Patent ID: 7707725

Claim:
An electric shaver comprising: a housing carrying a shorthair cutter unit, a longhair cutter unit and an operating switch, the longhair cutter unit mounted so as to be pivotable with respect to the housing about a pivot axis between an open position and a closed position; an electric drive disposed within the housing and operable to drive the shorthair cutter unit and mechanically connected to drive the longhair cutter unit in at least the open position; the longhair cutter unit including a longhair cutter housing carrying a longhair cutter comprised of a lower blade and an upper blade, the longhair cutter having comb ends that form a cutting plane of the longhair cutter; wherein the longhair cutter unit is connected to the operating switch via an actuator that both pivots the longhair cutter unit toward its open position, and extends the longhair cutter with respect to the longhair cutter housing, in response to a corresponding actuation of the switch.