Improvements in or Additions to Sinks, Lavatory Basins, Slop Hoppers, and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improvements in or Additions to Sinks, Lavatory Basins, Slop
Hoppers, and the like.
I, THOMAS WILLIAM TWYFORD, Managing Director of Twyfords Limited, of
Cliffe Vale Pottery, Hanley, Staffordshire, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to sinks, lavatory basins, slop hoppers, kneading troughs
and other kindred articles, especially for domestic uses and made in enamelled
fire clay although the same may be made in metal or other similar material, and
has for its object, to provide or arm certain parts of such articles with a soft
material, such as wood, for the purpose of preventing the breakage of articles
being washed or otherwise used by coming in contact with the hard or vitreous
material; for preventing the hands or arms of the person using the sink or basin
coming against the cold earthenware and also to protect the articles thus armed
or provided from being chipped or damaged by buckets or the like being
dropped onto the edges in throwing in water or slops.
In carrying out my invention in connection with an enamelled fire clay
kitchen sink, or a combined slop hopper and sink, a middle portion or portions of
the top edge of the front is cut away or recessed, and into which a wooden
insertion, preferably of greater breadth than the edging itself, is fitted. This
"inserta" fitting may stand a little above the surface of the edge, or may lie flush
with and conform to, the same, or the wooden protection may be fitted or applied
onto a plain edge without previously recessing the same, or it may be wrapped
around or slipped lengthwise upon, a beaded or similarly formed edging and
secured in position by any suitable means.
Instead of employing wooden insertions, I may use cork, felt or other
composition.
The application of my invention to lavatory basins, kneading troughs, slop-,
housemaids-, and other sinks, trays of earthenware or the like, differs in no
essential respect from its application to a fire-clay kitchen sink as herein
described.
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page_text: Improvements in or Additions to Sinks, Lavatory Basins, Slop
Hoppers, and the like.
I, THOMAS WILLIAM TWYFORD, Managing Director of Twyfords Limited, of
Cliffe Vale Pottery, Hanley, Staffordshire, 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 sinks, lavatory basins, slop-hoppers, kneading troughs
and other kindred articles, principally for domestic uses and made in porcelain
or enamelled fire clay, although the same may be made in metal or other similar
material, and the invention has for its object, to provide or arm certain parts of
such articles with a soft material, such as wood, for the purpose of preventing
the breakage of articles being washed or otherwise used by coming in contact
with the hard or vitreous material, for preventing the hands or arms of the
person using the sink or basin coming against the cold earthenware and also to
protect the articles thus armed or provided from being chipped or damaged by
buckets or the like being dropped onto the edges in throwing in slops or water.
Figures 1 and 2 represent my invention applied to two different forms of
combination sink.
Figure 3 is a vertical section upon an enlarged scale of a part of Figure 1 upon
the dotted line a¹.
In carrying out my invention in connection with an enamelled fire-clay kitchen
sink, or a combined washing up and slop sink, as shown in Figure 1, middle
portions of the top edge a², of the front a³, are cut away or recessed at at, a³, and
into these recesses, wooden insertions b, c, preferably of rather greater breadth
than the edging itself are fitted. These "inserta" fittings in the arrangement
shown stand a little above the surface of the edge, although they may equally
well lie flush with and conform to the same, or the wooden protection may be
fitted or applied onto a plain edge without previously recessing the same, or it
may be wrapped around or slipped lengthwise upon, a beaded or similarly formed
edging and secured in position by any suitable means.
Instead of the employment of wooden insertions, I may use cork, felt or other
composition.
In the arrangement Figure 2, which is a combined washing-up sink a, and
lavatory basin, only the top edge a¹, of the former is recessed to receive the
"inserta" fitting b, but the insertion may, if required, be applied to the front
edges of both basin and sink.
In ordinary sinks, the insertion may run along the whole length of the top
front wall, or may only be applied to the middle or other suitable part.
:
The application of my invention to lavatory basins, kneading troughs, slop,
housemaids and other sinks, trays of earthenware or the like, differs in no
essential respect from its application to a fire-clay kitchen sink as herein
described.
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
First: The combination with a sink, slop hopper, lavatory basin, kneading
trough or the like-whether alone or in combination of a wooden or other soft
facing attached to a rim, or to the front rim thereof, substantially as and for
the purpose described and set forth.

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Secondly A sink, slop hopper, lavatory basin, kneading trough or the like,
having a section removed from its top front wall and a wooden facing strip
seated in the gap thus formed, substantially as and for the purpose described
and set forth.
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THOMAS WILLIAM TWYFORD,
By Henry Skerrett,
24, Temple Row, Birmingham,
Agent for Applicant.