An Improved Razor Strop.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, pry
Complete Specification Left, 4th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 16th Feb., 1895
An Improved Razor Strop.
GEORGE ALBERT WARD 64 Chesterfield Road, Heeley, near Sheffield
Derbyshire Cabinet Case and Razor Strop Maker do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
The article consists of a strap of leather, canvas or other suitable material, a
frame of metal with one end convex and a counterpart of this convex end made to
slide upon the frame and a handle of wood or other suitable material with a screw
firmly fixed in the centre, and in carrying out my invention I adopt the following
method of making it.
I cut the material for the strap of any required width and length then join the
ends making it into an endless band and after damping the leather, press it into
convex form. I then make the frame previously referred to, one end of which is
shaped convex form as desired-the counterpart of this has a screwed hole through
the centre and is fitted to slide on the aforesaid frame-on the handle end of the
frame is a metal bolster or stay firmly fixed and forming part of the frame with a
plain hole through the centre. I then make three holes in the strap and place it in
position over the convex end & its sliding counterpart. I then put the screw
which is fixed in the handle through the plain hole in the bolster or stay forming
part of the frame--through the centre hole in the strap and into the screwed hole
in the centre of the sliding counterpart of the convex end previously referred to-
and by means of the handle and screw I stretch the strap quite taught over the
convex end and its sliding counterpart-when stretched the strap is for its whole
length and on two sides the shape of the supporting convex ends and I ask that
protection be granted to me for an improved razor strop with convex surface made
in the manner herein described.
Dated this Sixth day of April 1894.
1, GEORGE ALBERT WARD, of 64, Chesterfield Road, Heeley, near Sheffield,
in the County of Derby, Cabinet Case and Razor Strop Maker, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved razor strop of the kind in which a strap of
leather, canvas or other suitable material is stretched around one end of a frame
and around a plate sliding upon the said frame and adjusted thereon in order to
regulate the tension of the strap by means of a screw to which the handle of the
strop is fixed.
According to my invention 1 make the stropping surfaces of convex shape in
transverse section and I effect this by making the fixed plate on the frame and
the corresponding plate sliding on the frame of a somewhat oval or double convex
form.

page_text: To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figure 1 is an elevation of a strop constructed according to my invention:
Figure 2 is an edge view of the same :
Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3, Figure 2; and,
Figure 4 is a section on the line 4-4, Figure 1.
The frame of the strop consists of two longitudinal bars a, b having fixed to them
at one end the plate and carrying at the other end the removable plate e.
f is the plate which slides upon the bars a, b, and g is the screw by means of
which the said plate is adjusted, the said screw being fixed to the handle h of the
strop and being passed through a hole in the plate c and into a screw-threaded hole
in the sliding plate f
i is the strap or band of leather or other material which is passed around the
plates eas herein before stated. The plates e, f are made of a double convex
form so that when the leather is tightly strained over the said plates it will have
corresponding convex stropping surfaces as shewn clearly in Figure 4.
I prefer to make the strap as follows, that is to say, I take a piece of material of
the required length and width and join the ends together making it into an endless
band;
I then damp the material and press it in suitable moulds in order to give it
the required form, and I finally form three holes through one end to allow the
passage of the rods a, b of the frame and of the screw g.
In applying this band to the frame I first remove the plates e, f from the frame
and then pass the rods a, b through the corresponding holes in the end or bight of
the leather 1 next place the plate f upon the rods and then the plate e; the frame
is then tightened up by turning the screw g within the plate ƒ by means of the
handle h.
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 :-
1. A strop of the kind described having convex stropping surfaces as set forth.
2. The manufacture and use of the improved strop with convex stropping
surfaces herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 4th day of January 1895.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.