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EP1306173B1
EP1306173B1 EP03000418A EP03000418A EP1306173B1 EP 1306173 B1 EP1306173 B1 EP 1306173B1 EP 03000418 A EP03000418 A EP 03000418A EP 03000418 A EP03000418 A EP 03000418A EP 1306173 B1 EP1306173 B1 EP 1306173B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26B—HAND-HELD CUTTING TOOLS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B26B21/00—Razors of the open or knife type; Safety razors or other shaving implements of the planing type; Hair-trimming devices involving a razor-blade; Equipment therefor
    • B26B21/40—Details or accessories
    • B26B21/44—Means integral with, or attached to, the razor for storing shaving-cream, styptic, or the like
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26B—HAND-HELD CUTTING TOOLS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B26B21/00—Razors of the open or knife type; Safety razors or other shaving implements of the planing type; Hair-trimming devices involving a razor-blade; Equipment therefor
    • B26B21/08—Razors of the open or knife type; Safety razors or other shaving implements of the planing type; Hair-trimming devices involving a razor-blade; Equipment therefor involving changeable blades
    • B26B21/14—Safety razors with one or more blades arranged transversely to the handle

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  • This invention relates to shaving devices and concerns a safety razor blade unit having at least one blade with a cutting edge which is moved across the surface of the skin being shaved by means of a handle to which the blade unit is attached.
  • the blade unit may be mounted detachably on the handle to enable the blade unit to be replaced by a fresh blade unit when blade sharpness has diminished to an unsatisfactory level, or it may be attached permanently to the handle with the intention that the entire razor be discarded when the blade or blades have become dulled.
  • Razor blade units generally include a guard which defines a surface for contacting the skin in front of the blade(s) and a cap for contacting the skin behind the blade(s), the cap and guard serving important roles in establishing the so-called “shaving geometry", i.e. the parameters which determine the blade orientation and position relative to the skin during shaving.
  • the present invention is especially concerned with the guard and/or cap of a razor blade unit.
  • a shaving preparation to the skin, such as shaving soap or the like to facilitate the shaving operation.
  • One effect of the shaving preparation is to lubricate the skin to enable the razor to slide more easily over the skin.
  • the skin is not prepared as well as it might be.
  • the razor at the end of shaving most of the preparation will have been removed. Therefore, it can be advantageous to provide the razor with a means for delivering a shaving enhancement composition or medium during shaving.
  • a blade unit with a strip of material from which a lubricant is very gradually leached out during shaving.
  • U.S. Patent 5,134,775 discloses a storage chamber located behind blades and an elongated slot or linear alignment of openings having relatively substantial depth connects or connect the chamber with skin contacting surfaces rearwardly of the blades.
  • a safety razor blade unit including at least one elongate blade, and a skin engaging member extending longitudinally of the blade, said member having a skin contacting surface exposed for contact with skin of a user during shaving, the skin engaging member including a multiplicity of openings at the skin contacting surface, said openings being adapted to discharge respective portions of a shaving enhancement product therefrom during shaving, characterized in that said openings have a depth not greater than the opening diameter and are distributed along the skin contacting surface and across the width thereof to span substantially the whole of the area of the skin contacting surface.
  • a skin engaging member provided according to the invention may allow for the dispensing of materials which can not be included in prior art lubricating strips, e.g. because they can not withstand the manufacturing process.
  • the shaving enhancement product may be a formulation such as semi-solid gel, which has been designed to have the desired solubilizing properties, and is conveniently retained in the pockets due to the properties of the product.
  • the product may be a viscous fluid, or a gel, and may be of a nature to be miscible with water, which is generally present during shaving, or to dissolve in water to render the product more fluid for discharge from the pockets.
  • the pockets can communicate at the inner ends with a reservoir chamber containing the shaving enhancement product to be dispensed via the pockets.
  • the pockets should be disposed in an array with sufficient density of packing to ensure satisfactory application of the product during shaving.
  • a width of surface between the adjacent pockets of 5% to 100% of the maximum transverse dimensions of the pockets should be adequate while retaining a sufficiently well defined skin contacting surface.
  • the pockets are cylindrical, i.e. have smoothly curved side walls, and conveniently the pockets are right circular cylindrical with their axes substantially perpendicular to the skin contacting surface.
  • other shapes are also possible, such as hexagonal or elliptical in cross section.
  • the depth of the pockets is less than the pocket diameter, e.g. approximately equal to the pocket radius, and the thickness of material between adjacent pockets is less than the pocket radius.
  • the pockets are preferably formed in a front wall of a chamber for holding a supply of a fluid shaving enhancement product, each of the pockets communicating with the chamber through a restricted opening to control flow of product into the pockets and hence release at the skin contacting surface.
  • the skin engaging member can be the guard of the blade unit or it can be another member, such as the cap.
  • the safety razor blade unit shown in the drawings comprises a pair of blades 1, 2 mounted in tandem in a supporting frame, a guard 3 fastened to the frame and defining a hollow reservoir chamber 4, and cap 5 e.g. in the form of a strip of lubricating material carried by the frame behind the blades.
  • the guard includes an upper wall 8 with an exposed surface 9 which is arranged to contact the skin during shaving. Within this wall is formed a multiplicity of pockets 10 positioned in a regular array extending over the length and width of the skin contacting surface.
  • the pockets are disposed in a plurality of longitudinal rows, and in the shown example there are three rows with the pockets in adjacent rows longitudinally off set to permit the pockets to be closely spaced.
  • the pockets are of circular configuration and in the illustrated embodiment all have the same diameter.
  • Each pocket 10 is in communication with the reservoir chamber 4 through a hole 12 shown to be of restricted area at the inner end of the pocket.
  • the through flow area of the hole is selected to allow shaving enhancement product contained in the chamber 4 to flow at a controlled rate into the pockets where the product collects and remains held e.g. under the surface tension properties of the fluid product, ready to be discharged during shaving.
  • the restricted hole also serves to obstruct the passage of the shaving aid product from the pocket back into the reservoir chamber, so that the pockets remain charged with product.
  • the reservoir chamber will contain sufficient volume of shaving aid product to last the full useful lifetime of the blade unit, that is until the blades have become dulled.
  • the shaving aid product preferably has lubricating property, but it may have, either alternatively or in addition, other, e.g. moisturizing properties considered beneficial during shaving. It will have adequate fluidity to enable the product to pass from the reservoir chamber into the pockets, and adequate viscosity and surface tension characteristics to be held in the pockets without flowing freely out from the pocket openings, and to be dispensed gradually during shaving, e.g. upon being made more fluid by contact with water, when the guard surface slides over the skin during shaving.
  • the pockets should be supplied with shaving enhancement product and it is within the ambit of the present invention for the pockets to be shaped and dimensioned to collect a shaving enhancement product applied to the skin during one time of shaving and to retain that product until the next time of shaving, e.g. to provide improved lubrication during the initial stages of the subsequent shave.
  • the member incorporating the pockets filled with shaving aid product could be made of a resilient material so that the member will flex slightly during shaving to encourage product to flow from the pockets.
  • the apertured member with the pockets may have a beneficial tactile influence upon the skin.

Abstract

A safety razor blade unit including at least one elongate blade (1,2), and a skin engaging member (3) extending longitudinally of the blade(s), said member having a skin contacting surface (9) exposed for contact with skin of a user during shaving, characterized in that the skin engaging member includes a multiplicity of openings (10) at the skin contacting surface (9), said openings being adapted to discharge respective portions of a shaving enhancement product therefrom during shaving, said openings being distributed along the skin contacting surface and across the width thereof to span substantially the whole of the area of the skin contacting surface. <IMAGE>

Description

  • This invention relates to shaving devices and concerns a safety razor blade unit having at least one blade with a cutting edge which is moved across the surface of the skin being shaved by means of a handle to which the blade unit is attached. The blade unit may be mounted detachably on the handle to enable the blade unit to be replaced by a fresh blade unit when blade sharpness has diminished to an unsatisfactory level, or it may be attached permanently to the handle with the intention that the entire razor be discarded when the blade or blades have become dulled. Razor blade units generally include a guard which defines a surface for contacting the skin in front of the blade(s) and a cap for contacting the skin behind the blade(s), the cap and guard serving important roles in establishing the so-called "shaving geometry", i.e. the parameters which determine the blade orientation and position relative to the skin during shaving. The present invention is especially concerned with the guard and/or cap of a razor blade unit.
  • As a preliminary step prior to shaving it is common to apply a shaving preparation to the skin, such as shaving soap or the like to facilitate the shaving operation. One effect of the shaving preparation, for example, is to lubricate the skin to enable the razor to slide more easily over the skin. In some situations, however, the skin is not prepared as well as it might be. Furthermore, at the end of shaving most of the preparation will have been removed. Therefore, it can be advantageous to provide the razor with a means for delivering a shaving enhancement composition or medium during shaving. Thus, it is known to provide a blade unit with a strip of material from which a lubricant is very gradually leached out during shaving. The benefits of such a lubricating strip have been well proven, but the active materials which can be incorporated in them is limited, e.g. by the manufacturing process, and the rate at which the lubricant is discharge is so low that an effective preparation of the skin before shaving is still needed. There have also been proposed razors which include a chamber containing a liquid shaving preparation, and a system for discharging the liquid on to the operative parts of the razor by squeezing a sponge impregnated with the liquid by applying finger pressure. However, there still remains a need for the razor adapted to dispense a shaving aid product gradually throughout the useful life of the razor blade unit, without requiring special attention by the user, such as to refill a reservoir or to cause the product to be discharged when required.
  • U.S. Patent 5,134,775 discloses a storage chamber located behind blades and an elongated slot or linear alignment of openings having relatively substantial depth connects or connect the chamber with skin contacting surfaces rearwardly of the blades.
  • According to the present invention there is provided a safety razor blade unit including at least one elongate blade, and a skin engaging member extending longitudinally of the blade, said member having a skin contacting surface exposed for contact with skin of a user during shaving, the skin engaging member including a multiplicity of openings at the skin contacting surface, said openings being adapted to discharge respective portions of a shaving enhancement product therefrom during shaving, characterized in that said openings have a depth not greater than the opening diameter and are distributed along the skin contacting surface and across the width thereof to span substantially the whole of the area of the skin contacting surface.
  • A skin engaging member provided according to the invention may allow for the dispensing of materials which can not be included in prior art lubricating strips, e.g. because they can not withstand the manufacturing process. The shaving enhancement product may be a formulation such as semi-solid gel, which has been designed to have the desired solubilizing properties, and is conveniently retained in the pockets due to the properties of the product. The product may be a viscous fluid, or a gel, and may be of a nature to be miscible with water, which is generally present during shaving, or to dissolve in water to render the product more fluid for discharge from the pockets. In order to provide adequate supply of shaving enhancement product to last the useful lifetime of the blade unit, the pockets can communicate at the inner ends with a reservoir chamber containing the shaving enhancement product to be dispensed via the pockets.
  • The pockets should be disposed in an array with sufficient density of packing to ensure satisfactory application of the product during shaving. A width of surface between the adjacent pockets of 5% to 100% of the maximum transverse dimensions of the pockets should be adequate while retaining a sufficiently well defined skin contacting surface.
  • In a preferred construction the pockets are cylindrical, i.e. have smoothly curved side walls, and conveniently the pockets are right circular cylindrical with their axes substantially perpendicular to the skin contacting surface. However, other shapes are also possible, such as hexagonal or elliptical in cross section. The depth of the pockets is less than the pocket diameter, e.g. approximately equal to the pocket radius, and the thickness of material between adjacent pockets is less than the pocket radius.
  • The pockets are preferably formed in a front wall of a chamber for holding a supply of a fluid shaving enhancement product, each of the pockets communicating with the chamber through a restricted opening to control flow of product into the pockets and hence release at the skin contacting surface.
  • The skin engaging member can be the guard of the blade unit or it can be another member, such as the cap.
  • A better understanding of the invention will be gained from the following detailed description of an embodiment, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which:
    • Figure 1 is a cut away perspective view of a razor blade unit according to the invention;
    • Figure 2 is a transverse cross section through the blade unit.
  • The safety razor blade unit shown in the drawings comprises a pair of blades 1, 2 mounted in tandem in a supporting frame, a guard 3 fastened to the frame and defining a hollow reservoir chamber 4, and cap 5 e.g. in the form of a strip of lubricating material carried by the frame behind the blades.
  • The guard includes an upper wall 8 with an exposed surface 9 which is arranged to contact the skin during shaving. Within this wall is formed a multiplicity of pockets 10 positioned in a regular array extending over the length and width of the skin contacting surface. The pockets are disposed in a plurality of longitudinal rows, and in the shown example there are three rows with the pockets in adjacent rows longitudinally off set to permit the pockets to be closely spaced. The pockets are of circular configuration and in the illustrated embodiment all have the same diameter.
  • Each pocket 10 is in communication with the reservoir chamber 4 through a hole 12 shown to be of restricted area at the inner end of the pocket. The through flow area of the hole is selected to allow shaving enhancement product contained in the chamber 4 to flow at a controlled rate into the pockets where the product collects and remains held e.g. under the surface tension properties of the fluid product, ready to be discharged during shaving. The restricted hole also serves to obstruct the passage of the shaving aid product from the pocket back into the reservoir chamber, so that the pockets remain charged with product. In practice the reservoir chamber will contain sufficient volume of shaving aid product to last the full useful lifetime of the blade unit, that is until the blades have become dulled.
  • The shaving aid product preferably has lubricating property, but it may have, either alternatively or in addition, other, e.g. moisturizing properties considered beneficial during shaving. It will have adequate fluidity to enable the product to pass from the reservoir chamber into the pockets, and adequate viscosity and surface tension characteristics to be held in the pockets without flowing freely out from the pocket openings, and to be dispensed gradually during shaving, e.g. upon being made more fluid by contact with water, when the guard surface slides over the skin during shaving.
  • It is not an essential feature that the pockets should be supplied with shaving enhancement product and it is within the ambit of the present invention for the pockets to be shaped and dimensioned to collect a shaving enhancement product applied to the skin during one time of shaving and to retain that product until the next time of shaving, e.g. to provide improved lubrication during the initial stages of the subsequent shave.
  • Modifications are of course possible without departing from the underlying inventive concept. For example, the member incorporating the pockets filled with shaving aid product could be made of a resilient material so that the member will flex slightly during shaving to encourage product to flow from the pockets. In addition to the benefits mentioned above the apertured member with the pockets may have a beneficial tactile influence upon the skin.

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  1. A safety razor blade unit including at least one elongate blade (1,2), and a skin engaging member (3) extending longitudinally of the blade(s), said member having a skin contacting surface exposed for contact with skin of a user during shaving, the skin engaging member (3) including a multiplicity of openings (10) at the skin contacting surface (9), said openings being adapted to discharge respective portions of a shaving enhancement product therefrom during shaving, characterized in that said openings have a depth not greater than the opening diameter and are distributed along the skin contacting surface and across the width thereof to span substantially the whole of the area of the skin contacting surface (9).
  2. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 1, characterized in that the skin engaging member includes a multiplicity of pockets (10) for holding respective portions of a shaving enhancement product, each of said pockets opening at the skin contacting surface.
  3. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 1 or claim 2, characterized in that the multiplicity of openings are arranged to received the shaving enhancement product from a common source (4).
  4. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 3, characterized in that a least some of the multiplicity of openings communicate (12) with the common source containing shaving enhancement product to be dispersed via the openings.
  5. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 4, characterized in that each opening communicates with the common source.
  6. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 5, characterized in that the openings are formed in a wall member (8) partially confining the common source (4).
  7. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 3, characterized in that the pockets are formed in a wall member (8) partially confining the common source (4).
  8. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 1, characterized in that the openings have smoothly curved side walls.
  9. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 2, characterized in that the pockets have smoothly curved side walls
  10. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 1, characterized in that the openings are cylindrical with the axes thereof substantially perpendicular to the skin contacting surface.
  11. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 10, characterized in that the openings are right circular cylindrical.
  12. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 9, characterized in that the pockets are cylindrical with the axes thereof substantially perpendicular to the skin contacting surface.
  13. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 12, characterized in that the pockets are right circular cylindrical .
  14. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 13, characterized in that the pockets have a depth not greater than the pocket diameter.
  15. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 1, characterized in that the openings are positioned in a plurality of longitudinal rows.
  16. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 14, characterized in that the openings of adjacent rows are longitudinally offset and overlap.
  17. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 2, characterized in that the pockets are positioned in a plurality of longitudinal rows.
  18. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 17, characterized in that the pockets of adjacent rows are longitudinally offset and overlap.
  19. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 1, characterized in that the openings have depth at least 50% of the maximum transverse dimension of the openings.
  20. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 19, characterized in that the openings have depth not greater than the transverse dimension of the openings.
  21. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 1 or claim 2, characterized in that the skin engaging member comprises a resilient material to flex during shaving and exert traction force on the skin surface being shaved.
  22. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 1, characterized in that a thickness of surface between adjacent openings is less than 50% of the maximum transverse dimension of the openings.
  23. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 1, characterized in that there are at least three longitudinally extending rows of the openings.
  24. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 1 or claim 2, characterized in that the skin engaging member occupies a position of a guard surface in advance of the at least one blade.
  25. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 1 or claim 2, characterized in that the skin engaging member occupies a position of a cap surface behind the at least one blade.
  26. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 2, characterized in that the pockets have depth at least 50% of the maximum transverse dimension of the pockets.
  27. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 26, characterized in that the pockets have depth not greater than the transverse dimension of the pockets.
  28. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 2, characterized in that a thickness of surface between adjacent pockets is less than 50% of the maximum transverse dimension of the pockets.
  29. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 2, characterized in that there are at least three longitudinally extending rows of pockets.
  30. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 1 or claim 2, characterized in that the at least one elongate blade comprises a linear edge blade member.
  31. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 3, characterized in that each opening is defined by side wall portions depending inward from the skin contacting surface.
  32. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 2, characterized in that each pocket is defined by side wall portions depending inward from the skin contacting surface.
  33. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 31, characterized in that the openings are further defined by floor portions formed transverse to the depending side wall portions.
  34. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 32, characterized in that the pockets are further defined by floor portions formed transverse to the depending side wall portions.
  35. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 1 or claim 16, characterized in that adjacent openings of the array of openings are spaced at a distance of 5% to 100% of the maximum transverse dimension of the openings.
  36. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 2 or claim 18, characterized in that adjacent pockets of the array of pockets are spaced at a distance of 5% to 100% of the maximum transverse dimension of the pockets.
  37. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 24, further comprising a skin engaging member occupying a position of a cap surface behind the at least one blade.
  38. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 16, characterized in that neighboring rows are offset relative one another in the longitudinal direction by an amount less than a maximum transverse dimension of the openings, whereby an overlap, as viewed projected in a direction transverse to the longitudinal extent of the rows, results between neighboring openings of adjacent rows.
  39. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 18, characterized in that neighboring rows are offset relative one another in the longitudinal direction by an amount less than a maximum transverse dimension of the pockets, whereby an overlap, as viewed projected in a direction transverse to the longitudinal extent of the rows, results between neighboring pockets of adjacent rows.
  40. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 33, characterized in that the opening floor portions define discharge restricting apertures in communication with the common source, said discharge restricting apertures metering a discharge of the product from the common source to the skin contacting surface and constricting a back discharge into the common source so the openings remain charged with product.
  41. A safety razor blade unit according to claim 4, characterized in that the pocket floor portions define discharge restricting apertures in communication with the common source, said discharge restricting apertures metering a discharge of the product from the common source to the skin contacting surface and constricting a back discharge into the common source so the pockets remain charged with product.
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