In the same year George Schmidt patented his shaving brush container, William Edward Lake secured a patent on behalf of the Colgate Company for an improvements in cakes of shaving soaps. An improvement that, if the claims are taken at face value, would make the cakes of soaps more secure both in shipment and in the shaving mug.
Continue readingContinuing on the theme of antiseptic and hygienic shaving brushes, today we have George A Schmidt’s shaving brush container. Schmidt held several patents, most of them on soap dispensers. So it is perhaps not a big surprise that his shaving brush container was also meant to contain some of his own antiseptic soap.
Continue readingAntiseptic – like hygienic, sanitary, aseptic, and disposable – is a word that keeps popping up in patent descriptions of shaving gear. This seem to have been especially prevalent in the first half of the last century, before the discovery of penicillin and other effective antibiotics made a cut or a nick more of a nuisance than a real threat to life and health. Today’s patent for an antiseptic shaving brush was filed by Aron Braunstein and Angel Rattiner back in early 1905.
Continue readingJust a reminder that today is the day for the Thanksgiving Giveaway!
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Thanksgiving is soon upon us – well, upon the people living in the US at least. And for no good reason at all I figured that a Thanksgiving giveaway was just the thing.
Continue readingSome razors are all edge and no point. Ferdinando Pasquale Musso’s cylindrical safety razor is arguable one of them. Even if Mr Musso did have a point with his invention. In the words of the patent;
Continue readingA razor of this type has the advantage that it will produce a a fast clean shave whether the beard is long or short, and can be moved over the face in any direction with equal effectiveness.
From US patent 2,598,711
Last year for Halloween, I wrote about the patent for the Crime Skeleton.
And now I learned that someone built it a couple of years ago and put it on YouTube…
Continue readingOne of the first things I had to learn – or rather unlearn – when I started using a traditional safety razor was the use of pressure on the razor. A shaver using a plastic cartridge razor will often press it against their skin. A shaver using a traditional safety razor will most often apply as little pressure as possible. It is, after all, the edge of the blade that does the work. You don’t need to remove the top layer of skin as well…
Continue readingA little bit back we discussed an easy clamp safety razor. In that post I mentioned that the inventor had at least one other safety razor patent in his name. And funnily enough that other razor was also patented in Denmark, which is a language I can easily understand… so today I present John’s patent for a barbermaskine – or shaving machine, for those who don’t speak Scandinavian.
Continue readingWhen you go to a barbershop, you want the tools used to be clean. In the days before antibiotics, you really wanted the tools used to be clean. Which is why there are so many patent for antiseptic utensils for barbers. From simple disposable cups, via more complete outfits, to shiny glass and brass contraptions. What sets Henry Rosenthal’s antiseptic utensil apart from the others is that he filed his patent before the big shaving brush anthrax scare.
Henry also did one better than many inventors by not using a paper cup. And he did one worse to himself when it came to the brush… More on that later.
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