EXTERNAL CUTTING MEMBER OF SHAVING DEVICE HAVING HAIR-GUIDING ELEMENTS WITH THICKNESS PROFILE

The invention relates to an external cutting member (19) for use in a hair-cutting unit (13a, 13b, 13c) of a shaving device (1). An annular hair-cutting track (41) of the external cutting member has acentral axis (43), a plurality of hair-entry openings (49), and hair-guiding elements (51) arranged between each pair of adjacent hair-entry openings. The hair-guiding elements each comprise an outersurface segment (55), an inner surface segment (57), a first side surface (59) bounding a first hair-entry opening (49a), a second side surface (61) bounding an adjacent second hair-entry opening (49b), a first cutting edge (63) at a location where the first side surface connects to the inner surface segment, and a second cutting edge (65) at a location where the second side surface connects to the inner surface segment. In a cross-section extending perpendicularly to a radial direction with respect to the central axis, each hair-guiding element has an imaginary middle axis (79) extending perpendicularly to the inner