US1498890A - Safety razor - Google Patents

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J. B. STEEDMAN SAFETY RAZOR Filed ma 25 3921 Patented June 24, 1924,

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JAMES B. STEEIDIVIAN, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T JAMES B. SMITH, OF LOUISVILLE, KENYLUCKY.v

SAFETY RAZOR.

Application filed May 25,

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that 1, JAMES B. STEEDMAN, acitizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety Razors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved F safety razor and has as one of its principal objects to provide a device of this character which may be used in the manner of an ordinary safety razor or may be used in the manner of an ordinary straight blade razor.

The invention has as a further object to provide a safety razor nploying a blade holder and handle and wherein the blade holder may be attached to the handle to extend at substantially right angles thereto or i'nay be attached to the handle to extend lengthwise thereof.

And the invention has as a still further object to provide a device wherein the blade holder will be firmly held upon the handle frictionally locked thereon.

()ther and incidental objects will appear hereinafter.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the handle and blade holder of the device disconnected,

Figure 2 is a perspective view showing the blade holder arranged transversely with respect to the handle, 7

Figure 3 is a perspective view showing the blade holder arranged longitudinally of the handle,

Figure 4 is a fragmentary section showing the manner in which the blade holder is frictionally locked upon the handle, and

Figure 5 is a transverse section on the line 55 of Figure 1.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail section taken longitudinally through the head of the handle.

Referring now more particularly to the drawing, I employ a metallic blade holder including a body 10 slotted at its lower margin to provide a series of guard fingers 11. On the end margins of the body are provided knobs 12 located near the lower edge of the body and formed on or otherwise secured to the body at its upper end is a loop 13 lying parallel to the body at its forward side. As will be observed, the loop 1921. Serial No. 472,348.

and the body are provided at their upper edges with oppositely directly parallel flanges or lips 11 and formed in the body medially thereof is, as shown in Figure 1, an arcuate notch 15 opening through the flange of the body. Rivet-ed or otherwise secured to the body at its rear side is a clamping spring 16, the ends of which are bent to embrace the end edges of the body, lying within formed with clamping fingers 17 confronting the forward side of the; body. These fingers are design d to clamp a blade, as conventionally shown in Figure 4 at 18, against the body, the blade being insertable through the loop 13 beneath said fingers and overlying the knobs 12 coacting therewith so that the blade is thus frictionally locked upon the holder. inclining laterally and downwardly from the holder body at its rear side is a substantially U-shaped stock 19 lying immediately beneath the notch 15 medially with respect thereto. At the inner end of the stool: the sides thereof are extended to provide oppositely directed ears 2O straddling the notch and soldered or otherwise secured to the holder body, while at the upper edges of the sides of the stock are provided oppositely directed parallel flanges or lips 21 similar to the flanges 1%.

In conjunction with the blade holder, I provide a handle 22. This handle is provided at its inner end with an oblong head 23 disposed longitudinally of the handle and suitably'secured to said head at its lower side is a longitudinally extending channel member 24 having confronting flanges 25 directed inwardly toward each other, it being observed, as particularly brought out in Figure 6, that the flanges terminate short of the forward end of the head. Formed in the bottom wall of the channel medially thereof is a longitudinally directed opening 26. Mounted in said opening is a spring 27 riveted or otherwise secured at one end to the head, the opposite end of said spring being bowed upwardly between the flanges The channel member 2 1 is, of course, designed to fit over the flanges 14C or over the flanges 21 of the stock 19 and since the flanges 25 terminate short of the forward end of the head of the handle, the tip of the head may be conveniently rested upon adjacent ends of the flanges 14 or upon adjacent ends of the flanges 21 when the hansuitable notches therein and are if:

dle may be shifted for moving the channel member-over the flanges into engagement therewith.

In Figure 2 of the drawing, I have shown the blade or holder arranged transversely with respect to the handle. In this position of the blade holder, the channel member 2d; of the head 23 of the handle is, as shown in Figure 4, engaged with-the stock 19 of the holder. As will be observed, the flanges 25 of said channel member are enga ed beneath the flanges 21 of the stock, the forward end portion of the head 23 being received through the notch 15 of the holder bot Accordingly, the flanges let are brought into coacting relation with the spring 27, flanges serving to depress the free end portion of the spring. The spring is aceordingly held under tension frictionally coacting with said flanges for locking the blade holder upon the handle. it the same time, by shifting the blade holder toward the outer end of the head of the handle, holder may be readily detached. When the blade iolde-r is thus disposed transversely i h respect to the handle, the device may, of course, be used in the manner of an ordinary safety razor. 'However, since the transverse disposition of the blade holder is, by some found cumbersome and unhandy, I have provided a razor whereby the blade holder may, as shown in Figure 3, be disposed longitudinally with respect to the handle. When so arranged, the channel member 24: upon the head of the handle is engaged with the pair of flanges 14-. of the blade holder, the spring 27 serving to trictionally lock the blade holder upon the handle in the manner previously described. Thus, the bladetholder will be firmly neld in position so that the device may be used in the the manner of an ordinary straight blade razor.

Having thus described the invention, what lSClfillllQCbtlS new is:

1. A safety razor including a holder ha ing longitudinal and transverse pairs of parallel, outturned flanges at its back edge, a handle having a longitudinally channelled head-to freely slidably engage around either pair of flanges whereby the handle may be disposed in alinement with the back edge of the holder and a blade thereinor disposed at an angle thereto at will, and means carried by the head to frictionally lock it to the engaged flanges.

A safety razor including a holder having longitudinal and transverse pairs of parallel outturned flanges at its back edge, a handle having a longitudinally channelled head to freely slidably engage either pair of flanges whereby the handle may be disposed in alinement with the back edge of the holder and a blade therein or disposed at an angle thereto at will, and a leaf spring carried by the head within the channel the eof to bear upon the engaged flanges and friction ally lock the head thereon.

A safety razor including a holder having longitudinal and transverse pairs of parallel outturned flanges at its back edge, a handle having a longitudinally channelled head to slidably engage either pair of flanges, the side walls of the channel tern'iinating short of the forward end of the head whereby said end of the head may initially guide the head into engagement with the flanges, and a leaf spring carriedby the head within the channel of the same to bear upon the engaged flanges.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

JAMES B. STEEDMAN. a s]

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