Improvements in and relating to Cases or Stands for Holding Razors, Knives, and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Jan., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Oct., 1899-Accepted, 11th Nov., 1899
Improvements in and relating to Cases or Stands for Holding Razors,
Knives, and the like.
I, WILLIAM D'OYLY GRANGE, of Clarence Drive, Harrogate, Yorkshire, Doctor
of Medicine, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to a terrestrial magnetic case or stand for keep-
ing razors and knives sharp.
According to my improvements I use a box or stand of suitable size with rests
to support a razor or knife so that the edge of the blade shall be down and the
whole of the blade at an angle say of about 15 degrees with the horizontal plane.
Attached to the case or stand is a compass to permit of the box or stand being
placed in a particular position in relation to the magnetic field of the earth. At
one end of the box or stand is placed a weak magnet or as an alternative the
compass. If a magnet it is to be removable.
In using this appliance I take the magnet out and place the empty case or stand
in a drawer or on a wooden shelf or other suitable place and turn the box_until
the north end of the needle points to an arrow on the stand or box; care being
taken that the magnet is not near the box and that no iron is near when adjust-
ing its position. The box or stand is secured to some fixture in the desired
position.
Dated the 3rd day of January 1898.
Improvements in and relating to Cases or Stands for Holding Razors,
Knives, and the like.
I, WILLIAM D'OYLY GRANGE, of Clarence Drive, Harrogate, Yorkshire, Doctor
of Medicine, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to a case or stand for keeping razors and knives
sharp.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of carrying same into
practice may be properly understood, I have hereunto appended an explanatory
drawing, representing a perspective elevation of a magnetic stand for holding
and preserving the edges of razors.
Referring to said drawing:-
According to my improvements I use a stand a of suitable size, with brackets
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page_text: or rests a¹ to support a razor bor knive so that the edge b¹ of the blade shall be
down, and the whole of the blade preferably at an angle say of about 15 degrees
with the horizontal plane.
Underneath the edge 61 of the razor blade is placed a portable or removable
magnetized bar d of steel, having its north pole marked.
On one end of the stand is a compass c which when the magnetized bar d is
removed indicates the way in which the stand a should be placed, the position
for stand being to lie north and south the compass end being towards the north,
The stand may however may be used without relation to the magnetic meridian
and therefore without the compass.
The object of the stand is to provide a uniform magnetic field in which the
razor may be placed between the times of being used. This preserves the edge
of the razor.
A box e as indicated in dotted lines may enclose the stand a and the compass c
be placed on the top of same.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
1. The method of preserving or keeping sharp the edges of razors, knives, and
the like, by means of a magnetic field substantially as set forth.
2. A magnetic stand or case for holding razors, knives and the like substan-
tially as set forth.
D&DO4.
1000