An Improved Ornamental or other Stand or Device for Diffusing Scents, Disinfectants, or other Chemicals.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 14th June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 10th Jan., 1893-Accepted, 18th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Ornamental or other Stand or Device for Diffusing
Scents, Disinfectants, or other Chemicals.
1, SAMUEL EBENEZER FIRMINGER of "Ravenswood" Forest Hill Road
Honor Oak, London, in the County of Kent, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a device (ornamental or otherwise) for diffusing scents,
deodourisers or other chemicals or similar compounds and is as follows:-
I mix granulated charcoal or other suitable carbon or compounds of carbon and
other material with any suitable binding material such as tar or the like and press
same into moulds of the desired shape, and after subjecting these moulded articles
to heat (after the manner of constructing domestic filter blocks) these moulded
carbon articles are impregnated with eucalyptus or other similar oils or other
disinfectants, deodourisers, scents or the like chemicals or compounds to be diffused
in a room or other apartment.
.
I advantageously form these carbon blocks into the shape and form required for
inkstands (so as to receive any suitable inkpot therein) or stands or blocks to receive
flower vases or for other uses or apparatus ornamental or otherwise the object of
my invention being to produce a useful or other article such as an inkstand which
while of use in the room also serves to diffuse said chemicals or the like.
These said articles may be of a varied shape, form and size and may be used
either by this or in combination with other material or materials or articles.
Dated this 14th dor of June 1892.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Ornamental or other Stand or Device for Diffusing.
Scents, Disinfectants, or other Chemicals.
I, SAMUEL EBENEZER FIRMINGER of "Ravenswood," Forest Hill Road,
Honor Oak, in the County of Kent, Manufacturer, 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 device for disseminating perfume, or a disinfecting or
deodorizing agent, in the atmosphere of a room and has for its object to provide a
means whereby the functions of a perfume or other disseminator may be con-
veniently combined with those of an article of utility or ornament such as an
inkstand, a candle-holder, a flower-stand, a paper-weight, or a table ornament, so
that by reason of the article being generally in proximity to the occupant of the
room the full benefit of the volatile odoriferous or other liquids may be obtained.
The device is constructed of a porous block of carbon adapted by its form to
receive, or form the supporting stand for, an ink-pot, a candle-socket, a flower-
holder or vase, or the like table ornament, the carbon block being impregnated
with eucalyptus or other antiseptic oil or volatile liquid having disinfecting,
deodorizing, or odoriferous qualities, by pouring it into the cavity in the block and
allowing it to be absorbed, and being contained in a metal casing or base of a more
or less ornamental character which while protecting the carbon block from being
chipped or otherwise injured leaves sufficient of its porous surface exposed to the

page_text: air to permit of the slow evaporation or dissemination of the disinfectant,
deodorizer, or perfume, with which it is impregnated as above mentioned.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming part of this
Specification, as applied to the purpose of an inkstand and candle-holder respectively,
but it will be readily understood that by a slight modification of form and
dimensions it may be applied to the other purposes herein referred to.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the inkstand complete, and
Figure 2 is a similar view of a candle-holder.
Figure 3 is a vertical section, and Figure 4 a plan of the carbon block and its
protective frame or base, as shewn in Figure 1, the ink pot being removed.
The same letters of reference denote like parts in all the figures.
The carbon block a is made of granulated charcoal, or of a mixture thereof with
other carbonaceous materials agglomerated by means of pressure and a binding
material such as tar, compressed into moulds of suitable shape, and subjected to
heat (somewhat in the manner of making porous carbon blocks for domestic water
filters) in order to distil or burn off the binding material as far as possible and
produce a hard coherent and very porous block capable of absorbing a large
quantity of liquid.
The block is made, preferably, of cylindrical or approximately cylindrical form and
with a conical or other shaped cavity b in its upper side to receive the ink-pot, candle-
socket, flower-vase, or other article which it is intended to support and it is fitted
into an enclosing frame c supported on feet or a flange, the bottom of the enclosing
frame being open and the sides of the frame being, preferably, of open work and
the top of the block being left wholly uncovered to permit free evaporation or
dissemination of the liquid or odor.
Or the enclosing frame may merely be a couple of circumferential bands of a
more or less ornamental character surrounding the block at top and bottom so as to
When intended for use as a
protect its edges from injury, as seen in Figure 2.
candle-holder it is preferred that it should have a handle as shewn in the latter
figure.
When the device is used in schools the enclosing frame might be omitted and
the block let into a cavity in the desk.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is-
The herein described combined absorptive block and stand for holding and
disseminating perfume or antiseptic liquids and supporting an ink-pot, flower-vase,
or table ornament, substantially as specified.
Dated this 10th day of January 1902.
S. E. FIRMINGER,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.