81 |
Hair clipper blade gapping tool |
US13662987 |
2012-10-29 |
US09144913B2 |
2015-09-29 |
Jeffrey D. Gross; Richard J. Tringali |
A blade gapping tool for setting the gap of a hair clipper bladeset, the blade gapping tool including a base, a locking member, an adjustable boss and an adjuster. |
82 |
HAIR TREATMENT DEVICE WITH LIGHT-BASED HAIR DETECTOR |
US14396487 |
2013-04-12 |
US20150126981A1 |
2015-05-07 |
Babu Verghese; Rieko Verhagen |
The invention provides a hair treatment device (40) comprising a detector (10) for detecting a hair (22) near a skin surface (21). The detector (10) comprises a light source (11) for generating a light beam (31) with an initial polarization direction, a polarization modulator (32) for time-dependent modulation of the polarization direction of the light beam (31) between at least a first polarization direction and a second polarization direction, optical elements (14, 16, 17, 18) for focusing the light beam (31) at the hair (22) near the skin surface (21), and a polarization-sensitive light-based detection unit (13) for detecting light interacted with the hair (22) or the skin surface (21) and for discerning when the interacted light has a polarization-direction component different from the initial polarization direction. |
83 |
AIR-POWERED HAIR CUTTER |
US14299555 |
2014-06-09 |
US20140298660A1 |
2014-10-09 |
HAIM SHELEMEY |
A hair cutting device 1 comprises a turbine 15 seated with and rotatable relative to a housing 10. The turbine 15 and the housing 10 each have one part of a co-operating rotary shear blade 25, 55 fixedly attached to them such that rotation of the turbine 15 relative to the housing 10 creates a shearing cutting action. Rotation of the turbine 15 is achieved by pulling air over the turbine 15 with a vacuum generating device, such as household vacuum cleaner. |
84 |
HAIR CLIPPER BLADE GAPPING TOOL |
US13662987 |
2012-10-29 |
US20140115865A1 |
2014-05-01 |
Jeffrey D. Gross; Richard J. Tringali |
A blade gapping tool for setting the gap of a hair clipper bladeset, the blade gapping tool including a base, a locking member, an adjustable boss and an adjuster. |
85 |
Hair graphic cutting apparatus |
US12448935 |
2009-07-15 |
US08474466B2 |
2013-07-02 |
Paul Willaim Charles Lakin |
A graphic cutting device for cutting a graphic design including a first track on which the graphic cutting device is motor-drivably slidably and transversely mounted, a second track on which the first track is motor-drivably slidably mounted, an electronic controller which automatically controls the movement of the graphic cutting device on the first track and the movement of the first track on the second track so that a selected graphic design is cut into a user's hair so as to be defined by bordering hair and so as to extend from the user's hairline and/or be spaced from the user's hairline, and an input interface which enables input of said graphic design to the controller. The input interface includes at least one of an internet connection, an electronic memory card reader, and a peripheral device connection, and the controller includes an electronic memory storage device which stores electronic movement. |
86 |
ELECTRIC SHAVER WITH IMAGING CAPABILITY |
US13528205 |
2012-06-20 |
US20120317817A1 |
2012-12-20 |
Yehuda BINDER |
System and method for improving the shaving experience by providing improved visibility of the skin shaving area. A digital camera is integrated with the electric shaver for close image capturing of shaving area, and displaying it on a display unit. The display unit can be integral part of the electric shaver casing, or housed in a separated device which receives the image via a communication channel. The communication channel can be wireless (using radio, audio or light) or wired, such as dedicated cabling or using powerline communication. A light source is used to better illuminate the shaving area. Video compression and digital image processing techniques are used for providing for improved shaving results. The wired communication medium can simultaneously be used also for carrying power from the electric shaver assembly to the display unit, or from the display unit to the electric shaver. |
87 |
Shaver with hair preheating |
US10533747 |
2004-07-06 |
US08319152B2 |
2012-11-27 |
Pinchas Shalev; Zion Azar |
A hair cutting head, for use in a hair cutting apparatus having an elongated heated wire suitable for heating hair growing from a skin surface, and at least one blade placed at one side of the elongated heated wire, the blade being configured to cut the hair which has been heated by the heated wire. The wire is heated to a temperature of at least 50° C. |
88 |
Electric shaver with vibrating head |
US10530501 |
2003-03-13 |
US07202446B2 |
2007-04-10 |
Pinchas Shalev; Zion Azar |
A hair cutting apparatus comprising: an elongate element (260) heated to a temperature capable of cutting hair; a vibrating structure (200), on which said elongate element (260) is mounted; and a housing (106) in which the vibrating structure (200) is mounted. |
89 |
Pulsed electric shaver |
US10363365 |
2002-07-21 |
US07170034B2 |
2007-01-30 |
Pinchas Shalev; Zion Azar |
A hair cutting apparatus comprising a structure (126), a portion (1216) of which being adapted for placement against a skin surface where hair is to be cut, a heat generator comprising one or more heat elements (1214) positioned to touch said hair and heated to a temperature sufficient to cut hair, at least one of said heat elements being juxtaposed with said portion and a controller that controls the power source to provide pulsed heating of said one or more heat elements. |
90 |
Electric shaver with vibrating head |
US10530501 |
2003-03-13 |
US20060070988A1 |
2006-04-06 |
Pinchas Shalev; Zion Azar |
A hair cutting apparatus comprising: an elongate element (260) heated to a temperature capable of cutting hair; a vibrating structure (200), on which said elongate element (260) is mounted; and a housing (106) in which the vibrating structure (200) is mounted. |
91 |
Double-sided and single-sided shearing devices including ridges |
US11025338 |
2004-12-29 |
US20050172490A1 |
2005-08-11 |
Wai-Wah Yiu |
A shearing device is provided for such applications as trimming hair in the nose. The shearing device includes a housing having a top portion and a bottom portion, where the top portion has at least one opening and a plurality of ridges that form channels adjacent to the at least one opening. At least one cutting blade assembly is disposed in each of the openings in the top portion of the housing of the shearing device. Each cutting blade assembly includes one or more blade members. The top portion of the shearing device includes a plurality of ridges that bracket the cutting teeth of the blade members on the cutting blade assembly. The plurality of ridges form channels that expose the teeth of the trimmer blade members, and space the teeth on the blade members of the device away from the skin. The length of the hairs remaining after cutting is determined by the depth of the channels formed by the ridges. In one embodiments of the invention, the cutting head of the shearing device includes a single opening, and a single cutting blade assembly. In another embodiment, the shearing device is a double-sided shearing device, which includes two openings located on opposite sides of the cutting head, and two sets of cutting blade assemblies. |
92 |
Shearing device including ridges |
US10748037 |
2003-12-29 |
US20050144783A1 |
2005-07-07 |
Wai-Wah Yiu |
A shearing device is provided for, for example, trimming hair in the nose, that spaces the teeth on the blades of the device from the skin. The shearing device includes a housing having a top portion and a bottom portion, where the top portion has an opening and a plurality of ridges that form channels adjacent to the opening. At least one cutting blade is disposed in the opening in the top portion of the housing of the shearing device. The top portion of the shearing device includes ridges, and brackets the cutting teeth of the trimmer on either side and includes a plurality of ridges forming channels that expose the teeth on the trimmer blades. The length of the hairs remaining after cutting is determined by the depth of the channels. |
93 |
Motion controlled electric shaver |
US11044881 |
2005-01-26 |
US20050127058A1 |
2005-06-16 |
Pinchas Shalev; Zion Azar |
A hair cutting device for cutting hair growing from a skin surface, the device comprising: a heat generator configured and adapted to heat hair a temperature sufficient to cut hair; a motion detector, configured and adapted to detect motion of the heat generator with respect to the skin surface; and a controller that controls the heat generator responsive to the detected motion. |
94 |
Head having elliptical blades for an electric shaver |
US129439 |
1998-08-05 |
US6154962A |
2000-12-05 |
Yashar Ilkhanov |
A head for attachment to the body of the electric shaver. The head comprises a guard comb that attaches to the body of the electric shaver, a rotary shaft that extends axially in the guard comb, a plurality of blades that are individual, parallels inclined, and extend in, and to, the guard comb. The plurality of blades have centers through which the rotary shaft extends for rotation therewith, and when rotated by the rotary shaft, the plurality of blades traverse an elliptical path, in a sweeping back and forth motion, by virtue of their incline. The head further includes a sliding trimmer that is slidably mounted in an axial slot in the guard comb, and is operatively connected to a periphery of a blade for axial sweeping back and forth motion as the blade rotate, by virtue of their incline. The sliding trimmer includes a trimmer blade that is slidably mounted on the axial slot in the guard comb and a pair of spaced-apart followers that depend from the trimmer blade, through the axial slot, and straddlably engage the blade for sweeping back and forth movement relative thereto, by virtue of their incline. The guard comb of the head is either semi-cylindrically-shaped with a straight, a convexed, or a concaved axial contour, or has an axial contour comprising a plurality of convexed-semi-circular-shaped portions, with the plurality of blades having shapes and sizes to match the specific contour of the specific guard comb. |
95 |
Non-invasive laser cutting device and method |
US27145 |
1998-02-20 |
US5993440A |
1999-11-30 |
Faramarz Frank Ghassemi |
A hand-held, non-invasive cutting device is configured to cut a fiber-like element, such as animal or human hair projecting from the surface of a medium, such as body skin, without exposing the user to the cutting beam. The device exterior is shaped to be readily placed against the surface of the body and has an aperture that accommodates passage of the hair to be cut into an interior region of the housing. The housing includes an optical energy beam director that directs a beam of optical energy, such as a laser beam generated by an external or internal laser, through an interior cutting zone, and onto the inserted element, thereby severing or vaporizing the element. Because the laser beam is aligned with and parallel to the longitudinal direction of the cutting window, then regardless of where it is inserted in the cutting window, the element will be cut by the laser beam. In addition, the beam cannot exit the cutting window, so that the invention is non-invasive and safe for consumer use. |
96 |
Hair trimming device for removal of split ends |
US774387 |
1996-12-30 |
US5884402A |
1999-03-23 |
Victor C. Talavera |
A hair trimming device for cutting substantially equal portions of hair from only the distal end of hair shafts. The device features the brush like body having a handle end portion and a head end. The head end has a cooperating slot formed therein to cooperatively receive a selectively biased roller about the interior of the slot. Strands of hair are placed between the slot in the head end of the body and the roller wherein the user depresses a roller actuating lever at the handle end of the body. Depressing of the lever depresses the roller into the slot by rotating a cooperating mechanism connected to both the roller and lever causing the roller to depress. The user inserts hair strands between the raised roller and slotted side of the head end and thereafter the roller sinks into the slot at a predetermined bias to put optimum tension on the hair strands. The device is then pulled through the hair in a brush like fashion causing only the distal ends of hair moving between the roller and slot to rise into a cutting blade wherein substantially equal portions of the end of the individual hairs are removed while leaving adjacent longer hair strands uncut until their ends are drawn through the device. |
97 |
Electric razor |
US290768 |
1994-11-16 |
US5600888A |
1997-02-11 |
Klaus Becker |
An electric razor having a cutter foil and a cutter head, which interacts with the cutter foil and is driven by a motor which is electronically pulsed. An indicating device is provided which is connected to an operating time counter and/or to a device for detecting the load on the cutter foil and to an evaluation circuit, as a result of which increased safety can be achieved in use of the razor by timely indication of cutter foil wear. |
98 |
Shaving apparatus |
US679077 |
1991-09-03 |
US5182857A |
1993-02-02 |
Pal Simon |
The invention relates to a shaving apparatus which is characterized in that a laser beam (13) serves as the cutting means, and to a method of removing body hairs by means of such a shaving apparatus. The shaving apparatus comprises a shear plate (11) with an entry slot (24). The laser beam (13) is generated by a device (12), severs the hair in the proximity of the entry slot, and is preferably reflected from the shear plate and detected by a photo-cell (18). The shaving apparatus in accordance with the invention enables body hairs to be severed without irritating the skin. |
99 |
Automatic hair cutting apparatus |
US593644 |
1984-03-26 |
US4602542A |
1986-07-29 |
Alfred Natrasevschi |
An automatic hair cutting apparatus comprises a hair cutter, hair cutter control mechanism for adjusting the cut length, a frame for holding the human head in a specific fixed position, a robot arm coupled to the hair cutter and to the frame for positioning the hair cutter at specific positions on the human head, and a computer coupled to the cutter control mechanism and to the robot arm for controlling the hair cutter position and length according to a desired haircut style. The hair cutter comprises a vacuum source, a cutter tube with one end opening coupled to the vacuum source and another end opening having powered blades that do not obstruct the air flow and impart cutting action to the entire cross section of the cutter tube, a stretcher tube that can slide over the cutter tube for changing the length of the cut, a stepper motor with threaded shaft connected to the cutter tube and the stretcher tube for adjusting the length of the cut.The frame comprises a first member with a notch at one end positioned to fit over the nose bridge of the human head, a second member positioned to touch the front of the chin, a third and fourth members positioned to touch the sides of the jaws, and a fifth member positioned to touch the underside of the chin. |
100 |
Improvement in blade systems for shaving apparatus |
US414615 |
1982-09-03 |
US4486951A |
1984-12-11 |
Martin N. Leibowitz |
Shaving apparatus including reciprocating, rotary and endless belt blades having at least one cutting edge. The belt blade is trained around three spaced apart rollers having their longitudinal axes parallel. The blade and rollers are enclosed in a housing with the length of the blade between two of the rollers creating a flat surface cutting edge to effect the cutting operation. One of the rollers is driven thereby causing the endless belt blade to rotate continuously in a direction parallel to the cutting edge thereof. A cover fits over the cutting blade extending between two of the rollers and is provided with an opening through which the cutting edge of the blade protrudes. A protective comblike shield covers the opening in the head. A second embodiment of the cutting blade is a circular disk with its circumference sharpened to form a cutting edge. The circumference of the circular blade may be serrated to permit a larger cutting surface about the circumference and facilitate engagement of the hair by the blade. In a third embodiment, a shaving apparatus comprises a blade having at least one cutting edge and mechanism for causing the blade to reciprocate along its longitudinal axis thereby introducing a slicing motion to the cutting edge. |