[louie]

I came across this a number of years ago in a book i have called supernature by lyll watson,, this is what i got from the net


Republic of Czechoslovakia

Office For Patents And Inventions

Published August, 1959

Patent File Number 91304



The right to use this invention is the property of the State according to Section 3, Paragraph G, Number 34/1957

Karel Drbal, Prague

Method of Maintaining Razor Blades and the Shape of Straight Razors.



Submitted 4 November, 1949(P2399-49)

Patent valid from 1 April, 1952



The invention relates to the method of maintaining of razor blades and straight razors sharp without the auxiliary source of energy. To sharpen the blades, therefore no mechanical, thermal, chemical or electrical (From an artificial source) means are b eing used. There are various mechanical sharpening devices being used till now to sharpen used razor blades. The blade is sharpened by crude application of sharpening material, which always results in certain new wear of the blade during the sharpening pr ocess. Furthermore, it is known that the influence of an artificial magnetic field improves the sharpening of razor blades and straight razors, if their blades lay in the direction of magnetic lines.

According to this invention, the blade is placed in earth's magnetic field under a hollow pyramid made of dielectric material such as hard paper, paraffin paper, hard cardboard, or some plastic. The pyramid has an opening in its base through which the blade is inserted. This opening can be square, circular, or oval. The most suitable pyramid is a four sided one with a square base, where one side is conveniently equal to the height of the pyramid, multiplied by p /2. [pi or 3.14/2] For example, for the height of 10CM, the side of 15.7 centimeters is chosen. The razor blade of straight razor is placed on the support made also of dielectric material, same as the pyramid, or other such as cork, w ood, or ceramics, paraffin, paper, et. cetra. Its height is chosen between 1/5 and 1/3 of the height of the pyramid, this support rests also on a plane made of dielectric material. The size of this support should be chosen as to leave the sharp edges free . Its height could vary from the limits stated above. Although it is not absolute necessary, it is recommended that the blade be placed on the support with its sharp edges facing west or east respectively, leaving its side edges as well as its longitudina l axis oriented in North South direction. In other words to increase the effectiveness of the device it is recommended lie in essence in the direction of the magnetic lines of the horizontal component of the earth's magnetism. This position improves the p erformance of the device, it is not however essential for the application of the principle of this invention. After the blade is properly placed it is covered with the pyramid in such a way that its side walls face north, south, east, and west, while its edges point in north-west, south-west, south-east, and north-east direction.

It is beneficial to leave a new blade in the pyramid one to two weeks before using it. It is essential to place it there immediately after the first shave, and not the old, dull one. But it is possible to use an old one, if it is properly resharpened. The blade placed using the method above is left unobstructed until the next shave. The west edge should always face west. It improves the sharpening effect.

Example:

When this device was used, 1778 shaves were obtained using using 16 razor blades, which is 111 shaves per blade on the average. The brand used was "Dukat Zlato" made in Czechoslovakia. The lowest count was 51, the highest was 200. It is considered very easy to achieve up to 50 shaves on the average. (for a medium hard hair)

The following shows how the invention could save both valuable material and money: One razor blade mentioned above weighs 0.51 grams. We will consider 50 shaves on average when placed in the pyramid against 5 shaves when it is not. It is obvious that t he number of shaves, degree of wear, and the ability to regenerate the dull edge depends on the quality of the material, quality of sharpening process, and hardness. ....given numbers are average and could be in fact much better. In the course of the year one therefore uses 73 razor blades without the aid of the pyramid while only eight razor blades while using the pyramid. Annual saving would be 65 razor blades or 33.15 grams of steel per person.

Only the pyramid shape has been used for this invention, but this invention is not limited to this shape, as it can cover other geometric shapes made of dielectric material that was used in accordance with the invention. And that this shape also causes regeneration of sharp edges of shaving blades by lowering of stresses and reducing the number of defects in the grids of crystal units, in other words recovering and renewing the mechanical and physical properties of the blade.

The Summary Of The Patent

1. The method of maintaining the razor blades and straight razor blades sharp by placing them in the magnetic field in such a way that the sharp edge lies in the direction of the magnetic lines. The blades are placed in the eart h's magnetic field and are covered by the hollow pyramid made of dielectric material such as hard paper, impregnated or paraffin paper, cardboard or plastic. The most suitable is a pyramid with a square base. It is the best when one side is equal the heig ht of the cone multiplied by p /2. [Pi or 3.14 /2] The pyramid is provided is provided with square, round, or rectangular opening in its base and is oriented with its side edges pointing to the north-w est, south-west, south-east, and north-east directions. The razor blade or straight razor is placed horizontally on the support made also of dielectric material, same as the pyramid or other such as cork, wood, paraffin paper, or ceramics, the height bei ng height being between 1/2 and 1/3 of the height of the pyramid and which in turn rests on the plane made of dielectric material. The blade is positioned in north-south direction.

2. Method as article 1 and identified by the blade is placed in the cone, same side facing the same direction after each use.





Notes on the Great Pyramid Of Cheops:

Given: Height=146.6 meters

Base=230.4 meters

½ Base=115.2 meters

1) "....a four sided one with a square base where one side is conveniently equal to the height of the pyramid multiplied by p /2"(i.e.; pi or 3.17/2) The side of the pyramid is seen as the base leng th in architectural terms p (pi) is given as 22/7, as the ancients measured it. 230.4 meters = 146.6 x p /2. (pi divided by two)

2) The square root of the Golden Section of the ancients (expressed as 196/121) is equal to within three percent of error to the height divided by one half the base length of the Great Pyramid Of Cheops.

a) H= 146.6 meters/.5([115.2 meters] = 1.272 meters note: H= Height, B= Base






f(phi) = 196/121

c) Ö(The square root of) 196/121 = H/ ½ B or tolerance: + or - three percent.

3) The height of the pyramid divided by one half the base equals four divided byp (pi), p (pi) being 22/7.

a) H/ ½ B= 1.272

4/p (pi) = 1.270

4) From the known measurements of the structure, can we conclude that the architect of the Pyramid of Cheops knew the mathematical concepts of p(pi) and f(phi) ?

[aquatus1]

Are you asking anything in particular?

[angrycrustacean]

This claim was tested on Mythbusters. Using an electron microscope, they found absolutely no improvement in the pyramid blade over one which had just been lying on a table.

[louie]

well this product was sold in czeh for many years and from what i read people were getting longer sharpness from their blades using the pyramid

[Reincarnated]

lol, I seen that one too. they might not be right about everything but the pyramid thing is probably false.

This post has been edited by Reincarnated: 16 April 2006 - 05:20 PM

[louie]

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lol

LOL is that the best you can come up with,, LOL thats the extent of your post.. you wasted time making a reply an it was LOL,, genius pure genius

[Pax Unum]

Pyramid Power or Much Ado About Nothing

The next stage in the saga of pyramidiocy leaves the world of tangible pyramids and enters the realm of pyramid as shape. More particularly, we will look at the effect of pyramids on that shibboleth of the New Age, "energies unknown to science", or euts as we will refer to them for typographical reasons.

It was probably inevitable that someone, sometime, would hit upon the idea that the pyramid itself had something to do with the process of mummification. This idea flies in the face of all the evidence of how mummification was carried out, including the records left by the Egyptians themselves, but it is in accord with the thinking of those who persist in seeing a problem where none exists.

Martin Gardner, in his entertaining book "The Magic Numbers of Dr Matrix", traces the first reference to this idea to the early years of the twentieth century. At that time a "French occultist" as Gardner describes him discovered that a dead cat became mummified after being placed in a model pyramid. As there appeared to be no great call for mummified cats in the ensuing half century, no more research seems to have been carried out.

Then, in the late 1950s, a Czech named Drbal claimed that a razor blade placed under a cardboard pyramid retained its edge for longer than would normally be expected.

Next, we find that various film actors claim to be able to meditate better while sitting under a pyramid. Others have claimed that foodstuffs kept in a pyramid retain all of their freshness, wishes come true when written on paper and placed in a pyramid, pyramids kill bacteria. This is all remarkable stuff, if true, but how true is it?

Let us first consider euts, whether they obey rules, and how a pyramid might channel them.

Whenever a pseudo-scientist or a paranormalist is challenged to explain some phenomenon that science decrees to be highly improbable, he responds with euts. While not wishing to suggest that there are no such things as euts, we are not very encouraged to believe in them by the claims made for them.

It appears that they can do anything and are not governed by any rules at all. Proponents of pyramid power have claimed that pyramids can inter alia, mummify flesh, preserve food in a natural state and resharpen razor blades. It would appear, to the casual observer, that these three acts call for three different applications of energy.

To mummify flesh presupposes an ability to remove water molecules; to sharpen razor blades requires the ability to add molecules; and to preserve food means preserving the status quo. As the material from which the pyramid is constructed does not appear to effect any of these processes (they are available in cardboard. wood, polystyrene, copper, polycarbonate, steel and many other materials) and as they appear to have no control systems, how is the required process determined? Can the euts itself decide that the object in the pyramid is a razor blade or a dead cat?

If that is so, and that appears to be the only logical conclusion that follows from the claims, then we appear to be dealing with some form of sentient energy. This is an extraordinary concept and would require far more persuasive evidence for its existence than is offered by its proponents. Imagine the problems Einstein would have faced with relativity if gravity could think for itself!

Next we ask, "What is inherent in the pyramid shape that allows it to channel this energy when other geometrical solids do not?" We do not hear about Cube Power or Sphere Power (although this article may generate such thoughts in some minds — it has happened before). The answer is that there is nothing about a pyramid that should give us reason to suppose that this shape holds a privileged position in the world of solids. Far more likely that the proponents of this fallacy are seduced by the supposed mysteries of the Egyptian pyramids and that as a result have invested the shape itself with mystical powers.

There is no reason to believe that pyramids exert some sort of influence on energy, be it known or unknown to science. This, of course, would not matter If there were examples of tests that "proved" the opposite while there are many references in pro literature to such tests, it is difficult to find reference to any properly conducted tests that give factual results rather than subjective opinions. Those tests that have been conducted using a double blind methodology give no comfort to the proponents of pyramid power.

In a test of French wine, as reported in the Winter 1987-88 edition of The Skeptical Inquirer, wine kept in pyramids was judged to be no different in quality from wine not so stored.

Proponents of pyramid power must fall back on the only rule that euts are known to obey. This is the law that states "No paranormal event will occur in any location that contains a sceptic". This law is better known by its common title of "The Psychic's Cop-Out”, which explains a lot of things other than the failure of pyramids to perform.

To conclude this section on pyramid power, we should refer to the influence of American author and respected sceptic, Martin Gardner, on the level of belief in this unlikely form of energy. In a satirical article in the June 1974 edition of Scientific American, Gardner made a number of outrageous claims for the powers of pyramids, which were being promoted by his character Dr Matrix. Gardner was astonished at the amount of mail generated by this article, from people who were seeking more details of how pyramids could help them.

Some of Gardner’s tongue-in-cheek claims still form part of the lore of pyramid power, so do not be surprised if cube or sphere power become New Age phenomena in the future.

Although there is nothing particularly mysterious about pyramids, they certainly have exerted an influence upon the imagination of many people for millennia.

Merely reading about how people from early civilisations set about the tasks of construction and how modern people have wrested the secrets from the stones appeals to our romantic instincts. It makes us realise the remarkable mental and physical accomplishments of which the human species is capable and has been capable since the beginning of recorded history.

It also makes us realise just how limited must be the imagination of those who cannot take pride in the accomplishments of our species and who must invent super beings to take credit for what humans have done.

Pyramids, pyramyths & pyramidiots

This post has been edited by Pax Unum: 16 April 2006 - 08:32 PM

[Bio-Mage]

Actually I have seen the same setup used as food storage. The used pieces of meat inside and outside the setup and observed the time it takes to spoil. The meat in the pyramid was reported to take 2 to 3 times longer to spoil. I am not certain about the validity or the source however as I am unable at the moment to retrieve the link.

I could only find this link that refers to that study but it doesn't seem very scientific to be honest.

http://www.algonet.se/~anki-p/pyramidpower.html

This post has been edited by Bio-Mage: 17 April 2006 - 03:00 PM

[Master Sage]

I heard about this one to. Not really plausable for me.

[Mostar]

its a plasibo effect.
Cant these people just buy sharp blades ?

[Mors Profundis]

A mouse carcass placed in a pyramid will mummify.
A mouse carcass behind the baseboard will mummify, too.
A rat carcass treated similarly will stink like bejesus.
Has to do with the moisture content and the small size of the carcass.
Grow up, get a life or at least try some of these thing for yourself-you'll rapidly find that something for nothing is really nothing for something.
There were tons of these books printed in the 1970's-they were full of outright lies-before the internet it was very difficult to check these facts.
Don't mean to be harsh, but this stuff went out with Phlogiston and sponanious generation.
Oh, I forgot(this is sincere, not a mockery), you live behind the old Iron Curtain, and these lame theories are just arriving-beware, beware!
Experiment, research and verify, just because it's set in type doesn't mean it's anchored in reality.
And try these new five blade razors, heck, they'll stay sharp for a year with no pyramid!

[GrayTone]

Man, think about how many people have waisted their money on that crap

[Mors Profundis]

Oh, I had one-it was fun for a while.