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...became important in the industry. Its chief product was the Valet AutoStrop Razor. For years the relations between AutoStrop and Gillette were as between any two competitors. But last winter, as shavers great and small remember, Gillette prepared to market a new razor & blade. And by a strange coincidence, Probak Corp., an AutoStrop subsidiary, was ready with a blade that fitted the new Gillette razor. Thus began the greatest razor-war of all time...
...still being carried on with Auto Strop Safety Razor Co., and if concluded will be presented to the Federal Trade Commission. Although a Gillette-Auto Strop merger would settle the suit in which Auto Strop charges that Gillette's new blade is an infringement of Auto Strop's patented Probak blade, it would not end Gillette's troubles. Last week Segal Lock & Hardware Co., potent gadgetmaker, was well along with an advertising campaign for Segal Razor Blade, patents pending. While this new blade is being introduced only in New York at present, Segal plans a national campaign in the near...
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...
Rumors that AutoStrop had surreptitiously obtained plans of the new Gillette razor, had quickly designed a blade to fit it, are roundly denied. AutoStrop claims that its blade will fit any double-edge razor. In November 1929 when first AutoStrop's Probak blades were marketed they fitted the following razors: Elite, Loew, Renard, Darwin, Holtz, H & T, Kace, Via and, of course, Gillette. Probak manufactures its own holder but has not advertised...