Patents by Inventor Stephen Cabot Metcalf
Stephen Cabot Metcalf 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).
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Publication number: 20190047166Abstract: A shaving razor adapter used to attach a shaving razor cartridge to a razor handle. The razor cartridge has a pair of distally positioned arc shaped receiving regions and a camming surface. The adapter engages the razor cartridge with a pair of outwardly facing arc shaped bearings for mating into said pair of arc shaped receiving regions of said razor cartridge. The adapter has a recess and a pair of detents for receiving and engaging the handle. The handle has a biasing member to engage the camming surface of said razor cartridge.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventors: Stephen Cabot Metcalf, Ashok Bakul Patel
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Patent number: 10131063Abstract: A shaving razor adapter used to attach a shaving razor cartridge to a razor handle. The razor cartridge has a pair of distally positioned arc shaped receiving regions and a camming surface. The adapter engages the razor cartridge with a pair of outwardly facing arc shaped bearings for mating into said pair of arc shaped receiving regions of said razor cartridge. The adapter has a recess and a pair of detents for receiving and engaging the handle. The handle has a biasing member to engage the camming surface of said razor cartridge.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: The Gillette Company LLCInventors: Stephen Cabot Metcalf, Ashok Bakul Patel
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Publication number: 20170087733Abstract: A kit comprising one or more removable shaving razor cartridges and a shaving razor adapter which can attach the shaving razor cartridge(s) to different razor handle that is not originally designed to engage with the razor cartridge.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2015Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventors: Stephen Cabot Metcalf, Ashok Bakul Patel
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Publication number: 20170087732Abstract: A shaving razor adapter used to attach a shaving razor cartridge to a razor handle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2015Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventors: Stephen Cabot Metcalf, Ashok Bakul Patel
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Patent number: 7665199Abstract: A method of making a razor blade unit is provided. The method includes the steps of: providing a plastic base member; providing a plastic upper member, the plastic upper member having a first surface and an opening in the first surface; securing a shaving aid member to the first surface of the upper member, the shaving aid completely surrounding the opening; inserting at least one razor blade between the plastic base member and the plastic upper member; and securing the plastic base member to the plastic upper member creating a plastic body having the at least one razor blade disposed in the plastic body.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2008Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventor: Stephen Cabot Metcalf
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Publication number: 20090183352Abstract: A method of making a razor blade unit is provided. The method includes the steps of: providing a plastic base member; providing a plastic upper member, the plastic upper member having a first surface and an opening in the first surface; securing a shaving aid member to the first surface of the upper member, the shaving aid completely surrounding the opening; inserting at least one razor blade between the plastic base member and the plastic upper member; and securing the plastic base member to the plastic upper member creating a plastic body having the at least one razor blade disposed in the plastic body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2008Publication date: July 23, 2009Inventor: Stephen Cabot Metcalf
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Patent number: 6029354Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1998Date of Patent: February 29, 2000Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventors: Domenic Vincent Apprille, Jr., Donald Robert Chaulk, Joseph George Fucci, Stephen Cabot Metcalf, Robert Anthony Trotta, Charles Bridgham Worrick, III
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Patent number: 6009624Abstract: A razor cartridge comprising a housing having an elongated blade receiving region defined between two side walls spaced from each other along parallel first axes and between a guard and a cap spaced from each other along parallel second axes that are transverse to the first axes, the housing also having blade-receiving slots in the side walls that face each other and extend along third axes that are transverse to both the first and second axes, and elongated blade members having blades with cutting edges that are parallel to the first axes and bent supports that extend downward from the blades and have support ends at the ends of the blade members that are mounted for movement in the slots along the third axes, the slots being defined by front stop portions and back stop portions of the housing on opposite sides of respective first and third axes, the front stop portions being located underneath the blades, the back stop portions being located along respective first axes outside of the front stop portions inType: GrantFiled: September 30, 1997Date of Patent: January 4, 2000Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventors: Domenic Vincent Apprille, Jr., Stephen Cabot Metcalf, Vincent P. Walker, Jr.
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Patent number: 5918369Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 1997Date of Patent: July 6, 1999Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventors: Domenic Vincent Apprille, Jr., Donald Robert Chaulk, Joseph George Fucci, Stephen Cabot Metcalf, Robert Anthony Trotta, Charles Bridgham Worrick, III
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Patent number: 5855071Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 1997Date of Patent: January 5, 1999Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventors: Domenic Vincent Apprille, Jr., Donald Robert Chaulk, Joseph George Fucci, Stephen Cabot Metcalf, Robert Anthony Trotta, Charles Bridgham Worrick, III
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Patent number: 5822869Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 1997Date of Patent: October 20, 1998Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventors: Stephen Cabot Metcalf, Charles Bridgham Worrick, III
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Patent number: 5815924Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 1997Date of Patent: October 6, 1998Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventors: Domenic Vincent Apprille, Jr., Donald Robert Chaulk, Joseph George Fucci, Stephen Cabot Metcalf, Robert Anthony Trotta, Charles Bridgham Worrick, III
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Patent number: 5813293Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 1997Date of Patent: September 29, 1998Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventors: Domenic Vincent Apprille, Jr., Donald Robert Chaulk, Joseph George Fucci, Stephen Cabot Metcalf, Robert Anthony Trotta, Charles Bridgham Worrick, III
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Patent number: 5787586Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1996Date of Patent: August 4, 1998Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventors: Domenic Vincent Apprille, Jr., Donald Robert Chaulk, Joseph George Fucci, Stephen Cabot Metcalf, Robert Anthony Trotta, Charles Bridgham Worrick, III