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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 1991
Filed:
Mar. 22, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert L Brown, Boston, MA (US);
John D Galligan, Weston, MA (US);
Assignee:
The Gillette Company, Boston, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B26B / ; B26B / ; B26B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
30 49 ; 30 42 ; 30 45 ;
Abstract
A hand-held razor of the wet-shave type includes a thin flexible foil member with a plurality of apertures, each of which has opposed sharpened shaving edge portions. A displacing mechanism cyclically displaces the foil along a predetermined path such that the velocity of the opposed edge portions caused by the mechanism is substantially greater than the speed of motion caused by normal shaving stroke manipulation. The amplitude of each displacement cycle is greater than the width of a beard hair and less than the distance between the oppoosed edge portions.