US272356A - Razor-strop - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J. R. TORBEY'. M2011 STROP.

Patented Feb. 13, 1883.

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as represented in the drawings.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH R. TORREY, 0E woEoEsTEE, MASsAoHUsETTs.

RAZOR-STROP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 272,356, dated-February 13, 1883.

Application filed December 30,1882. (No model.)

fully described. Fig. 2 represents a side or.

edge view of the strop shown in' Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 represents a transverse or cross section of the strop upon an enlargedscale, taken on line a b, Fig. 1.

I To enable those skilled in the art to which my invention belongs to make and use the Same, I will proceed to describe it more in detail.

In the drawings, A represents the body or supporting part of an ordinary two sided razor-strop, and B its handle. Said strop is represented in this instance as being provided upon one side with an elastic cushioned stropping part, 0, and upon the other side with a hard honing-surface, D.

The stropping part 0 may be made elastic by filling a suitable casing, c, with any stuffing material suitable for the purpose, while the hard honing-surface D, which constitutes my invention or improvements'upon the strop,

is made by cutting'a thin strip of leather, E,-

of the proper quality, a little wider than the strop, and of the proper length to fit the same longitudinally, then turning under the edges d d and fastening said strip upon the strop, The central portion, e,.of strip .E may be prevented from sagging betweenits double edges d dby means of a supporting-strip, f, (made from any suitable inexpensive material, and of the same thicknesses strip 131,) which is secured to the body A of the strop, as is fully shown in section, Fig. 3, and dotted lines f, Fig. 1, of the drawings. By thus turning under the edges In practice I preferto fasten the strips E andfthroughout their entire length, and finish the ends by covering them with thin stained leather or similar material, 9 g,- but, if desired, the strip E may be made longer and the ends also turned under the same as the side edges, d d, and instead of fastening said strips to the strop throughout their entire length they may be fastened only at their ends. ordinarily be fastened to the under side of strip E. A

If preferred, the strip f may be made wider than shown in the-drawings and placed between the edges d d and the body of strip E. When thus used its thickness may be greater than strip E, and its outer surface made either straight or oval.

My said improved honing-surface D may be applied to two or more sides of a razor-strop,

if desired, in which case different grades of In either case the edges 01 d would dressing material It would be used upon the JOSEPH R- 'TORREY.

Witnesses CHARLES S. HALE, L. H. ToEEEY.

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