CUTTER HEAD FOR PERSONAL CARE APPLIANCES

• Main Authors: Kluge, Martin, Staub, Andreas, Enzler, August, Lauber, Andreas, Curtis, Raymond, Schuebel, Christian, Fuellgrabe, Martin
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 01.05.2019
• Subjects: CUTTING; HAND CUTTING TOOLS; HAND-HELD CUTTING TOOLS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; SEVERING; TRANSPORTING

The present invention relates to personal care appliances such as shavers, hair removal devices or toothbrushes having tools of the rotatory type. More particularly, the invention relates to a tool head for a personal care appliance, including a plurality of tooling rotors rotatably supported about rotor axes and a drive train for rotatorily driving said tooling rotors from a motor (6). The invention also relates to an electric shaver having a cutter head with a plurality of cutting rotors driven by a drive train connectable to a motor. The drive train (7) may provide for an input crank element having connection means for connecting to a drive shaft, a transmitter element configured to be driven by said input crank element (9), and a plurality of output crank elements (17) configured to be driven by said transmitter element (12) to rotate about the rotor axes of the tool rotors and to rotatorily drive the tool rotors about said rotor axes. Said transmitter element distributes the driving action of the input crank element to the output crank elements, wherein said input crank element transforms the rotatory movement of the drive shaft into a revolving or orbiting movement of the transmitter element which is again retransformed into a rotatory movement by means of the output crank elements to rotatorily drive the tooling rotors.