Improvements in Holders for Razors during Stropping.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Nov., 1898-Accepted, 17th Dec., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Holders for Razors during Stropping.
I, REGINALD HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co., of 18, Buckingham
Street, Strand, W.C., Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion a communication to me from abroad by Mary Zinn, of 672, Hudson Street,
New York City, in the United States of America, Manufacturer, and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:
By means of this device the blades of razors as for example safety razors can
be readily and effectively stropped as set forth in the following specification and
claim and illustrated in the annexed drawing in which Fig. 1 is a plan view of
the strop. Fig. 2 is a section along x Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4 are views like
Fig. 2 with parts in different position than in said Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a section
along y y Fig. 1.
In order to enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention I will
now describe the same in detail, referring to the drawing, wherein the numeral 1
indicates a supporting frame having a handle 2 which is made extensible as
hereinafter explained. An oscillating or rocking bed 3 is mounted on a pivot
or bearing 4 extending from the supporting frame. A holder 5 is adapted to
retain or have slipped there into a blade 6 to be stropped. This blade holder is
actuated or swivelled by the bed. Such bed is provided with teeth 7 formed on
the loop or rack 8 secured to and moving with the bed, said teeth 7 engaging
cogs-9 (Fig. 5) on the shaft or sleeve 10 to which the blade holder 5 or its inner
part 11 (Fig. 1) is clamped or secured.
In Fig. 2 the bed 3 is shown in upright position with the blade holder or
blade over the bed turned upward. As the bed 3 is swung to one side or another
(Fig. 3 or 4) the gears 7 and 9 will move or rock the blade holder and blade to
one side or another from the central or vertical position.
Between the strop bed 3 and blade holder 5 the strop 12 can be inserted. This
strop being suitably held taut and the machine run back and forth, the
friction or contact of the strop on bed 3 will rock the latter back and forth so
that the holder 5 actuated by the bed alternately carries the opposite faces of the
blade to the strop as seen in Figs. 3 and 4. The blade is thus properly stropped.
The plate 1 is shown provided with strop sustainers 14 or suitable rollers or sleeves
rotating on pins extending from the plate in front and to the rear of the bed 3.
The strop is sustained or kept by these rollers 14 smooth and in proper position.
When the parts are free or at rest the bed 3 normally is in central or upright
position or the holder or blade 6 is normally off the strop. A spring 15 holds
or returns the bed to central position. This spring is suitably applied as for
example by being sustained on the bearings of the sleeves 14 and said spring
engages a lip or pin 16 (Fig. 5) on bed 3. The spring 15 pressing this lip or
pins 16 upward will raise or move bed 3 to central position as seen in Fig. 2.
The handle 2 can be made detachable or extensible in any suitable way so
that when not in use it can be moved out of the way to allow the device to be

page_text: compactly stored. In the drawing the plate 1 is shown with tubes or guides 17
through which the handle 2 can be run in and out as indicated by broken and
full lines in Fig. 1.
The strop 12 can be prevented from slipping or running too far toward plate 1
by a suitable stop or shoulder (not shown) applied on base 3 or on the guides 14.
The blade holder it is seen swivels about a fixed axis but does not swing.
At the outer ends of the strop sustainers 14 is shown a cross piece or brace 18
connecting the pins or axle portions of these sustainers.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
1. The combination with a supporting frame, and a pivot or bearing extending
horizontally therefrom, of an oscillating or rocking bed mounted on said pivot
or bearing and over which the razor-strop passes, and an oscillating razor-blade
holder located above said oscillating or rocking bed and operated by a part of the
latter substantially as described.
2. The combination with a supporting frame, and a pivot or bearing extending
horizontally therefrom, of an oscillating or rocking bed mounted on said pivot
or bearing and constructed with a loop having rack teeth, said bed serving to
support the razor-strop which passes thereover, and an oscillating razor blade
holder mounted in the supporting frame and provided with a shaft having cogs
or teeth with which the rack teeth of the loop of the oscillating or rocking bed
engage, for oscillating the razor blade holder when the bed is oscillated or rocked,
substantially as described.
3. The combination with a supporting frame, and a pivot or bearing extending
horizontally therefrom, of an oscillating bed mounted on the pivot and provided
with a lateral pin 16 and a loop shaped rack 8, an oscillating razor blade holder
having a shaft provided with cogs or teeth with which the loop shaped rack of the
Oscillating bed engages, bearings extending from the supporting frame and pro-
vided with sleeves 14, and a curved spring 15 secured at its ends to the bearings
of said sleeves and centrally between its ends bearing against the lateral pin of
the oscillating bed, substantially as and for the purpose described.
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