Kampfe Safety Razor
Patent US358978
Invention Safety-Razor
Filed Tuesday, 19th October 1886
Published Tuesday, 8th March 1887
Inventors Frederick, Otto and Richard Kampfe
Language English
CPC Classification:B26B21/24
- B26B21/24
Safety razors with one or more blades arranged transversely to the handle of the magazine type; of the injector type - 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 - B26B21/08
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 changeable blades - B26B21/14
Safety razors with one or more blades arranged transversely to the handle
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To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that we, Frederick Kampfe, Otto Kampfe, and Richard Kampfe, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Razors, of which the following is a specification.
This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in that class of razors known as “safety-razors;” and the object of our invention is to provide a new and improved razor of this kind which is so constructed that the guard can be adjusted and held in relation to the edge of the blade; and a further object of our invention is to provide a handle which is made flexible, so that the blade can more readily follow the curvatures of the face, &c.
The invention consists in the combination, with a suitable frame for holding the blade, of a spring-frame carrying the guard, a screw for acting on said spring-frame, and a nut on the screw for drawing the guard inward and toward the edge of the blade, all as will be fully described hereinafter, and finally pointed out in the claims.
In the accompanying drawings,
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
The casing
The guard
The handle
The operation is as follows: The catches
When the guard is too close to the edge of the blade, the screw
Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent—
1. In a safety-razor, the combination, with a frame and blade-holder, of a guard composed of a series of rings fastened on a rod, substantially as shown and described.
2. A safety-razor having a guard formed of rings fastened on a rod mounted to turn on a suitable holder, substantially as shown and described.
3. In a safety-razor, the combination, with a casing provided with a rectangular bent spring-arm, of a lug or projection on the under side of the upper part of said spring-arm, a guard on the end of the upper part of said spring-arm, and a screw screwed through an aperture of the upwardly-projecting part of the spring-arm and resting against the above-mentioned lug on the spring-arm, substantially as shown and described.
4. A safety-razor having a rectangular spring-arm formed in its casing and a guard on said spring-arm, substantially as shown and described.
5. In a safety-razor, the combination, with a casing having a spring-arm, a cross-piece fixed on the casing, a screw passed through said cross-piece and through a screw-threaded aperture in the said arm, a nut screwed on the screw and resting against the cross-piece, and a guard on the spring-arm, substantially as shown and described.
6. In a safety-razor, the combination, with a casing having a spring-arm, of a cross piece on the casing, a screw passed through the cross piece and through a screw-threaded aperture in the spring-arm, a lug on the spring-arm on which the end of the screw rests, a nut on said screw, which nut rests against the above-mentioned cross-piece, and a guard on the spring-arm, substantially as shown and described.
7. A safety-razor having a handle composed of two sections united by a flexible piece, substantially as shown and described.
In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our invention we have signed our names in presence of two subscribing witnesses.
Frederick Kampfe.
Otto Kampfe.
Richard Kampfe.
Witnesses:
Oscar F. Gunz,
Carl Karp.