An Improved Housemaid's Mat and Bucket Carrier.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 21st Oct., 1895-Accepted, 30th Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Housemaid's Mat and Bucket Carrier.
I, FRANCES THEODORA EVANS, of Moreton Court, near Hereford, Gentlewoman,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved housemaid's mat and is constructed and
arranged so that the user may easily move about in any direction when scrubbing
without rising from the ground as is the case with those at present in use.
This invention consists in mounting an ordinary housemaid's mat upon a number
of castors or small wheels having india rubber tyres so that the user when it is
necessary to move back or to one side can push herself or himself back on the mat
without rising therefrom, thus saving a considerable amount of time and trouble.
Formed in one with the housemaid's mat above described I construct a small
platform having stays arranged thereon for holding a pail or bucket, or if desired
the platform may be detachable therefrom and used separately as a small trolley.
Dated this 19th day of December 1894.
I FRANCES THEODORA EVANS of Moreton Court, near Hereford, 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:-
.This invention relates to an improved housemaid's mat and is constructed and
arranged so that the user may casily move about in any direction when scrubbing
without rising from the ground as is the case with those at present in use.
This invention consists in mounting an ordinary housemaid's mat upon a number
of castors or small wheels having india rubber tyres, so that the user, when it is
necessary to move back or to one side, can push herself or himself back on the
mat, without rising therefrom, thus saving a considerable amount of time and
trouble.
Formed in one with the housemaid's mat above described, I construct a small
platform having stays arranged thereon for holding a pail or bucket or if desired,
the platform may be detached therefrom and used separately as a small trolley.
In order that the invention may be more clearly understood, reference is had to
the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which
Fig. 1 shews a housemaid's mat according to my invention in side elevation,
Fig. 2 is a similar view of the arrangement furnished with a frame for holding
the pail, and
Fig. 3 shews the pail carrier separate.
A is the mat carried by a wooden or other base, to the lower side of which the
castors or wheels B are secured. These castors are of the ordinary description,
but are preferably furnished with rubber tyres 6 the castors permitting the mat to

page_text: be moved freely in any direction. As shewn in Fig. 2 the mat may be furnished
with an extension A¹ consisting of a light metal frame or board on which the
bucket C may be carried. Arms o projecting upwardly from the platform are
employed to prevent the pail falling off. The pail carrier can be used separately
as shewn in Fig. 3, the platform A being furnished with extensions and means for
retaining the pail.
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.) An improved housemaid's mat, consisting of a frame or platform to which
are secured a number of castors or wheels, allowing the mat to be readily moved,
substantially as described, and for the purposes specified.
(2.) An improved housemaid's mat carried upon castors or wheels, and furnished
with a platform on which a pail can be carried substantially as described and for
the purposes specified.
(3.) The improved housemaid's mat and pail carrier constructed substantially as
described and shewn, and for the purposes specified.
. Dated this 19th day of October 1895.
GEO). H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.
GEO). H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.