Improvements relating to Safety Razors.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 18th May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 15th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 28th Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Safety Razors.
I CHRISTIAN HUGO ZIMMERMANN of Leipzig in the Empire of Germany
Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The employment of safety razors as at present made and fitted is attended with
the inconvenience that when they are in use the lather runs off and drips from the
razor or holder.
In the present invention, this inconvenience is overcome by providing the razor
or its holder with a basin shaped receptacle for the lather and hair taken off by
the razor.
For the fitting of the lather basin, the razor proper with its guiding roller and
adjusting devices are provided on a cover plate, the form of which corresponds to
that of the basin; the cover closes the farther projecting part of the basin in front
of the roller and is held fast on the basin by a pivot and elastic tongue so that it is.
secured when in use but at the same time removable from the basin. Underneath
the roller, the cover is provided with an open space so that the roller projects into
the closed hollow space of the basin. The roller carries the lather and particles of
hair into the interior of the basin.
Dated this 18th day of May 1893.
R. HADDAN,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Safety Razors.
I, CHRISTIAN HUGO ZIMMERMANN of 17 Peterstrasse, Leipzig in the Kingdom
of Saxony, German Empire, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this.
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
All previous safety-razors have this defect that when in use the lather runs.
down and leaves disagreeable traces behind. By the present invention this
drawback is remedied by the safety-razor being provided with a bowl-shaped part
for catching the lather, wherein the lather taken from the knife is received.
The details of this invention are contained in the following Specification, and
accompanied by drawings (Figs. 1 to 4) for elucidation.
In the drawings
Fig. 1 shews a longitudinal section of a safety-razor arranged in such manner,
Fig. 2 a cross-section of the same,
Fig. 3 a plan of the same,
Fig. 4 the arrangement of the cover and receptacle shewn separately.
The safety-razor is especially formed for attachment of the lather catching.
apparatus, so that the knife a with the guide-roll and the adjusting arrangement
belonging to it for the knife, are attached to a cover-plate A adapted to the form
of the bowl B. In front of the roller b the cover-plate A closes the further
protruding bowl B, and is for the purpose of being held by the same provided
besides with the pin d, also with the clamp-piece f, so that by the latter part the
cover-plate A and the bowl B are held firmnly together but are detachable.
Under-
the roller b the cover A is cut away, so that the roller protrudes into the closed
hollow space of the bowl.

page_text: Upon application of the safety-razor, when the bowl B is of course left in
connection with the cover A, the soap with the small hairs cut off, instead of being
allowed as formerly to run at will from the knife and roller, are by the roller b
driven down into the interior of the bowl, where they remain enclosed without
being disagreeable to the person being shaved. From the bowl b the lather
can be removed at will; the cover and the bowl being detached from each other
for the purpose.
By this arrangement an essential improvement in safety-razors is effected, accom-
panied by the still further advantage that through closing in of the apparatus, with
the exception of its operating part, there is no doubt as to the way in which it is
to be applied. Thus it is only applicable at its operating part, which is not the
case with all other similar apparatus.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
A safety-razor with a round-shaped lather-bowl characterized so that for the
purpose of forming an inclosed space for the reception of the lather, the detachable
knife-holder is provided with closing-plate (A) and a back wall, whereby after
removal of the knife-holder the lather-bowl forms an interiorly perfectly smooth
and easily cleaned surface.
Signed this 13th day of February 1894.