Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 7th June, 1887.
_ Complete Left, 12th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 16th Sept., 1887.
ALBERT RUSBRIDGER WONHAM Staff Commander R.N. 6 Victoria Road N. Southsea,
Hants, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The frame of the strop is of No. 8 guage iron wire in one piece.
A wooden roller at each end suspends the leather strop 18 in. broad.
The rollers 1 in. in diameter of hard wood have a slot across to admit the wires,
cut diagonally to prevent them working out except when the rollers are canted off
the square.
Two pins, in one of the rollers secure the inner end of the leather belt which after
being passed round the other roller and hauled taut, is secured by slipping the eyelets
over the before mentioned pins which serve for both purposes.
By applying a gentle pressure on the frame, the belt can be put on with considerable
tightness and on taking the pressure off, the wire frame resumes its former shape and
keeps the belt taut.
By the combined action of the flexible wire, flexible leather, and moveable rollers,
all of which have a certain amount of spring in them when the strop is in use,
constitutes it a roller, flexible strop.
All the parts are interchangeable and the leather easily replaced when worn out.
Additional eyelets are provided for shortening up the belt when it has stretched.
Simplicity and inexpensiveness is claimed.

page_text: Strop for Sharpening Razors and Surgical Instruments.
I, ALBERT RUSBRIDGER WONHAM Staff Commander Royal Navy 6 Victoria Road N.
Southsea Hants, 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 :-
The object of this invention is by a novel method to produce a strop for sharpening
razors and surgical instruments all parts of which shall be flexible.
The frame of the strop, as C of the drawing left with the Provisional Specification,
is made of No. 8 gauge iron or steel wire in one piece.
A wooden roller at each end suspends the leather strop, which is 1ĝ in. broad.
The rollers A, A, A and A of drawings as left with the Provisional Specification,
1 in. in diameter, one for each end of the strop, have raised edges to prevent the
leather strop from slipping off.
The rollers have also a slot across to admit the wires of the frame, cut diagonally,
as E, E and E' of drawing, left with Provisional Specification, to prevent thein
from working out except when canted off the square.
Two pins, as D of drawings left with Provisional Specification, in one of the rollers
secure the inner end of the leather strop, which has eyelet holes at each end to provide
for shortening up when the leather has stretched by usc.
The leather strop, as B of drawings left with Provisional Specification, is then
passed along the frame over and under the other roller and back to the same pius, the
eyelets being slipped over them, thus securing both ends of the leather.
By applying a gentle pressure on the wire frame, causing the wires at the sides to
bulge out, the leather strop can be put on with considerable tightness.
When the pressure is removed, the frame resumes its proper form and keeps the
leather strop tight.
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,
:-
Firstly That by the combined use of a flexible iron or steel wire frame, a flexible
leather strop, and moveable rollers at each end, I produce a truly flexible razor strop.
Second That when in use, the wire springs, the leather gives, more or less, and
the rollers move backwards and forwards, on their axes, at each stroke of the razor,
and so to speak, the whole of the strop gives and takes with a spring, having no fixed
point as in the case of a strop mounted on wood or suspended at one end and held
with the hand at the other.
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Awst 1887
ALBERT RUSBRIDGER WONHAM,
Staff Commander, R.N.