Shaving apparatus having a foil-like upper cutter and foil-like lower cutter.

摘要

In a shaving apparatus (1) comprising a foil-like lower cutter in the form of a cutter blade (68) and an upper cutter in the form of a shear foil (63) the cutter blade (68) has hexagonal hair-entry apertures (145) arranged in a honeycomb pattern, and the shear foil (63) has square hair-entry apertures (119) and a slot-shaped hair-entry aperture (120) between every two adjacent square hair-entry apertures (119), the direction of two parallel cutting edges (132, 134) of the square hair-entry apertures (119) of the shear foil (63) and the direction of two parallel cutting edges (153, 156) of the hexagonal hair-entry apertures (145) of the cutter blade (68) subtending an angle between 5 DEG and 25 DEG , preferably between 14 DEG and 15 DEG .