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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 29, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1998
Domenic Vincent Apprille, Jr, Arlington, MA (US);
Donald Robert Chaulk, E. Sandwich, MA (US);
Joseph George Fucci, Hanson, MA (US);
Stephen Cabot Metcalf, West Newton, MA (US);
Robert Anthony Trotta, Pembroke, MA (US);
Charles Bridgham Worrick, III, Hanson, MA (US);
The Gillette Company, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
A shaving system includes a replaceable shaving cartridge and a shaving razor handle. The replaceable shaving cartridge has a housing carrying blades, a guard, a cap, and a camming surface. The cartridge includes an interconnect member having a pivotal support structure that pivotally supports the housing and a base structure adapted to be removably and fixedly attached to the handle. A shaving razor handle has an elongated hand gripping structure and a cartridge support structure extending from an end of the hand gripping structure. The cartridge support structure has an extension with outer side surfaces that mate with inwardly directed surfaces of a recess on the cartridge and an end surface with an opening. The extension has an asymmetrical shape to ensure proper orientation. A spring-biased plunger is retained in the cartridge support structure and extends through the opening of the cartridge support structure.