Holder for a personal razor

• US 5,042,658 A
• Filed: 07/24/1990
• Issued: 08/27/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Goody Products Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Goody Products Incorporated
• Inventors: Van Dyk, Thomas, Tiramani, Paolo
• Primary Examiner(s): FIDEI, DAVID
• Application Number:
  US07/558,083
• Time in Patent Office: 399 Days
• Field of Search: 206/38, 206/37, 206/15.2, 206/15.3, 206/208, 206/349, 206/362.2, 206/362.3, 206/461, 206/470, 206/471, 206/581, 206/352, 206/351, 206/228, 30/32, 30/41, 30/90, 220/339
• US Class Current: 206/349
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 27/22 Containers or carriers for storing shaving appliances
• CPC Class Codes: B26B 29/00 Guards or sheaths or guides for hand cutting tools; Arrangements for guiding hand cutting tools guards for hair clippers or dry shavers B26B19/38

Abstract

A case for the storage of single edged razors is formed as a unitary molding comprising a first tubular portion for reception of a handle of the razor, and a second tubular portion offset on one side of a plane including the longitudinal axis of the first portion for the reception of the neck and blade of the razor, the second tubular member being comprised of two portions interconnected one with the other by a living hinge. The hinged portion being provided with a locking member for cooperation with the first tubular member.

Claims

1. A molding of a moldable plastics material providing a housing of a single-edged personal razor, comprising:

a first cylindrical member of tubular cross-section having a longitudinal axis, and providing a closed end and an open end;

a second cylindrical member of tubular cross-section integral with said first cylindrical member at said open end of said first cylindrical member, said second cylindrical member having a longitudinal axis extending in a transverse plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of said first cylindrical member for said second cylindrical member to extend laterally outwardly of said first cylindrical member;

said second cylindrical member being comprised by a first portion of said second cylindrical member integral with said first cylindrical member and which has a substantially planar open side extending in a transverse plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of said first cylindrical member, and a second portion of said second cylindrical member hingedly connected to said first portion of said second cylindrical member by a living hinge extending along that portion of said first portion of said second cylindrical member that is positioned remote from the longitudinal axis of said first cylindrical member, said second tubular portion of said second cylindrical member terminating at its edge remote from said living hinge in a locking member cooperable with said first cylindrical member upon hinging of said second portion of said second cylindrical member relative to said first portion about said living hinge;

said first cylindrical member and said first and second portions of said second cylindrical member, including said living hinge and said locking member each being formed integrally one with the other as a unitary one-shot molding of a thermoplastic plastics material.

2. The holder of claim 1, further including a ventilation opening extending through said closed end of said first tubular member.

3. The housing of claim 1, in which said longitudinal axis of said first cylindrical member extends tangential to an outer periphery of said second cylindrical member.

4. The housing of claim 1, in which said first cylindrical member and said second cylindrical member each are circular in transverse cross-section, and each is of substantially the same diameter as the other.