Rotary dry shaver with tiltable shear plates

Abstract

Abstract A rotary dry shaver comprising a component housing, a pair of tiltable cutting elements with exposed apertured shear plates, a bladed rotary cutting member cooperative with the inner surface of the shear plates and coactively tiltable therewith, a driving shaft for the cutting members, the shear plates and cutting members normally disposed at a right angle to the shaft axes, the cutting elements independently supported axially on a spherically radiused surface whereon they are freely tiltable at diverse angles relative to the shaft axes, a removable cutting element retaining frame with apertures through which a portion of each of the cutting elements projects, the outer surface of the projecting portion correspondingly spherically radiused and fittingly and tiltably retained by and in the frame apertures, a chamber in the housing beneath said frame to receive hair clippings, apertures through the housing sidewalls communicating with the chamber, hinged side plates to open and close the wall apertures, the side plates and said frame comprising cooperative engaging portions by which the frame is positively secured in place when the side plates are closed, the shear plate apertures and the blades of the cutting member opposedly two-edged for cutting in either rotational direction, a driving motor, means for reversing the rotation of the cutting member at desired intervals, a toothed edge reciprocal hair trimming clipper embodied in the housing, the toothed edge of which may be projected from or retracted into the housing, the clipper being operably connected to a driving element when it is projected and disconnected when it is retracted.

Inventors

• 👤 T Tyler

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