Patent ID: 7762001
Filing Date: 2010-07-27
Classification: B26B

Abstract:
1. A hair clipper, comprising: at least three blade blocks each including a plurality of comb-like blades mutually overlapped for making sliding contact with each other, each of the blade blocks having a skin contact surface generally parallel to a projecting direction of the comb-like blades; and an elongated main body including a drive unit for reciprocating at least one of the comb-like blades, wherein the main body includes an attachment unit for detachably attaching a selected one of the plurality of blade blocks to the main body, wherein the blade blocks include a first blade block, a second blade block whose skin surface contact angle between a longitudinal axis of the main body and the skin contact surface is acute and is greater than a skin surface contact angle of the first blade block, and a third blade block having a skin surface contact angle which is substantially the same as the skin surface contact angle of the second blade block, the third blade block having a cutting width smaller than a cutting width of the first blade block and the second blade block, and wherein the third blade block has a counterpart attachment portion attached to the main body and an operating portion including the comb-like blades and the skin contact surface, the operating portion having a width smaller than a width of the counterpart portion.