Patent ID: 8230819

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: (a) a vacuum nozzle having a hollow body terminating in a mouth opening and attachable to a vacuum source; and (b) a grooming blade spanning the mouth opening, the grooming blade having a plurality of teeth on the sides of which are formed sharp edges, the grooming blade having two sides and positioned with respect to the mouth opening to allow negative airflow created by the vacuum source to flow over the two sides of the grooming blade, during grooming operations as the grooming blade is pushed or pulled across a pet's coat, the negative airflow lifts top coat hair of the pet's coat to expose undercoat hair to the sharp edges of the grooming blade which are configured to remove ready to be shed undercoat hair by snagging the ready to be shed undercoat hair thereby increasing efficiency of deshedding operations as compared to conventional deshedding operations by eliminating operational strokes and reducing time associated with the deshedding operations.