EP0528818A1 - Tondeuse electrique a cheveux. - Google Patents

Tondeuse electrique a cheveux.

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EP0528818A1
EP0528818A1 EP91907725A EP91907725A EP0528818A1 EP 0528818 A1 EP0528818 A1 EP 0528818A1 EP 91907725 A EP91907725 A EP 91907725A EP 91907725 A EP91907725 A EP 91907725A EP 0528818 A1 EP0528818 A1 EP 0528818A1
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slide
hair clipper
slide switch
coupling
hair
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EP0528818B1 (fr
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Roland Ullmann
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Braun GmbH
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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
    • B26B19/20—Clippers or shavers operating with a plurality of cutting edges, e.g. hair clippers, dry shavers with provision for shearing hair of preselected or variable length

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  • the invention relates to an electric hair clipper with a shaving head and with a spacer comb that can be placed on the shaving head for sliding contact on the surface of the skin to be treated, which can be adjusted in different latching positions with respect to the front edge of the shaving head, and with a slide switch for switching the on and off Drive of the hair-cutting machine, the spacing comb and the slide switch being provided with coupling means which can be brought into engagement and further latching positions are provided for the "on" and "off” position of the slide switch.
  • Such a hair clipper is known from DE-PS 3529516.
  • the user has to reset the slide switch to the "off" position "0" regardless of the cutting length with which he has cut his hair.
  • the spacing comb is automatically returned to the position with the smallest cutting length, so that the next time the user is used, it is no longer possible to determine the cutting length with which the hair was cut the last time.
  • the object of the invention is therefore to design a hair clipper of the type mentioned at the outset in such a way that the user can recognize a cut length that has been selected as favorable when it is used again.
  • This object is achieved in that a preselection slide is provided which can be set such that the drive of the hair clipper only switches on at a predetermined latching position.
  • FIG. 2 is a view of the front of the hair clipper with a spacer comb attached
  • FIG. 4 shows a side view of the hair-cutting machine shown in FIG. 3, partly in longitudinal section,
  • FIG. 6 shows the locking mechanism associated with the hair clipper for positioning the spacer comb at different distances from the front edge of the shaving head
  • 7 shows the basic illustration of an exemplary embodiment
  • Fig. 8 is a side view of a hair clipper with a preselector.
  • the hair clipper 1 essentially consists of a narrow, haptically designed body, to which a shaving head 2 belongs, which in FIGS. 1 and 2 has a spacing comb placed on the shaving head 2 3 is covered.
  • the purpose of the spacer comb 3 is to keep the front edge 4 of the shaving head 2 formed from a fixed shaving comb plate 5 and a shaving blade 6 which slides back and forth on it at a predetermined distance from the skin surface to be treated, for example the scalp of a person to be styled , wherein the spacing comb 3 - as explained later - can be positioned in different stroke positions relative to the body 7 of the hair-cutting machine 1 on its shaving head 2.
  • the spacer comb 3 comprises, as a hollow body, the body 7 of the hair-cutting machine 1 in the area of its shaving head 1 on all four sides, its tooth-shaped supports 8 which are formed on it allowing the hair of the person to be treated to pass through to the shaving head 2, from the shaving knife 6 thereof they are then cut off.
  • the remaining length of the cut hair corresponds - in the case of supports 8 placed on the skin surface - to the distance from the front edge of the tooth-shaped supports 8 from the front or cutting edge of the shaving head 2 or the shaving knife 6 associated with it, this distance - as already mentioned - can be changed in the hair clipper 1.
  • the hair clipper 1 For functional use of the hair clipper 1 using the distance comb 3 which determines the hair length to be cut, the latter are assigned coupling means which interact with suitable coupling members of the body 7 of the hair clipper 1.
  • the hair clipper 1 is assigned a coupling plunger 10 which can be slid in a housing-side guide 9 with a T-shaped cross section in the direction of the longitudinal axis x of the hair clipper 1.
  • This coupling tappet 10 is assigned a slide switch 11 which extends over the entire width of the hair clipping machine 1 and thus permits safe operation with both the left and right hand of the device user, that is to say one-hand operation.
  • the slide switch 11 fulfills several functions, namely firstly that of switching the electrical or mechanical drive of the hair clipper 1 on or off, then the further function of coupling or uncoupling the distance comb 3 with the hair clipper 1 in a functional manner, and finally the function that Coupled coupled distance comb 3 in different positions causing different distances.
  • FIG 5 shows the basic mode of operation of the coupling 13 between the slide switch 11 of the hair clipper 1 assigned here to the clutch plunger 10 and the spacer comb 3 which can be placed on the shaving head 2 of the body 7 of the hair clipper 1.
  • the coupling plunger 10 connected to the slide switch 11 is formed with a coupling lug 14 which can be pivoted about the axis of a film hinge 15 formed on the coupling plunger 10, in such a way that the coupling lug 14 automatically returns to its starting position after each pivoting in accordance with FIG. 5 returns.
  • the spacer comb 3 surrounding the shaving head 2 of the hair clipper 1 is assigned in the region of its wall 16 serving as coupling means a coupling groove 17 receiving the coupling tappet 10 including its coupling lug 14.
  • This coupling groove 17 comprises a locking shoulder 18 formed on the coupling wall 16 of the spacer comb 3, which shoulders from the coupling nose 14 of the coupling tappet 10 by deflecting into the recess 20 formed by a housing wall 19 of the hair clipper 1 in the region of the coupling groove 17 during the mounting of the Distance comb 3 is overcome.
  • the attached spacing comb 3 is thus held by the coupling nose 14 of the coupling plunger 10 engaging behind its locking shoulder 18 and thus secured against unintentional detachment from the hair clipper 1.
  • the slide switch 11 which also acts on electrical switches 21 for the drive is still in the "off" position, in which the feed circuit of the hair clipping machine 1 is open.
  • FIG. 6 shows a schematic front view of a vertically displaceable grip piece 30, which includes both the clutch plunger 10 and the slide switch 11 and which serves as a central switch for the hair clipper 1.
  • the handle 30 is formed here about a molded-in film hinge 31 pivoting locking lever 32, the council nose 33 engages under self-resilience in locking notches in a device-fixed locking bar 34 of the hair clipper 1 and forms a locking mechanism with each.
  • the engagement of the detent 33 in the lowest detent notch 34.1 determines the “off” position of the slide switch 11. If the slide switch 11 is pushed up by one detent, the detent 33 arrives in the detent notch 34.2, which determines "on" position of the slide switch 11.
  • the coupling tappet 10 comes from its "off” position assumed after overcoming the locking shoulder 18 into the “on” position in which its coupling nose 14 comes to rest on the locking shoulder 24 and the inner wall 26 of the positive guide 27 and so that the coupling of the hair clipper 1 with the spacer comb 3 is completed for the purpose of positioning the spacer comb.
  • the latching nose 33 arrives in the latching notch 34.3.
  • the spacer comb 3 is moved by the coupling tappet 10 moved in the direction x as a result of the front wall 23 on the tappet resting against the locking shoulder 24 Clutch wall 16 raised to a first latching position.
  • This first detent position causes the hair captured by the spacer comb 3 to be cut with a relatively short cutting length.
  • the locking position is here from a shaving head 2 of the hair clipper
  • I associated marking scale 35 the numbers "1" to "4" are visible in a cutout 36 between and below two adjacent tooth-shaped supports 8 of the spacer comb 3.
  • a mark 37 assigned to the front of the spacing comb 3 indicates the respective latching position - here the lowest possible latching position "1" - of the spacing comb 3.
  • the return of the distance comb 3 - for example to switch the hair clipper 1 to a shorter cutting length - is carried out in a simple manner by pushing back the slide switch 11 in the direction opposite the arrow direction x.
  • the clutch plunger 10 is moved in the same direction of thrust and, by the action of the positive guide 27, the clutch wall 16 of the spacer comb 3 as a result of the abutment of the tappet-side bevel edge 38 on the side corresponding to the latter.
  • the inclined edge 39 of the coupling wall 16 is taken into the detent position "1" which causes the smallest cutting length and which is characterized by the engagement of the detent 33 in the notch 34.3.
  • the coupling lug 14 of the coupling plunger 10 arrives after passing the locking edge 40 which, according to FIG. 5, extends somewhat below the level of the locking shoulder 24 formed by the coupling wall 16, that is to say protrudes by a small amount in the coupling direction x compared to the latter, in the region of the coupling groove 17, which allows the coupling lug 14 of the coupling tappet 10, which rests on the comb-side locking shoulder 18, to escape into the recess 20.
  • FIG. 7 shows a preselection slide 60 which is movable in the longitudinal direction and consists of a printed circuit board 66, a locking lever 62 and a handle 61.
  • the handle 61 enables the preselection slide 60 to be moved in different detent positions 1, 2, 3 and 4 . These locking positions are determined by a locking bar 64 fixed in the housing, in whose locking notches the locking lug 63 located at the end of the locking lever 62 snaps into place.
  • the distances between the latching positions of the preselection slide 60 correspond to the distances between the latching positions 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the slide switch 11.
  • the latching position of the slide switch 11 is determined by latching levers 32 fastened to it, the ends of which in latching notches from latching bars likewise fixed in the housing 34 click into place.
  • the slide switch 11 is provided with two sliding contacts 68 and 78, one sliding contact 78 sliding over the conductor 77 of a printed circuit board 76 fixed in the housing and the other sliding contact 68 sliding over the conductor 67 of the printed circuit board 66 of the preselection slide 60.
  • the two sliding contacts 68 and 78 are connected to one another in the slide switch 11.
  • the upper end of the conductor track 77 is fixed to the motor M and the upper end of the conductor track 67 is connected via a sliding contact 69. Since the conductor track 77 of the fixed circuit board 76 is connected to a pole of the voltage source, the motor M is switched on when the slide switch 11 connects the two conductor tracks 77 and 67 to one another via the sliding contacts 78 and 68.
  • the slide switch 11 is in the position shown in FIG. 1 in the locking position "0", that is to say the motor is switched off, and the preselection switch 60 is in the locking position "1", corresponding to the shortest hair length that can be set. If the slide switch is now pushed up from the locking position "0" to the locking position "1", the motor switches on, since the sliding contact 68 is now connected to the conductor track 67.
  • the sliding contact 68 would only come into contact with the conductor track 67, that is to say only switch on the motor when the Slide switch 11 is also pushed into the locking position "4".
  • the conductor track 67 can also be provided on the printed circuit board 66 so short that the sliding contact 68 only comes into contact with the conductor track in a single latching position of the preselection slide 60, so that the hair clipper only in this single, preselected rest position starts.

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Abstract

Dans une tondeuse électrique à cheveux avec un peigne à écartement (3) montable sur la tête tondeuse, ainsi qu'avec un interrupteur à coulisse (11) pour la mise en marche et l'arrêt de l'entraînement, il est prévu un présélecteur (60) qui peut être réglé de telle façon que l'entraînement ne s'enclenche que lors d'une position de crantage prédéterminée de l'interrupteur à coulisse.
EP91907725A 1990-04-27 1991-04-23 Tondeuse electrique a cheveux Expired - Lifetime EP0528818B1 (fr)

Priority Applications (1)

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AT9191907725T ATE105225T1 (de) 1990-04-27 1991-04-23 Elektrische haarschneidemaschine.

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DE4013436 1990-04-27
DE4013436A DE4013436A1 (de) 1990-04-27 1990-04-27 Elektrische haarschneidemaschine
PCT/DE1991/000327 WO1991017024A1 (fr) 1990-04-27 1991-04-23 Tondeuse electrique a cheveux

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EP0528818A1 true EP0528818A1 (fr) 1993-03-03
EP0528818B1 EP0528818B1 (fr) 1994-05-04

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EP (1) EP0528818B1 (fr)
JP (1) JP3012911B2 (fr)
CA (1) CA2080902C (fr)
DE (2) DE4013436A1 (fr)
WO (1) WO1991017024A1 (fr)

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CA2080902C (fr) 1998-06-16
DE4013436A1 (de) 1991-10-31
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