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Year: 1898

page_text: I, JOSEPH PERCY BARRALET, Sidney Road, New Southgate, London, N.,
Electrician, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An improved dish, tray or stand; for soap, sponges, brushes or other articles,
consisting of a platform, grooved or corrugated in straight lines, so that it has
a number of projections, preferably arranged so that the spaces between them
form straight grooves.
The grooves may be in one or several directions.
Surrounding this grooved platform, or platform with projections, is a trough;
the outer edge or rim of which, is at a lower level than the lowest part of the
grooves or platform.
The grooves or platform being suitably sloped from the centre, the drainings
from any wet article, placed on the platform or projections, run freely into the
surrounding trough; even when the latter is full of water.
By this means the soap, sponge, brush, or other article,. is always kept clear
of the drainings.
The advantage of making the grooves straight is that the tray or stand can
be readily cleaned.
It is obvious that the platform and the surrounding trough can be made in
separate parts if desired."
Dated this 10th day of January 1898.
An Improved Soap or Sponge Tray.
I, JOSEPH PERCY BARRALET, of Sidney Road, New Southgate, London, N.,
Electrician, 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:
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The invention is an improved dish, stand, or tray for soap, sponge, or other
toilet articles; and consists of a platform with grooves or corrugations, or a plat-
form with projections, preferably so arranged that the spaces between them are
in effect grooves or corrugations, surrounded by a trough the outer edge or
rim of which is preferably at the same level as or lower than the lowest part
of the grooved platform.
The drawings attached shew the stand dish or tray in plan Fig. 1, in eleva-

page_text: tion Fig. 2, in section Fig. 3. The grooves (a) are preferably V or U shaped,
and straight, and either in one direction or crossing one another in different
directions. The drawings show them crossing at right angles.
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The projections (b) left by making the grooves in this manner are pyramidal,
which I consider the best form for the purpose.
They may however be projections of any other form which would serve to
support the soap sponge or other article above the body of the platform. (c) is
a groove formed by the side of the platform (d) on the inner side and a rim or
edge (e) on the outer side.
The edge or rim (e) is preferably of the same level as, or lower than the
grooves in the platform or the plane between the projections on the platform.
The platform or the grooves (a) are so sloped that any drainings run freely
from them into the surrounding trough (c).
The advantages of this dish stand or tray are as follows:
Any soap sponge or other wet article placed on it rests on a series of points
or projections only and thus being exposed to the atmosphere on all sides rapidly
dries.
The drainings run into the grooves (a) or onto the plane at the foot of the
projections (b) and from there into the trough (c).
The advantage of having the rim (e) lower than the lowest part of the plat-
form is that there is no chance of water or drainings flowing back onto the
platform or into the grooves and also the rim (e) does not interfere with the easy
cleaning or washing of the grooves or platform by means of a brush.
The object of having the grooves in straight lines is to facilitate this cleaning.
The stand may be of any shape and the trough need not surround it but may
be on one or two sides only, the platform being suitably arranged to direct the
drainings into the trough.
Having now described the nature of my said invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A stand dish or tray for soap sponge or other toilet articles, consisting of
a grooved platform or platform with projections suitably sloped and sur-
rounded by a trough to collect the drainings from wet articles placed on the
platform.
2. A stand dish or tray for soap sponge or other toilet articles consisting of
a grooved platform or platform with projections suitably sloped in combination
with a trough or troughs to collect the drainings.
3. A stand dish or tray for soap sponge or other toilet articles, consisting
of a grooved platform or platform with projections suitably sloped in combina-
tion with a trough or troughs to collect the drainings the outer edge or rim of
the trough being at the same or at a lower level than the base of the grooves
or platform.
Dadd then 10th
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