Hair clipping device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10105856-B2
Application number	US-201414913477-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 18, 2014
Priority date	Aug 29, 2013
Publication date	Oct 23, 2018
Grant date	Oct 23, 2018

Abstract

A hair clipping device includes a housing, and a cutting assembly which is arranged on a distal end of the housing and which includes a stationary cutting blade and a moveable cutting blade. The hair clipping device includes further includes a comb attachment which is releasably attachable to the housing and includes a plurality of comb teeth. A front side of the housing that runs transverse to the distal end and the cutting assembly includes a corrugated surface with a plurality of adjacent ribs and recesses running parallel to each other. The backside of the comb teeth contacts the corrugated surface when the comb attachment is attached to the housing.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A hair clipping device comprising:
a housing having an upper side and a housing back side opposite the upper side;
a cutting assembly arranged on a distal end of said housing over the upper side of the housing, the cutting assembly having a stationary cutting blade and a moveable cutting blade extending in a direction from the housing back side towards the upper side; and
a comb attachment releasably attachable to the housing and having comb teeth that extend along a longitudinal axis of the housing,
wherein the upper side of the housing runs transverse to the distal end and the cutting assembly, and comprises a corrugated surface with a plurality of adjacent ribs and recesses running parallel to each other and parallel to the longitudinal axis of the housing and to the comb teeth when the comb attachment is attached to the housing,
wherein the comb teeth are closer to the upper side of the housing than the housing back side, and
wherein a front side of the comb teeth faces away from the housing and an opposing backside of the comb teeth contacts the corrugated surface of the upper side when the comb attachment is attached to the housing.

2. The hair clipping device according to claim 1 , wherein the ribs and recesses run substantially parallel to a longitudinal direction of the housing.

3. The hair clipping device according to claim 1 , further comprising an adjustment mechanism for adjusting the position of the comb attachment relative to the housing along a longitudinal direction of the ribs and recesses.

4. The hair clipping device according to claim 3 , wherein the adjustment mechanism is configured to set the comb attachment in a plurality of different positions relative to the housing wherein the backside of the comb teeth contacts the corrugated surface in each of said plurality of positions.

5. The hair clipping device according to claim 1 , wherein the comb teeth of the comb attachment run parallel to the ribs and recesses when the comb attachment is attached to the housing.

6. The hair clipping device according to claim 1 , wherein the comb teeth of the comb attachment are at least partly received within the recesses when the comb attachment is attached to the housing, such that the backside of each comb tooth contacts a base of a respective one of the recesses.

7. The hair clipping device according to claim 6 , wherein the comb teeth of the comb attachment have a width that substantially equals a width of the recesses.

8. The hair clipping device according to claim 1 , wherein the ribs jut out of the upper side of the housing.

9. The hair clipping device according to claim 1 , the backside of each comb tooth contacts an upper side of a respective one of the ribs when the comb attachment is attached to the housing.

10. The hair clipping device according to claim 9 , the comb teeth of the comb attachment have a width that substantially equals or exceeds a width of the ribs.

11. The hair clipping device according to claim 1 , wherein the stationary cutting blade comprises cutting teeth, wherein each of the ribs comprises an upper side facing away from the housing, and wherein an imaginary plane in which said upper sides of the ribs come to lie contacts a tip of the cutting teeth of the stationary cutting blade.

12. The hair clipping device according to claim 11 , wherein the recesses are recessed with respect to the apex of the ribs and said imaginary plane.

13. The hair clipping device according to claim 1 , wherein the comb attachment comprises two arms that jut out of the backside of the comb attachment one at each lateral side of the comb attachment towards the housing back side, such that said arms overlap the distal end of the housing when the comb attachment is attached to the housing, and wherein the space between said two arms is left open.

Assignees

• Koninklijke Philips Nv

Inventors

• Tuijp Bram
• Nab Martijn Frans Johan
• Hoexum Everhardus Johannes
• Tijssen Reinier Alexander

Classifications

• B26B19/06

  involving co-operating cutting elements both of which have shearing teeth · CPC title

• B26B19/20 Primary

  with provision for shearing hair of preselected or variable length · CPC title