The disclosure relates to shaving devices and more particularly pertains to a new adjustable shaving device for shaving.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a housing that is generally cylindrical. The housing has a second end that comprises an orifice. A neck is positioned in the orifice and a first coupler is rotationally coupled to the neck. The device includes a blade assembly comprising a plurality of safety blades, a male cover, a female cover, and a plurality of spacers. The covers and spacers are complimentary to the blades, and the spacers are positionable between the blades. A second coupler, complimentary to the first coupler, is positioned on an exterior face of the female cover. The male cover and the female cover are configured to accept and secure the blades with one spacer between adjacent blades. The first coupler is positioned to couple to the second coupler, securing the blade assembly to the neck and allowing rotational movement of the blade assembly.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A base 30 is rotationally coupled to the first end 14 of the housing 12. The base 30 has a bottom 32 that is tapered relative to the base 30. The base 30 comprises a plurality of longitudinal faces 34 that extend from the bottom 32 toward the first end 14. A penetration 36, preferably square, is positioned in the bottom 32 of the base 30, such that the penetration 36 is positioned in the bottom 32 allowing liquid to drain from the housing 12.
A grip 38 is coupled to an exterior 40 of the housing 12. The grip 38 is pliable, preferably rubber. The grip 38 may comprise a pair of grips 38, generally elongated rectangular shaped, positioned on opposing sides 44 of the housing 12.
An adjuster 46 that comprises a threaded section 48, a stop 50, a spring 52, and a shaft 54 is positioned in an interior space 56 defined by the housing 12 and the base 30. The threaded section 48 is positioned on an interior wall 58 of the housing 12 proximate to the first end 14. The stop 50 is coupled to an internal wall 60 of the base 30. The spring 52 is complimentary to the threaded section 48 and has a pair of ends 62. A respective one of the pair of ends 62 is coupled to the stop 50. The spring 52 extends through the threaded section 48 into the interior space 56 of the housing 12. The shaft 54 has a first terminus 64 and second terminus 66. The first terminus 64 is coupled to a respective one of the pair of ends 62 of the spring 52 within the interior space 56. The second terminus 66 is coupled to the neck 20 within the interior space 56, such that turning the base 30 relative to the housing 12 will rotate the spring 52 through the threaded section 48. The spring 52 thus induces the shaft 54 through the housing 12, such that the neck 20 protrudes from the housing 12 and forms the desired curvature 22 of the neck 20.
The device 10 includes a blade assembly 68 that comprises a plurality of safety blades 70, a male cover 72, a female cover 74 and a plurality of spacers 76. The safety blades 70 are substantially rectangular and have three openings 78. The covers 72 and 74 are complimentary to the safety blades 70 and have exterior faces 80. The exterior faces 80 are arcuately shape. The male cover 72 has three cylindrical protrusions 82 that extend from an inner face 84. The protrusions 82 are complimentary to the openings 78 in the safety blades 70. The female cover 74 has three orifices 86. The orifices 86 are complimentary to the protrusions 82. A second coupler 88 is positioned on the exterior face 80 of the female cover 74. The second coupler 88 is complimentary to the first coupler 24 and comprises a second plurality of arcuate protrusions 90 that extend internally from a cylinder 92 that is coupled to the exterior face 80 of the female cover 74. The second plurality of arcuate protrusions 90 is complimentary to the first plurality of arcuate protrusions 26, such that the second plurality of arcuate protrusions 90 is positioned to receive the first plurality of arcuate protrusions 26. The user may twist the blade assembly 68 relative to the first coupler 24 to secure the blade assembly 68 to the neck 20. The spacers 76 are complimentary to and positionable between the safety blades 70. Each of the spacers 76 has three holes 94 that are complimentary to the cylindrical protrusions 82. The plurality of spacers 76 comprises from one to four spacers, preferably two to three spacers. More preferably, the plurality of spacers comprises two spacers.
A release 96 is positioned on and extends through a back 98 of the housing 12. The release 96 is operationally coupled to the first coupler 24, such that the release 96 may be engaged by the user to disconnect the second coupler 88 from the first coupler 24.
In use, the male cover 72 and the female cover 74 are configured to accept and secure the safety blades 70 with one of each of the plurality of spacers 76 between adjacent safety blades 70. The first coupler 24 is positioned to couple to the second coupler 88, securing the blade assembly 68 to the neck 20 and allowing rotational movement of the blade assembly 68 relative to the housing 12. The desired curvature 22 of the neck 20 is obtained by threading the spring 52 through the threaded section 48, which moves the shaft 54 through the interior space 56, extending the neck 22 through the orifice 18.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
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