US1367159A - Combined razor and stropper - Google Patents

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J. W. McAULIFFE.

COMBINED, RAZOR AN D STROPPER.

-1PPL|CATI0N FILED APR. 16, 1920.

1,367,159. Patented Feb. 1,1921.

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COMBINED RAZOR AND S'IROPIER.

To all whom it mmy co /teem:

Be it known that 1, JOHN MGAULIFFE, a citizen of the United States, residing at town of Pelham, county of VVestchester, State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Combined Razors and Stroppers, and declare the following to be'a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such. as will enable others the claims; but, for a full understanding of my invention and of its object and advantages, reference may be had to the following detailed description taken in connection with the adcompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is an end view of a razor arranged in accordance with my invention, the handle being broken away;

Fig. 2 is a front view of the razor, the guard and blade being shown in section; and

Fig. 3 is a section taken approximately on line 3-3 of Fig. 2. Referring to the drawing, 1 and 2 represent the lower and upper members of a twopart casing or housing decreasing graduall" in width toward the upper end which is le t open. The size and shape of the casing or housing are determined by the nature of the stropping device employed. In thear rangement shown, the stropper consists of a cylindricalmember, 3, having a section cut out of one side throughout the length thereof. The member 3 is fixed upon a shaft, 1, which is journaled in the end walls of the casing, the bearings bein preferably divided along the plane of t e joint between the upper and lower halvesof the casin or housing. A combined support and guar 5, for a blade projects forwardl from the upper edge of the front wall of t e housing. The opening in the top of the housing is closed by a hood, 6, lying just behind the member 5. The hood 18 carried on the up- 15, may be provide Specification of Letters Patent; Patented F b 1, 1921 Application filed April 16, 1920. Serial No. 374,802. I

per ends of the arms, 7 and 8, joined together at their lower ends by a cross piece, 9; the arms 7 and 8 lying at oppositeends of the housing and bearing against the inner face of the front wall of the housing. The

arms are provided with longitudinal slots,

' blade-carrier, 12, which may conveniently be journaled at its ends in the end walls of the hood. A razor blade is attached in any .usual or suitable way at its back or rear edge to the carrier; the parts being so proportloned that when they occupy the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1, the blade is held in operative relation to the guard while, upon raising the hood to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, the blade may be swung back off the support and guard and brin its free edge above the open top of the housing. Thereupon, upon. again lowering the hood to the position shown in full lines in Fig. l, the blade is lowered into the housin strop ing It wi-l of course be understood that the stropping roller is oscillated through an angle of less than 380 degrees, first stropping the blade from one side andthen from the other; the blade swinging from one side to the other while its cutting edge is opposite the cavity or mutilated portion of the cylindrical stropper. The blade is held into operative relation to the yleldingly pressed against the stropping surface by means of one or the other of two springs or groups of springs, 14, projecting inwardly from the front and rear walls of the housing near the top thereof in position to engage with the blade when it is swung in one direction or the other. If desired, a suitable awl and ratchet device,

cl for the purpose of compelling the user to complete a turning movement of the stropping device, once started, before beginning a return movement.

grasped between two fingers evice as illustrated in Fig. 3.

It is desirable that the hood with its blade carrier be locked against displacement both when the blade is in its shaving position and when it is in its stropping position. This may conveniently be accomplished by providing the cross piece, 9, of the supporting frame for the hood with a pin or stud, 16,

projecting through a slot, 17, in the front Wall of the housing and supporting on the outer end of the pin or stud a cam dog, 18, which, when in the position shown in full lines in Fig. l, clamps the member 9 to the front wall of the housing and, when swung outwardly parallel with the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. l, releasing the supporting frame for the blade-carrying elements and permitting the blade to be shifted from one of its two positions to the other. The locking dog may be made to serve the further purpose of locking the parts together in any one of various positions of adjustment; thus permitting the cutting edge of the blade to benicely adjusted relatively to the guard according to the nature of the beard to which the razor is to be applied.

The stropper may be' operated by a crank, 19, which, when not in use, may be placed within the hollow handle, 20, of the razor, the handle of the crank having on the end a screw threaded button, 21, which forms a closure for the handle when the crank is housed therein.

It will thus be seen that I have produced an extremely simple and compact self-stropping razor; the housing bein made of two simple sections which, when fastened together by means of a few small screws, 22, also form bearings for the stropping cylinder. The blade-carrying means consisting of the carrier mounted in a simple hood with its sliding frame is not only easy of construction but it is rugged and positive in its action so that a blade may be shifted from a shaving position to a stropping position and back again an indefinite number of times without danger that the parts will get out of adjustment. 4

While 'I have illustrated and described with particularity only a' single preferred form of my invention, I do not desire to be limited to the exact structural details thus illustrated and described; but intend to cover all forms and arrangements which come within the terms employed in the definitions of my invention constituting the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A safety razor comprising a housing having a guard for supporting a razor blade in shaving position, a frame slidable on the housing in a direction transverse to the guard, a blade pivotally supported in the Vicinity of one long edge at the upper end of said frame, said housing having an opening therein in rear of the guard, the parts being so proportioned that when said frame is raised the blade may be swung either so as to pass down into the housing through said opening or into a shaving position relatively to the guard when the frame is lowered, and a stropping device within the housing for stropping the bladewhen it hangs in the housing.

2. A safety razor comprising a housing having a long narrow open top, a uard projecting forwardly from the top of the housing, a stropping device within the housing, a hood for closing the top of the housing, a blade carrier journaled in said hood and adapted to engage with one edge of a blade so as either to hold the blade in shaving relation to the guard or depending into the housing into stropping relation to the stropping device when the hood is in its closed position, and a sliding support for said hood for permitting it to be raised and lowered bodily a suflicient distance to permit the blade to be raised from and lowered into the housing.

3. A safety razor comprising a holder having a guar a carrier for a razor blade adapted to hold the blade in operative relation to the guard, a movable support for said carrier, and means for locking said support in any one of a plurality of adjusted positions.

4. A safety razor comprising a two-part housing joined together along a transverse plane, a stropping roller arranged within the housing and j ournaled between the two parts thereof, the housing being open at the top, a guard projecting laterally from the top of the housing, a hood closing the open top of the housing, a blade hung at one end in said hood so as either to lie in operative relation to the guard or depend into the housing into operative relation to the stropping device when the hood is in its closed position, and means for shifting the hood to permit the blade -to be moved into and out of the housing.

In testimony whereof, I sign this specification.

TOHN W. MOAULIFFE.

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