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US 8,065,802 B2Granted
Shaving razor
AssigneeThe Gillette Company
InventorsOliver David Oglesby, Sean Peter Clarke, Terence Gordon Royle, Luke Richard Stone, Laurence John Robinson, John James Wlassich
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Abstract
A shaving razor has a housing joined to a handle, one or more blades mounted in the housing and a light source. The light source projects a defined image indicating the exact location of a blade edge on the skin of a user enabling the user to properly align the blade edge on the skin during shaving.
Claims10
A shaving razor comprising:
- a handle having a light source powered by a power source;
- a cartridge detachably joined to the handle;
- a plurality of first blades mounted on the cartridge, each of the plurality of first blades having a cutting edge on a first side of the cartridge;
- a trimmer blade mounted on the cartridge, the trimmer blade having a cutting edge on a second side of the cartridge, opposite the first side of the cartridge;
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- a reflective surface located on a top surface of the cartridge just below the cutting edge of the trimming blade, wherein the light source projects an image onto the reflective surface, the reflective surface reflecting the image onto a user's skin resulting in a line segment being projected indirectly onto the user's skin indicating the location of the cutting edge of the trimming blade enabling proper alignment of the cutting edge of the trimming blade during shaving.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.