Patent ID: 7475687

Claim:
A nailcare device having a housing ( 1 ) and an electric motor-driven grinding body ( 4 ), which is seated on a drive shaft ( 10 ) connected to an electric motor ( 6 ) and is located in the upper part of the housing ( 1 ) under a covering ( 3 , 21 ), which covering is attached, firmly seated but readily releasably, to the housing ( 1 ) of the device and has at least two slots ( 3 a ), at different radial spacings from the drive shaft ( 10 ), located as close as possible to the grinding body ( 4 ), for receiving the fingernail of the user, characterized in that the grinding body ( 4 ) is embodied as essentially discoid; and that the covering ( 3 , 21 ), above the grinding body ( 4 ), is shaped such that the axial spacing between the top ( 4 a ) of the discoid grinding body ( 4 ) and the slots ( 3 a ), located on the covering ( 3 , 21 ) at different radial spacings from the drive shaft ( 10 ), increases or decreases with increasing spacing from the drive shaft ( 10 ).