US816635A - Razor-strop. - Google Patents

Description

No. 816,635. PATENTED APR. 3, 1906. E. P. ZARBOOK.

RAZOR STROP,

APPLICATION FILED AUG.13, 190s.

WITNESSES: N VE N TOR A TTOHNE Y8 UNITED STATES PATENT curios.-

ERNST F. ZARBOCK, OF CENTRALIA, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO MONTGOMERY WADDELL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

RAZOR-STROP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 3, 1906.

'10 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNsr F. ZARBOOK, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Centralia, in the county of Marion and State of Illinois, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Razor-Strops, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in razorstrops, having for an object to provide a simple construction by which the razor may be readily sharpened and brought to the desired edge for shaving; and the invention consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a razor-strop embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is a sectional view thereof, somewhat enlarged in order to illustrate the different layers of the strop.

By my invention I provide a flexible-metal razor-strop which may be employed to put the edge on the razor and will require but a moments time in order to secure such edge.

As shown and preferred, the strop comprises a'body A, which may be of any suitable textile fabric or other material, and is supplied on one side with a metal layer B of aluminium and on the other side with a finishing layer C, preferably of silk. In preparing the metallic surface the body A is coated with any suitable solution containing pow dered aluminium or by rubbing the metal in a finely-powdered state on the surface of the body A, or it may be otherwise applied to or incorporated with the body A in manufacturing the strop, the purpose being to provide a flexible body having an aluminium surface or layer.

In practice I preferably use loose-woven linen to form the body A and apply to it a coating of rubber-cement. The aluminium is then applied in a powdered state by sifting or sprinkling it upon the rubber coat and pressing it into the same. After this the metal surface is coated with banana-oil. By another method I first make a viscid mixture of powdered aluminium and banana-oil and then apply it to the fabric A.-

The finishing side, consisting of a silk strip 0, may be secured to the body A by any suitable paste or cement. The strop may be supplied, if desired, with a handle D at one end and a hook E or other suitable fixture at its other end, by which the strop may be suspended.

I thus provide a flexible razor-strop having on one side an aluminium surface, which will quickly bring a razor or other cutting-blade to a sharp edge, and on the other side a fin ishing-surface, which will remove the wire-' edge produced by the metal side.

'Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The razor-strop herein described, consisting of a flexible body, a metallic layer on one side thereof and a finishing layer of silk on the opposite side of said body, substantially as described.

2. The razor-strop herein described comprising a flexible body, a layer of aluminium on one-side thereof and a finishing layer of silk on the other side of said body, substantially as described.

3. The razor-strop having finelydivided metallic aluminium incorporated in its surface, substantially as described.

4. A razor-strop comprisin a soft nonmetallic portion, the surface of which is covered with finely-divided aluminium mixed with an appropriate viscid substance, substantially as described.

ERNST F. ZARBOCK.

Witnesses.

J. H. SELBY, WM. J. KoHL.

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