GB659058A - Dry shaver - Google Patents

Abstract

659,058. Dry shavers. SUNBEAM CORPORATION. July 10, 1947, No. 18284. Convention date, May 3, 1943. [Class 131] In a dry shaver a cutter, oscillated through an eccentric from a rotary drive, coacts with an arcuate shear plate along one side of which comb teeth are provided, a clipper cutter, reciprocated by a second eccentric from the rotary drive coacting with the comb teeth. As shown, a close-shaving unit consisting of a cutter blade 25, oscillated beneath the apertured shear plate 22 by the shaft 23 rocked by a crank 26 fixed eccentrically on the rotary drive shaft 32, is laterally offset with regard to the longitudinal centre axis B of the shaver to allow the compact inclusion in the shaver head of a clipper cutter for long hair consisting of undercut comb teeth 45 and a cutter 41 reciprocated by a pivoted lever 62 from a slide member 61 reciprocated in a direction at right angles to the axis of rotation of the rotary drive shaft by an annular eccentric 58 secured to the rotary drive shaft 32. The cutters are urged by springs and centrifugal force towards the shear plate 22 and comb 45 respectively, and are enclosed in a removable casing screwed to the main casing 15. A presser plate 75 constitutes one side of a removable casing section 74, releasably held by a spring blade 81 and permits removal of the shear plate 22. The wall 78 terminates short of the clipper comb to provide an opening 79 which exposes the comb and which also communicates with the interior of the oscillating cutter compartment for the discharge of cut hair. The shear plate may be of the kind disclosed in Specification 653,508.