Patent ID: 6789322
Filing Date: 2004-09-14
Classification: B26B

Abstract:
An electric shaver comprising a cutter head which is installed on an upper portion of a shaver main body in a pivotable fashion in a forward-rearward direction and which is provided therein with a plurality of cutter units, each of said cutter units having an outer cutter and an inner cutter that reciprocates while making sliding contact with an inside surface of said outer cutter, whereinsaid cutter head is equipped with at least one cutter unit as a movable cutter unit; and with a single switching operation of a mode-switching section that switches operating mode of said shaver and is installed on said shaver main body, said movable cutter unit is moved to a specific position in an upward or downward direction from a standard position, and an angle of inclination of said cutter head with respect to said shaver main body is varied.