Improvements in Strops or Sharpening Devices for Razors, Table Knives, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd July, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Sept., 1897-Accepted, 20th Nov.,
1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Strops or Sharpening Devices for Razors, Table
Knives, and the like.
I KARL JOSEF BRAUN, of 32 Charlotte Street Fitzroy Square London W Hair-
dresser do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in sharpening or setting devices,
commonly called strops, for razors, surgical instruments, table knives, and other
keen edged blades, and has for purpose to provide a self adjusting implement by
means of which the razor or other blade may be easily and expeditiously
sharpened and set, and in the use of which less attention and care is required
than with the ordinary strops now in use.
The device essentially consists of a pair of spring backed strops having their
outside surfaces covered with leather or other convenient material in the usual
manner. Said strops, being placed one on the other in such fashion as to make
the leather- or working-surfaces touch each other, are held and slightly pressed to-
gether by clips or similar devices which can be adjusted by means of thumb screws
or the like.
Dated this 23rd day of Tul., 1907
HUGHES ELI & HUGHES
76, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., for the Applicant..
Improvements in Strops or Sharpening Devices for Razors, Table
Knives, and the like.
I, KARL JOSEF BRAUN, of 32 Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, London, W. Hair-
dresser, 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:
This invention relates to improvements in sharpening or setting devices
commonly called strops, for razors, surgical instruments, table knives and other
keen edged blades, and has for purpose to provide a self adjusting implement by
means of which the razor or other blade may be easily and expeditiously
sharpened and set, and in the use of which less attention and care is required than
with the ordinary strops now in use.
The device essentially consists of a pair of spring backed strops having their
outside surface covered with leather or other convenient material in the usual
manner. Said strops being placed one on the other in such fashion as to make

page_text: the leather or working-surfaces touch each other, are held and slightly pressed
together by clips or similar devices which can be adjusted by means of thumb
screws or the like.
In order to make my invention more readily understood and carried out in
practice I have hereunto attached a sheet of drawings, upon which
Fig. 1 is a front view of the strop device, and
Fig. 2 a side view of the same.
The boards or plates a provided with handle pieces a¹ of suitable size and con-
formation support the elastic plates 6 which are made of steel or other resilient
material, and slightly bent over at their extremities. The plates 6 are covered
with soft leather or the like, prepared in the usual manner; said coverings,
marked are folded over the ends of plate b and together with the latter secured
to boards a in any suitable fashion. Each of the twin combinations of board a,
plate and Cover e thus form a separate elastic or resilient strop and the pair
after being placed face to face is held and pressed together by suitable clips or
other appliances s, the pressure of which can be adjusted according to requirements
by means of thumb screws & which work in suitable nuts provided in or on the
shanks of the clips.
The device when in use is held by one or the other of handle. pieces a¹ with one
hand while the other hand passes the razor or other blade between the working surface
of coverings c, the back of the blade being first introduced and the edge turned
slightly in an upward or downward direction as the case may be, in order to bring
it into working contact with the prepared leather surfaces.
Maving now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim
is :
A new or improved sharpening strop for razors and other keen blades, consist-
ing of boards or plates a, resilient plates b, coverings c, and adjustable clips s,
combined and arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth and illus-
trated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 22nd day of Sept. 1897.
HUGHES ELI & HUGHES
76, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., for the Applicant.