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Description

(N0 Model.)

C. A. WORRALL.

RAZOR STROP.

N0. 572,145. Patented Dec.l 1, 1896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLARENCE A. WORRALL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR CF ONE-HALF TO PARKE C. DOUGHERTY, F SAME PLACE.

RAZO R-STRO P.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 572,145, dated December 1, 1896.

Application led March 14, 1896l Serial No. 583,176. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: the strips of leather or canvas B C, extend Beitknownthatl, CLARENCE A VORRALL, from the open end of the body A to a liange a citizen of the United States, and a resident or shoulderEnear the closed end. The body of the city and county of Philadelphia, State A is extended beyond the shoulder E', forrn- 55 of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new ing a shank E.

an d useful Improvements in Razor-Strops, of F is a case or cover one end of which is open which the following is a specification. and which is adapted to be slid over and in- My invention relates to improvements 1n close the strop. It is shown inclosing the raZor-strops; and it consists in combining strop in Fig. l. 6o

1o with a razor-strop furnished with stone or lVhen the strop is to be used for sharpening composition surfaces for honing the razor and the razor, the open end of case F is forced over with leather or canvas surfaces, or one leather the shank E until -it abuts against the shouland one canvas surface, for stropping the rader of iiange E, as shown in Fig. 3, and forms zor, receptacles for containingarazor,abrush, a handle for the strop. 65

and soap, as hereinafter described. The bod yA is hollow, as shown, and the end My invention consists, further, in a novel opposite the shoulder is open, so that a razor arrangement of case for inclosing the strop G and a brush II may be placed in it. When when not in use and for forminga handle for the case or cover F is in place, these articles the same when in use. are completely inclosed, but may be readily 7o zo The invention is particularly adapted for removed when the body is withdrawn from the use of travelers or others to whoni econthe case. only in space is of importance. I is a receptacle formed in the closed end of In the accompanying drawings, forming case F, which is adapted to hold soap. This part of this specification, and in which simireceptacle is separated from the open portion 75 lar letters of reference indicate similar parts of the case by a transverse partition and is throughout the several views, Figure 1 is a furnished with a lid J, which is preferably plan of my improved razor-strop, partly inA hinged, as shown. section,when closed, showing the razor, brush, In Fig. et the strop is shown furnished with and strop carried thereby; Fig. 2, a section a handle k, which may be folded back, as 8o 3o of Fig. l on line l 2; Fig. 3, a central longishown, when the strop is not in use. L is a tudinal section of the strop when ready for stop on the case F, which is engaged by hanuse; Fig. 4, a perspective view of the strop dle K in order to lock this case in place. closed and furnished with a folding handle. The great advantage of my arrangement is The body A of the strop is made of metal, compactness, all the articles necessary for 85 stift' paper, or any other suitable material, shaving being held by the strop, which, beopen at one end and closed at the other, and ing furnished with adjustable handles, as deit is preferably, although not necessarily, scribed, may be made comparatively short oval in form, as shown. and light and at the same time be quite as B C are pieces of leather or canvas, or one efficient as strops as ordinarily made. 9o

4o piece leather and one piece canvas, which are Having thus described my invention, I

cemented, glued, or otherwise secured one claimupon one side the other uponV the other side 1. The combination with a razor-case havof the body A. ing an open compartment at one end adapted D D are hones, made of stone' or composito receive a strop, and a closed compartment 95 tion, secured upon the body A. These hones at the other end provided with a lid and haveacross-section in the form oa truncated adapted to receive a cake of soap, said comwedge the base of which rests against or in partments being separated by a transverse a depression in the body A and are held in partition, of a razor-strop consisting of a holplace by cement; by the ends of the pieces of low body adapted to receive arazor and brush, roo

5o leather or canvas, which bear against their said body having stropping and honing sursides, or otherwise. These hones, as well as faces, a flange E and a shank E extending beyond the flange, said case being adapted to 1o extending longitudinally of said body, and

strapping-pieces secured to the hollow body between the honing-pieces, the sides of the stropping-pieces abutting against the inclined edges of the honing-pieces, substantially as described.

CLARENCE A. lVORRALL.

lVitnesses:

CHRISTOPHER FALLON, CHARLES A. BUTTER.

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