Improvements in Guard or Safety Razors.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Aug., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Jan., 1891-Accepted, 28th Feb., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Guard or Safety Razors.
1, JOHN ROBERT WATTS, of Lambert Street, Sheffield, in the County of York
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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My invention relates to such guard or safety razors as are not made with hafts to
shut into, and my improvements consist principally in making the guard which
protects the razor blade with a forked projection into which is hinged or jointed
a small steel block one end being formed as, or terminating with, a screw and so
arranged that the screw will work into a screw-threaded hole made in the top of
the razor blade.
Connected or riveted onto the guard is a small spring so arranged as to give the
necessary action to the aforesaid block and blade to keep the cutting edge of the
razor on the guard.
In order to clean the blade after use, but without detaching it, and to move and
regulate the blade up or down the screw when required, all that is necessary is to
raise or move the blade up from the guard and then turn the blade round on the
screw just so much as required, and afterwards to fold it back again on the guard
ready for re-use.
Dated this 13th day of August 1890
BRISTOW HUNT, R.P.A.,
Aldine Chambers, Sheffield, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Guard or Safety Razors.
I, JOHN ROBERT WATTS, of Lambert Street, Sheffield, in the County of York,
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 in writing, and on reference to the accompanying sheet of
drawings:-
My invention relates to such guard or safety razors as are not made with hafts
to shut into, my improvements consisting principally in making the guard which
protects the razor blade with a forked projection at its upper end into which is
hinged or jointed a small steel, or other metal, block one end of the block being
formed as, or terminating with, a screw which screw is so arranged that it will work
into a screw-threaded hole made in the top of the razor blade.
Connected with or rivetted onto the guard is a small spring which is so arranged
as to give the necessary action to the aforesaid block and blade to keep the cutting
edge of the razor on the guard.
In order that my invention may be more fully understood it is illustrated in the
figures delineated on the accompanying sheet of drawings, similar letters of
reference corresponding with the following description indicating like parts in the
figures.
Figure 1, is a front view showing the razor blade in connection with the small
block which is hinged to the forked projection of the guard, and the clips which
are provided for more securely keeping the blade in position.
Figure 2, is a side view of the same.
Figure 3, is a sectional side view of the razor showing the blade half open as for
cleaning, or to move or regulate the blade up or down on its screw, and,
Figure 4, is a perspective view of the complete safety razor as ready for use.

page_text: is the blade of the razor. b, the small block hinged by means of a rivet into
the forked projection e, of the guard d. e, e, are the clips, one of them (see Figure 1,)
being shown as opened out, and the other as closed on the blade; the clips are
rivetted to the guard d, as shown. is the screw of the small block which works
into a screwthreaded hole made in the top of the blade a; and g, is the spring
which is rivetted onto the guard d, as shown in Figure 3, and is so fitted between
the block b, and the projection c, as to give the required springlike movement to
the block b, and blade a, to keep the cutting edge of the blade down on the
guard d.
To cleanse and wipe the blade after use, but without detaching it, and to move
and regulate the blade up or down the screw when required, all that is necessary is
to raise or move the blade up from the guard then turn the blade round on the
screw just so much as may be required and afterwards fold or move it back again
down onto the guard when it will be ready for re-use.
It should be understood however that the razor blade can be detached or not as
desired when it becomes necessary to strop or sharpen or whet it.
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 1
claim is -
1. The general construction, combination, and arrangement of parts constituting,
in the whole, an improved and more useful guard and safety razor enabling the user
to cleanse and wipe, and to regulate the position of the blade, without detaching
any part or parts of the razor, substantially as hereinbefore described and as
illustrated on the accompanying sheet of drawings.
2. In a guard or safety razor the special adaptation and use of a steel or other
metal block, with screw f, the forked projection e, of the guard and a spring g,
all
being arranged in combination with the razor blade for the purposes set forth, and
as illustrated on the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 21st day of January 1891.
BRISTOW HUNT, R.P.A.,
Aldine Chambers, Sheffield, Agent for the Applicant.