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US 8,499,462 B2Granted
Cutting members for shaving razors
AssigneeThe Gillette Company
InventorsWilliam Masek, Matthew J. Guay, Michael J. Bond, Joseph A. DePuydt, Ming Laura Xu
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Abstract
A cutting member for a shaving razor includes an elongated blade portion that tapers to a cutting edge, an elongated base portion that is integral with the blade portion, and a bent portion, intermediate the blade portion and the base portion. In some implementations, at least part of the cutting member has a thickness of at least about 0.005 inch (0.127 millimeter).
Claims15
A cutting member for a shaving razor, the cutting member comprising;
- an elongated blade portion that tapers to a cutting edge, the elongated blade portion being formed from a blade strip having slits with adjoining slots that extend inwardly from the cutting edge wherein the slots are spaced apart by a distance that corresponds to a width of the elongated blade portion;
- an elongated base portion that is integral with the blade portion;
- a bent portion, intermediate the blade portion and the base portion, and wherein at least part of the cutting member has a thickness of at least about 0.005 inch (0.127 millimeter) and wherein the bent portion has an average thickness that is at least about 5 percent less than an average thickness of the base portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.