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...countries had gone packages of blades, carrying the dollar-proud face of King Camp Gillette. Last week he still had reason to be proud. Gillette Safety Razor Co. is the undisputed world-leader in the industry. But also justifiably proud was another inventor, likewise a razor-maker: Henry Jaques Gaisman, founder and head of AutoStrop Safety Razor Co. Inc. Last week Mr. Gaisman brought to what seemed a triumphant conclusion the corporate battle between his company and mighty Gillette...
Since early boyhood Inventor Gaisman, a bachelor, 60, has been having brilliant ideas. More than 1,000 of them have been patented. Swivel chairs, men's belts, carburetors have benefited from his inventions. And inventors are still spurred on by the memory of the $300,000 George Eastman paid Inventor Gaisman in 1914-for his writing-on-film patent. But his most profitable inventions have been in the razor field. He has created processes for making blades, has designed blades and razors. In 1906 he founded AutoStrop Safety Razor Co. which soon became important in the industry. Its chief...
January 14. Mr. Gaisman received further patents on his new blade, assigned them to Probak Corp...
Probably never answered will be the question that the situation suggests: Did shrewd Inventor Gaisman plan from the first to use the Probak blade to force Gillette to buy AutoStrop? If so, he succeeded brilliantly, with only one considera ion not obtained: The greatest name in safety razordom is still King Camp Gillette, not Henry Jaques Gaisman...
This was the Probak "butterfly" blade (so called because of a filigree design in its center), invented by Henry J. Gaisman (also inventor of the autograph system used in Eastman Kodaks), chairman of AutoStrop Safety Razor Co., manufacturers of Probak. This blade, which fits the Gillette razors, was patented in 1928; a patent was reissued for it in January 1930. New Gillette blades bear the legend "Patents Pending," are, therefore, not patented...