EP0069468A1 - Shaving apparatus - Google Patents

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EP0069468A1
EP0069468A1 EP82302932A EP82302932A EP0069468A1 EP 0069468 A1 EP0069468 A1 EP 0069468A1 EP 82302932 A EP82302932 A EP 82302932A EP 82302932 A EP82302932 A EP 82302932A EP 0069468 A1 EP0069468 A1 EP 0069468A1
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light
foil
cutter
dry shaver
light source
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Brian Laurance Ward
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Wilkinson Sword Ltd
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26B—HAND-HELD CUTTING TOOLS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B26B19/00—Clippers or shavers operating with a plurality of cutting edges, e.g. hair clippers, dry shavers
    • B26B19/38—Details of, or accessories for, hair clippers, or dry shavers, e.g. housings, casings, grips, guards
    • B26B19/46—Details of, or accessories for, hair clippers, or dry shavers, e.g. housings, casings, grips, guards providing for illuminating the area to be shaved or clipped

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  • This invention relates to dry shavers, and in particular electric dry shavers, sometimes referred to as electric razors.
  • a dry shaver comprising a body containing a drive motor, a cutter arranged to be driven by said motor, a perforated foil disposed over and in contact with said cutter and mounted on said body, and a light source supported by said body for illuminating the face of the user.
  • the illumination from such a source does not necessarily fall in the immediate vicinity of the part of the face contacted by the dry shaver.
  • said light source is arranged to direct light outwardly through said foil.
  • the dry shaver includes a stationary perforated foil 10 mounted on a body or casing 11 and in contact with a cutter 12 formed by a plurality of parallel spaced cutter bars or discs 13.
  • the cutter is movable along a line parallel to the axis of curvature of the foil 10 to shear off hairs protruding through the perforations of the foil.
  • one or more electric lamps 16 arranged to direct light outwardly through a pair of elongate half-cylindrical diffusers 14 disposed below the cutter 12 to direct light through the perforations of the foil 10.
  • two diffusers 18 are shown extending parallel to the stationary foil externally thereof and immediately adjacent thereto to receive light from the lamps 16 (only one of which is shown) within the casing 11 and to transmit the light directly onto the face of the person shaving. This will be in addition to light which will pass outwardly through the foil as described above.
  • the lamp can be a low voltage bulb supplied from a battery within the shaver (for example a rechargeable battery) or via a mains operated transformer.
  • the lamp will normally be switchable independently of the operation of the cutter, but could be arranged to be energised by energisation of the cutter.
  • diffusers Although reference has been made above to the transmission of light through diffusers, the latter being provided to avoid the passage of hairs into the lamp housing, light pipes or fibre optics could be utilised to transmit the light from the bulb to its point of emission within, or externally of, the stationary foil.

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Abstract

A dry shaver comprising a body (11), drive means within the body, a cutter (13) driven by the drive means, and a perforated foil (10) disposed over the cutter, has a light source (16) arranged to direct light through the foil (10) on to the face of a user.

Description

  • This invention relates to dry shavers, and in particular electric dry shavers, sometimes referred to as electric razors.
  • When a person is shaving with a dry shaver, he frequently finds that there is not sufficient light falling on his face from a natural or artificial source.
  • It is known to provide a dry shaver comprising a body containing a drive motor, a cutter arranged to be driven by said motor, a perforated foil disposed over and in contact with said cutter and mounted on said body, and a light source supported by said body for illuminating the face of the user.
  • The illumination from such a source does not necessarily fall in the immediate vicinity of the part of the face contacted by the dry shaver.
  • According to the present invention, said light source is arranged to direct light outwardly through said foil.
  • Two forms of dry shaver in accordance with the present invention will now be described by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:-
    • Figure 1 is a perspective view, part cutaway, of a dry shaver containing a lamp arranged to direct light through a foil: and
    • Figure 2 is a perspective view of a second form of dry shaver, part cutaway to show a lamp arranged to direct light through and around the outside of the foil.
  • As shown in Figure 2, the dry shaver includes a stationary perforated foil 10 mounted on a body or casing 11 and in contact with a cutter 12 formed by a plurality of parallel spaced cutter bars or discs 13. The cutter is movable along a line parallel to the axis of curvature of the foil 10 to shear off hairs protruding through the perforations of the foil.
  • Within the casing are one or more electric lamps 16, arranged to direct light outwardly through a pair of elongate half-cylindrical diffusers 14 disposed below the cutter 12 to direct light through the perforations of the foil 10.
  • In the embodiment of Figures 1 and 2, some light will be interrupted by the cutter, but a substantial amount of light will still be allowed to pass through the stationary foil directly on to the face of the person shaving, and in the immediate vicinity of the part of the face being shaved.
  • In the embodiment of Figure 2, two diffusers 18 are shown extending parallel to the stationary foil externally thereof and immediately adjacent thereto to receive light from the lamps 16 (only one of which is shown) within the casing 11 and to transmit the light directly onto the face of the person shaving. This will be in addition to light which will pass outwardly through the foil as described above.
  • In each of the embodiments described above, the lamp can be a low voltage bulb supplied from a battery within the shaver (for example a rechargeable battery) or via a mains operated transformer. The lamp will normally be switchable independently of the operation of the cutter, but could be arranged to be energised by energisation of the cutter.
  • Although reference has been made above to the transmission of light through diffusers, the latter being provided to avoid the passage of hairs into the lamp housing, light pipes or fibre optics could be utilised to transmit the light from the bulb to its point of emission within, or externally of, the stationary foil.

Claims (3)

1. A dry shaver comprising a body containing a drive motor, a cutter arranged to be driven by said motor, a perforated foil disposed over and in contact with said cutter and mounted on said body, and a light source supported by said body for illuminating the face of the user, characterised in that said light source is arranged to direct light outwardly through said foil.
2. A dry shaver according to claim 1 characterised by a light diffuser mounted beneath said foil, said light source being arranged to direct light through said diffuser.
3. A dry shaver according to claim 1 or claim 2 characterised by one or more light diffusers disposed externally of the body and operative to direct light from the light source on to the face of the user.
EP82302932A 1981-07-01 1982-06-08 Shaving apparatus Withdrawn EP0069468A1 (en)

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GB8120296 1981-07-01
GB08120296A GB2100647A (en) 1981-07-01 1981-07-01 Shaving apparatus.

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Cited By (3)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE10052296C1 (en) * 2000-10-20 2002-04-04 Braun Gmbh Electrically-operated hair removal device has pulsed stroboscopic light signal provided by illumination device for illumination of relatively moving working elements
WO2002034481A1 (en) 2000-10-20 2002-05-02 Braun Gmbh Electrically driven hair removal device
US7900360B2 (en) * 2004-07-23 2011-03-08 The Gillete Company Cutter assembly and method of producing same

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US4678315A (en) * 1984-10-27 1987-07-07 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba Image forming apparatus
GB2383770A (en) * 2002-01-05 2003-07-09 Stephen Graham Rice An electric shaver incorporating a light source
US20130042481A1 (en) * 2011-08-17 2013-02-21 Lori Ann Lombardo Hair trimming apparatus with light
CN105666532A (en) * 2016-03-29 2016-06-15 浙江美森电器有限公司 Shaver with illumination function

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US2965748A (en) * 1959-03-06 1960-12-20 Lionel Corp Illuminated electric razor
DE2349393A1 (en) * 1973-10-02 1975-04-03 Hellmuth Butenuth Electric razor with lighting facility - has light fitting under cutting surface shining on area being shaved
NL7510370A (en) * 1975-09-03 1977-03-07 Ott Robert Christiaan Dry shaver with directed light source - has light, illuminating skin parts to be shaved
DE2645912A1 (en) * 1976-10-12 1978-04-13 Theobald Thamerus Battery or mains powered electric razor - has light source fed from battery or transformer to illuminate skin surface

Patent Citations (4)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2965748A (en) * 1959-03-06 1960-12-20 Lionel Corp Illuminated electric razor
DE2349393A1 (en) * 1973-10-02 1975-04-03 Hellmuth Butenuth Electric razor with lighting facility - has light fitting under cutting surface shining on area being shaved
NL7510370A (en) * 1975-09-03 1977-03-07 Ott Robert Christiaan Dry shaver with directed light source - has light, illuminating skin parts to be shaved
DE2645912A1 (en) * 1976-10-12 1978-04-13 Theobald Thamerus Battery or mains powered electric razor - has light source fed from battery or transformer to illuminate skin surface

Cited By (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE10052296C1 (en) * 2000-10-20 2002-04-04 Braun Gmbh Electrically-operated hair removal device has pulsed stroboscopic light signal provided by illumination device for illumination of relatively moving working elements
WO2002034481A1 (en) 2000-10-20 2002-05-02 Braun Gmbh Electrically driven hair removal device
WO2002034482A1 (en) 2000-10-20 2002-05-02 Braun Gmbh Electrically operated hair removal device
US6871402B2 (en) 2000-10-20 2005-03-29 Braun Gmbh Electrically driven hair removal device
US7900360B2 (en) * 2004-07-23 2011-03-08 The Gillete Company Cutter assembly and method of producing same

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