Patent ID: 7491193

Claim:
A personal care apparatus with an air pump and with a suction nozzle configuration, which has an air connection to the air pump and which has at least two suction nozzles, having suction sections of different sizes, wherein, in a plan view of the suction sections, the suction section of an internal suction nozzle lies within the suction section of an external suction nozzle having a larger suction section, and wherein all suction sections of the suction nozzles face away from the rest of the personal care apparatus, and wherein with the suction nozzles are held adjustably in relation to each other along a path of motion, and wherein at least one of said suction nozzles is displaceable into an operating position permitting suctorial interaction with an area of the skin by means of an adjustment of the suction nozzles in relation to each other, wherein the external suction nozzle is equipped with a locking lever connected by a bar to the external suction nozzle, wherein the suction nozzles are held in relation to each other by the locking lever if the locking lever is in a locking position, and wherein the suction nozzles are adjustably in relation to each other along a path of motion if the locking lever is not in a locking position.