A New or Improved Soap Dish.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 22nd May, 1894-Accepted, 23rd June, 1894
A New or Improved Soap Dish.
I, JAMES CARTMELL RIDLEY, Engineer, of 3 Summerhill Grove in the City
and County of Newcastle-on-Tyue do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a New or Improved Soap Dish.
By my invention I propose to construct the dish so that the soap lying therein
shall be as much as possible out of contact with the water or moisture collected in
the dish.
I am aware that soap dishes with transversely-ribbed bottoms have been tried
for this purpose but in this case the contact between the soap and the ribs is
unnecessarily large and therefore to break the contact between the soap and the
surface on which it is resting as much as possible I propose to form on the dish
base a sufficient number of discontinuous resting surfaces or apices to carry the
soap and at the same time to drain it and to prevent it from dissolving by its
contact over any one surface of too great an area.
To further effect the desired purpose I propose to incline the dish base in all
directions from its centre towards the sides and the sides themselves may be con-
structed by preference of a series of segments of circles or of an equivalent form
so that the points at which the soap can touch the sides shall be as limited as
possible.
In this manner the soap will be in great degree preserved and dishes thus
be made in earthenware glass china metal wood or any other
suitable material
constructed
Dated this 25th day of August 1893
A. CRAWHALL CHAPMAN,
3, St. Nicholas Buildings, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Patent Agent.
A New or improved Soap Dish.
I, JAMES CARTMELL RIDLEY, Engineer, of 3 Summerhill Grove in the City
and County of Newcastle-on-Tyne, 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 :-
This invention relates to a New or Improved Soap Dish.
By my invention I propose to construct the dish so that the soap lying therein
shall be as much as possible out of contact with the water or moisture collected in
the dish.
I am aware that soap dishes with transversely-ribbed bottoms have been tried
for this purpose but in this case the contact between the soap and the ribs is
unnecessarily large and therefore to break the contact between the soap and the
surface on which it is resting as much as possible I propose to form on the dish
base a sufficient number of discontinuous resting surfaces or apices to carry the
soap and at the same time to drain it and to prevent it from dissolving by its
contact over any one surface of too great an area.

page_text: To further effect the desired purpose I propose to incline the dish base in all
directions from its centre towards the sides and the sides themselves may be con-
structed by preference of a series of segments of circles or of an equivalent form
so that the points at which the soap can touch the sides shall be as limited as
possible.
In this manner the soap will be in great degree preserved and dishes thus
constructed may be made in earthenware, glass, china metal wood or any other
suitable material.
I will fully describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawings
in which Figure 1 shows a plan and Figure 2 a cross-section on line A A of same
Figure 3 being a sectional elevation hereinafter described and in the following
description like marks of reference designate like parts.
Referring to the drawings a, a, a represent raised and discontinuous resting
surfaces or apices to carry the soap as indicated at s in Figures 1 and 2 and at
the same time to drain it and prevent it from dissolving by its contact over or
against any one surface of too great an area.
In Figures 1 and 2 the simplest form of soap dish is shown without a perforated
draining tray such as is shown at T in Figure 3.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim is :-
The improvement in soap dishes consisting in the provision in combination with
that part of a soap dish on which the soap is intended to lie of discontinuous
raised resting surfaces or apices substantially as and for the purposes herein set
forth.
A. CRAWHALL CHAPMAN,
3, St. Nicholas Buildings, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Patent Agent.