An Improved Strop for Sharpening Razors or other Cutting Instruments.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 3rd July, 1896-Accepted, 12th Sept., 1896
PROVIDIUNAL QUOTEVATION
An Improved Strop for Sharpening Razors or other Cutting
Instruments.
I, WILLIAM HERBERT WILLIAMS of 96 Newhall Street Birmingham in the County
of Warwick, Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to bo as
follows
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My invention has for its object an improvement in strops for sharpening iazois or
other cutting instruments whereby
1st. The strap or substance upon which the razor is sharpened is held in suspension,
thus usuring greater elasticity than by the usual method in which the pad or
substance upon which the razor is sharpened is por manently affixed to and forms part
of the body of the strop.
2nd A leather band is loosely fixed to the strop and is easily placed in position
by means of an adjustable support, and tightened as required, and being released
the whole strop can be folded up into a small compass, thus securing portability
3rd The band for sharpening is made of leather or any similar substance
Dated this Seventeenth day of October 1895.
An Improved Strop for Sharpening Razors or other Cutting
Instruments
I, WILLIAM HERBert Williams of 96, Newhall Street, Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manuer the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement.
My invention relates to an improvement in strops of the suspended strap type
whereby the band of leather or other suitable material is held taut on a baseboard
and released by a movable hinged bridge or stretcher situated beneath it near its end
or ends.
According to my invention the band or strap of leather or other suitable material
18 clamped by means of a plate and sciews to both ends of a flat baseboard or holder,
made preferably of wood and shaped at one end to form a handle.
Near either or both ends of this baseboard or holder is attached the bridge or
stretcher for tightening the strap. The said bridge or stretcher consists of a small
flat piece of metal having a long horizontal slot in its upper part, the lower part
being cut away in such manner as to leave a broad portion of solid metal
immediately beneath the said slot and narrow portions on each side of itself, which
latter, having been drilled and given a half twist to present their flat surface to the
edge of the baseboard, are screwed securely but loosely thereto, so that the bridge
18 free to be moved in an upward and circular direction only. It is obvious that
this bridge or stretcher might be modified in design without departing from the
essential features of my invention. For instance, the slot through which the strap

page_text: passes might be done away with altogether and its place supplied by a roller on a
pin or spindle in which case the strap would of course pass over and upon the said
roller. In order to render strops of this type more portable, I hinge the baseboard
thereof in one or more sections in such manner that the strop may be doubled of
folded back upon itself
I will now proceed to describe my invention with reference to the accompanying
drawings, in which
Figure 1 shows the strop fitted with two bridges, a binged baseboard, and fixed
up ready for use, Figure 2 shows the same folded and closed up,
Figure 3 shows a strop with a baseboard fitted with only one bridge and without
any joint on hinge in the baseboard.
A 19 the baseboard hinged at E, B the bridges, C the strap, and D the plates which
clamp the strap to the baseboard A recess cut in the baseboard at A¹ forms a
shoulder against which the bridge can rest when raised beyond the vertical position,
which is desirable, as the bridge cannot then ship back during the process of stopping
Having now particularly described and ascertamed the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim 15:
1. In a
1azor strop of the type heroin 10ferred to a bridge or stretcher for
tightening the strap binged or pivoted at its lower end to the baseboard and containing
a horizontal slot or rolle near its upper end through or over which the strap passes
as herein described and set forth
2. In a razoi strop of the type herein referred to providing the baseboard
thereof with one or more hinges constructed to enable the strop to be folded upon
itself as and for the purpose herein described and set forth.
3. In a razor strop of the type herein referred to the combination and arrangement
of the various parts substantially as herein described and shown.
Dated the 3rd day of July 1896
BENJN. KING,
Registered Patent Agent,
For T. B. Browne, Limited,
Agents.