Patent ID: 6199282
Filing Date: 2001-03-13
Classification: B26B

Abstract:
An electric shaver comprising an outer cutter unit provided with a plurality of slits that form slit-form blades in a plurality of separate blade formation regions of annular shape and an inner cutter unit provided with a plurality of inner blade elements arranged in an annular configuration with tip ends thereof contacting interior surfaces of said slit-form blades in said plurality of separate blade formation regions and rotated relative to said outer cutter unit, wherein said plurality of separate blade formation regions are formed in a shape of at least two concentric spaced apart circles in said outer cutter unit, said at least two concentric spaced apart circles comprising an outermost blade formation region, at least one inner blade formation region coaxially within said outermost blade formation region, a thickness of said slit-form blades in said inner blade formation region is formed smaller than a thickness of said slit-form blades in said outermost blade formation region and each of the plurality of inner blade elements is bifurcated and disposed in at least two separate concentric annular configurations corresponding to said at least two concentric spaced apart circles of said outer cutter unit.