US1179359A - Device for cleaning and drying safety-razor blades. - Google Patents

Description

C. J. KENNEDY.

DEVICE FOR CLEANING AND DRYING SAFETY RAZOR BLADES.

APPLICATION FILED Aue.s0.1915.

'1, 179,359. Patentefi Apr. 1]., 1916.

INVENTOR.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES JUSTIN KENNEDY, OF DULUTH, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR TO NORTHERN NOVELTY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF DULUTH, MINNESOTA, A CORPORA- TION OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

DEVICE FOR CLEANING- AND DRYING SAFETYQRAZOR BLADES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 11, 1916.

Application filed August 30, 1915. Serial No. 48,064.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES JUSTIN KEN- NEDY, a citizen of the United States, residing at 318 West Second street, in the city of Duluth, county of St. Louis, and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Device for Cleaning and Drying Safety- Razor Blades, and of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of two thin springlike meta plates, preferably about two inches in length, one inch in width, and onesiXty-fourth inch in thickness, and prefer ably bent or arched outward at a slight angle from each other, so that a razor blade may be inserted between the two plates without damage to the fine edges of said blade; said plates being joined together at the center by a small screw, bolt or rivet, so that the two inner faces may be exactly opposite, and meet evenly when pressed together; each plate, however, havinga thin rubber pad about three-eighths of an inch in thickness, about the same width as the metal plate, and about half an inch in length; said rubber pad being attached to the inner surface of one end of each plate by means of cement, glue, or a screw or rivet; and a felt pad of same size as the rubber pad attached to the inner surface of each plate at the opposite end to the rubber pad, so that the two rubbers will meet together evenly, and the two felt pads will 'meet together evenly when the plates are pressed together.

The use and object of my device are, first to clean soap, dirt, hair, or water off the razor blade after its use for shaving; and

second, to dry the razor blade after cleanfinger and thumb with a wiping motion. I attain these objects by the device illustrated 1n the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective of the entire device, Fig. 2 a, side view, and Fig. 3 represents the individual parts of the device.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Letters a, a, represent the metal plates, bent or arched sllghtly outward at points 9, g,- b, I), represent the two rubber pads c, 0, represent the felt pads; d represents the screw or rivet fastening plates together; 6, e, e, e, represent screws or rivets attaching the pads to the plates; f, represents a thin block of metal or wood between the plates at the point where' they are fastened together by the screw or rivet, 03; said block being of the same width as the metal plates, about three-eighths of an inch in thickness, about a third of an inch in length and preferably secured in any desired manner to one of the plates.

Fig. 2 is a side view of the device; letters a, a, representing the metal plates; 6, b, the rubber pads; c, 0, the felt pads;d, the screw or rivet fastening plates together; e, e, e, e, the screws or rivets fastening pads to place; and f, separating block of wood b, b, the rubber pads; c, 0, the felt pads; d,' v

the screw or rivet fastening plates together; and f, the separating block between the plates.

I claim, therefore, for my invention.

,A device of the character described, comprising two pieces of resilient sheet metal of substantially the same size and shape united at their centers, arched or bent apart at their ends, and having attached to the' opposed faces of their adjacent ends blade engaging pads, substantially as and for the purpose described.

CHARLES JUSTIN KENNEDY. Witnesses:

W. W. BLAoKsHAw, E. G. WALLINDER,

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