Patent ID: 8397604

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a cutting member of a shaver, comprising the steps of: providing a plate-shaped carrier with at least one hole in the carrier that adjoins an end face of a cutting edge end portion of at least one cutting element yet to be formed; cutting, via tearing, at least one cutting element free from the carrier except for a residual connection between a base of the cutting element and the carrier; and bending the cutting element relative to the carrier, wherein the steps of cutting free and bending the cutting element are performed simultaneously using a tool having a punching surface that produces a combined punching and bending effect, wherein the at least one hole in the carrier facilitates initialization of the cutting, via tearing, performed by the tool, and wherein the cutting element is teared free along sidewalls of the cutting element and simultaneously bent out of the carrier, wherein portions of the sidewalls of the at least one cutting element close to the residual connection are in friction force contact with corresponding sidewalls of the carrier close to the residual connection, and wherein, in the area of the portions of the sidewalls in friction force contact close to the residual connection, there is no free space present between the sidewalls of the cutting element and corresponding sidewalls of the carrier that are in friction force contact with each other.