Patent ID: 7530171

Claim:
A shaving apparatus comprising: a housing; a plurality of shaving heads included in the housing, each comprising a circular shear plate provided with hair-entry apertures; a rotatable cutting member associated with and rotatable relative to the shear plate, a sheer-plate holder mounted on the housing, the sheer-plate holder holding the plurality of shear plates; a motor included in the housing, and a drive structure coupling said motor to said cutting members for driving the cutting members into rotation, said drive structure comprising a plurality of drive units, each of said drive units extending at least from a drive rim engaged for driving the drive unit to a coupling end coupled to one of said cutting members for transferring rotation of the drive unit to the cutting member, wherein at least the drive rims of the drive units are each suspended for rotation about an axis of rotation, and wherein the axes of rotation of said drive rims are oriented at angles relative to each other and diverge from each other in a direction from the drive rim to the coupling end.