher, Ferlach, AT;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
In a hair-cutting apparatus (,) and in a toothed cutting device (,) for a hair-cutting apparatus (,) the toothed cutting device (,) comprises a first toothed cutter (,) and a second toothed cutter (,), which lie against one another in the area of their cuttertooth rows (,) and which each have at least one supporting limb (,) in their areas which are remote from their cutter-tooth rows (,), and of which one toothed cutter (,) carries an intermediate element (,) of a low-friction material, which comprises at least one intermediate element portion (,) interposed between two facing supporting limbs (,), and furthermore it has the advantageous feature that the at least one intermediate element portion (,) of the intermediate element (,) carried by the one toothed cutter (,) has a smaller dimension in the toothed cutter direction (,) than the at least one supporting limb (,) of the other toothed cutter (,), which last-mentioned limb,faces the at least one intermediate element portion (,).