Illuminating safety razor

• US 5,582,476 A
• Filed: 08/28/1995
• Issued: 12/10/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: James W. Hansen
• Original Assignee: James W. Hansen
• Inventors: Hansen, James W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Yeung, James C.
• Application Number:
  US08/520,072
• Time in Patent Office: 470 Days
• Field of Search: 362/115, 362/32, 362/109, 362/396, 30/34.05, 30/86
• US Class Current: 362/115
• CPC Class Codes: B26B 21/46 for illuminating the skin B26B19/46 takes precedence

Abstract

A safety razor having a head that illuminates the area to be shaved. The razor has an internal hollow filled with bundles of optical fiber leading from a source of light within the razor handle to windows directed to the area adjacent the razor blade.

Claims

1. An illuminating safety razor having a head adapted to receive and hold a cartridge of at least one razor blade, and a hollow handle having a lengthwise internal hollow channel containing a plurality of parallel lengthwise strands of optical fiber, said channels and said strands terminating at a first end adjacent said head at an elongated transverse window adapted to direct light to the user'"'"'s skin along the entire length of the cutting edge of said blade and at a second end in a ferrule that clamps said strands together holding the ends of said strands adjacent a source of light, and a finger manipulable switch to turn said light on and off.

2. The safety razor of claim 1, wherein said source of light is a light bulb and a suitable battery housed in said hollow channel.

3. The safety razor of claim 1, wherein said window is a flat planar translucent plate parallel to said razor blade.

5. The safety razor of claim 1, wherein said window includes three planar segments;

a central large segment positioned parallel to said razor blade, and two wing segments positioned at angles to said central segment and adapted to direct light outward laterally away from the light from said central segment.

6. The safety razor of claim 2, wherein said ferrule is a clamping band around said bundles of optical fiber, all of said bundles terminating in a single planar cut end substantially perpendicular to the lengthwise direction of said optical fibers.

4. The safety razor of claim 4, wherein two parallel windows are present at said first end;

one of said two being above said blade and the other of said two being blow said blade.

7. The safety razor claim 4, wherein each of said two parallel windows includes three planar segments;

a central large segment positioned parallel to said razor blade, and two ring segments positioned at angles to said central segment and adapted to direct light outward laterally away from the light from said central segment.