Holders for Soap and other Articles, with a Device for Fixing to Pails, Tubs, and like Vessels.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 5th June, 1895-Accepted, 3rd Aug.. 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Holders for Soap and other Articles, with a Device for Fixing to
Pails, Tubs, and like Vessels.
I. CHARLES EBENEZER CHALLIS of No. 30 Navarino Road, Hackney
London N.E. Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
To provide a receptacle that may be readily attached to pails tubs or other
vessels, and which will hold the soap above the water; thereby avoiding the
inconvenience and mess of keeping the soap outside the pail and the waste
consequent upon leaving it in the water.
I construct a perforated tray or dish of suitable dimensions and shape to contain
the soap etc., upon this are legs to steady it against the side of the pail, and at each
end are formed lugs-set at an angle with each other but in the same plane-in
which wire arms are inserted, their withdrawal being prevented by screwing, heads,
flats, sleeves, or otherwise. These arms after projecting over the side of the
vessel are bent backwards at an acute angle and then curve away from the straight
stems so that the ultimate angle of the ends with the stems is obtuse.
The intention is to provide for the considerable variation in thickness between
metal and wooden vessels, and it will be understood that when the ends of the
arms are turned to point in opposite directions they are practically paraliel with the
back of the dish, with a wide distance between them, while as the arms are turned
(downwards) to approach each other the space between them and the back of the
dish is gradually diminished until the ends actually impinge upon it.
Thus any substance interposed between the arms and the dish may be gripped.
The ends of the arins may be sheathed with rubber or other protective
covering.
The wire arms are not necessarily bent in the precise manner indicated and in
place of them I may use a curved wire thrust longitudinally through a diagonal
hole.
Dated the 5th d... f Soutom han 1001
C. E. CHALLIS.
Holders for Soap and other Articles, with a Device for Fixing to
Pails, Tubs, and like Vessels.
1, CHARLES EBENEZER CHALLIS of No. 30 Navarino Road Hackney
London N.E. Machinist 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 :-
To provide a receptacle that may be readily attached to and detached from pails
tubs or other vessels and which will hold the soap above the water, thereby avoiding
the inconvenience and mess of keeping the soap outside the pail, and the wast
consequent upon leaving it in the water.

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tray or dish, preferably perforated, of suitable shape and
dimensions to contain the soap etc.; upon the side of this are legs or projections to
steady it against the side of the vessel to which it is attached, at each end of the
soap holder wire arms are inserted in lugs, these lugs are usually placed upon the
same plane as the top of the holder and are set at an angle of about 30° with each
other, the wire arms are inserted in the lugs and have heads flats, screws, nuts,
sleeves or an equivalent device upon them to prevent their withdrawal; the arms
project outwards a certain distance and are then bent at an angle of about 60°, the
extreme ends being rounded away from the straight stem.
This construction allows for the considerable variation of thickness between
metal and wood vessels, for when the arms are turned so that the ends point away
from each other there is a wide space between them and the back of the soap
holder, but as they are turned towards each other they gradually approach the
back of the soap holder until they actually impinge upon it, or grip tightly upon
any pail or other vessel that is interposed between them.
The arms need not necessarily be shaped precisely as indicated, for I may use
a curved wire thrust through a hole bored diagonally towards the back of the soap
holder.
The ends of the arms may be sheathed with rubber leather or other protective
covering.
The accompanying illustrations Figs. 1 and 2 show the front and back views
respectively of a soap holder attached to a pail, A being the pail; B the soap
holder, E. E. the lugs thereon; and FF the wire arms turned to grip the pail.
Fig. 3 shows the plan, with the movement of the wire arms indicated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :.
A holder for soap and other articles with a device for fixing to pails tubs and
like vessels, substantially as described and shown.
Dated the 4th day of June 1895.
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C. E. CHAL