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...found its way into 500,000 U. S. homes. Fortnight ago Colonel Schick came unbloodied through the first round of the year's biggest razor battle when the U. S. District Court in Brooklyn held that his basic patent for the Dry Shaver had been infringed by Dictograph Products...
Trouble between Colonel Schick and Dictograph's Chairman Archie Moulton Andrews began in 1934 after the Chicago World's Fair. Promoter Andrews, who had had permission to sell the Dry Shaver at the Fair along with his own Lektrolite cigaret lighter, claimed Midwestern distribution rights. Colonel Schick denied the claim. Irate Promoter Andrews proceeded to work out and manufacture in Stamford, Conn., not far from the Schick plant, a rival electric razor called the Packard Lektro-Shaver. Colonel Schick sued Dictograph for infringement of patent. Mr. Andrews, who owns 20 shares of Schick stock, replied by bringing suit...
...thin edge of metal perforated by tiny slots. Whiskers caught in these slots are cut off by a blade shuttling back and forth beneath them. The Lektro-Shaver differs by being roundheaded, with a single horizontal slot in which whiskers are sheared off by a blade in rocking motion. Dictograph held that these differences were essential and that the Schick patent had been anticipated, anyway, by an English inventor named Appleyard in 1913. The court, however, found the evidence of infringement "inescapable...
...press agent's release from Dictograph Silent Radio Company began thus: "Tomorrow's radio has arrived and is announced today. It is the first silent radio ever introduced on the market as such...
Announced for early marketing by both Dictograph Products Co., Inc., and Sonotone Corp. were similar portable devices for hearing by bone-conduction of sound Dictograph's instrument was new, Sonotone's an improvement on one it began marketing last November. That was developed by Sonotone's Dr. Hugo Lieber, after Sonotone gave up the U. S. distributing rights to "Fortiphone", hearing aid produced by Berlin's Siemens & Halske...