Improved Housemaid's Kneeling Pad.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 5th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 6th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Housemaid's Kneeling Pad.
I, WALTER UPTON, of 29, Hill Street, Peckham, in the County of Surrey,
Patent Firewood Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:
My invention relates to improvements in housemaids' kneeling pads, and its
objects are to make the pad more compact than heretofore and also capable of
holding the brush, stone and cloth.
In carrying my invention into effect, I provide a pair of boxes-preferably
oblong without lids and each one open down one side. These boxes are hinged
together end to end, the open sides being aligned. A suitable device for holding
the two boxes together is provided on the ends opposite the hinge. A suitable
suspension device is also added. The bottoms of the two boxes are padded
externally.
When the boxes are moved on their hinge away from each other, the kneeling
pad is formed. When they are closed and fastened together, a box to hold the
brush stone and cloth is provided.
Dated this 8th day of March 1893.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Housemaid's Kneeling Pad.
I, WALTER UPTON of 29 Hill Street, Peckham, in the County of Surrey,
Patent Firewood 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in housemaids kneeling pads, and the
objects of it are to make the pad more compact than heretofore and also capable
of holding the brush, stone, soap and cloths.
In order that the invention and the means by which it is to be carried into
practical effect may be thoroughly understood, I will now describe it and them
in detail, referring in so doing to the accompanying figures which are to be taken
as part of this Specification and read therewith.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved pad out of use and hung up
on a hook with its then open side facing up to the wall from which the hook
projects.
Figure 2 is a perspective view of the same pad opened out ready for use.
A, A' are a pair of bottomless and single sided boxes. Each one is an exact
counterpart of the other of them, and consists of one side a, two ends b, and a
top c These boxes are illustrated as being oblong in shape because it is the
most suitable one for the purpose of the invention. Further, they are shewn as
being made of wood, but the invention does not confine me to any particular
material, for the boxes may be made of any material adapted to produce boxes
strong enough to bear the weight of the user as well as the swaying motion
which characterises an energetic one when she is at work. The tops care both
fitted independently of each other with outside pads c¹. These are held to their

page_text: respective tops in any suitable way. The one illustrated consists of covers of
some suitable material stuffed and nailed to the side and the ends and to one
edge of the top.
The two boxes are hinged together along the bottom edges of an end of each.
The figure shew the use for this purpose of a single backflap hinged d screwed to
the outer faces of the box-ends and having its pin d' close to and parallel with the
said bottom edges. This position of the pin d'the practicable axis of the hinge-
provides for the two boxes being opened until the outer edges of the sides a and
ends b, bare in one and the same plane and the tops c in another and parallel one
as shewn in Figure 2, and also for the two boxes being brought with their said outer
edges close together as shewn in Figure 1. The axis of the hinge or pivot-what-
ever kind may be made use of-is always parallel with the planes containing the
bottom edges of the ends b, and sides c. When the two boxes have been brought
together in the manner described in the last sentence, my invention requires that
they be held in that position, but releasably so. For this purpose, there is provided,
a suitable device. I have illustrated the use of a hook and eye e, e¹ which is at
once simple, cheap and efficient. The cavity of the two boxes held together as
described is the receptacle for the brush, stone or soap and cloths. Further, I
make a central hole in the ends opposite the hinge d preferably by cutting semi-
circles, into the said ends from their bottom edges and opposite each other.
The hole permits of the pad with the brush stone or soap and cloths inside being
hung up safely out of the way by passing the said hole over a hook g projecting
from a wall for a distance not less than the distance from the bottom edges of the
said ends to the circumference of the hole, the open side of the receptacle being
presented to the wall.
It must be pointed out that the position of the hinge at the ends of the boxes is
the one which I prefer but my invention does not limit me to it.
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 :-
1. The combination of two boxes, bottomless and single sided, by a hinge the
axis of which is parallel with the plane containing the bottom edges of the sides
and ends of the said boxes.
2. The combination of two boxes bottomless and single sided, a hinge or pivot
hingeing or pivotting the one to the other, the axis of the said hinge or pivot being
parallel with the plane containing the bottom edges of the sides and ends of the
said boxes, and a device for holding the two boxes with the bottom edges of each
facing those of the other.
3. The combination of two boxes bottomless and single sided, a hinge or pivot,
hingeing or pivotting the one to the other the axis of the said hinge or pivot being
parallel with the plane containing the bottom edges of the side and ends of the said
boxes, a device for holding the two boxes with the bottom edges of each other facing
each other and a device for suspending the boxes so held together with their cavity
presented to a wall from which projects the hook or its equivalent from which the
boxes are suspended.
4. The combination of two boxes bottomless and single sided, a hinge or pivot
hingeing or pivotting the one to the other in the relative positions hereinbefore
set forth, a device for holding the two boxes together and pads on their tops.
Dated this 5th day of December 1893.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.