Patent ID: 7401407

Claim:
An electric rotary shaver in which a cutter head includes a plurality of cutters each comprising an inner cutter and an outer cutter disposed so that cleaning thereof is performed while said inner cutter of each of said plurality of cutters is rotationally driven, said shaver further comprising a plurality of agitating vanes and a plurality of drive shafts, wherein at least one of said plurality of agitating vanes is provided on each of a plurality of drive shafts independently of said inner cutter, each of said drive shafts engage separate inner cutters of said plurality of cutters and rotationally drive said inner cutters of said plurality of cutters, said agitating vanes agitates a cleaning liquid in which said cutter head is immersed to cause said cleaning liquid to flow from the agitating vanes through the inner cutters and haircutting openings in said outer cutters from the inside to the outside of the cutter head to discharge substantially all shaving debris out of said haircutting openings in said outer cutters of said plurality of cutters.