Method of Shaping a Surface Coating on a Razor Blade
AssigneeEdgewell Personal Care Brands, LLC
InventorsTimothy Doyle, Tomasz Hejmowski, Massimo Nyiry, David Tressel, Yiming Xu
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Abstract
A method for shaping a coating on a razor blade, and a razor blade produced using the aforesaid method, are provided. The method includes the steps of a) providing a razor blade having a tip end defined by at least one tip surface and a cutting edge; b) applying a surface coating having a first thickness on at least one tip surface; and c) shaping the surface coating on the at least one tip surface to have a second thickness using a fluid stream, which second thickness is less than the first thickness.
Claims31
A method for shaping a coating on a razor blade, comprising the steps of:
- providing a razor blade having a tip end defined by at least one tip surface and a cutting edge;
- applying a surface coating having a first thickness on at least one tip surface;
- and
- shaping the applied surface coating on the at least one tip surface to have a second thickness using a fluid stream, which second thickness is less than the first thickness.
A method for shaping a coating on a razor blade, comprising the steps of:
- providing a stack of razor blades, each razor blade having a tip end defined by at least one tip surface and a cutting edge, wherein all the razor blades within the stack are arranged with the tip ends disposed on one side of the stack, and wherein each razor blade has an applied surface coating having a first thickness applied on the at least one tip surface;
- disposing the stack of razor blades within a fixture;
- and
- shaping the applied surface coating on the at least one tip surface of each razor blade to have a second thickness using a fluid stream, which second thickness is less than the first thickness.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.