Year: 1886

page_text: I MARY ANNE ELIZA TAYLOR, Wife of Franklin Taylor, of 41 Powis Square, in
the County of Middlesex, Professor of. Music do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of a portable commode which is intended more particularly
for the use of children during long railway journies but which is available at other
times in the nursery or otherwise.
For travelling purposes it is important to so construct the commode that the
contents of the pan or container will not be upset in the event of the commode
being turned on its side or inverted, that the pan will not be liable to break if the
commode be allowed to fall, and that the external appearance of the apparatus will
resemble a bonnet box or other like box and therefore not attract notice.
objects are all attained by my portable commode or travelling convenience which
I will now proceed to explain.
These
Within a box of oval, circular, or other form and preferably made of japanned
iron I arrange a sort of skeleton frame or cage to receive a loose pan or container
which may be of earthenware or other suitable material. This skeleton frame
according to the preferred construction consists of a metal ring or belt to receive
the upper part of the pan and of four or other number of bent wires which radiate
from the ring, and which hook or take into loops made to receive them on the
inside of the box. At the bottom of the box is a socket or circular rib to receive
the lower part of the pan and in this socket is a pad of felt or other suitable
material preferably loose--for the bottom of the pan to rest on. The box is
fitted with a hinged or other lid to be fastened by means of a hasp and padlock or
otherwise, and on the inside of the lid is a waterproof pad, which may be made of
felt covered with india rubber and which when the lid is shut fits upon the rim
or top of the pan and hermetically closes it. This pad is secured to the lid in a
manner that allows of its being readily removed for washing, two or more tongues
on the inside of the flange of the lid are sufficient to hold it when in place.
From the construction above described it will be readily understood that as the
pan when the lid is closed is held at top and bottom by pads and at the sides by a
skeleton frame having a certain amount of elasticity it will not be easily broken
by a fall or concussion, that as the top of the pan is hermetically closed by the
waterproof pad the contents cannot escape no matter in what position the commode
is placed, and that as there is nothing in the external appearance of the commode
to distinguish it from ordinary boxes of similar size used for bonnets or other
articles it will not attract notice.

page_text: I, MARY ANN ELIZA TAYLOR Wife of Franklin Taylor of 41 Powis Square in
the County of Middlesex, Professor of Music 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 consists of a portable commode which is intended more particularly
for the use of children during long railway journies, but which is available at other
times in the nursery or otherwise.
For travelling purposes it is important to so construct the commode that the
contents of the pan or container will not be spilled in the event of the commode
being turned on its side or inverted, that the pan will not be liable to break if the
commode be allowed to fall, and that the external appearance of the apparatus will
resemble a bonnet box or other like box and therefore not attract notice. These
objects are all attained by my portable commode or travelling convenience which
I will now proceed to explain with the aid of the annexed drawings which
represent it in the preferred or approved form.
Figure 1 is a vertical section and Figure 2 a perspective view of the commode
when closed; Figure 3 is a plan of the same when open.
a is a box which in the figures is shown as of oval form but it may be circular
or of other shape; it is preferably made of japanned iron. Within this box
I arrange a sort of skeleton frame or cage to receive a loose pan or container b
which may be of earthenware or other suitable material. This skeleton frame
according to the preferred construction shown in the figures consists of a metal
ring or belt c to receive the upper part of the pan and of four (or other number of.)
bent wires d which radiate from the ring c and which hook or take into loops e
made to receive them on the inside of the box. At the bottom of the box is a
socket or circular rib f to receive the lower part of the pan and in this socket is
a pad g of felt or other suitable material-preferably loose for the bottom of the
pan to rest on. The box is fitted with a hinged or other lid h to be fastened by
means of a hasp i and padlock or otherwise, and on the inside of the lid is a
waterproof pad k which may be made of felt covered with india rubber and which
when the lid is shut fits upon the rim or top of the pan as seen in Figure 1 and
hermetically closes it. This pad is secured to the lid in a manner that allows of its
being readily removed for washing; two or more tongues ll on the inside of the
flange of the lid are sufficient to hold it when in place.
From the construction above described it will be readily understood that as the
pan b when the lid h is closed is held at top and bottom by the pads g and k and
at the sides by the skeleton frame c d which has a certain amount of elasticity it
will not be easily broken by a fall or concussion, that as the top of the pan is
hermetically closed by the waterproof pad g the contents cannot escape no matter
in what position the commode is placed, and that as there is nothing in the
external appearance of the commode to distinguish it from ordinary boxes of
similar size used for bonnets or other articles it will not attract notice.

page_text: 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. A portable commode or travelling convenience constructed substantially as
hereinbefore described.
2. As characteristic parts or features in the said commode, the removable water-
proof pad g attached to the lid and hermetically closing the pan or container, and
the skeleton frame or cage as shown and described.