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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2013
Filed:
May. 31, 2012
Applicant:
Sean Peter Clarke, Highmoor Cross, GB;
Inventor:
Sean Peter Clarke, Highmoor Cross, GB;
Assignee:
The Gillette Company, Boston, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B26B 19/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A shaving cartridge has a housing with at least one blade having a blade edge. A first guard is in front of the blade. The first guard has a plurality of projections defining a plurality of open slots extending generally transverse to the blade edge. Each slot has a leading end portion for receiving hairs and a trailing end portion for feeding the hairs to the blade. The projections are stepped with a height of the projections that define the leading end portion of the slots that is less than a height of the projections that define the trailing end portion of the slots.