An Improved Combination Toilet Requisite for Cyclists, Tourists, and others.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd May, 1896-Accepted, 25th July, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combination Toilet Requisite for Cyclists, Tourists,
and others.
I, JOSEPH COOK of 25 St. Mary Axe, in the City and County of London
Commercial Traveller 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 a new or improved case or container having any number
of parts easily connected and disconnected, and made wholly or partly of metal,
vulcanite, celluloid xylonite, bone, ivory or other suitable material or combination
of materials, the whole being of any desired shape or configuration externally most
suitable for easy carriage by walking or riding tourists or travellers, or adapted
for being fixed upon and carried by a bicycle tricycle or other similar manumotive
or mechanically propelled machine, and divided internally in any desired manner
most convenient according to its shape and configuration, so as to be capable of
containing and carrying a collapsable washing basin, towel, soap, comb, brush,
looking-glass, and a supply of washing or drinking water or both, and such or other
articles or refreshments as may be found convenient or necessary for enabling a
cyclist or other tourist or traveller to have a wash and brush up, or refreshment, or
both, at any moment or at any part of his or her journey.
In order that my said invention may be fully understood I have hereunto appended
a sheet of drawings of which :-
Fig. 1 is a central section of such a requisite, of tubular or cylindrical formation,
which renders it adaptable for easy attachment to the outside of a tourists knapsack,
or to the backbone of a gentleman's bicycle, as at Fig. 2, or to the seat standard of
a like machine for a lady rider.
Fig. 3 is a detached view of the washing basin and stand in a state of collapse
and carrying the towel, while Fig. 4 shows the same expanded and ready for use.
Fig. 5 is a view illustrating how the said case or container may be made to fit
the frame of a bicycle Fig. 2.
Fig. 6 is a like view illustrating how the said case or container may be made to
resemble externally a case carrying a field or binocular glass, and provided with
straps for suspension upon the shoulders of the tourist.
Referring to Fig. 1 in which my invention is shewn of cylindrical or tubular
formation, I prefer to construct this in four parts or chambers A, B, C and D but
do not confine myself to this or any number. The portion C I construct watertight,
and devote to carrying water for toilet purposes, this being provided with a screw
cap cork or its equivalent E, by which the vessel may be filled and emptied.
Where size is not an important consideration, or otherwise where desirable, I may
divide this into two compartments as suggested by the dotted line a, so that the
lower one may contain water, milk, or other liquor for drinking purposes, this
being provided with a like screw cap or cork 6 for filling and emptying the same.
One end of the section C would be so arranged as to receive and have screwed
or otherwise fixed thereto the chamber or section D, this forming the bottom end
or lower cap, and in which may be stored any article, useful or convenient to the
traveller, such for instance as a drinking-glass, nail-brush, or a collapsable or
other mirror c as shewn.. The opposite end of the chamber C would be arranged
to receive and be attached in like or other manner to the chamber B, in which may
be stored a brush d, comb e, sponge f, towel g, and the collapsable washing-basin
Figs. 3 and 4, the latter consisting of a collapsable frame F, of metal, wood, bone,
or other suitable material, and similar in form and construction to that of a fancy

page_text: collapsable flower-pot-case, and within the larger or upper end of this is placed, and
sewn, rivetted, or otherwise connected thereto, an elastic basin G, which may be
of rubber, rubber composition, canvas or other suitable and waterproof material,
capable of folding up when the frame F is collapsed as at Fig. 3, and the reverse
when the frame is expanded as at Fig. 4, when water from the chamber C may be
placed therein for ablutionary purposes, and after use, the towel g may be folded
and placed in G, and this and the frame F be collapsed as at Fig. 3, and be neatly
stored in the chamber B as at Fig. 1. The other or upper end of the chamber B
would be so arranged as to receive, and have screwed or otherwise fixed thereto,
the chamber A, this forming the upper end or top cap, and in this a cake of soap h
and any other article convenient for the use of the traveller may be placed.
In any convenient part or parts of the external surface of the container, suitable
loops or their equivalents such as H, may be provided for the reception of straps,
by which the whole may be fixed to the backbone of a gentleman's bicycle as shewn
by X, at Fig. 2, or to the seat standard or other convenient part of a ladies bicycle,
or to the bottom or top or other convenient part of a tourists knapsack.
In Fig. 5 I illustrate a like container of any material or materials, constructed
to fit the frame of a gentleman's bicycle as suggested by the dotted outline of this
in Fig. 2, and which may be divided into any number of parts or chambers, as
suggested by the dotted lines in Fig. 5, either of which, say the centre one or ones,
and j', may be arranged to hold water, and be provided with suitable nozzles E for
filling and emptying the same. Any number of loops such as H may be provided
upon the outer surface of the container for the reception of straps for fixing the
whole in position upon the machine.
In Fig. 6 I illustrate a.like container in the form of a field or binocular glass
case, provided with the usual strap holds H, by which it may be carried upon the
shoulder of the tourist. In like manner this may be divided into any number of
parts, each partitioned or divided to form any number of chambers for carrying
like or other articles convenient for the use of travellers.
I wish it understood that I do not confine myself to any material in the con-
struction of my said case or container for the use of travellers, nor to any particular
shape or configuration of the same externally nor to any particular manner of
dividing this internally, but may vary these details to any reasonable extent without
departing from the principle involved.
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 :-
1st. The construction and use of cases or holders made of any material, in any
number of parts, connected together by suitable means, the whole being of any
desired shape or configuration externally, and divided internally so as to provide
compartments for carrying a towel, sponge, soap, comb, brush, mirror, and other
articles, and water, useful for the comfort of bicyclists and other travellers, in
combination with a collapsable washing utensil substantially as herein described
and shewn.
2nd. In combination with a case or holder as set forth in the preceding claim,
and herein described and shewn, the construction and use of a collapsable frame
such as F, provided with a collapsable waterproof basin such as G, the whole
forming when expanded a washing utensil as at Fig. 4, and arranged to carry a
towel g when collapsed as at Fig. 3 substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 22nd day of May 1896.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
No. 1, Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.