An Improved Sanitary Receptacle for the Use of Sick Persons on Board Ship.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Jan., 1896-Accepted, 15th Feb., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Sanitary Receptacle for the Use of Sick Persons on
Board Ship.
1, HENRY JOHN HYDE, of Clifton Villa, Clifton Avenue, West Hartlepool,
Master Mariner, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved receptacle for use by sea-sick persons.
It is intended to fix on the side of the bunk or in any other more convenient
position or place. The receptacle may be made of sheet tin or other light metal
or from any other suitable material. In this Specification it will be assumed that
it is made of sheet tin without confirming its construction to that one material.
The receptacle is also usable as a urinal for male passengers who from sickness or
other causes cannot leave their cabin or bunk.
The receptacle consists essentially of two parts, a lower one or bowl and an
upper one or cover or lid. The bowl has a flat back, a semi-circular front, a flat
bottom and an open top. To the flat back is attached a hook-like piece of metal
for hanging the receptacle to the side of the bunk or elsewhere. The lower part
of the front is made concave thus causing the upper part to overhang and enable
the hand of the user to be inserted and be able to grasp a vertical handle the
upper end of which is attached to the overhanging upper part of the bowl and the
lower end to bottom of the bowl. The upper part, cover or lid of the receptacle
is made with a ledge to support it on the upper edge of the above mentioned
owl, and is also furnished with a narrow band all round to keep it steady when
inside the mouth of the bowl. This upper part or cover is not Hat but somewhat
the shape of an inverted truncated cone, the truncated end being open and within
and below the upper edge of the bowl and forming the only opening in the
bowl.
In order that my invention may be the more readily understood I make reference
to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a plan and Fig. 2 a vertical section (through A' B' Fig. 1) of the
upper part or cover:
Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional plan through A B Fig. 5 and Fig. 4 a vertical section
(through CD Fig. 3) of the bowl and Fig. 5 a vertical section of the bowl and
cover when assembled together. The height of the receptacle may be about seven
inches and its width and breadth each about the same. But I do not contine
myself to these dimensions.
Similar letters refer to the same parts in all the figures.
a is the bowl having the flat back b and the semi-circular front c. d is the
concave part iuto which the users hand is inserted in order that e may be grasped
the hook-like piece of material for hanging the receptacle where required. 9 the
truncated cone shaped cover or lid having the ledge h and band i and opening into
the bowl.
I do not confine myself to any particular shape, relative proportions, confor-
mation or disposition of parts or other details as shown in the drawings, or
mentioned in the Specification as any or all of them may be varied without
departing from my invention.

page_text: 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 I
claim is :-
1. A receptacle for the purposes set forth in the title and consisting essentially
of a bowl having a lid or cover of inverted truncated cone-like couformation,
the said bowl being provided with a handle for convenience in holding and with a
book or equivalent for attaching the receptacle to any convenient part of the bunk
or cabin the whole substantially as described in the above Specification and
exemplified in the drawings.
Dated this 6th day of January 1896.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23 Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for Applicant.