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Hair clipper

Hair clippers are often used when cutting a person's hair. Barbers customarily use two or more different types and/or sizes of electric hair clippers each time they cut hair. Between uses, the hair clippers are usually laid down in a location where they are readily accessible or are hung up from a convenient hook, the hair clippers being typically constructed having a metal hanging loop at the handle end. The clippers are typically electrically charged, having a handle portion and a top cutting portion. The cutting portion comprises a bladed comb that serves to trim and shave hair close to the skin. Generally, in a hair clipper, a fixed clipper blade is fastened to a body of a clipper head, and a movable clipper blade is positioned on the fixed clipper blade. As the movable clipper blade is repeatedly moved leftward and rightward by actuation of an electric motor, hair is clipped. Hand held clippers for trimming and shearing hair typically include a housing that contains a motor, with the motor drivingly attached to a blade assembly for trimming or cutting the hair. The blade assembly typically has a reciprocating blade that cooperates with a fixed blade to trim or clip hair. The housing may have a front opening for passing an operative portion of the fixed and moving blades. A gap generally exists between the blade assembly and the housing. This gap can have several disadvantages associated with it. Most electric hair clippers have a stationary blade and a reciprocating blade. The stationary blade and the reciprocating blade each have a plurality of teeth along the leading edge of the blades. The clipper blade assembly is mounted to the clipper handle such that the teeth of the stationary blade are substantially parallel to the teeth of the reciprocating blade. In this manner, reciprocating the reciprocating blade with respect to the stationary blade trims hair positioned between the teeth.

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