Improvements in or connected with Razor Strops and in Paste or Composition to be Employed therewith, the said Paste being also Applicable to Ordinary Strops.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Aug., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 26th June, 1890-Accepted, 26th July, 1890
⚫ PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Razor Strops and in Paste or
Composition to be Employed therewith, the said Paste being also
Applicable to Ordinary Strops.
I FREDERICK GRANT of 164
Queen Victoria Street in the City of London
Hairdresser do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to make a strop and paste so that when a razor is
stropped thereon in the ordinary way the edge of the razor will be far keener than
when stropped on an ordinary strop.
According to this invention I make the strop of leather or other suitable material
with a number of perforations indentations or channels therein and I pass over the
said strop the composition hereafter described so as to fill the holes or indentations
in order to form the foundation adding to this portion of the composition liquid
glue.
The aforesaid composition consists of a mixture of oil liquid gum resin crokus wax
oxide of tin white lead red lead or other suitable oxides all in about equal proportions
with the exception of the oil of which I put about double the amount of the other
ingredients, and the oxide of tin of which I put about one sixty-fourth part of the
whole.
The white and red lead can be dispensed with by adding an extra quantity of
crokus.
The paste may be used with ordinary strops and will be found better than any
paste at present employed but will be far better when used with a strop made according
to this invention.
By stropping a razor on a strop supplied with a composition as above the edge will
be kept perfectly keen.
Dated this 27th day of August 1889.
BROWNE & Co.,
9 & 10, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Razor Strops and in Paste or
Composition to be Employed therewith, the said Paste being also
Applicable to Ordinary Strops.
I FREDERICK GRANT of 1644 Queen Victoria Street in the City of London
Hairdresser 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 to make a strop and paste so that when a razor is
stropped thereon in the ordinary way the edge of the razor will be far keener than
when stropped on an ordinary strop.
According to this invention I make the strop of leather or other suitable material
with a number of perforations indentations or channels therein and I pass over the
said strop the composition hereafter described so as to fill the holes or indentations
in order to form the foundation adding to this portion of the composition liquid
glue.
The aforesaid composition consists of a mixture of oil liquid gum resin crokus,
wax, oxide of tin, white lead, red lead or other suitable oxides all in about equal
proportions with the exception of the oil of which I put about double the amount of

page_text: the other ingredients and the oxide of tin of which I put about one sixty-fourth
part of the whole.
The strop may be made double the upper surface having the paste on it and I may
have a material in between the two to prevent the paste passing through.
The white and red lead can be dispensed with by adding an extra quantity of
crokus.
The paste may be used with ordinary strops and will be found better than any
paste at present employed but will he far better when used with a strop made
according to this invention.
By stropping a razor on a strop supplied with a composition as above the edge will
be kept perfectly keen.
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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 -
I. In razor strops the perforations indentations or channels substantially as and for
the purpose specified.
II. The composition manufactured of the ingredients hereinbefore specified.
Dated this 26th day of June 1890.