Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 28th July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 27th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 29th May, 1897
LOUIS BIER of 104 Rue Belliard, Brussels, Belgium, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is intended to serve as a toilet soap holder.
It is composed of two standards made of iron or any other metal, and furnished
with a foundation-plate having perforations enabling the standards to be fixed to a
wall or any other support. The upper part of the standards, which are arranged
parallel to each other, has an opening which serves to admit a screw. These
screws engage in the extremities of a square wooden axis on which there is forced,
mechanically, a roll of hard soap.
The cylindrical form has been chosen in order to ensure the uniform and regular
use of the soap. The cylinder turns with a resisting friction.
This soap holder is of undoubted utility in banking houses, business and
government offices, restaurants and hotels as well as in private dwellings.
Its principal advantages are: economy, cleanliness and hygiene.
The economy results from the fact that only the exact quantity of soap necessary
for washing one's hands, face or body, can be used at a time since the lather
required is obtained by rubbing the soap with the hands, cloth, sponge or whatever
else is employed for the purpose, instead of taking the whole piece in one's hands
and dipping it in the water, which always entails the waste of at least twice or
three times what is actually required for washing.
The cleanliness may also be ascribed to the same cause, since the lather does not
form on the soap, but solely on the hands, the cloth, sponge or other object rubbed
against the soap. In this way is avoided the disagreeable and more or less dirty
froth, which dries upon the soap or forms a scum on whatever it is laid upon, when
used in the ordinary fashion. Continual cleaning, almost impossible in public
establishments, is no longer necessary where my system is adopted.
Sanitary advantages naturally accompany the cleanliness which is secured as
above shewn; as a matter of fact the dried-up lather or auds formed by the use of
cakes of soap in the ordinary way and frequently charged with substances dangerous
to health passing from hand to hand, may spread infection.
Dated this 27th day of July 1896
L. DUVINAGE,
Agent for Applicant.
I, LOUIS BIER of 104 Rue Belliard, Brussels, Belgium, Manufacturer, 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 abiect of my invention is intended to serve as a toilet soap holder.

page_text: It is composed of two standards A, made of iron or any other metal, and furnished
with a foundation plate a having perforations enabling the standards to be fixed to
a wall or any other support.
The upper part of the standards, which are arranged parallel to each other, has
an opening which serves to admit a screw, b. These screws engage in the
-extremities of a square wooden axis on which there is forced, mechanically, a roll
of hard soap B.
The cylindrical form has been chosen in order to ensure the uniform and regular
use of the soap. The cylinder turns with a resisting friction.
This soap holder is of undoubted utility in banking houses, business and
government offices, restaurants and hotels as well as in private dwellings.
Its principal advantages are: economy, cleanliness and hygiene.
The economy results from the fact that only the exact quantity of soap necessary
for washing one's hands face or body, can be used at a time since the lather
required is obtained by rubbing the soap with the hands, cloth, sponge or whatever
else is employed for the purpose, instead of taking the whole piece in one's hands
and dipping it in the water, which always entails the waste of at least twice or
three times what is actually required for washing.
The cleanliness may also be ascribed to the same cause, since the lather does not
form on the soap, but solely on the hands, the cloth, sponge or other object rubbed
against the soap. In this way, is avoided the disagreeable and more or less dirty
froth, which dries upon the soap or forms a scum on whatever it is laid upon, when
used in the ordinary fashion. Continual cleaning, almost impossible in public
establishments, is no longer necessary where my system is adopted.
Sanitary advantages naturally accompany the cleanliness which is secured as
above shewn; as a matter of fact the dried-up lather or suds formed by the use of
"cakes of soap in the ordinary way and frequently charged with substances dangerous
to health passing from hand to hand, may spread infection.
Having now 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 :-
An economical soap holder, which is recommendable on grounds of health and
sanitation, distinguished by a roll of hard soap mounted on an axis held at its
extremities by two screws in two supports, or standards, fixed in a bottom plate, or
to a wall, a piece of furniture or the like support, the roll of soap turning with a
certain frictional resistance the whole as shewn in the accompanying drawing and
for the purpose above specified.
Deted this 26th den of Aoi 1907
L. DUVINAGE,
Agent for Applicant.