Patent ID: 7690117

Claim:
A shaving apparatus with a housing, said housing having a passage that is bounded by a housing edge and said housing containing a motor and a driving means drivable by the motor, and with at least one short-hair cutting device projecting out of the housing through the passage and comprising a short-hair cutting tool drivable by the motor and the driving means, and with a long-hair cutting device projecting out of the housing through the passage and comprising a first long-hair cutting tool which is not drivable by the motor and the driving means and a second long-hair cutting tool drivable by the motor and the driving means and located between the first long-hair cutting tool and the short-hair cutting tool, and with a carrying device which is included in the housing and carries both the short-hair cutting device and the long-hair cutting device and is provided for combined adjustment of the short-hair cutting device and the long-hair cutting device and being movable parallel to an adjustment direction between a first operating position and a second operating position such that both the short-hair cutting device and the long-hair cutting device, with the carrying device located in its second operating position, project farther out of housing than when the carrying device is located in its first operating position, wherein both with the carrying device located in its first operating position and with the carrying device located in its second operating position, both the drivable short-hair cutting tool of the short-hair cutting and the drivable second long-hair cutting tool of the long-hair cutting device are drivable by the motor and the driving means, wherein moving the carrying device between the first operating position and the second operating position alters cutting characteristics of the long-hair cutting device while cutting characteristics of the at least one short-hair cutting device remain substantially unchanged.