AN IMPROVED SHAVING MUG
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Wright, of Moorgate Street, in the City
of London, Merchant, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED SHAVING
MUG." A communication from abroad by Fisher M. Keeler, of
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Wright at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th July 1869.
I, JAMES WRIGHT, of Moorgate Street, in the City of London,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Ax
IMPROVED SHAVING MUG," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the combination of a soap receptacle with a
vessel for holding hot water, the object being to place and retain the
soap in a convenient position for use during the operation of shaving.
To this end a mug is formed with a handle at its lower part for holding
it; above this handle and projecting into the body of the mug is a

page_text: square or other shaped receptacle for the soap; this soap receptacle
partially closes the mug and thus forms a partial covering for the hot
water, whereby it is prevented from cooling so rapidly as would be the
case if its entire surface were exposed to the air. The shaving mug
may be constructed of earthenware, metal, or other suitable material,
and the water may be heated in it instead of in a separate vessel, if
desired.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Wright in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 8th January 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
WRIGHT, of Moorgate Street, in the City of London, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent bearing date the Eighth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-third
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said James Wright, Her special licence that I, the
said James Wright, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said James Wright, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might, make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man
an Invention for "AN IMPROVED SHAVING MUG," being a communication
to me from abroad by Fisher M. Keeler, of Boston, in the State of
Massachusetts, United States of America, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said James Wright, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Wright, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being had to the Drawing here-
unto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is
to say)-
This Invention relates to the combination of a soap receptacle with a
vessel for holding hot water, the object being to place and retain the
soap in a convenient position for use during the operation of shaving.
To this end a mug is formed with a handle at its lower part for holding
it; above this handle and projecting into the body of the mug is a
square or other shaped receptacle for the soap; this soap receptacle
partially closes the mug and thus forms a partial covering for the
hot water, whereby it is prevented from cooling so rapidly as would be
the case if its entire surface were exposed to the air.
In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the
improved shaving mug; and Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the
centre of the same.
A represents the portion of the mug for containing the water, it being
divided by means of a rectangular partition a, b, from the receptacle B
for holding the shaving soap, which is thus always at hand with the mug
in a position ready for use; C is the handle placed below the receptacle B
and serving to strengthen the structure of the mug.
It will be scen
that hot water placed in the portion A of the mug being partially covered
over by the bottom of the receptacle B will not cool so rapidly as would
be the case if its entire surface were exposed to the air. A shaving
mug formed as above described need occupy no more space than an
ordinary mug, while it possesses the advantage of two receptacles for
water and soap combined in one, it being merely necessary to dip the
brush from one to the other to use the amount of soap or water required.
The above-described mug may be constructed of earthenware, metal, or
other suitable material, and the water may be heated in it instead of in
a separate vessel, if desired.
Having now set forth the nature of the Invention of "An Improved
Shaving Mug" as communicated to me from abroad, and explained-the
manner of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that

page_text: under the above in part recited Letters Patent I claim, the construction
of shaving mug above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Wright, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Sixth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
JAS. WRIGHT. (L.S.)