Razors
AssigneeThe Gillette Company
InventorBernard Gilder
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Abstract
A safety razor including a housing having a connecting structure for making a removable connection to a handle and a pivoting structure providing pivoting about a pivot axis, a guard at the front of the housing, a lubricating strip at the rear of the housing, and first, second, and third blades carried by the housing between the guard and the lubricating strip, such that a user's beard is engaged sequentially by the guard, the first blade, the second blade, the third blade, and the lubricating strip during a shaving stroke, wherein the pivot axis is in front of the blades and below a plane that is tangent to the guard and the lubricating strip.
Claims9
A replaceable safety razor cartridge comprising
- a housing having a connecting structure for making a removable connection to a handle and a pivoting structure providing pivoting about a pivot axis,
- a guard at the front of said housing,
- a lubricating strip at the rear of said housing, and
- first, second, and third blades carried by said housing between said guard and said lubricating strip,
- whereby a user's beard is engaged sequentially by said guard, said first blade, said second blade, said third blade, and said lubricating strip during a shaving stroke, wherein said pivot axis is in front of said blades and below a plane that is tangent to said guard and said lubricating strip,
- wherein each of said blades is disposed in a respective plane that is oriented at an acute blade angle to said plane, and wherein said blades do not overlap each other.
A replaceable safety razor cartridge comprising
- a housing having a connecting structure for making a removable connection to a handle and a pivoting structure providing pivoting about a pivot axis,
- a guard at the front of said housing,
- a lubricating strip at the rear of said housing, and
- first, second, and third blades carried by said housing between said guard and said lubricating strip,
- whereby a user's beard is engaged sequentially by said guard, said first blade, said second blade, said third blade, and said lubricating strip during a shaving stroke, wherein said pivot axis is in front of said blades and below a plane that is tangent to said guard and said lubricating strip,
- wherein each of said blades is mounted on a bent support.
A replaceable safety razor cartridge comprising
- a housing having a connecting structure for making a removable connection to a handle and a pivoting structure providing pivoting about a pivot axis,
- a guard at the front of said housing,
- a lubricating strip at the rear of said housing, and
- first, second, and third blades carried by said housing between said guard and said lubricating strip,
- whereby a user's beard is engaged sequentially by said guard, said first blade, said second blade, said third blade, and said lubricating strip during a shaving stroke, wherein said pivot axis is in front of said blades and below a plane that is tangent to said guard and said lubricating strip,
- wherein each of said blades is mounted on a bent support, each said bent support having a support portion and a base portion, said support portion being oriented at an acute blade angle with respect to said plane, said base portion being generally perpendicular to said plane.
A replaceable safety razor cartridge comprising
- a housing having a connecting structure for making a removable connection to a handle and a pivoting structure providing pivoting about a pivot axis,
- a guard at the front of said housing,
- a lubricating strip at the rear of said housing, and
- first, second, and third blades carried by said housing between said guard and said lubricating strip,
- whereby a user's beard is engaged sequentially by said guard, said first blade, said second blade, said third blade, and said lubricating strip during a shaving stroke, wherein said pivot axis is in front of said blades and below a plane that is tangent to said guard and said lubricating strip,
- wherein said blades are mounted for movement with respect to said plane.
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