Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 25th May, 1887
Complete Left, 18th Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 23rd Mar., 1888
I MARY WEDLAKE of 8 Berkeley Road Regent's Park in the county of Middlesex
Gentlewoman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
The object of my invention is to provide a receptacle for toilet powders in and by
which the present necessity of the use of a powder puff or other similar appliance
when the powder is to be applied is entirely obviated and thus not only is this receptacle
extremely useful at the toilet table but is also very convenient and suitable for being
carried about on the person and the powder also will be applied in a more equable
manner.
To carry out this object I make a collapsible ball or other shaped receptacle of any
suitable material and of the desired size in one part of which is an aperture through
which the powder can be deposited in the receptacle which aperture can be closed in
any usual or convenient manner by a cap or plug or other appliance. In another
part of the receptacle preferably opposite to the aforesaid aperture or thereabouts is
made another aperture of the desired shape and size which aperture is entirely covered
by a piece of perforated or open work material such for example as muslin or thin
textile material or fine wire gauze or perforated material. Thus when the receptacle
is duly filled with the powder and is suddenly collapsed by the hand or otherwise the
powder is projected through this latter aperture and by the piece of material thereover
is divided into minute jets which are deposited on the face or elsewhere as is desired.
Any suitable solid covering piece can if required be fitted to this ejecting aperture in
any convenient manner.
Instead also of making the whole receptacle of a flexible material as aforesaid
certain desired parts thereof can be made of a rigid material and the collapsible
part of the receptacle would be duly connected therewith so that the powder can
properly be ejected.

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I MARY WEDLAKE of 8 Berkeley Road Regent's Park in the county of Middlesex
Gentlewoman 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 :-
The object of this my invention is to provide a receptacle for toilet powders in and
by which the present necessity for the use of a powder puff or other similar appliance
when the powder is to be applied is entirely obviated and thus not only is this
receptacle extremely useful at the toilet table but it is also very convenient and
suitable for being carried about on the person. By this my apparatus also the powder
will be applied in a more equable even manner than is now ordinarily the case with
the usual appliances.
In the accompanying drawing 1 have shewn one style and form of my improved
receptacles for toilet powders.
To carry out my aforesaid object I make a collapsible receptacle preferably as shewn
of a ball or spherical shape and of any suitable flexible material preferably india rubber
which receptacle may be of any desired size and in one part thereof or at one position
therein is made an aperture of the required size wherethrough the powder can be
deposited in the receptacle which aperture can be closed in any usual or convenient
manner either by a plug as shewn in the drawing or by a cap or other appliance and
in another part of the receptacle or at another position therein preferably opposite to
the aforesaid aperture is made another aperture of any desired shape and size where-
through the powder can be ejected from the receptacle which aperture is entirely
covered by a piece of perforated or openwork and preferably flexible material such for
example as muslin or other thin textile material which piece is securely fastened on
or connected to the receptacle round this aperture in or by any convenient manner or
means.
The receptacle is duly filled with the powder and the filling aperture is then closed
-and when the receptacle is suddenly collapsed by the hand or otherwise the powder is
ejected through the other aperture and being minutely divided by the piece of material
thereover is projected as shewn in the drawing in the form of a large number of very
minute jets which are deposited on the face or elsewhere as may be desired and thus
the powder will be so deposited in a very equable even manner.
The receptacle can obviously be ornamented as may be. desired or can be enclosed
as shewn in the drawing in an ornamental bag or covering or can be otherwise treated
as may be expedient and any suitable solid covering piece can if required be fitted to
the ejecting aperture in any convenient manner to close the same.
The filling

page_text: aperture also can be dispensed with when the piece of perforated material is so
fitted as to be capable of being connected to and disconnected from the
receptacle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
The combination in and with a collapsible receptacle for toilet powders of an aperture
covered by a piece of perforated or openwork material substantially as and for the
purpose hereinbefore described and declared.