Razor Guard
Patent US757656
Invention Razor
Filed Friday, 16th October 1903
Published Tuesday, 19th April 1904
Inventor John Guinan
Language English
CPC Classification:B26B21/02
- B26B21/02
Razors of the open or knife type; Safety razors or other shaving implements of the planing type; Hair-trimming devices involving a razor-blade; Equipment therefor involving unchangeable blades - B
Performing Operations; Transporting - B26
Hand Cutting Tools; Cutting; Severing - B26B
Hand-Held Cutting Tools Not Otherwise Provided For - B26B21/00
Razors of the open or knife type; Safety razors or other shaving implements of the planing type; Hair-trimming devices involving a razor-blade; Equipment therefor
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To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, John Guinan, a citizen of the United States, residing at Woodhaven, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Razors, of which the following is a specification.
A razor in the hands of one skilled in its use may be successfully and effectively wielded under normal conditions, but when traveling the unsteady motion of the carrier, vessel, or car renders the use of the razor unsafe and dangerous. Aged and nervous persons and beginners are liable to inflict injury to themselves when using the razor for shaving.
This invention provides a razor and safety attachment which may be used jointly and which will enable the razor to be used without the safeguard, the latter being constructed to hold firm upon the razor when applied thereto and adapted to be readily reversed from one side to the other and to be easily attached to or removed from the razor, as required.
The invention consists of the novel structural features and combinations of parts, which hereinafter will be more particularly described and claimed, and illustrated in the drawings hereto attached, in which corresponding parts are designated by the same reference-numerals in all the views.
Referring to the drawings,
The razor comprises the blade
The reduced portion
The guard-bar
The inner or rear end of the guard
Any means may be employed for pressing the lower ends of the clamp members
Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is—
1. In combination with a razor, a safety attachment comprising a guard, a clamp at the inner end of the guard, a lever for tightening the clamp and provided with ears to embrace opposite sides of the shank of the razor, and means for securing the outer end of the guard to the razor-blade, substantially as set forth.
2. In combination with a razor, a safety attachment comprising a guard, a clamp at the inner end of the guard, a lever for tightening the clamp and provided with ears to embrace opposite sides of the shank of the razor, an interlocking projection between said lever and shank to prevent relative longitudinal displacement of the guard, and means for securing the guard at its outer end to the blade of the razor, substantially as specified.
3. In combination with a razor having a portion of its shank of polygonal form in cross-section, a guard, a clamp at the inner end of the guard composed of jaws oppositely deflected between their ends to embrace upper, lower and opposite side portions of said polygonal portion of the shank, and means for securing the outer end of the guard to the blade, substantially as set forth.
4. In combination, a razor having a portion of its shank reduced and of polygonal form in cross-section, a safety attachment comprising a clamp composed of jaws oppositely deflected between their ends to embrace upper, lower and opposite side portions of the polygonal portion of the shank and conforming to the faces thereof, and having the ends of the jaws abutting against the shoulders formed at the ends of said polygonal portion, and means for securing the outer end of the guard to the blade of the razor, substantially as set forth.
5. A safety attachment for razors comprising a guard consisting of spaced members connected at intervals and having portions projected from opposite sides to properly space the guard from either side of the blade, substantially as set forth.
6. In a safety attachment for razors, a guard comprising spaced longitudinal members and intermediate connecting portions, the latter being deflected to form projections at opposite sides of the guard to properly space the same from either side of the blade, substantially as set forth.
7. In a safety attachment for razors, a guard comprising a strip having a series of elongated openings formed therein to provide spaced parallel members and intermediate connecting portions, the latter being alternately deflected from the plane of the strip to form spacing projections at opposite sides of the guard, substantially as set forth.
In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.
John Guinan. [l. s.]
Witnesses:
Elizabeth V. Guinan,
John J. Byrnes.