Patent ID: 11877639
Assignee: THE BRAUN CORPORATION
Field: Other consumer goods (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. An epilator comprising:
an epilator head having a head housing and a skin contacting unit mounted at the head housing and arranged for being pivotable with respect to the head housing around a first axis; and
a handle arranged for being held by a user's hand;
wherein the head housing of the epilator head is arranged to be pivotable with respect to the handle around a second axis, the first axis and the second axis being perpendicular to each other and the first axis and the second axis having a distance to each other;
wherein the epilator head comprises a neck portion that is connected with the handle to establish a separable but otherwise fixed connection, and wherein the head housing comprises a cylindrically or spherically shaped neck wall, which neck wall is arranged to immerse into a hollow defined by the neck portion when the head housing pivots around the second axis; and
wherein the skin contacting unit has skin contacting elements that define a skin contacting plane, and wherein the second axis always crosses the skin contacting plane irrespective of a pivot angle of the skin contacting unit.