An Improved Fitting for Puff Powder Receptacles.
Year: 1898

page_text: IDIONAL
DEMUITICATION.
An Improved Fitting for Puff Powder Receptacles.
ELIZABETH CUMMING, 2, Army & Navy Mansions, Victoria Street, Westminster,
London, Lady, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of a perforated piece of material of any kind made to
slip inside box or purse to allow powder to pass through to prevent getting too
much on the puff.
An Improved Fitting for Puff Powder Receptacles.
ELIZABETH CUMMING, 2, Army & Navy Mansions, Victoria Street, Westminster,
London, Lady, 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:-
This invention relates to an improved fitting for puff-powder receptacles, and
has for its object the regulation of the quantity of powder deposited at one time
on the powder puff, and consequently the prevention of an excessive application of
powder to the face for example, and the spilling of the powder onto the clothes of
the user.
According to my invention I employ a box or any other convenient receptacle
for the powder, and I place any desired quantity of powder therein. I then place
over or on the powder a plate or disc fitting more or less closely the internal sur-
face of the box or other receptacle, and adapted to rest on the top of the powder,
or it may rest, by a flanged edge formed on its underside, upon the bottom of
the box. Or the circumference of the said plate may be adapted to engage with
a screw-thread formed on the interior surface of the box, or its adjustment may
be otherwise provided for, by a central screw and nut for example. The plate is
provided with holes of any convenient number and size, according to the quantity
of powder it is desired to deposit on the puff, which latter normally rests on the
top side of the said plate.
In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 illustrates in vertical section a puff
box fitted in accordance with my invention, and Figure 2 is a similar view of a
box and puff contained within a leather or other purse or bag for carrying in
the pocket

page_text: In Figure 1 A is a powder-box of ordinary construction with screwed lid A¹, B
is the powder, C is a perforated plate with a flange C adapted to engage with a
screw-thread C2 formed on the internal surface of the box A as shewn. Or the
plate C may rest alone on the top surface of the powder B, or may rest on the
bottom of the box A by a suitable flange. C³ is a ring by which the plate C may
be removed or rotated when required. D is the powder-puff.
In. Figure 2 A is a purse or bag of leather or other suitable material; with a
metal frame A¹ hinged at A2 and provided with any suitable fastening, A3 for
example. The purse or bag may be conveniently furnished with a small mirror A+
on its underside. B is the powder which may be placed loose in the purse or bag,
or preferably in a metal or other box A provided with a perforated lid C as shewn.
1) is the powder-puff.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim
is:
First. In puff-powder boxes or receptacles the employment of a perforated
plate by means of which only a pre-determined quantity of powder is deposited
on the puff, substantially as described with reference to the drawings.
Second. In puff-powder boxes or receptacles fitted as described in the first claim-
ing clause hereof the means for making the perforated plate adjustably sub-
stantially as described.
Dated this 3rd day of March 1800
E. CUMMING,
Per W. H. Beck,
115, Cannon Street, London, E.C., Agent.