Patents by Inventor Richard B. Dixon

Richard B. Dixon has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4281455
    Abstract: The invention provides a razor assembly comprising a shaving unit and a handle. The shaving unit has a platform, a blade, pivotal mounting for pivotally connecting the shaving unit to the handle, and apparatus for receiving a biasing force from the handle. The handle includes two flexible arms which at one end have pivotal mounting apparatus complementary to the shaving unit's pivotal mounting apparatus, the flexible arms being secured to the handle in a region spaced from the handle's pivotal mounting apparatus. A movable button engages the flexible arms and is movable for flexing the arms to disengage the handle's pivotal mounting apparatus from the shaving unit's pivotal mounting apparatus and for reverse movement which frees the flexible arms for engagement of the handle's pivotal mounting apparatus with the shaving unit's pivotal mounting apparatus. The handle also includes apparatus for exerting a biasing force on the shaving unit's apparatus for receiving a biasing force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1981
    Assignee: Wilkinson Sword Limited
    Inventors: Richard B. Dixon, Peter Carr
  • Patent number: 4146358
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a smokers' pyrophoric lighter wherein the usual pawl and ratchet mechanism by which an actuator turns the spark wheel is replaced by a resiliently deformable friction-drive transmitting member, preferably a rubber or like elastomeric pad, the actuator being mounted so that the friction driving member can engage the spark wheel during the operative stroke and idle past the spark wheel on the return stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1979
    Assignee: Wilkinson Sword Limited
    Inventor: Richard B. Dixon