Electric shaver with debris removal element
View Patent ↗A hair cutting head 605 , for use in a hair cutting apparatus 500 comprising: an elongated heated wire 260 suitable for shaving, cutting or burning hair growing from a skin surface; and a blunt debris removal element 650 , situated and configured to remove debris or scorched hair residue from the skin after shaving, cutting or burning by the heated wire.
1. A shaver head, for use in a shaver apparatus comprising:
an elongated heated wire configured and positioned for shaving by burning hair growing from a skin surface; and
a blunt debris removal element, situated and configured to remove debris or scorched hair residue from the skin after shaving by the heated wire.
2. A shaver head according to claim 1 wherein the blunt debris removing element comprises a blunt scraper element, situated and configured to scrape against and remove scorched hair residue from the skin after shaving by the heated wire.
3. A shaver head according to claim 1 , comprising a row of skin depressing elements on at least one side of said elongated heated wire.
4. A shaver head according to claim 3 , wherein said at least one side is opposite a side on which the blunt debris removal element is situated.
5. A shaver head according to claim 1 , wherein said wire has a diameter between 10 to 1000 micrometers.
6. A shaver head according to claim 1 , wherein said wire has a minimum transverse dimension of between 10 to 500 micrometers.
7. A shaver head according to claim 1 , wherein said wire has a minimum transverse dimension of between 500 to 1000 micrometers.
8. A shaver comprising: a shaver head according to claim 1 .
9. A shaver according to claim 8 , wherein said wire is heated to a temperature between 700 and 800.degree. C.
10. A shaver according to claim 9 , wherein said wire is heated to a temperature between 800 and 1000.degree. C.
11. A shaver according to claim 9 , wherein said wire is heated to a temperature higher than 1000.degree. C.
12. A shaver according to claim 8 wherein said wire is heated only when said heated wire contacts or interfaces the skin to shave the skin thereat.
13. A shaver according to claim 8 wherein the blunt debris removing element is a continuous scrapper element configured to remove debris along a swath over which the heated element cuts or burns the hair.
14. A shaver head according to claim 1 wherein the blunt debris removing element is a continuous scrapper element configured to remove debris along a swath over which the heated element cuts or burns the hair.