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Do you have anything useful to add, hecklers aren't very helpful.Were some of you guys shooting pool down at the Billiards Emporium during history class? These changes were implemented before WWII.
Do you have anything useful to add, hecklers aren't very helpful.Were some of you guys shooting pool down at the Billiards Emporium during history class? These changes were implemented before WWII.
Were some of you guys shooting pool down at the Billiards Emporium during history class? These changes were implemented before WWII.
Nothing there answers the question at hand.
Do you have anything useful to add, hecklers aren't very helpful.
Amazing, and insane! You had to know what you were doing when you needed to get a "pack of blades"!Here's an advert from 1940:
... where we can see that Gillette's New whether it be long slot, twin slot, short pin or biased pin, it would fit all these blades.
Granted, the round pin New (with the lateral tabs) produced about the same time would only have fitted Gillette blades (like the Gillette Blue with the universal cutout) and not in any of these blades due to the diamond shape rather than round shape. Buy a GIllette razor, use Gillette blades.
... and so I return to my thoughts about (a) these bias pin/short pin razors being Service Kit; (b) the plethora of blade shapes and styles. Put them together and you have a razor with a top cap that has the most minimal amount of pin to accept the widest choice of blade without the pin size/position tripping up over the razor design.
I've PM'd MacDaddy. Thanks @TobyC
We are all very familiar with Gaisman, and personally I feel the name of the company should have been changed to Gaisman, or Gaisman/Gillette as they were clearly his razors and blades that they were selling. But being aware of the general Gillette history timeline doesn't tell us squat about the small pin razors. You're trolling.Well. if you aren't sharp enough to realize the critical dates involved here then it would be foolish on my part to assume you would be able to deduce the answers from the bio I linked.
......I'll have to wake up my B&B account.
Selling point for overseas travelers? But they would have advertised for that, and I've never seen such an ad.
...Then something amazing happens on November 18, 1929. Gaisman files to amend his patent that was awarded back in February 7, 1928. Ostensibly, he needed to change a couple minor details! What he does, without changing any drawings, is rename a few structures, like “holes†become “apertures†and “pins†become “studsâ€. All this seems innocuous enough. However, he adds 15 paragraphs of additional claims going from 8 claims to 23 claims. In doing so, he lays claim to any stud that is “non-cylindrical†in nature. Thereby he would own any blade design with an aperture or positioning hole that is non-circular. Remember, GSRC's old-type blade has circular type holes. Gaisman does not claim that. But, under the new application diamond shaped holes would be owned by Gaisman. Also, it appears that GSRC's horizontal slot in their blade, to mate with the razor's blocking bar, is now off limits too...