Yes, yes it is. But then again, so is a regular three piece double edge blade for most people.
Locks the blade safe – in metal. has to be important, since they repeat it three times in thirty seconds.
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Category Archives: History
It’s your face – let Schick love it!
Delightfully seventies… and short too.
Uranium Glass Hone for Safety Razor Blades
Thanks to razors.click, I recently learned that in early 1930 Mr Joseph Richard Lillicrap filed a patent application for a uranium glass hone for razor blades. And while we may both wonder why you would hone a blade, and freak out a bit over, y’know, uranium in the bathroom… well, let me try to explain.
Continue readingYet another way to to make adjustable razors
There is more than one way to skin a cat. In the same vein, there is more than one way to make adjustable razors. As I mentioned last week, you can change the distance between the top cap and bottom plate. You can change the blade curvature. Or you can more the guard back and forth. This last option seems to have been a minor obsession of the Warner Lambert Co. – because in addition to the patent by Peter Bowman and Ernest F Kiraly assigned to Warner Lambert, I found a slightly earlier patent by Mr Leopold K Kuhnl that is also assigned to Warner Lambert. And it is adjustable in the same manner, but differs in the details.
Continue readingAnother way to make an adjustable safety razor
There are a couple of common ways to make an adjustable safety razor. You can change the distance between the top cap and bottom plate, like the Gillette adjustable razors do. You can change the blade curvature, as done in the Rockwell and others. Or you can opt for the much less common idea of moving the guard back and forth, like J E Fuller’s 1890 patent hints at.
It was this less common way of doing things that features in Peter Bowman and Ernest F Kiraly’s patented adjustable safety razor. The application was filed in 1974, and granted the year after. The most novel thing is how adjustability was controlled.
Continue readingStaats-Oels’ two blade double edged slant
In 1926 Rudolph C G Staats-Oels filed a patent for an improvement in safety razors. I’m not sure how much of an improvement it was. It was certainly novel, by the standards of the day. For starters, it was a slant. Or as the patent put it, it had a head:
Continue reading…wherein the transverse curvature of the blade will be gradually increased from one end toward the other thereof.
From US patent 1,633,139
Bismarck razor – another museum wedge razor
Still poking around on digitalmuseum.no1 I found a much less workmanlike wedge razor than the previous one that I shared with you. Named the Bismarck razor, after the German statesman, the razor is mentioned in Waits’ Compendium.
Continue readingA simple wedge razor
Museums have started making their collections available online. And as I was browsing digitalmuseum.no – a common digital platform for a lot of Norwegian museums – I ran across a nice and simple wedge razor. Always a sucker for shaving oddities, I poked around a bit more.
Continue readingThe ideal gift – anno 1941
The more things change, the more they stay the same… like bad ties, razors are a recurring suggested ideal gift for the man or father in your life. So it is today, so it was in 1959, and so it was in war torn 1941.
Continue readingGod Jul, Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, Frohe Weihnachten, and so on and so forth
Norwegians, being a sensible people, have the big Yuletime celebration on Christmas Eve. So before I eat myself into a food coma and opens presents with my family, allow me to wish you all the very best for the midwinter holiday – or midsummer, for those south of the equator – with this Australian 1959 Gillette Christmas commercial:
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