A surgical clipper blade assembly includes a stationary blade and a moveable blade adjacent the stationary blade. The moveable blade is configured to reciprocate relative to the stationary blade to remove hair from a skin area. A blade housing houses the stationary blade and the moveable blade. The blade housing has a guide surface that faces the skin area during a hair removal process. A skin conditioning member in the form of a pad that extends along at least one of a skin facing surface of the stationary blade and the guide surface of the blade housing. The skin conditioning member includes a skin preparation composition. Reciprocating motion of the moveable blade vibrates the skin conditioning member against the skin area as the skin preparation composition is released onto the skin area.

Electric shaver provided with a handle and a shaver head including at least one drivable cutter element, wherein said shaver head is connected to said handle by means of a support structure providing for a swivel and/or tilting axis about which said shaver head may swivel or tilt relative to said handle, wherein said support structure includes a pair of link arms forming a four-joint linkage with each link arm having a head joint connected to a shaver head part and a handle joint connected to the handle or a base part connected thereto.

A reciprocating-type electric shaver includes an outer blade, an oscillator that is driven to reciprocate by a motor, and an inner blade that reciprocates in cooperation with the oscillator. The oscillator includes attachment portions that are respectively attached to a main body, a movable base, both end sides of which are supported by the attachment portions via support portions having a substantially U-shape, and a cooperation portion that cooperates with the inner blade. In the respective support portions, a portion on a side connected to the attachment portion in a base portion, which is one linear portion of the U-shape, is formed in flexible oscillating pieces. The respective oscillating pieces are formed to be tilted in a direction orthogonal to a reciprocating direction of the movable base so that a lower portion side of the respective oscillating pieces is open outward in the reciprocating direction of the movable base.

A hair removal apparatus is disclosed, where the apparatus includes a curved shell having an outer surface and defining an internal cavity extending along a length of the curved shell from an open rear end to an open front end of the shell; a core frame structure defining a first end and an opposing second end, and including a transmission arranged toward the first end of the core frame structure, a charging receptacle, and a motor arranged between the transmission and the charging receptacle and coupled to the transmission, wherein the shell is configured to receive the core frame structure through the open rear end thereof so that the core frame structure is positioned in the internal cavity of the shell such that the transmission is arranged near the open front end of the shell; and a blade assembly engageable with the open front end of the shell.

A hair removal apparatus is disclosed, where the apparatus includes a curved shell having an outer surface and defining an internal cavity extending along a length of the curved shell from an open rear end to an open front end of the shell; a core frame structure defining a first end and an opposing second end, and including a transmission arranged toward the first end of the core frame structure, a charging receptacle, and a motor arranged between the transmission and the charging receptacle and coupled to the transmission, wherein the shell is configured to receive the core frame structure through the open rear end thereof so that the core frame structure is positioned in the internal cavity of the shell such that the transmission is arranged near the open front end of the shell; and a blade assembly engageable with the open front end of the shell.

According to an aspect, there is provided a mounting assembly (12) for a hair cutting appliance, the mounting assembly comprising a head (16) for receiving a cutting unit (14); and a body (18). The head is mounted to the body by a four-bar linkage (20) having a coupler link (22) associated with the head, a frame link (24) associated with the body, and two arms (26) extending therebetween. The frame link is connected to each arm at respective joins (28), and the coupler link is connected to each arm at respective joins. Pivoting movement of the arms about parallel linkage axes (30) passing through each join permits rotation of the coupler link relative to the frame link about a virtual pivot (32). One of the coupler link and the frame link is a first link coupled to the arms by two-degree-of-freedom joins, thereby permitting the arms and the other of the frame link and the coupler link to further pivot in unison relative to the first link about a rotation axis (34) perpendicular to the linkage axes.

An electric hair clipper (1) comprises a blade (10) and a casing (2), consisting of an upper shell (16), a lower shell (18) and a screen (20) removable from the lower shell (18) to leave the blade (10) in evidence.

The invention relates to a swing bridge for converting a rotary motion into an oscillating motion, especially into a linear oscillating motion, especially within an electrically driven device. The swing bridge comprises an oscillating body defining a plane. The oscillating body comprises a slot arranged in the plane, wherein a first axis extends through the slot perpendicular to the plane, and a drive shaft protruding perpendicular to the plane along a second axis.

The present invention relates to electric appliances for personal care, in particular electric shavers, comprising a magnetic linear drive unit having first and second drive components supported for linear displacement relative to each other by a spring device and adapted to magnetically interact with each other. The spring device includes at least one leaf spring having a constricted section in a central region of the leaf spring, wherein surfaces of the at least one leaf spring neighboring the constricted section are shaped convex. Such convex surfaces may have a parabolic contour.

A reciprocating electric razor head includes a fixed blade and a fixed blade support for supporting and fixing the fixed blade. The fixed blade is provided with hair entrance holes for body hair to enter, and an inner side of the fixed blade is provided with a movable blade capable of moving backward and forward in a reciprocating manner relative to the fixed blade to cut off the body hair inside the hair entrance holes, such that the fixed blade obtains a very flat cutting working face contacting the movable blade without the need for additional precision machining.