Word: probak
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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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...
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...
...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...
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...