Shaving apparatus
OwnerWilliam L. Torranceinventor
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Abstract
A razor has a handle which holds a pair of double-edged blades enclosed by a cartridge member, by means of a fexible yoke having cartridge engaging hooks on each of its yoke arms. Dimple bearing means located on each side of the cartridge keep the yoke hooks in engagement with the cartridge. A central rod holding the yoke bears against an upturned end of a razor handle and acts to spread the yoke arms in loading and unloading the cartridge onto the yoke hooks. The rod holds the yoke and cartridge assembly in either a rigid posture or with allowance for a free float of the cartridge on the pivot bearings of the hooks in the dimples by means of a tooth on the rod in ratchet-like engagement with various slots formed in the handle adjacent the path of travel of the push rod to and from contact with the upturned end of the razor body.
Claims3
A razor assembly comprising in combination:
- a handle member having a spoon-like end thereon;
- an upturned wall fomed perpendicular to said handle at said end;
- a double-edged pair of parallely apart blade members enclosed in a cartridge means exposing the blades for use therefrom and having in said cartridge a pair of oppositely spaced sides adjacent the blade edges;
- bearing means situate at the mid-pont of each of said sides;
- a Y-shaped spring yoke member adjustably situated within the spoon-like cavity of said handle end;
- said Y-shaped yoke comprising two arm members, each having inwardly facing hooks on the ends thereof adapted to mate with the bearings of said cartridge when the yoke arms are sprung outwardly over the cartridge by the pressure of the inside of each yoke arm against the wall at the handle end;
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- a push rod integrally formed with the leg of said Y-shaped yoke and reciprocally moveable within an aperture in said handle to and from contact with said wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.