Razor handle and shaver including such a handle

• US 8,151,472 B2
• Filed: 07/10/2009
• Issued: 04/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bic-Violex SA (Societe BIC)
• Original Assignee: Bic-Violex SA (Societe BIC)
• Inventors: Ioannis, Bozikis, Dimitris, Efthimiadis
• Primary Examiner(s): PAYER, HWEI-SIU C
• Application Number:
  US12/501,174
• Publication Number:
  US 20090271995A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,005 Days
• Field of Search: 30/50, 305/27, 305/31, 305/32, 305/33
• US Class Current: 30/527
• CPC Class Codes: B26B 21/225 the changeable unit being resiliently mounted on the handle
• CPC Class Codes: B26B 21/38 with provision for reciprocating the blade by means other than rollers reciprocating the cutting elements of clippers or dry shavers B26B19/00
• CPC Class Codes: B26B 21/521 Connection details, e.g. connection to razor heads
• CPC Class Codes: B26B 21/526 Electric features
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 65/08 using ultrasonic vibrations non-plastics element to plastics elements B29C65/645
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 66/54 Joining several hollow-preforms, e.g. half-shells, to form hollow articles, e.g. for making balls, containers; Joining several hollow-preforms, e.g. half-cylinders, to form tubular articles
• CPC Class Codes: B29L 2031/7186 Shaving equipment

Abstract

A razor handle having a handle body including two arms, each having a bearing for pivotally connecting a shaving head about an axis of rotation, the arms extending substantially symmetrically on both sides of a medial axis, each bearing having a protrusion extending toward the axis of rotation so as to limit the angular range of rotation of the shaving head.

Claims

1. A razor having a shaving head and a razor handle having a handle body including:

two arms, extending from a first common end situated inside the handle body toward a second end which protrudes toward the outside of the handle body, the two arms being disposed in a substantial V shape, diverging from a medial axis from the first common end toward the second end, each of the two arms having a bearing for pivotally connecting the shaving head about an axis of rotation perpendicular to the medial axis, the arms extending substantially symmetrically on both sides of a the medial axis, each bearing having an inner ends and an outer ends, wherein the inner and outer end extend parallel to the medial axis with the inner end located between the medial axis and the outer end, each bearing further comprising a protrusion which extends perpendicularly from the inner end and away from the first common end so as to limit an angular range of rotation of the shaving head, the razor handle further including a plunger movably mounted, substantially along the medial axis between the two arms.

2. A razor handle having a handle body including:

two arms, extending from a first common end situated inside the handle body toward a second end which protrudes toward an outside of the handle body, the two arms being disposed in a substantial V shape, diverging from a medial axis from the first common end toward the second end, each of the two arms having a bearing for pivotally connecting a shaving head about an axis of rotation perpendicular to the medial axis, the arms extending substantially symmetrically on both sides of the medial axis, each bearing having an inner end and an outer end, wherein the inner and outer ends extend parallel to the medial axis with the inner end located between the medial axis and the outer end, each bearing further comprising a protrusion which extends perpendicularly from the inner end and away from the first common end so as to limit an angular range of rotation of the shaving head, the razor handle further including a plunger movably mounted, substantially along the medial axis between the two arms.

3. A razor handle having a handle body including:

two arms, extending from a first common end situated inside the handle body toward a second end which protrudes toward the outside of the handle body, the two arms being disposed in a substantial V shape, diverging from a medial axis from the first common end toward the second end, each of the two arms having a bearing for pivotally connecting a shaving head about an axis of rotation perpendicular to the medial axis, the arms extending substantially symmetrically on both sides of the medial axis, each bearing having an inner end and an outer end, wherein the inner and outer end extend parallel to the medial axis with the inner end located between the medial axis and the outer end, each bearing further comprising a protrusion which extends perpendicularly from the inner end and away from the first common end so as to limit an angular range of rotation of the shaving head, the razor handle further including a plunger movably mounted, substantially along the medial axis between the two arms, and

a lock/release mechanism including the two arms.

4. The razor handle according to claim 3, wherein the two arms further include two push buttons which are formed integrally therein and which protrude laterally out of the handle body.