A MODE OF MAKING OR CASTING RAZORS IN A NEW AND IMPROVED FORM
Year: 1804

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, J, SAMUEL
BENNETT, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Cutler, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twentieth day of
October, in the forty-fourth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the
said Samuel Bennett, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence that
I, the said Samuel Bennett, my exors, admors, and assigns, during the term
of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "A MODE OF MAKING OR CASTING RAZORS IN A NEW AND IMPROVED
FORM;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me,
the said Samuel Bennett, by an instrument in writing under my band and
seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately
after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Samuel Bennett, do declare that I describe and ascertain my said Invention
in manner following, that is to say:-
The principle of my said Invention consists in a ring or bow, or segment of

page_text: a ring or bow, or hollow part formed at or applied to the lower or tang end
of the razor blade, into which a finger may be introduced or may be applied
thereto, so as to steady and command the instrument in the operation of
shaving or using the same. The razor blade may be made or cast of steel,
or of iron and steel combined, or such other materials as are usual or can
be employed for that purpose, and the ring or bow, or segment of a ring
or bow, or hollow part, may be formed either of the same materials as the
blade of the razor,
or some part thereof, and may be forged with and be a
part of the instrument; or be formed of brass, iron, ivory, horn, wood, or
any other material, and be fixed or fastened thereto, so as to be immoveable
therefrom, or may be moveable or independant, and so as to be affixed at
pleasure by means of a spring, screw, or in such other way as may be
thought fit to effect the purpose of uniting the same for the operation of
shaving or using the instrument; or such ring or bow, or segment of a ring
or bow, or hollow part may be formed or made of iron, steel, ivory, wood,
horn, or any other material, to be moveable or independant of the blade, and
affixed thereto at pleasure by the means aforesaid, and which said ring or
bow, or segment of a ring or bow, or hollow part, to be placed or used, as
above described, may be either in the forms delineated in the margin hereof,
or one of them, or in any other form that may appear to be better calculated
for the purpose intended, and will render a haft or scales, such as are usually
put to razors, unnecessary, by serving in the use of the razor for steadying and
commanding the same by means of the finger introduced into or applied to
such ring or bow, or segment of a ring or bow, or hollow part; and the said
ring or bow, or segment of a ring or bow, or hollow part, may be applied to
a razor with one or with two edges, and to the edge or edges may be applied
a guard or slide, so as to preserve the edge or edges on putting the razor
into a case or sheath; and in the case of a razor with two edges, such guard
might remain on one edge whilst using the other in the operation of shaving
or using the instrument, to preserve the hand.
And for better understanding my said Invention, I have shewn in the
margin hereof the Figure of the lower part of a razor having a ring or bow
thereto, see Figure I.; and another Figure of the lower part of a razor having
a segment of a ring or bow, or hollow part thereto, see Figuro 2; and also
Figures of guards applicable to the said razor; one being of the inside (see
Figure 3), and the other of the outside of a guard (Figure 4), and which said
Figures are given by way of illustration of my said Invention; the principle
of which Invention, being the said ring or bow, or segment of a ring or bow,
or hollow part, applied or to be applied to or formed at the lower or tang end

page_text: of the razor blade, is applicable to razors variously formed in other respects
but only having at or belonging to the lower or tang end thereof a ring or
bow, or segment of a ring or bow, or hollow part, and of whatever materials
the same razors may be made or cast.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Bennett, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and four.