Improvements in Wash, Bidet, and Nursery Stands.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Aug., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 21st May, 1896-Accepted, 27th June, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wash, Bidet, and Nursery Stands.
I, WILLIAM ROBINSON, of Lower Stafford Street, Wolverhampton in the
County of Stafford, Hardware Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
Wash, bidet and nursery stands are very bulky compared with their weight, and
when the parts are riveted together so that they cannot be taken apart, the cost of
packing and carriage is so enormous compared with the cost of production that the
selling price in some of the far distant countries, and in places difficult of access, is
often prohibitive.
Now, this invention has for its object certain improvements in such stands for
the purpose, more especially, of enabling the different members thereof to be readily
fixed together by unskilled labour, so that the parts may be packed unconnected
and consequently in a very small compass, and be put together by the retailer
or user.
The above object is effected, according to this invention, by distancing apart the
transverse members of the frame (such as the top ring, the middle plate, and the
bottom plate or ring, or the like, of a wash or nursery stand) by hollow pillars, such
as iron or steel tubing sheathed with brass, and securely fixing the parts together
by bolts passed down through the pillars and through the transverse portions of the
framing and into hollow feet open at the underside within which the nuts are
screwed on to the ends of the bolts & are thus concealed. The heads of the bolts
may fit within countersunk holes in the top ring or other top of the frame so as to
be flush with the upper surface thereof.
For neatness of appearance, hollow sheet metal or other mountings may be placed
around the ends of the pillars, being conveniently held by portions thereof being
nipped between the ends of the pillars and the portions of the transverse members
of the frame which receive the thrust of the pillars.
The feet may be conveniently formed in cast iron of a cup or analogous shape.
This 20th dow of Anost 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wash, Bidet, and Nursery Stands.
I, WILLIAM ROBINSON, of Lower Stafford Street, Wolverhampton in the
County of Stafford, Hardware Merchant, 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 :-
Wash, bidet and nursery stands are very bulky compared with their weight, and
when the parts are riveted together so that they cannot be taken apart, the cost of
packing and carriage is so enormous compared with the cost of production that the
selling price in some of the far distant countries, and in places difficult of access, is
often prohibitive.
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page_text: Now, this invention has for its object certain improvements in such stands for the
purpose, more especially, of enabling the different members thereof to be readily
fixed together by unskilled labour, so that the parts may be packed unconnected
and consequently in a very small compass, and be put together by the retailer
or user.
The above object is effected, according to this invention, by distancing apart the
transverse members of the frame (such as the top ring, the middle plate, and the
bottom plate or ring, or the like, of a wash or nursery stand) by hollow pillars,
such as iron or steel tubing sheathed with brass, and securely fixing the parts
together by bolts passed down through the pillars and through the transverse
portions of the framing and into hollow feet, open at the underside, within which
the nuts are screwed on to the ends of the bolts and are thus concealed.. The heads
of the bolts may fit within countersunk holes in the top of the frame, so as
to be flush with the upper surfaces of the parts thereof through which the
bolts pass.
In order that the invention may be clearly understood, I have illustrated the
same, in the accompanying drawings, as applied, by way of examples, to a wash
stand and to a bidet stand.
Figure 1 is a vertical section through a wash stand, taken on the plane indicated
by line of Figure 2; and Figure 2 is a sectional plan thereof taken on the
plane indicated by line y y of Figure 1.
The top ring A, middle plate B, and bottom plate C, are distanced apart by
hollow pillars or tubes a, and are securely fixed together by bolts b which pass
through ears or lugs c of the top ring, through the pillars a, and through the ends
of both the sets of arms to which the plates are fixed (or, if desired, through the
plates themselves), and into hollow feet d, and are tightened up by nuts e which are
concealed within the feet. The heads fof the bolts may bear upon the tops of the
.ears c, as shewn, or may be countersunk within such ears so as to be flush therewith.
If, as is preferred, the heads are formed round as shewn, or are countersunk, the
portions of the bolts immediately beneath the heads should be square to prevent
the bolts turning as the nuts are screwed up. The hollow feet may be conveniently,
made of cast iron, and of a cup-shape as shewn.
For neatness of appearance, hollow sheet metal or other mountings g may be
placed around the ends of the pillars, as shewn, and be brazed or soldered thereto;
or such mountings may be formed with inward flanges which are nipped between
the ends of the pillars and the portions of the transverse members of the frame
which receive the thrust of the pillars, and be thus securely held in place.
Figure 3 is a vertical section.through a bidet stand, taken on the plane indicated
by line of Figure 4; and Figure 4 is a plan thereof. In this case, there are
no plates, and the top ring A and cross-framing C¹ are distanced apart by hollow
pillars or tubes a, and are securely fixed together by bolts b, the arrangement
corresponding in all essential particulars with that described with reference to the
wash stand illustrated by Figures 1 and 2, except that there is no break in the
length of the tubes, as there is no intermediate plate or cross-framing.
It will be seen that, in either case, the nuts may be readily unscrewed, and the
bolts removed. The parts are thus unfastened from one another, and may be
packed disconnected, and consequently in small compass. It will be seen, also, that
the parts may be readily refixed together by unskilled labour.
The application of the invention to nursery stands will now be obvious, without
need for further illustration or description.
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 :-
Wash, bidet, and nursery stands, constructed with hollow pillars, which act
as removable distance pieces between the transverse portions of the stands, and
with bolts which pass through such pillars and through parts which they distance

page_text: off and are provided with nuts by which they may be tightened up to fix the
separable parts of the stands together, substantially as described.
Dated this 18th day of May 1896.
STEPHEN WATKINS,
Wolverhampton, Agent for the Applicant.