Patents Represented by Attorney Aubrey C. Brine
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Patent number: 5018274Abstract: A blade for use in a safety razor is manufactured by providing a block of green or uncured ceramic material. The block is in the form of a honeycomb structure having a plurality of substantially parallel cells formed therein and a portion is sliced and removed from the block forming at least one surface on the portion intersecting the parallel cells at an angle. The portion is cured, and the surface ground and polished to provide a plurality of cutting edges.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 1990Date of Patent: May 28, 1991Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventor: Robert A. Trotta
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Patent number: 5016352Abstract: An improved razor head for attachment to a razor handle comprising a pair of inwardly directed fingers for engagement with a pivotable razor cartridge is provided with a single button for attachment of the razor head to the cartridge. The button is positioned for ease of operation by the thumb when the razor handle is grasped by the user and pressure on the button is effective to move the fingers linearly outwardly along a line parallel to the cartridge width dimension, or razor edge. The fingers are locked in the outward, or open, position after release of the pressure on the button and are returned to the inward or engaging position through contact of the cartridge with a cam follower on the razor head.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 1990Date of Patent: May 21, 1991Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventor: Stephan C. Metcalf
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Patent number: 5009334Abstract: A display device comprising a peg board and a rod extending therefrom for supporting a plurality of aligned items is provided with an anti-pilferage fixture. The anti-pilferage fixture is formed of a cage-like structure supported from the peg board and disposed about the aligned items, which inhibits movement of no more than a predetermined number of items outwardly from the free end of the rod in a single movement, thereby providing a deterrent to the pilfering of a large number of items from the display.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 1989Date of Patent: April 23, 1991Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventor: Stanley H. Bodkins
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Patent number: 4968371Abstract: Method for removing a marking from a stratum surface involving the steps of superposing a pellucid film including a heat-softenable polymeric material over a marking so that the marking is in contact with the polymeric material and irradiating the marking and film with light energy to heat the marking and soften the polymeric material to thereby transfer the marking to the film.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 1988Date of Patent: November 6, 1990Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventor: Lamar E. Brooks
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Patent number: 4963047Abstract: A two piece brush for dispensing and applying a material in gel form comprises a brush element having a plurality of bristles and an elongated handle pivotably secured to the brush element for movement from a position adjacent the brush element to a position substantially at right angles to the brush element. An opening is provided extending through the brush element to the bristles which aligns with an opening in the elongated handle entering into a gel retainer in the handle, when the handle is positioned at right angles to the brush element. A flange disposed on the brush element is effective to seal off the opening in the elongated handle with the elongated handle positioned adjacent the brush element.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 1990Date of Patent: October 16, 1990Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventor: Robert A. Trotta
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Patent number: 4962676Abstract: A dual axis transfer mechanism comprising a pair of motors mounted onto a frame for independently rotating a pair of threaded shafts fixed in parallel relation. Each of the shafts is threaded into a carrier member connected to one end of a respective arm, the opposite end of each arm being connected at a common pivot point. Rotation of each shaft caused by its respective motor causes movement of the carrier member threaded thereon which effects movement of the common pivot point to which a tool is attached.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 1989Date of Patent: October 16, 1990Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventor: Michael Vainstock
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Patent number: 4959977Abstract: A machine for progressively roughing marginal portions of shoe bottoms comprising a shoe support (18) having toe support means (470) and a heel support arrangement including two sets of clamps (390, 392), one set (392) of which serves also as sensing means for sensing, by engagement with an off-set portion of the shoe last whether the shoe thus supported is a left or a right. An inductance sensing device (610) associated with the second set of clamps (392) supplies a signal to control means of the machine, the signal being dependent upon whether the shoe is a left or a right. The control means ensures that, in the operation of the machine, a roughing operation is carried out on the shoe bottom in such a manner that the inside waist region of the shoe bottom is traversed always in the same directiion, regardless of whether the shoe is a left or a right (and of course similarly the outside waist region is consistently operated upon).Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1989Date of Patent: October 2, 1990Assignee: British United Shoe Machinery Ltd.Inventors: John Davies, Herbert W. Boot
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Patent number: 4950094Abstract: A container for dispensing a cosmetic product such as a deodorant in stick form comprises a one piece tubular body open at the top having a platform disposed therein movably by means of a dial shaft threaded into the platform. A single opening is formed in the bottom wall of the body through which the dial shaft extends and a washer forms the entire seal between the dial and the bottom wall of the body, while sealing means in the form of a contoured cap member which is disposed wholly within the body and a separate seal, or alternately a contoured flexible sealing element closes the top of the body. The container is filled through the top opening with a quantity of molten product while in the upright condition, the molten product passing through a plurality of openings in the platform to rest on the bottom surface of the container. The container is then closed by the sealing means and inverted with the product in the molten state and remains so during solidification of the product.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1989Date of Patent: August 21, 1990Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventor: Charles H. Yorks
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Patent number: 4932122Abstract: A razor blade assembly is provided having a molded plastic body member with a guard member mounted thereon. The body member comprises wall structure defining a pair of slots for receiving a blade means, and forming a support means on which the blade means rests. The blade means comprises a pair of cantilever spring portions formed in the blade means got contacting the support means when the blade means is disposed for slidable movement in the slots whereby the blade means is resiliently mounted in the body member.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1987Date of Patent: June 12, 1990Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventors: Abraham Shurland, George P. Gruner
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Patent number: 4916812Abstract: A safety razor incorporating blade magazines and magazines therefore, the blades being incorporated in individual units, each comprising at least one blade, carried by a support plate. A plurality of units are housed as a stack within a magazine, open at one end and providing a guard and a cap. The units are stacked in the magazine extending transversely thereof, the outermost unit being positioned at the mouth of the magazine with its blade positioned between the guard and the cap and its support plate and the magazine wall providing seal against the ingress of debris and moisture. Means are incorporated in the magazine or razor handle to eject the outermost unit from the magazine and replace it with the next unit in the stack.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 1989Date of Patent: April 17, 1990Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventor: John F. Francis
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Patent number: 4914817Abstract: A safety razor head comprising a guard surface and a cap surface is provided with a plurality of parallel riblets disposed on the head for contact with the surface being shaved, during use of the razor. The riblets may be disposed on the cap surface or on a substantially thin film material extending from the guard surface to the cap surface and are effective to improve shaving comfort.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1988Date of Patent: April 10, 1990Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventors: John Galligan, John Thompson
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Patent number: 4909182Abstract: A nozzle having a flexible blade member with a flat adhesive-receiving surface in combination with a rotary transfer roll and side wall elements forms a reservoir for adhesive "upstream" (in the direction of roll rotation) of the line of contact of a straight edge of the surface with the roll surface, the arrangement being such that a layer of the adhesive, doctored by blade member to control its thickness and with its width controlled by the wall elements, is applied to the roll surface and carried thereby to the operating locality. An adhesive supply system is also provided for supplying adhesive to the reservoir, said system including a melting device for adhesive in solid form and pressure control means for controlling the pressure under which the adhesive is supplied.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 1989Date of Patent: March 20, 1990Assignee: British United Shoe Machinery Ltd.Inventors: Raymond Hanson, Malcolm Tillyard
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Patent number: 4876434Abstract: An apparatus is provided with a chamber (20) into which a plurality of jets of moisture-laden air is directed through apertures (nozzles) 18. Through the chamber lasted shoes S, on the bottoms of which a coating of a moisture-curable adhesive composition has been applied, are progressively moved, supported bottom uppermost. The velocity of the air, which is re-circulated, is between 10 and 20 meters/second (measured at the apertures), its temperature is between 85.degree. C. and 125.degree.0 C. (measured at the point of impingement on the article) and its dew point not greater than 60.degree. C. The lasted shoes are subjected to this treatment for a period of 1 to 31/2 minutes.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1988Date of Patent: October 24, 1989Assignee: British United Shoe Machinery LimitedInventors: Raymond Hanson, Malcolm Tillyard, Christopher M. Allen
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Patent number: 4862377Abstract: A system for identifying workpieces by scanning them and "reading" details of their configuration is adapted for applying a desired pattern of material in liquid form (e.g. ink) or in powder form (e.g. toner material or a hot melt adhesive) to the workpieces regardless of their location and orientation on a workpiece support (18, 118). This is achieved by the pattern data (relating to the desired pattern) selected from a store being modified in accordance with positional data (relating to the location and orientation obtained during scanning FIG. 2). When the applied material is liquid and dispensed from such as a suitable tool such as a pen (152) or other liquid applicator. When the ink is in powder form, a suitable tool is an electrostatic printer (36) e.g. an ionographic printer.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1987Date of Patent: August 29, 1989Assignee: British United Shoe Machinery Ltd.Inventors: David C. Reedman, Clive Preece
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Patent number: 4853997Abstract: In a side (or side and seat) lasting machine two side lasting assemblies (230) are provided each comprising a side lasting roll (276) having a helical wiper element (282). As the rolls (276) are caused to operate progressively along opposite side portions of the shoe bottom from the heel breast line region toewardly, they are caused to rotate thus effecting an inwiping action on the lasting margin and pressing it against the insole margin. At a predetermined point in such progressive operation, at least one of the rolls (276) is displaced axially inwardly towards one another to enhance the inwiping action. This axial displacement may take place at the ball region of the shoe bottom, i.e. at or just before the end of the operation, and only the "outside" roll (276) or both rolls (276) may be so displaced.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 1988Date of Patent: August 8, 1989Assignee: DVSG Patentverwaltungs GmbHInventor: Gerhard Giebel
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Patent number: 4838775Abstract: A device for granulating strands of thermoplastic materials that are discharged molten from several nozzles side by side, with a cutter roll acting on a counterknife and a feed device filled with cooling water located prior to the cutter roll. The feed device consists of the support face of the counterknife approximately radial to the cutter roll, which essentially completely fills up the space between the nozzle surface and the cutter roll and onto which the cooling water is sprayed.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 1987Date of Patent: June 13, 1989Assignee: Automatik Apparate-Machinenbau GmbHInventor: Friedrich Hunke
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Patent number: 4831730Abstract: A safety razor assembly is provided comprising a plurality of stacked discrete shaving elements. Each of the shaving elements contains a shaving head mounted in an upwardly facing enclosure, and wall structure forming a downwardly facing cavity for receiving the shaving head enclosure of another shaving element in interfitting engagement therewith. The assembly comprises a sufficient quantity of elements that, when stacked one upon the other, form a gripping handle which is employed when using the topmost shaving head in the shaving process. An overcap is provided having an upwardly projecting protuberance with side wall dimensions equal to those of each shaving head enclosure and a downwardly facing cavity having interal dimensions equal to those of each shaving head cavity.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 1987Date of Patent: May 23, 1989Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventor: Jeffrey C. Cerier
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Patent number: 4823729Abstract: Powder is deposited onto an underlying flat belt through a selectively shaped cut-out in a stencil assembly. The desired volume for the deposited powder is achieved by defining a closed volume beneath the deformable belt with a support pad having a spacer receiving opening. Vacuum is applied to this closed volume drawing the belt downwardly against the spacer thereby defining this volume. The spacer is removable so that this volume can be changed by changing the spacer.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 1987Date of Patent: April 25, 1989Assignee: DVSG PatentverwaltungsInventor: Albert I. Morse
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Patent number: H640Abstract: A method of manufacturing a razor blade is disclosed wherein a polymer material is coated onto the blade edge. The polymer material is applied to the blade edge in a coating solution after which the blade is passed through a rapidly changing magnetic field in close proximity to the blade, which induces a current to generate heat for sintering the material to the blade edge.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 1988Date of Patent: June 6, 1989Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventor: Jonathan Nizel
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Patent number: D309355Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 1988Date of Patent: July 17, 1990Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventor: Jill M. Shurtleff