Versatile finger retained razor

• US 6,018,877 A
• Filed: 04/16/1998
• Issued: 02/01/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Headblade Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Todd M. Greene
• Inventors: Greene, Todd M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Rada, Rinaldi I.
• Assistant Examiner(s): TROIANO, DOMINIC
• Application Number:
  US09/061,739
• Time in Patent Office: 656 Days
• Field of Search: 30/357, 30/34.05, 30/296.1, 30/298, 30/232, 30/291, 30/526, 30/537
• US Class Current: 30/526
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2005/008 Hand articles fastened to the wrist or to the arm or to the leg
• CPC Class Codes: B26B 21/222 with the blades moulded into, or attached to, a changeable unit B26B21/4006 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B26B 21/527 attachable to fingers or to the human hand

Abstract

A razor that is configured for selectively shaving the head or face and wherein a body member has an upstanding finger engaging means whereby a body member may be retained in relationship to the fingers of the user, and which retains in releasable or integral fashion a razor blade, and wherein the razor may be selectively used to shave the head of the user or when taken off the finger, held by the sides of the body member to shave the face of the user and in conventional fashion.

Claims

1. A razor for selectively shaving the head and face of the user comprising the combination of:

a body member of molded plastic having a tapered configuration and having at least front, upper, rear and bottom sides, said upper side having an upstanding finger engaging means by which said body member may be retained in association with the hand of the user thereof;

said body member being broadest at said front side and

said bottom side of said body member being adapted to retain a thin razor blade thereon;

said body member having finger gripping surfaces on said sides adapted to receive the thumb and fore finger of the user of said razor.

2. The razor, in accordance with claim 1, wherein said body member is of a size to fit within the underside of the fingers of the hand of the user.

3. The razor, in accordance with claim 1, which additionally includes a razor blade holding means on said bottom side of said body member, and includes a thin razor blade which is releasably retained in said razor blade holding means.

4. The razor, in accordance with claim 3, wherein said body member has an enlarged front configuration tapering rearwardly to said rear side.

5. The razor, in accordance with claim 3, wherein said upstanding finger engaging means is ring-like in configuration.

6. The razor, in accordance with claim 5, wherein said finger engaging means is adjustable in size to accommodate the finger diameter of the user thereof.

7. The razor, in accordance with claim 5, wherein said body member additionally has lateral sides adapted to be grasped by the hand of the user, whereby said razor may be held for face shaving.

8. The razor, in accordance with claim 7, wherein said body member is of integral molded plastic.

9. The razor, in accordance with claim 8, wherein said body member has selectively positioned ridges in said upper side to form friction gripping surfaces for the fingers of the user of said razor.

10. The razor, in accordance with claim 9, wherein said razor is wholly disposable.

11. A razor for selectively shaving the head and face of the user comprising the combination of:

a body member of molded plastic having a tapered configuration and having at least front, upper, rear and bottom sides, said upper side having an upstanding finger engaging means by which said body member may be retained on a finger of the user and held in association with the underside of the hand of the user thereof;

said body member being broadest at said front side, said bottom side of said body member being adapted to retain a razor blade thereon; and

a thin razor blade having at least one cutting edge mounted in retained relationship with said body member;

said at least one cutting edge being selectively disposed relative to said front side of said body member and said upstanding finger engaging means being narrower than the widest part of said body member.