Shaving implement

Claim 1

A shaving implement comprising a platform portion provided with a series of spaced rib portions defining recesses therebetween, a back portion upstanding from a lengthwise margin of said platform portion, a cap portion comprising a series of spaced forwardly extending fingers extending from said back portion and overlying said platform portion, each of said fingers being disposed over one of said recesses, end walls interconnecting said platform and cap portions at either end thereof, said platform, back, cap and wall portions being an integrally molded plastic unit, said cap portion fingers being adapted, in an unstressed state, to incline toward said platform portion to a first position, and blade means physically distinct from said plastic unit and permanently disposed between said cap and platform portions and adjacent said back portion, said blade means comprising a first blade member, a spacer member, and a second blade member, said spacer member being disposed between said first and second blade members, said blade and spacer members being in abutting engagement, said blade means stressing said cap portion fingers and retaining said cap portion fingers in a second position further removed from said platform portion than said first position, said cap portion thereby exercising a clamping compressive pressure on said blade means, said blade means being held together in said compressive abutting relationship by said clamping pressure but otherwise being unconnected.