Patent ID: 8601695

Claim:
A shaving unit comprising: at least one driven cutter for cutting hairs, at least one stationary cutter, the stationary cutter including a plurality of apertures, a guide surface extending adjacent said at least one stationary cutter, and elongated hair guides projecting from the guide surface, said elongated hair guides being spaced apart from each other and bounding channels defined by the spaces between the elongated hair guides extending from an area spaced from the at least one stationary cutter towards the at least one stationary cutter, wherein the elongated hair guides are configured so that each of the channels bounded by the elongated hair guides is elongated and radially aligned with a respective one of the plurality of apertures of the at least one stationary cutter, and each of the hair guides having a skin contact surface facing away from the guide surface and a surface facing the guide surface, wherein the skin contact surface is at least partially round and meets the surface facing the guide surface along a hair catching edge, wherein for each of the hair guides a distance, perpendicular to the guide surface, between the hair catching edge and a portion of the skin contact surface most remote from the guide surface is between 0.1 and 1.0 mm.