Abstract: A paint can channel perforating apparatus includes a perforating member, a stiffening brace and a plurality of perforating bits. The perforating bits are arranged normal to the plane defined by the perforating member. A protective housing may be adapted to enclose the perforating member and the rim of a paint can. The protective housing includes at least one cross member arranged parallel to the stiffening brace and a plurality of guides sized to accept and direct the stiffening brace linearly. A shaft may be fixedly attached to the stiffening brace and slideable relative to an orifice defined within one of at least one of the cross members. Further a spring may be positioned around the shaft and between a handle and the cross member to return the perforating bits to a rest position after the channel has been pierced by the perforating bits.

Abstract: A device for cutting a fiber cable, in which a rotationally driven cutter supporting member and a rotatable pressing ring positioned at an incline relative to the cutter supporting member work together to cut the fiber cable. An annular channel formed on the outer circumference of the cutter supporting member is penetrated by a plurality of radially oriented cutting blades. The cutting blades are held in a cutter receiving member of a holding device, wherein a supporting ring radially supports the cutting blades. The width of the cutting blades is larger than the width of the annular channel. In order to consecutively use several areas of the cutting blades, the supporting ring is replaceable and is formed by an outer ring encircling the cutting blades or by an inner ring encircling the cutting blades. The cutting blades are held in the cutter receiving member and are radially moveable.

Abstract: A cartridge dispenser for razor blade cartridges including latches that retain cartridges in predetermined positions permitting connection to a handle connecting structure on a handle as the handle is moved toward the cartridge, each latch having a latch camming structure that is shaped and positioned to interact with corresponding handle camming structure so as to cause the latch to be deflected and to unlatch a cartridge as the handle is moved toward and connected to cartridge connecting structure of a cartridge. The dispenser also has blade unit dividers that extend from the base, are substantially perpendicular to the base, and define blade unit regions in which the blade units are received, and angled dividers that extend from the ends of respective blade unit dividers at acute angles with the base and define angled regions through which the blade units pass in delivery to and removal from the blade unit regions and in which the cartridge connecting structure is received.

Abstract: A cartridge dispenser for razor blade cartridges including latches that retain cartridges in predetermined positions permitting connection to a handle connecting structure on a handle as the handle is moved toward the cartridge, each latch having a latch camming structure that is shaped and positioned to interact with corresponding handle camming structure so as to cause the latch to be deflected and to unlatch a cartridge as the handle is moved toward and connected to cartridge connecting structure of a cartridge. The dispenser also has blade unit dividers that extend from the base, are substantially perpendicular to the base, and define blade unit regions in which the blade units are received, and angled dividers that extend from the ends of respective blade unit dividers at acute angles with the base and define angled regions through which the blade units pass in delivery to and removal from the blade unit regions and in which the cartridge connecting structure is received.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for reducing folliculitis. A method is disclosed which delineates precise razor pulling techniques and methods of preparing a skin surface to be shaved. The razor pulling methods comprise consistent razor strokes. A kit comprising tools for carrying the disclosed method is also disclosed.

Abstract: A shaving system comprising a razor handle for detachably mounting a blade unit, and a dispensing container housing a plurality of blade units side by side in a row between entry and exit ends of the container, the handle being arranged to be guided along the container during blade unit replacement for disengaging and leaving the blade initially thereon at the trailing end of the row, and for engaging and withdrawing from the container the leading blade unit, the blade units each having a guide for guiding the razor handle along the container.

Abstract: Blade replacement devices for shaving systems which have at least one blade removably connected to a blade support. The blade replacement devices of the present invention advantageously comprise means for receiving a used blade as it is removed from a razor.

Abstract: A shaving system including a handle, a container and a plurality of blade cartridges accommodated in the container. The handle is selectively engageable and disengageable with said cartridges. A guide is provided to enable the handle to pass over a plurality of cartridges in a row in the container and to engage only the last cartridge in the row.

Abstract: The invention provides a razor having a retaining mechanism adapted to receive a blade longer than the mechanism for retaining the blade so that one or both wings of the blade extend past the retaining mechanism to provide a small straight razor. Additionally, the blade is positionable within the retaining mechanism so that its wing can be extended from one or the other side of the retaining mechanism. The retaining mechanism for the blade has a pivotably-attached handle to allow ergonomic adjustment of the shaving angle. The blade and retaining mechanism have associated mechanisms for retaining and aligning the blade in the retaining mechanism.

Abstract: A utility knife has a blade magazine removably mounted in a manually holdable housing and rotatable about an axis parallel to a longitudinal axis of the housing. The blade magazine has a series of radially and longitudinally extending circumferentially spaced blade-receiving slots for separately receiving thin blades having a cutting edge at at least one end thereof, each slot having an open front end to enable a blade therein to be removed from the magazine by forward movement through the front end of the slot. The housing also carries a slidable transport mechanism having a manually engageable actuator projecting from the housing and slidable in a longitudinal direction between front and rear positions, the transport mechanism also having a blade-engaging arm within the housing.

Abstract: A straight razor has a handle portion and a disposable multi-blade assembly with at least two blades as the cutting edge on at least one of its sides. A molded guard portion at the bottom of the blade portion prevents the blades from cutting into the skin by keeping the cutting edge limited to the surface in common among the sharp edges of the blades and the bottom guard portion. The blade assembly may be connected to the handle by a pivotable blade holder attached to the handle. The blade holder is attachable to disposable blade assemblies at one end of the blade assemblies. A tube-shaped handle may be directly attached to the blade assembly that slides over the blade to form a handle on either ends of the blade. The handle and the blade holder portions may be made of disposable materials and the blade assembly is permanently attached to the blade holder so that the entire multi-blade straight razor is disposable.

Abstract: A shaving system comprises novel components of a razor handle (1), a razor blade cartridge (2), and a magazine (5) holding a supply of cartridges. The handle and magazine are adapted to cooperate so that a used cartridge on the handle is replaced by (i) inserting the used cartridge into an empty magazine compartment, which unlatches the handle from the cartridge; (ii) moving the handle along the magazine towards a next adjacent compartment accommodating a fresh cartridge, firstly to disconnect the handle from the used cartridge which is left in its compartment and secondly to latch the handle onto the fresh cartridge held in the next compartment; and (iii) withdrawing from the magazine the handle with the fresh cartridge attached. Thus, the cartridges are dispensed from the magazine in turn with each cartridge replacement operation being effected by a single stroke of the handle relative to the magazine, this stroke having distinct components of insertion, advancement and withdrawal.

Abstract: A utility knife has a blade magazine removably mounted in a manually holdable housing and rotatable about an axis parallel to a longitudinal axis of the housing. The blade magazine has a series of radially and longitudinally extending circumferentially spaced blade-receiving slots for separately receiving thin blades having a cutting edge at at least one end thereof, each slot having an open front end to enable a blade therein to be removed from the magazine by forward movement through the front end of the slot. The housing also carries a slidable transport mechanism having a manually engageable actuator projecting from the housing and slidable in a longitudinal direction between front and rear positions, the transport mechanism also having a blade-engaging arm within the housing.

Abstract: A razor holder having an automatic shave counter responsive to each use of a razor. The razor holder includes a delay circuit to permit short term use of a razor without advancing the counter.

Abstract: A cover for retaining a dispenser containing a plurality of safety razor blade cartridges to be employed with a razor of the type held with the fingers or the palm of the hand wherein the hand or finger gripping portion of the razor has a concave surface provided with a plurality of sinuous recesses formed therein. The dispenser cover is comprised of wall structure forming a substantially rectangular cavity for receiving and retaining a blade cartridge dispenser and one wall comprises an outer surface having a convex shape for mating engagement with the razor concave surface. A pair of sinuous outwardly projecting ribs for interfitting engagement with a selected pair of recesses on the razor gripping portion is disposed on the convex surface of the dispenser cover and serves to locate and retain the razor, dispenser cover combination as a unit for packaging and storage of the razor when not in use.

Abstract: A razor assembly includes dual razor heads mounted on a single handle. One razor head is adapted to hold a conventional size blade. The other razor head is adapted to hold a much smaller blade for convenient shaving around one's nostrils and for trimming of moustaches, beards and sideburns. The user can choose between either razor head simply by rotating the handle with his fingers.

Abstract: A wet shave turret razor assembly includes a razor head and single or double blades. The razor head is mounted at the front end of a handle. Several blades are uniformly mounted along the periphery of a blade holder. The blade holder is attached to the razor head by a rotation spindle. The blades are pivotable about an axis. The edges of the blades are parallel to the axis. Further, the blade holder in conjunction with the blades is rotatable by a knob. The knob is located in the axis and mounted on the blade holder for snapping the blades into the shaving position. To improve razor handling, the rotary knob is telescopable. The blade holder is provided with a hood and a thread enclosure.

Abstract: A razor set comprises an L-shaped handle having one leg with slides for receiving a razor head, and the other leg to be grasped as a handle by the user. The other leg serves to support a razor head or a receptacle for a razor head to be detachably slidably inserted on the one leg. The receptacle can be provided in the other leg or can slide on the other leg, either parallel or perpendicular thereto.

Abstract: A reciprocable vertical shafts 21 has a pyramid shaped lower tip for piercing a sealing foil 8d secured across the top of an analyzer test cup containing an active substance. The edges of the pyramid divide the foil into triangular segments which are pressed against the inner wall of the cup by the cylindrical root portion of the shaft such that they do not engage any of the active substance or interfere with subsequent injections into or withdrawals from the cup.

Abstract: A retractable utility knife comprises a handle having a front portion and a rear portion, a blade carrier slideably mounted in a passageway in the front portion of the handle for positioning a blade in retracted-protected, exposed-cutting, or advanced attachment-detachment positions, with the passageway extending to the front portion of the handle a sufficient distance to position a forward mounting lance of the blade carrier outside the handle to free the blade for detachment from the mounting lance by grasping the front portion of the blade and lifting it off the carrier.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a plurality of individual protective safety razor head unit open top casings and a tray for storing the plurality of casings in side-by-side relationships. Each of the casings are adapted to retain a single safety razor cartridge unit therein, each of which have at least one blade and a head cartridge member to which the blade is permanently secured and which also provides a guard surface. The head unit is detachably engageable with a safety razor handle. Each casing defines a single chamber in which a single shaving head unit is retained. The structure in each casing retains the head unit therein against accidental removal in such a manner that the cutting edge of the blade is protected against damage and wherein the head unit is engageable by the handle while the head unit is still within the casing. Each head unit when engaged with the handle is withdrawable from its casing by means of rocking the handle.

Abstract: A razor system comprises a handle 10 to which a blade unit 15 can be connected by a releasable coupling, the razor handle being hollow and containing a dispenser in which a plurality of blade units are stored for attachment in turn to the handle when the blade unit, previously fitted in an operative position on the end of the handle, has been discarded. The releasable coupling 13 is a pair of resilient claws 13a engageable by snap action in a pair of recesses in the blade unit for pivotally mounting the blade unit on the handle, the blade units being slidable longitudinally out of the dispenser.

Abstract: There is disclosed a cutting means magazine for a sterile docking device for forming a connection between two thermoplastic tubes comprising a casing, a stack of disposable cutting means therein, and spring means urging the stack against a wall of the casing. The casing has an exit slot for ejection of the uppermost cutting means and a slot for an ejector, the latter slot having upstream and downstream access openings. The upstream access opening (a) has an ejector aligning surface with a rise of at least about 0.25 mm and a slope of up to 45.degree. and (b) being from about 50%-100% of the cutting means thickness. The downstream access opening is from about 10%-80% greater than the cutting means thickness.

Abstract: A barber-type razor of the class adapted to receive a new blade from a cooperating blade ejector device including a novel blade guide latch and used blade ejector device.

Abstract: A cartridge for dispensing and disposing of a single surgical blade. The cartridge is specially adapted for machine loading of the blade. The cartridge includes an elongate open-top box with means for receiving and positioning the blade in a curved position to accept the mating boss of a scalpel handle. The box also includes means for stripping a used blade from the scalpel handle and retaining it within the box for disposal. A cover member for the open top of the box is provided. The cover member has downwardly projecting positioning studs which cooperate with mating recesses in the side walls of the box to position the cover on the open top of the box.

Abstract: A dispenser having a plurality of row-arrayed compartments each for releasably retaining a razor blade cartridge therewithin. The opposite ends of the compartments are respectively formed by a partition wall and yieldable, free-standing retention means positioned such that the end of one compartment is not in common with the opposite end of the next compartment, thereby making the compartments independent of one another to minimize the cumulative effects of oversize cartridge tolerances. The free-standing fingers also reduce the force required to manually load cartridges into the dispenser during assembly.

Abstract: A surgical blade dispenser includes a box for storing blades in such position that a scalpel handle can be inserted through an aperture in one wall of the box to lockingly engage one blade and remove it from the box through the aperture. The blades are individually positioned and supported within the box such that apertures in the shank portion of the blade are engagable with a mating boss on the forward end of the scalpel handle as the handle is inserted through an aperture in the wall of the box. Further insertion of the handle causes the boss to fully engage the aperture in the scalpel blade and, once complete engagement has been attained, the blade is withdrawn from the box by withdrawal of the handle through the aperture.A blade disposal section is preferably included in the box. The handle aperture of the blade disposal section is provided with a metal edge.

Abstract: A dispenser for shaving units having blade and guard means permanently associated therewith, the dispenser including storage means for accommodating a plurality of the shaving units, locating means engageable by a razor handle with which the units are to be used, the storage means being movably coupled to the locating means to permit units in the storage means to be brought in turn into a position adjacent a head of the razor handle for transferring a unit from the storage means into engagement with the handle.

Abstract: A shaving unit dispenser including means for locating a razor handle in a loading position in which a shaving unit can be transferred from a storage position in the dispenser to a position of operative engagement with the handle, and latch means which prevents movement of the shaving unit from its storage position, the latch means being operated to release the shaving unit by location of the razor handle in the loading position.

Abstract: A dispenser for razor blade cartridges of the character in which one or more blades are permanently secured in a plastic body which has a slidable interlocking connection with a razor head longitudinally of the carriage parallel to the blade cutting edges, the dispenser comprising a cellular arrangement of plastic wall sections forming a plurality of parallel cells connected together as an integral unit each cell having a longitudinal slot at the exterior surface of the unit to receive the razor handle stem, the cells having common walls interiorly of the unit and each cell having interiorly of the cell lug arrangements to prevent accidental escape of the cartridge but cooperative with parts of the razor head and cartridge parts to aid in the insertion and withdrawal of a cartridge.

Abstract: A dispensing container for razor blade units, the container comprising a plurality of compartments, each compartment adapted to releasably retain a shaving unit.

Abstract: A dispensing container for shaving units, the shaving units being adapted for engagement with a razor handle, the container comprising a storage compartment for retaining a plurality of the shaving units, a wall structure for receiving and releasably retaining the head of a razor handle adapted to receive the shaving units, and a member facilitating movement of the shaving units out of the storage compartment and into engagement with the razor head, whereby a shaving unit can be withdrawn from the container by withdrawal of the razor.

Abstract: A display article for razor blade cartridges of the type adapted to be releasably mounted on a razor handle, the article including a supporting card with a plurality of the cartridges mounted on the front of the card each under a plastic blister, the card having weakened lines defining an individual section for each of the cartridges registering with the respective cartridge adapted to be removed readily for access to the corresponding cartridge, the cartridge having means exposed at the area adapted to be engaged by the head of a razor handle and releasably secured to the handle by cooperative parts on the cartridge and head. In one form of the article the razor handle is also mounted under a blister on the card which has a removable section registering with the handle defined by weakened lines for ready removal of the handle.

Abstract: A magazine for razor blade cartridges in which the cartridges embody a plurality of blades permanently secured in a plastic body, the magazine including a main housing into which is insertable a spring clip preloaded with a stack of the cartridges, the housing having an end wall with a pair of openings a first one being adapted for the endwise insertion of a used cartridge at one end of the stack and a second opening being adapted for the endwise extraction of a new cartridge, the stack being pressed by elastic means toward the second opening, the arrangement and relation of the stack and the openings in the end wall being such that a used cartridge may be inserted at the first opening by endwise advance in contact with and parallel to the adjacent cartridge, the cartridge at the other end of the stack having its end fully exposed at said second opening but normally releasably restrained against accidental escape.

Abstract: The specific disclosure provides a dispensing system for razor blade cartridges comprising a dispenser, a plurality of cartridges in the dispenser, and a holder having a plurality of transverse supporting surfaces on top of a frame member for sliding engagement with surfaces extending transversely of each cartridge. The dispenser has a used cartridge storage end comprising a transverse opening between a used cartridge entrance port in one side wall and a holder exit port in the other side wall. A used cartridge is positioned in the used cartridge storage end through the used cartridge entrance port by means of the holder. The frame member of the holder is moved through the transverse opening to abut a side of the used cartridge against wall surfaces forming the holder exit port. Continued movement of the holder disengages the transverse supporting surfaces of the holder from the used cartridge, and such holder surfaces are removed from the storage end through the holder exit port.