Patent ID: 6568081
Filing Date: 2003-05-27
Classification: B26B

Abstract:
A shaver particularly useful for shaving hair from skin, comprising: a manually-grippable housing; and a cutter head carried by said housing and removably attachable thereto along an outer edge of the cutter head; said cutter head having a shaving face carrying a plurality of cutter units to be pressed into contact with, and to be moved along, the skin to be shaved; each of said cutter units having an inner side facing an adjacent cutter unit, and an outer side facing the outer edge of said cutter head;characterized in that said cutter head further includes at least one relatively sharp scraper edge located between the outer side of at least one cutter unit and the outer edge of the cutter head so as to be pressable into the skin forwardly of the respective cutter unit, to erect hairs in the skin and to tauten the skin in advance of the respective cutter unit as the cutter head is moved across the skin in the direction from the outer side towards the inner side of the respective cutter unit; said relatively sharp scraper edge not extending to the inner side of the respective cutter unit facing its adjacent cutter unit so as to minimize possible irritation of the skin as the cutter head is moved across the skin.