Patent ID: 7984722

Claim:
A cleaning system comprising a hair removing apparatus and a cleaning device, said apparatus having a height and an operator head at its top end, said apparatus incorporating an externally controllable electric circuit for driving said operator head in accordance with an external electric signal, said cleaning device comprising: a housing configured to hold said apparatus in an inverted manner; a basin formed in said housing for accommodating therein said operator head; a tank provided on the housing to contain a volume of a cleaning liquid; a supplying means for supplying the cleaning liquid from said tank to said basin for cleaning the operator head; a controller for activating said supplying means as well as for providing said electric signal, said housing being formed with a signal transmitting means for transmitting said electric signal, said hair removing apparatus having a signal receiving means which comes into electrical interconnection with said signal transmitting means for giving said electric signal to said electric circuit when said apparatus is held by said housing; wherein said signal transmitting means is disposed at a portion of the housing upwardly of said basin, wherein said externally controllable electric circuit is configured for driving said operator head and for charging the hair removing apparatus in accordance with said external electric signal, and said signal receiving means is disposed intermediate the height of said apparatus, and the mechanism or parts for the electrical connection between the signal transmitting means and the signal receiving means are located within the height of the apparatus being held by the housing of the device, wherein the configuration of said externally controllable electric circuit for driving said operator head and for charging the hair removing apparatus in accordance with said external electric signal involves said controller of said cleaning device activating said external electric signal to flow through said signal transmitting means and said signal receiving means via said electrical interconnection to a controller of said hair removing apparatus which drives the operator head and/or charges the hair removing apparatus.