IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH RAZOR STROPS to be as follows,
Year: 1884

page_text: I, ALEXANDER DEY, of 11 Douglas Terrace, Broughty Ferry, in the County of
Forfar, North Britain, H. M. Inspector of Schools do hereby declare the nature of
my said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH RAZOR STROPS
to be as follows, that is to say :-
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My said Invention has for its object to facilitate the operation of stropping a
razor and to render the same expeditious and efficient.
In carrying out my Invention I fix pieces of leather or other suitablo stropping
material in spiral forms upon the inner faces of two disks of wood or other suitable
material, these disks being adjustably fixed on an axle or shaft carried by a frame
and provided with a winch handle for turning it by. The razor is inserted between
the disks and the stropping material is arranged on them so as to act alternately
on opposite sides of the razor, and so as to commence acting at the heel and finish
at the point the latter being nearer. the axle. Instead of complete disks arms of
spiral form may be used.
The razor to be stropped is placed with its shank in two clips, which grip it
firmly, and which are upon a holder formed with a spindle arranged in a bearing
or bearings in a rigid frame. The spindle is in the continuation of a line which
passes along the blade and the holder can rock on the spindle to a slight extent
controlled by springs which tend to keep it in a middle position. The rigid frame
by which the holder is carried is also made movable upon hinges or centres and its
movement is controlled by springs.
When the stropping piece on one side comes into action it first bears on the
thick back of the razor blade and causes the holder and razor to rock on the spindle
so as to bring the razor edge close to the stropping surface; and at the samo time
the rigid frame also yields laterally, but without allowing the razor blade to
deviate more at its point than at any other part, and the spring acting on the rigid
frame regulates the pressure with which the stropping material acts.
Dated this tenth day of November 1884
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.

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I ALEXANDER DEY of 11 Douglas Terrace Broughty Ferry in the County of
Forfar North Britain, H. M. Inspector of Schools, do hereby declare the nature of
my said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH RAZOR STROPS,"
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say :-
My said Invention has for its object to facilitate the operation of stropping a
razor and to render the same expeditious and efficient.
In carrying out my Invention I fix pieces of leather or other suitable stropping.
material in spiral forms upon the inner faces of two disks of wood or other suitablo
material these disks being adjustably fixed on an axle or shaft carried by a frame
and provided with a winch handle for turning it by. The razor is inserted between
the disks and the stropping material is arranged on them so as to act alternately
on opposite sides of the razor, and so as to cominence acting at the heel and finish
at the point the latter being nearer the axle. Instead of complete disks arms of
spiral form may be used.
My improved apparatus is shown upon an accompanying sheet of explanatory
drawings, figure, 1, being a plan, figure, 2, a side elevation, whilst figure, 3, is an
enlarged section showing the parts by which the razor is held.
On a sole or stand, 4, there are fixed two standards, 5, made with bearings for a
short shaft or spindle, 6, which has fixed on it a handle, 7, for turning it by, and
which carries the two stropping pieces, 8. These stropping pieces, 8, are made in
a spiral form of wood or other suitable material covered with leather on their inner
acting surfaces, a layer of rubber or other yielding material being by preference
interposed between the leather and the wood. Each stropping piece, 8, is con-
nected by spokes, 9, to a separate boss, 10, and the two bosses are screwed upon the
spindle, 6, one with a right-hand thread and the other with a left-band thread so
that they may be kept equidistant from the middle position whilst being adjustablo
more or less apart from each other on the spindle. When adjusted a pin, 11, is
passed across through holes in the two bosses, 10, and through an arm formed or
fixed on the spindle, and secures the parts in their adjusted positions. There are
two diametrically opposite sets of holes allowing of an adjustment of half a turn or
any multiple thereof.
The razor, 12, to be stropped is held by its shank, 18, by two screw clips, 14,
these clips being nuts screwed upon pins projecting through holes made for them
in the razor shank, 13; another suitable clipping device may however be used.
The clip pins are fixed to or formed on two holding parts, 15, which are loose on
two pins, 16, forming part of a small rigid frame consisting of a bottom bar, 17,
with two end pieces, 18, 19, at right-angles to it. The inner end piece, 18, (shown
in figure, 3) is curved so as not to interfere with the movements of the razor.
pins, 16, are fixed to the extremities of the end pieces 18, 19, of the small frame
and are in line with each other, and might be continuous but for the space required
for the razor haft, 20. When the razor is held as described it can rock on the
pins, 16, the axial line of which coincides with a line extending along the blade at
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page_text: about the middle of its width. A spring, 21, connecting the outer holding part, 15,
to the bottom frame bar, 17, tends to bring back the razor to its middle position
when it is made to rock to either side on the pins, 16. The frame 17, 18, 19, is
centered by means of its bottom bar, 17, in two transverse pieces, 22, 23, fixed
upon a pair of rods, 24, which are themselves fixed to the standards, 5. A blade
spring, 25, fixed to the frame bar, 17, bears on the rods, 24, and applies to the
frame which holds the razor an elastic pressure tending to press that frame towards
its middle position when it is pressed to either side by the stropping pieces, 8, as
they come round. It is this spring, 25, which. determines the main pressure
between the stropping pieces, 8, and the razor, 12, whilst the other spring, 21,
causes the sides of the razor blade to be properly applied to the stropping pieces, 8.
When the stropping piece, 8, on one side comes into action it first bears on the
thick back of the razor blade and causes the holder and razor to rock so as to bring
the razor edge close to the stropping surface; and at the same time the rigid frame
also yields laterally but without allowing the razor blade to devinto more at its point
than at any other part, and the spring, 25, acting on the rigid frame regulates the
pressure with which the stropping material acts.
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
The combination of parts forming the improved razor stropping apparatus
substantially as hereinbefore described.