Improvements in Dishes or Receptacles for Soap, Sponges and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd May, 1899-Accepted, 24th June, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Dishes or Receptacles for Soap, Sponges and the like.
I, ARNOLD RICHARD STEINBACH, of Payergasse 5, Vienna, in the Empire of
Austria, Author, 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:-
1
The hitherto used soap dishes have several disadvantages in consequence of their
unsuitable construction, especially that the wet soap comes in touch with more or
less large surfaces of the walls of these dishes and consequently the water cannot
entirely flow off but is collected on the bottom of the receiver, the soap lies in the
water, grows soft and is unfit for use or is used much quicker. Also the use of
sieve or perforated inserted parts do not prevent these disadvantages because the
soap lies on them and fills up their openings and the adhesion of the same hinders
the water from flowing off.
All the disadvantages are avoided by the improved soap dish represented in the
annexed drawing in Figs. 1 to 16 which show different forms of construction. The
improved soap dish can be manufactured of any suitable material for instance
metal sheet, wire, porcelain, glass, earthenware, clay, wood and the like, the
material may be smooth, ribbed, corrugated or otherwise formed. The peculiarity
of the improved dish consists therein that it is so reduced in width towards
its lower end that the soap or the likes can only touch the sidewall w of the dish
with its edges, that is, at single points, whilst the lower face of the soap does not
come into touch with the bottom of the dish, so that all the water can flow down
along the side walls of the dish and the soap cannot fall into the water collected
perhaps on the bottom of the dish.
The dish may have different forms, it may be round, (Figs. 1 to 4) oval (Fig. 5)
or cornered (Figs. 6 to 16) its sidewalls we may be plain or provided with openings,
cuttings out, slits w¹ (Figs. 4, 8, 9, 10 12 and 13) or the like accelerating the
evaporisation of the water. The bottom can be closed, open, sieve, or grate like
or may be provided with other openings (Fig. 3) rendering an outflow of the
water possible.
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The dish can be arranged to stand or be suspended it can be ornamented as
desired, and be arranged for keeping tooth or nail brushes or the like.
It can be inserted in soap boxes and the like or used as a separate receiver or
lso as sponge dryer.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
ion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
1. The improved dish or receptacle for soap, sponges or the like constructed of
any suitable material and ornamented as desired, in which the width between the
idewalls w is reduced towards the lower part so that the soap cake to be put in
an touch the walls of the same only with its edges, that is to say, at single points
vhilst the underside does not lie on the bottom of the dish.

page_text: 2. In the improved dish or receptacle for soap, sponges or the like as in Claim 1
the arrangement of cuttings out, openings, slits wor the like in the side walls w.
3. In the improved dish or receptacle for soap sponges or the like as in
Claims 1 and 2, the arrangement of a bottom which is either entirely open or
provided with openings o or formed in a sieve or grate like manner.
Dated this 3rd day of May 1899
HERBERT HADDAN & Co,,
Agents to Applicant,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London.