Patent ID: 6655030
Filing Date: 2003-12-02
Classification: B26B

Abstract:
A shaving head comprising at least a first cutting member and a second cutting member which, viewed in a shaving direction of the shaving head, is arranged behind and spaced apart from the first cutting member to create an interspace between the first and second cutting members, said cutting members each comprising a plate-shaped carrier having mutually parallel first and second main side faces, the first main side face of the first cutting member facing away from the second cutting member and the second main side face of the first cutting member facing the second cutting member, the first and second cutting members provided with a substantially straight cutting edge extending substantially in a skin contact surface with which, in operation, the shaving head bears against the skin to be shaved, and a cutting angle present between the second cutting member and the skin contact surface being equal to or larger than a cutting angle present between the first cutting member and the skin contact surface, the cutting edge of at least the first cutting member being situated on a side, facing away from the second cutting member, of an imaginary center plane of the carrier of the first cutting member, said imaginary center plane extending between the first and second main side faces of the carrier, characterized in that the interspace between the first and second cutting members, as viewed from the skin contact surface, is divergent.