IMPROVEMENTS IN BATHS AND WASHING ŬTENSILS
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 18th May, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 28th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 31st Dec., 1888
I GEORGE JOHN FLAMANK of 39 Wolverhampton Road, Stafford Inland Revenue
Officer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN BATHS
AND WASHING ŬTENSILS to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to supply and affix to Baths and washing utensils,
when used, convenient movable receptacles for soap, sponges &c.
In many houses, particularly in the houses of the working classes when baths &c.
are used the soap is wasted by being kept in the water, or is placed in a saucer or soap
dish on a chair or on the floor: and when a person is in a bath it is inconvenient to
reach over it to a soap dish so placed.
For the common zinc or tinned baths I have a soap dish made of metal or other
material with a slip of sufficient length and strength bent closely together so as to
hook over the edge of the bath or washing utensil. Some of the baths &c. have
fastened in them small studs, or staples on which to hang the dishes either inside or
outside the bath, and for some particularly the large beaded baths I have the dishes
connected with spring clips of sufficient size to go over the rim and fasten at any
part of the top of the bath that may be considered, by the user, most convenient. The
need of such a dish is shewn in Pear's advertisement" He wont be happy till he
gets it."
For wash tubs &c. the bent slip, wire, or clip is made sufficiently wide to hook over
tubs of various thicknesses, and hold the dishes either inside or outside the vessel.
The strips of some are so doubled, and the receptacles made so as to have a place for
soap at one side and one for the sponge &c. at the other. Some of them are made
out of one piece of material and others of parts put together. Some of the receptacles
are held in place by thumb screws. The dishes or receptacles, made rather deep
than wide to hold cakes of soap &c edgewise so as not to project too far into or beyond
the vessel, may be made of metal pottery ware, glass, gutta percha or other suitable
material singly or combined and be fixed temporarilly to baths &c. in many ways,
known to workmen, beside those described above.
1000

page_text: I GEORGE JOHN FLAMANK of 39 Wolverhampton Road, Stafford Inland Revenue
Officer 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:
The object of my invention is to supply and affix to baths and washing utensils when
in use, convenient movable adjustable receptacles for holding soap, sponge &c.
In many houses, particularly in those of the working classes, when baths are used,
the soap is wasted by being kept in the water; or it is placed in a plate or dish on the
floor, or on a chair, and when a person is in a bath it is inconvenient to reach over it
to get the soap &c. when so placed.
For some baths, particularly the common zinc or tinned ones, I have a soap dish or
tray of metal, or other suitable material formed with a strip, of sufficient length and
strength, bent or made so as to slip over the edge of the bath.
soap dish
In some baths &c. I have small studs fastened on which may be hung the
either inside or outside; or the studs may be on the dish, and slots made in the
baths, near the tops of the vessels, to receive them..
For some, particularly the large beaded baths, I have the dishes or trays connected
with metal clips of sufficient size, and so formed as to grip tightly over any part of
the beaded edge or rim of the bath. The need of such a dish is shewn in Messrs.
Pears advertisement-"He wont be happy till he gets it."
For wash tubs I use a dish with a clip, or a slip bent sufficiently to grip or hook on
tubs of various thicknesses either inside or outside as may be desired; or 1 annex
them by a stud or studs fastened in the tubs.
The dishes may be made of glass, metal, porcelain, wood, gutta percha, paper, or
metal combined with the foregoing or any other suitable material, and may be shaped
so as to fit the sloping or curved sides of various utensils.
I prefer to make the dishes, deep rather than wide, so as to take the soap
edgewise, and not project too far into, or outside, the vessel; and also so as to be
immediately attached or detached.
It is obvious there are several ways of attaching, or annexing, these dishes, and
I do not confine myself to the means above described.
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
The improvement in baths and washing utensils by affixing or annexing to them
temporarily, when in use, movable, and adjustable receptacles for soap and sponge.
Dated this Twenty seventh day of November 1888.