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`ABSTRACT
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`A shaving head for a dry shaver is capable of increasing the cutting
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`efficiency, yet allowing the use of the inner cutter of simple structure. The
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`shaving head has a slit cutter unit composed of an outer cutter shaped to have a
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`top surface for contact with a user’s skin, and an inner cutter in contact with a
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`bottom surface of the outer cutter. The outer cutter has a U-shaped structure
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`with a pair of legs connected by a crossbar, and to have a’plurality of slits which
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`are spaced in a lengthwise axis of the outer cutter to leave a plurality of bridges
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`each between the adjacent ones of the slits. The slits extend continuously over
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`a full width of the crossbar and into upper ends of the legs in a direction generally
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`perpendicular to the lengthwise axis, giving two straight slit paths respectively on
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`opposite width ends of the outer cutter. The straight slit paths on the opposite
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`width ends are staggered with respect to each other along the lengthwise axis.
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`Each of the bridges extends along the width axis of the outer cutter to make the
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`bottom surface of the outer cutter smoothly continuous over the full length of the
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`bridge, and that each bridge is formed at its longitudinal center with a deflection
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`which is angled with respect to the width axis so as to leave, between the
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`adjacent ones of the deflections, an angled path through which the straight slit
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`paths of each slit extends continuously.
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