An Appliance for Attachment to Basins and other Vessels to Facilitate Pouring of the Contents Without Spilling.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 17th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 18th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for Attachment to Basins and other Vessels to
Facilitate Pouring of the Contents Without Spilling.
• I, NORA TEMPE EMMA WOODHAM, of 8 Clifton Terrace, Winchester, in the
County of Hants, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In many basins or like vessels or receptacles as now constructed a difficulty
frequently presents itself when it is desired to transfer the contents of one vessel
into another, owing to such vessels being unprovided with spouts or mouths to
facilitate the pouring or emptying, thereby often occasioning the spilling of the
contents.
Now the object of my invention is to remedy this inconvenience and for such
purpose I provide self-adjusting and detachable spouts or mouths so constructer!
as to fit onto the rim of the basin or other vessel, from which the contents are to be
poured or emptied.
A self-adjusting and detachable spout or mouth constructed according to my
invention consists of say two parts or portions forming a single appliance, the upper
portion of which is so shaped as to form the spout proper, or mouth, which projects
from or above the rim of the vessel to which it is to be applied; and the lower
portion being so formed as to constitute a clip or saddle which takes over the rim
of the vessel, and by means of which the said appliance is adjusted and maintained
firmly in position.
This appliance may be made of metal, hard rubber, or other suitable material,
which possesses a sufficient amount of elasticity or flexibility to cause it to adapt itself
to rims of various thickness.
ERNEST DE PASS,
68, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for Attachment to Basins and other Vessels to
Facilitate Pouring of the Contents Without Spilling.
I, NORA TEMPE EMMA WOODHAM, of 8 Clifton Terrace, Winchester, in the
County of Hants, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to
the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
In many basins, or other like vessels, or receptacles, as now constructed, a difficulty
frequently presents itself when it is desired to transfer the contents of one vessel into
another, owing to such vessels being unprovided with spouts or mouths to facilitate
the pouring or emptying, thereby often occasioning the spilling of the contents.
Now, the object of my invention is to remedy this inconvenience, and for such
purpose I provide a self-adjusting and detachable spout or mouth so constructed as to
be readily adaptable to the rim of the basin, or other vessel, from which the contents
are to be poured out or emptied.
A self-adjusting and detachable spont or mouth constructed according to my
invention consists of, say, two parts or portions forming a single appliance, the
upper portion of which is so shaped as to form the spout proper or mouth which
projects from or above the rim of the vessel to which it is applied; and the lower
portion being so formed as to constitute a clip or saddle which takes over the rim
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page_text: of the vessel and by means of which the said appliance is adjusted and maintained
firmly in position.
This appliance may be made of 'metal, hard rubber, or other suitable material,
which possesses a sufficient amount of elasticity or flexibility to cause it to adapt itself
to rims of various thickness.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood, I proceed to describe the
same with reference to the accompanying two sheets of drawings, which shew the
invention as applied, by way of example, to a wash-hand basin.
Referring to sheet 1, Figure 1 is a plan, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal vertical section
on the line A, A of Fig. 1, shewing the appliance attached to a basin; Fig. 3, is al
vertical section of the appliance detached. a, is the upper portion or spout, the sides
of which are bent inward to direct the flow of the liquid when pouring out the same;
b, b, is the lower portion forming a clip or saddle which takes over the rim of the
basin c, and retains the appliance firmly in position.
Referring to sheet 2, which shews a modified arrangement, Fig. 4, is a plan, and
Fig. 5, a longitudinal vertical section on the line B, B, of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a plan
of the appliance detached. In this arrangement the clip or saddle b, b, is dispensed
with, and the appliance or spout is retained in place by means of claws or hooks d, d,
and a spiral spring e, or by other suitable arrangement. f, is a tube or strip of india
rubber, or other flexible material, secured, in any convenient manner, to the inner
and upper surface of the spout and forming a water-tight joint between said spout
and the receptacle to which it is to be applied. is a strengthening wire or rib for
the purpose of giving rigidity to the spout; this wire is formed with a loop or eye 'g¹
to which is secured one extremity of the spiral spring e. The other extremity of said
spiral spring is secured to an eye d¹, formed on the hooks or claws. When the
appliance is fitted to the receptacle the tension of the spiral spring e tends to draw the
spout against the receptacle, and by so doing causes the flexible strip or tube f to be
compressed tightly against the exterior surface of the receptacle and so form a water-
tight joint.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I claim
1. The construction and use of an appliance for attachment to basins, and other
vessels, to facilitate the pouring out of the contents of such vessels without spilling,
substantially as described..
2. The appliance or detachable spout substantially as herein described and shewn
with reference to Figs. 1, 2, and 3 of the drawings, and for the purposo set forth.
3. The modified construction of appliance or detachable spout, substantially as herein
described and shewn with reference to Figs. 4, 5, and 6 of the drawings, and for the
purpose set forth.
Dated this 17th day of December 1889.
ERNEST DE PASS,
68, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the Applicant.