US1059333A - Safety-razor. - Google Patents

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0. KAMPFE.

SAFETY RAZOR. APPLICATION FILED JULY 20, 1907. RENEWED SEPT. 10, 1912.

1,059,333. Patented Apr. 15, 1913.-

UNITED STATES PATENT orsion- OT 'IO KAMPFE, OF NEW YORK, N. ASSIGNOB TOKAMPFE 3305., A CORPORATION OF i NEW YORK.

SAFETY-RAZOR.

Application filed July 20 1907, Serial No. 384,798.

Specification of Letters Patent,

- Patented Apr. 15, 1913. Renewed September 10, 1912. Serial No. 719,647.

Y To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, om KAMrre, a citizen of the United States, residingat the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, city and State of New York, have in vented an Improvement in Safety-Razors, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is designed as an improve ment upon the interchangeable blade safety razor shown and described inmy application for Letters Patent filed October 2,1906,

bination with a suitable handle, I provide a, bent body member adapted for connection tothe handle and having integral therewith a transversely fiat and longitudinally curved combguardwith teeth having over-turne free ends, with one or moreears at the forward corners, with ,an end clip overturned from the guard and with means for regulating the; position of the blade.

' I employ at one end of the' comb-guard a blade-retaining clip-arm which is pivoted clip, bending the blade guard and engaging its other end by the that is arched longitudinally.

to one of the forward corner ears and at its other end is adapted to engage a shouldered notch or catch of the body member: The normally flat blade is connected to the-body member by passing one end beneath the end down over the combclip-arm whic snaps to place at the shouldered catch.- A reverse movement releases the blade and it returns to'its normal fiat condition and may be removed and replaced by another. The bladeconsequently in its position as flexed for use has a cuttingedge Figure 1 is a front ele- In the drawing,

Fig. 3 a SldB elevavation. Fig. 2 a plan,

'tion partly in section,-Fig. 4 a vertical cross section at w, m, Fig. 1. Fig.5 is a plan of. another form of my invention and Fig. 6 is a cross section at 3 1 Fig. 5.

' 0, represents the bent body member which in cross section very closely resembles the bent portion ofthe body member :as shown shaving surface, or to the 1 swinging over in my aforesaid application. This bent body member is providedwith a head at 2 perforated and interiorly threaded to 'receive the screw stem b of the tubular handle I) in connecting the handle and the body member together, and this head is securely riveted to the lower portion of the bent body member for this purpose. The bent body member is' constructed integrally with a guard-comb a having teeth a with overturned free ends.

The guard-comb is inclined to the axis of the handle and transversely at slightly greater than a right angle to the back of the body member; it is transversely fiat and longitudinally curved. It is provided at the forward corners with down-turned ears 3, with an over-turned end-clip 4 and with ears 5 rising from the back of the body member and perforated for small adjusting screws 9 which are adapted to come up against the back of the blade 0 so as 'I provide a blade-retaining clip-arm d d placed at the right hand of the safety razor as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and which is pivotally connected at one end to one forward corner ear 3 at 6 and its forward end is made with a'projection adapted to snap under the shouldered catch 7 formed in the back of the. body member. In cross section this clip-arm has parts at right angles toone another, the upper portion of which -similarto the end-clip 4,--extends over the ends of the thin razor blade 0 when the same is in p0sition,--holdingthesame securely in position with the curved and transversely fiat upper surface of the guard-comb, with the blade bent so that the outer surface is convex and the cuttingedge curved and presented flexed to the face or to a shaving surface.

To insertthe thinnormally fiat blade and connect the, same to ,the body member above the curved guard-comb, it is only necessary V to swing oven the clip-arm d on 1ts pivot 6 and grasping the blade at the right hano end, place the left hand end under the clip 4,bending the blade down over the curved guardcomb with the back of the blade against the screws of the ears 5, and then the clip and snapping, the

hereinbefore desame into en agement as 'fiexed and held scribed. The lade is then blade lying against the to adjustthe rela- {tion of the cutting edge of the blade to the 3 ends of the teeth of the comb-guard.

firmly in position under tension, longitudinally curved and convex, with its cutting edge curved or arched andready for use.

I have shown in the surface of the blade near the back edge, a longitudinal recess 8 ed upon the dulling of one edge to turn the blade around end for end and present the fresh keen edge to the comb for use. In this form, the ears 5 and screws 9 are not employed, and the blade is placed or centered by means of rounded projections 10 formed in and above the surface of the longitudinally curved comb guard entering holes 11 along the center of the normally flat blade. Otherwise than in this respect the safety razor is constructed exactly like that shown in the other figures of the drawingrand the operation is identical therewith.

his device is exceedingly simple,-it is inexpensive to construct in viewof the integral character of the body member and the parts associated therewith, and it includes only few parts and there is no complication of the parts whatsoever to get out of order or adjustment.

I claim as my invention 1. In a razor and in combination with a normally flat blade sharpened along one edge, and a suitable handle, of a bent body member, a guard-comb transversely flat and at an angle to the bent body member and longitudinally curved and provided with teeth having over-turned free ends, a clip at one end adapted to receive one end of the normally fiat blade, and a pivoted clip-arm at the other end adapted to come down upon and hold the other end of the blade, flexing or bending the same over the surface of the guard-comb and holdingthe same inplace. 2. In a razor and in combination with a normally flat blade sharpened along one edge, and a suitable handle, of a bent body member having integral therewith a longitudinally bent and convexed guard-comb, its

teeth with over-turned free ends, with ears 3 at the forward corners, with an end-clip 4 and ears 5 receiving screws for regulating the position of the blade, and a blade-1e and a blade-retainin taining clip-arm pivotallyconnected to the guardlcomh.

3. In a razor and in combination with a normally flat blade sharpened along one edge, and a handle, of a bent body member,

a guardcomb with teeth having over-turned free ends formed integral with the body member, the guard-comb being flat trans-,

versely' and at an angle to the back of the body member and curved longitudinally, an end-clip 4 over turned along one end of the guard-comb for receiving one end of the nor.- mally flat blade and a pivoted clip-arm at the other end of the guard-comb adapted to come down upon and hold the bladeat its other end, maintaining the same in a flexed or bent condition, with a convex outer surface and a curved cutting edge.

4. Inaarazor and in combination with a Y normally fiat blade sharpened along one edge, and a suitable handle, of a bent body member having integral therewith a longitudinally bent and convexed guard-comb, its teeth with over-turned free ends, with ears, 3 at the forward corners, with an end-clip4 and a blade-retaining clip-arm pivotally connected to the guard-comb.

5. In a razor and in combination with a normally flat blade sharpened along one edge, and a suitable handle, of a bent body member having integral therewith a longitudinally bent and convexed guard-comb, its teeth with over-turned free ends, w'ith' ears 3at the forward corners, with an end-clip 4 clip -arm pivotally connected to the guar -comb'and means for determining the position of theblade and its cutting edge with reference to the ends of the comb.

6. In a razor and in combination with a normally-fiat blade sharpened along one of its longest edges, and a suitable handle, of a bent body member adapted for connection with the handle, a guard-comb integral with the body member and formed transversely. flat and longitudinally curved and having teeth, an integral clip at one end adapted .to receive one end of the normally fiat razor blade, and a pivoted device at'theother end adapted to engage the blade and to engage the body member in securing the blade flexed and convex upon the curved guardcomb and with its cuttin ,edge curved.

. Signed by me this 3d ay'of July 1907. OTTO .KAMPFE. Witnesses: i

GEO. T PINCKNEY, E. ZACHARIASEN.

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