GB2091159A - Manufacturing razors and shaving units for razors - Google Patents
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- GB2091159A GB2091159A GB8200276A GB8200276A GB2091159A GB 2091159 A GB2091159 A GB 2091159A GB 8200276 A GB8200276 A GB 8200276A GB 8200276 A GB8200276 A GB 8200276A GB 2091159 A GB2091159 A GB 2091159A
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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
- B26B21/54—Razor-blades
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
- B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
- B29C70/00—Shaping composites, i.e. plastics material comprising reinforcements, fillers or preformed parts, e.g. inserts
- B29C70/68—Shaping composites, i.e. plastics material comprising reinforcements, fillers or preformed parts, e.g. inserts by incorporating or moulding on preformed parts, e.g. inserts or layers, e.g. foam blocks
Abstract
A double edged strip (10) of blade metal is parted along a centre line and cropped to form two strips (16) each containing a series of spaced apart blades (17) connected by webs (18) to an elongate backing strip (19) of blade metal. Each strip is fed into a moulding machine in which a razor, or a shaving unit, or a blade-containing component of a shaving unit is moulded directly on to each individual blade (17). Each web is then parted to release the moulded razor, shaving unit, or shaving unit component, from the backing strip. Three modified processes are described in relation to Figures 8, 9 and 10 (not shown). <IMAGE>
Description
SPECIFICATION -Razors and shaving units for razors
This invention relates to razors. More particularly the
invention relates to a process for the manufacture of
razors and of shaving units for incorporation in
razors.
According to one aspect of the present invention there is provided a process for the manufacture of
razors or shaving units for razors, which comprises forming a strip of blade metal with at least two
cutting edges, introducing the strip into a mould
cavity and moulding plastics material directly on to the strip to form the plastics portion of a razor or
shaving unit on each cutting edge or on both cutting
edges, the plastics portions being spaced apart, and
cropping at least part of the blade metal which
interconnects the cutting edges to release the razors
or shaving units from each other.
According to another aspect of the present invention there is provided a process for the manufacture
of razors or shaving units for razors, which compris
es introducing a double-edged strip of blade metal
into a mould cavity, moulding the plastics portion of
a separate razor or shaving unit on to each edge of the strip and cropping out the portion of the blade
strip between the two razors or shaving units.
Some forms of the manufacturing process in
accordance with the invention will now be described
by way of example only, with reference to the
accompanying drawings in which:
Figure 7 is a digrammatic plan view of a strip of
blade metal containing perforations to facilitate
parting of individual blades from the strip and
illustrating the steps of slitting and cropping the strip
to produce individual blades;
Figure 2 is a diagrammatic perspective view of a
set of three razors which have been moulded on to
the blade-forming portions of a cropped strip of
blade metal;
Figure 3 is a plan view showing two shaving units
which have been moulded on to to a strip of blade
metal;
Figure 4 is a section through the head or shaving
unit of razor made by a process according to the
invention;;
Figure 5 is a plan view of an alternative form of
blade strip on which blade, or shaving units, have
been moulded;
Figure 6 is a plan view of a blade strip having an
alternative form of perforation suitable for use in a
process in accordance with the present invention;
Figure 7is a section through a shaving unit, in accordnace with the invention, mounted on a razor
handle, and
Figures 8, 9 and 10 are diagrammatic perspective views of the steps in three modified processes in
accordance with the invention.
The process first to be described is designed for the manufacture of shaving units for incorporation in
razors orforthe manufacture of one piece dispos
able razors, the latter being razors which can be thrown away when the user decides that he is no
longer obtaining a satisfactory shave.
The strip of blade metal from which the blades, or shaving units, are to be manufactured is similar to that used in the production of doubled edged blades and can, therefore, utilise similar machinery to that used in the manufacture of double edged razor blades. This machinery provides a strip of blade metal 10 having spaced-apart central slots 11 extending along the centre line of the strip and two rows of shorter slots 12, 13 and 14, 15 spaced apart along lines approximately midway between the centre line and the edges of the strip.
In a first stage of the process, the strip 10 is ground and stropped along its opposite edges to form two opposed blade edges.
In a second stage of the process, the double edged strip is slit along its longitudinal axis to form two separate single blade-edged strips 16. Each singleedged strip is then cropped between alternate slots 12, 13 and 14, 15 in a third stage of the process to leave a series of separate and spaced apart blades 17 each supported by a narrow web 18 on a continuous strip of blade metal 19. The strip 19 is the portion of the original perforated blade strip 10 which lay between the slot 11 and slots 12,13 on one side of the blade strip or between the slot 11 and slots 14, 15 on the opposite side of the blade strip 10.
The interconnected series of blades 17 is then passed into a moulding machine, the details of which form no part of the present invention, wherein a separate shaving unit, comprising a guard bar and top cap, or a razor comprising a shaving head and integral handle, is moulded around each individual blade 17. Figure 2 shows an interconnected series of razors 20 which has been produced in the moulding machine, the heads 21 of the razors being attached by the webs 18 to the continuous strip of blade metal 19. In this case, entire razors are formed, but equally shaving units, corresponding to the heads 21 alone, could be moulded on to the blade strip.
It will be seen from Figure 3 that the plastics moulding of each shaving unit or razor head covers the ends of each blade, and the only part of the blade material projecting therefrom is the web 18.
In a final stage of the process, the webs 18 are cropped to separate the razors 20 from the blade strip 19.
It will be seen from Figures 3 and 4 that the top cap 22 of the moulding of the razor head or shaving unit which lies above the blade can overhang the web portion 18 of the blade strip so that, when this web portion is parted off, the raw metal edge remaining in the razor or shaving unit will not represent any hazard to the user.
Alternatively, in a modification of the process described above, and as illustrated in Figure 5, individual blades 22 in the razors or shaving units 23 can be connected together end to end by webs 24 which form part of the strip and extend between the end of one blade and the adjacent end of the next blade, the width of each web being substantially less than the width of the strip. The moulding of the razor head or shaving unit can then be such as to provide a recess at opposite ends of the razor head or shaving unit through which the webs extend, each recess being widen than the width of the web. Consequent ly, when the webs are sheared, the exposed metal edge at each end of each blade will lie within this recess and again present no hazard to the user of the razor.
Another form of perforated blade strip suitable for use in the present invention is illustrated in Figure 6.
In accordance with another embodiment of the invention, the moulds of the moulding machine can be formed to produce a series of shaving units capable of being mounted on a razor handle. Each shaving unit can be parted from the blade strip to leave one or more tongues of blade metal projecting from the shaving unit, rearwardly or laterally.
Thus, as shown in Figure 7, the shaving unit 25 is provided with a blade 26 and a rearwardly-extending tongue 27 which engages in a razor handle 28. In particular, the razor handle 28 is moulded on to the tongue 27 to form a one piece disposable razor.
Although the invention has been illustrated in relation to a razor or shaving unit containing a single blade, the razor or shaving unit could equally contain twin blades. This could be achieved by feeding two blades strips into the moulding apparatus simultaneously, one strip being located above the other and with a spacing therebetween, at the point at which moulding takes place, corresponding to the spacing between the blades in the finished razor or shaving unit. Alternatively, one blade strip could have a razor guard bar and blade spacer moulded on each blade of the strip and a second blade strip could have a razor cap moulded on each blade of the strip.
After parting off the individual blades from the strip, mouldings from each strip could then be united in pairs to form twin bladed shaving units, or twin bladed razors if handles were also moulded to one of the blade strips.
Figure 8 illustrates a modified process, in this case forthe manufacture of shaving units, which utilises, as its starting material, individual blades 30 each having two cutting edges 31. Each blade has a central elongate slot 32 running parallel to the blade edges and a series of perforations 33 located
between the central slot and each cutting edge.
The blades are fed, in an end-to-end or edge-toedge series, into a moulding machine where a guard
bar and top cap are moulded on to each side of the
blade as seen at 34, the central portion of the blade
including the slot 32 being free from moulding
material. This central portion is then cropped out, as seen at 35, to leave two oppositely-facing shaving
units which can be sold as such or attached to
handles before sale.
Figure 9 shows a slight modification of the embo
diment of Figure 8 in which each blade 30 passes through an intermediate creasing stage in which the
opposite edge portions of the blade are bent through
an acute angle such as to leave a permanent crease
running longitudinally of the blade to stiffen the
blade. The creased blade is then fed into the
moulding machine and other operations carried out
as illustrated in Figure 8.
In the process illustrated in Figure 10, the double
edged blades 30 are fed serially into a moulding
machine in which there is moulded on to each side
of the blade a guard bar, top cap and handle, so that the moulding emerging from the moulding stage comprises two complete razors 36 each formed with an integral handle, guard bar and top cap, the two razors being interconnected by the portion of metal 37 disposed between the side portions of the blade.
In the next operation, this central portion of blade metal is cropped out to leave two complete razors.
Where reference has been made herein to a shaving unit, the part concerned could form a component of a larger shaving unit. For example a single bladed shaving unit formed as described above could form a component of a twin bladed shaving unit.
Although the present invention is concerned particularlywith single-edged single or multiple bladed razors and shaving units, double-edged razors or shaving units could be made by moulding plastics material on to both cutting edges of the doublededged strip of blade metal.
Claims (12)
1. A process for the manufacture of razors or shaving units for razors, which comprises forming a strip of blade metal with at least two cutting edges, introducing the strip into a mould cavity and moulding plastics material directly on to the strip to form the plastics portion of a razor or shaving unit on each cutting edge or on both cutting edges, the plastics portions being spaced apart, and cropping at least part of the blade metal which interconnects the cutting edges to release the razors or shaving units from each other.
2. A process according to claim 1 wherein said two cutting edges are formed on opposite sides of a strip of blade metal.
3. A process according to claim 1 wherein the cutting edges are formed in spaced apart relationship on the same side of the strip of blade metal.
4. A process according to any preceding claim wherein the strip of blade metal is formed with a
plurality of elongate apertures extending along the strip, the blade edges being provided on portions of the strip which are separated from the remainder of the strip by webs extending between the apertures, the cropping of the blade metal being effective to
crop at least part of said webs.
5. A process according to any preceding claim wherein a single cutting edge is formed along at
least one side of the strip of blade metal and
individual cutting edges are formed from said single
cutting edge by cropping out portions of the edge of the strip at intervals along its length.
6. A process according to any preceding claim wherein each completed razor or shaving unit is
connected to the remainder of the metal strip by a
single web extending away from the cutting edge in
a direction transverse to the strip.
7. A process according to any one of claims 1 to 6
wherein each completed razor or shaving unit is
connected to the next razor or shaving unit by webs
disposed adjacent opposite ends of the blade cutting
edge.
8. A process according to any one of claims 4 to 7
wherein each web extends from a completed razor or shaving unit via a recess in the plastics moulding and the cropping of the web takes place in said recess so that the cropped edge of the web is screened by the adjacent plastics material.
9. A process according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the blade strip is cropped to form shaving units each with at least one web of blade metal protruding therefrom by means of which the shaving unit can be secured to a razor handle.
10. A process for the manufacture of razors or shaving units for razors, which comprises introducing a double-edged strip of blade metal into a mould cavity, moulding the plastics portion of a separate razor or shaving unit on to each edge of the strip and cropping out the portion of the blade strip between the two razors or shaving units.
11. A process substantially as and for the purpose herein described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
12. A razor or shaving unit which has been made by the process according to any one of the preceding claims.
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GB8200276A GB2091159B (en) | 1981-01-21 | 1982-01-06 | Manufacturing razors and shaving units for razors |
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Cited By (4)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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GB2130510A (en) * | 1982-11-24 | 1984-06-06 | Toolmasters | Razor blade production |
US4679324A (en) * | 1984-11-15 | 1987-07-14 | The Gillette Company | Safety razor blades |
FR2773733A1 (en) * | 1998-01-16 | 1999-07-23 | Danil Doubochinski | Improved production of razor blades |
WO2000041847A1 (en) * | 1999-01-12 | 2000-07-20 | Touzova, Tamara | Method for increasing production rate of razor blades and implementing device |
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1982
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Cited By (4)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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GB2130510A (en) * | 1982-11-24 | 1984-06-06 | Toolmasters | Razor blade production |
US4679324A (en) * | 1984-11-15 | 1987-07-14 | The Gillette Company | Safety razor blades |
FR2773733A1 (en) * | 1998-01-16 | 1999-07-23 | Danil Doubochinski | Improved production of razor blades |
WO2000041847A1 (en) * | 1999-01-12 | 2000-07-20 | Touzova, Tamara | Method for increasing production rate of razor blades and implementing device |
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