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US 5,915,791 AGranted
Shaving system with improved guard structure
AssigneeThe Gillette Company
InventorsYuling Yin, Alfred Porcaro, Mingchih Michael Tseng, Philip John Sweeney
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Abstract
A shaving system that includes a housing, one or more blades mounted on the housing, a cap behind the blades on the housing, and a guard structure in front of the blades on the housing, the guard structure including flexible skin-engaging protrusions that engage a user's skin in front of the blades and a water leachable shaving aid composite positioned to deliver a shaving aid to the skin behind the flexible skin-engaging protrusions.
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A shaving system comprising
- a housing,
- one or more blades mounted on said housing,
- a cap behind said blades on said housing, and
- a guard structure in front of said blades on said housing,
- said guard structure including a plurality of flexible skin-engaging protrusions to engage a user's skin in front of said blades and a water leachable shaving aid composite positioned to deliver a shaving aid to said skin behind said flexible skin-engaging protrusions and in front of said one or more blades, wherein said water leachable shaving aid is directly mounted on said housing.
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A shaving system comprising
- a housing,
- one or more blades mounted on said housing,
- a cap behind said blades on said housing, and
- a guard structure in front of said blades on said housing,
- said guard structure including a plurality of flexible skin-engaging protrusions to engage a user's skin in front of said blades and a water leachable shaving aid composite positioned to deliver a shaving aid to said skin behind said flexible skin-engaging protrusions and in front of said one or more blades,
- wherein said guard structure includes a rigid base that is anchored in said housing, and said flexible skin-engaging protrusions are on a flexible material component mounted on said rigid base,
- wherein said water leachable shaving aid is directly mounted on said housing.
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A shaving system comprising
- a housing,
- one or more blades mounted on said housing,
- a cap behind said blades on said housing, and
- a guard structure in front of said blades on said housing,
- said guard structure including a plurality of flexible skin-engaging protrusions to engage a user's skin in front of said blades and a water leachable shaving aid composite positioned to deliver a shaving aid to said skin behind said flexible skin-engaging protrusions and in front of said one or more blades,
- wherein said flexible skin-engaging protrusions are directly connected to said housing by two-color injection molding.
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A shaving system comprising
- a housing,
- one or more blades mounted on said housing,
- a cap behind said blades on said housing, and
- a guard structure in front of said blades on said housing,
- said guard structure including a first water leachable shaving aid composite positioned to deliver a shaving aid to said skin in front of said one or more blades,
- said cap including a second water leachable shaving aid composite positioned to deliver a shaving aid to said skin behind said one or more blades,
- said first and second water leachable shaving aid composites having a respective first and second usage indicators, where said first and second usage indicators have different rates of change in appearance as a function of usage.
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