{"id":1703,"date":"2017-11-14T08:59:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T08:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2017-12-04T18:05:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T18:05:11","slug":"gillette-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/gillette-patent\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in Business History:  Gillette razor blade patented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 14, 1904<b>:\u00a0<\/b> King C Gillette patented the Gillette razor blade. This disposable razor was the first safe alternative to the straight razor, which usually required visiting a barber. By selling the replaceable razor blade along with the permanent handle, King established a successful business model still used in razor sales today.\u00a0\u00a0 King\u00a0 founded the American Safety Razor Company, later renamed the Gillette Company.\u00a0 This firm was purchased by the Proctor &amp; Gamble Company in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>You can view an image of the patent at the <a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netahtml\/PTO\/srchnum.htm\">U.S. Patent and Trademark Office<\/a>, search for number 775,134<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2017\/10\/inventions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1704 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2017\/10\/inventions.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2017\/10\/inventions.jpg 218w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2017\/10\/inventions-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2017\/10\/inventions-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/discovere.emory.edu\/business:default_scope:01EMORY_ALMA21337440650002486\">50 Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy, by Tim Harford <\/a>T15 .H343 2017<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2017\/11\/gillette-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1707\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2017\/11\/gillette-1-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2017\/11\/gillette-1-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2017\/11\/gillette-1.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/discovere.emory.edu\/business:default_scope:01EMORY_ALMA21209491130002486\">Look Sharp! Feel Sharp! Be Sharp! : Gillette Safety Razor Company: Fifty Years, 1901-1951.\u00a0 By Joseph P. Spang<\/a><br \/>\nHD9999 .R3 U54<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/about-us\/news-updates\/patent-safety-razor-issued-november-15-1904\">https:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/about-us\/news-updates\/patent-safety-razor-issued-november-15-1904<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/americanhistory.si.edu\/collections\/search\/object\/nmah_1153449\">http:\/\/americanhistory.si.edu\/collections\/search\/object\/nmah_1153449<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 14, 1904:\u00a0 King C Gillette patented the Gillette razor blade. This disposable razor was the first safe alternative to the straight razor, which usually required visiting a barber. By selling the replaceable razor blade along with the permanent handle, King established a successful business model still used in razor sales today.\u00a0\u00a0 King\u00a0 founded the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/gillette-patent\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1456,"featured_media":1724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/files\/2017\/11\/Gillette_Straight_Razor_and_Gillette_Blue_Blades_8407093004.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1711,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/1711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/gbsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}