Patent ID: 9149942
Filing Date: 2015-10-06
Classification: B26B

Abstract:
1. A shaving apparatus comprising: at least one shaving head comprising at least one cutter; a trimmer; a drive structure comprising a motor and a transmission structure for driving the at least one cutter and the trimmer; the trimmer being disengageable from the drive structure; an operating member configured to move the trimmer between a retracted position and an extended position where the trimmer operates in response to being moved to the extended position; reversing means for reversing at least a portion of the drive structure between a first sense of rotation and a second, opposite sense of rotation; and a unidirectional clutch between at least said portion of the drive structure of which the sense of rotation is reversible and the at least one cutter; wherein the reversing means are integrated in the operating member and co-operate with the trimmer for reversing said sense of rotation in response to an action of moving the trimmer between the retracted position and the extended position using the operating member so that when the trimmer is moved to the extended position, the reversing means reverses the sense of rotation to the first sense of rotation for ending operation of the at least one cutter and starting operation of the trimmer, and when the trimmer is moved to the retracted position, the reversing means reverses the sense of rotation to the second sense of rotation for ending operation of the trimmer and starting operation of the at least one cutter.