Patent ID: 7300443
Filing Date: 2007-11-27
Classification: A45D

Abstract:
1. A cylindrical rotor for an epilating device which includes a support body containing an electrical motor which in use provides a rotational drive to said cylindrical rotor, said cylindrical rotor including: a rotor body; a shaft extending through said rotor body and defining an axis of rotation about which said rotor body can rotate, said shaft comprising a cam surface configured as an annular slot within said shaft; and at least one array of radially extending blade pairs positioned to present mutually interacting pinching edges of each said blade pair at a circumference of the cylindrical rotor, each blade pair including a rotor body stationary blade and a blade movable relative to said stationary blade, wherein each of said movable blades of said at least one array is mounted on a shuttle carried by said rotor body, said shuttle being in a cammed disposition with said shaft and said cammed disposition being of a kind wherein cooperative surfaces of said shaft and said shuttle, upon a relative rotation of said shaft with said rotor body and said shuttle carried with said rotor body, moves said shuttle in an oscillating manner in a direction parallel to the axis of rotation of said rotor body, in a manner to repeatedly bring said movable and stationary blades of each blade pair into and subsequently out of mutual engagement at least at the circumference of said cylindrical rotor to entrap and subsequently release hairs there between, and wherein said shuttle includes a cam follower upstand snugly located within said annular slot and projecting for engagement with said cam surface of said shaft to positively control the positioning of said shuttle in its reciprocating movement relative to said rotor body.