Apparatus for manufacturing support members for razor blades
AssigneeThe Gillette Comany
InventorsRobert Wilson, Laurence Robert Beesley, Robert H. Flanagan
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Abstract
A razor blade construction is manufactured of a thin element of blade stock forming the cutting edge portion which is welded or otherwise attached to a more rigid support member. A plurality of support members are produced from a coil of flat sheet material by a cutting and forming process, each of the supports being retained at its edge to an adjacent support to provide a coil of blade supports. The coil of supports is then fed into a device for severing each support from the coil and registering it with a blade element for attachment thereto.
Claims7
Apparatus for the manufacture of support members for razor blades, each razor blade having a cutting edge portion and an elongated support member, said apparatus comprising:
- means for feeding an elongated strip of sheet material in roll form along a path into a work station;
- said work station comprising die means for contacting said strip of sheet material solely at opposite edges of the strip of sheet material;
- a punch member disposed in a first position adjacent one surface of said strip of sheet material for movement through the strip of sheet material to a second position to sever a support member from between the opposite edges of the strip of sheet material;
- track means disposed adjacent said work station;
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- means for forcing said severed support member in a direction transverse to the path of feed of said elongated strip and depositing said support member onto said track.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.