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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2003
Mattheus Jacobus Van Der Meer, Drachten, NL;
Mattheus Jacobus Van Der Meer, Drachten, NL;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A shaving apparatus has shaving heads () each having an internal cutting member () and an associated external cutting member (); and a drive structure () coupled to each of the internal cutting members (). The external cutting members () are each rotatable about an axis of rotation () between different shaving positions. The shaving face of each head includes a first shaving field () for cutting short hair and a second shaving field () for cutting long hair. The shaving fields () extend through different segment of the shaving face. For effecting rotation of the external cutting members () between the shaving positions, a control member () is arranged between the shaving heads () and engages the external cutting members () of the shaving heads () for simultaneously controlling the rotation of the external cutting members () of the shaving heads ().