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85.10 - Shavers, hair clippers and hair-removing appliances, with self-contained electric motor. - Shavers 85 10.20 - Hair clippers 85 10.30 - Hair-removing appliances 8510.90 - Parts 8510.10 This heading covers electric shavers and hair clip ers which have a built-in electric motor or vibrator, whether for use on human beings, or or shearing sheep or for grooming horses, clipping cattle, etc. P In electric shavers ( shavers) rotating or reciprocating cutters or knife blades slide along the inside of a perforate or slotted late, thus cutting those hairs which rotrude through the erforations or slots. In the case of air clippers, a comb-like cutter blade s Ides to and fio over a !xed metal comb thus cutting the hair or wool which is caught between the teeth of the combs. Hair clip ers for barbers' use operate on a similar principle to those for sheep shearers, grooms, etc., but 'ffer in size. R F i! This heading also covers electro-mechanical hair-removing appliances with self-contained electric motor; these a pliances, which grip the hair and pluck ~t out at the root, may operate with either a micro-ro ler, or a metal s iral which rotates around its own axis, or a guard, a depilating head and a set of depilating w eels. f PARTS Sub'ect to the general provisions regarding the classification of parts (see the General Exp anatory Note to Section XVI), arts .of electric shavers, hair cllp ers or hair-removin a pliances are also classified here. T ese mclude, inter alia, cutter hea s, cutter blades, kni e bkdes and comb blades. E S d Hair clip ers o erated by a flexible shaft driven by a separate electric motor are classified in heading h.14,%e electric motor (whether or not equipped wth the flexible shaft) being classified in heading 85.01.
1.- This Chapter does not cover : (a) Electrically warmed blankets, bed pads, foot-muffs or the like; electrically warmed clothing, footwear or ear pads or other electrically warmed articles worn on or about the person; (b) Articles of glass of heading 70.11; (c) Machines and apparatus of heading 84.86; (d) Vacuum apparatus of a kind used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences (heading 90.18); or (e) Electrically heated furniture of Chapter 94. 2.- Headings 85.01 to 85.04 do not apply to goods described in heading 85.11, 85.12, 85.40, 85.41 or