Improvements in Apparatus for Delivering Soap in Small Quantities as Required.
Year: 1892

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Delivering Soap in Small Quantities
as Required.
1, FRIEDRICH RENNINGER of 2 Bibergasse Frankfurt a Main in the Empire of
Germany 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 for improvements in apparatus for delivering soap in small
quantities as required has for its object to provide a soap holder suitable for the
lavatories of hotels, restaurants, railway carriages and the like in which the soap
is securely held so that it cannot be taken away in one piece, but so that any person
can obtain small quantities of the soap for cleansing purposes in a perfectly clean
condition instead of being covered with soap suds, or dirty, as is often the case
when the pieces of soap are put in lavatories without any protection, and
consequently that no person will have any reluctancy to use the same; and consists
essentially in a receptacle for the soap provided with a means for closing and
locking the receptacle and with a means for detaching small portions of the soap for
usc. This arrangement prevents waste of soap, is simple, in construction so that it
is not liable to damage and easily taken to pieces for cleansing, repairs, or
introducing fresh soap, and readily put together again and locked so that it can be
attended to by unskilled attendants.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings:-
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Figure 1 is a section of the apparatus for delivering soap in small quantities and
Figure 2 is an elevation of the same.
Figures 3 and 4 are detail views of the locking apparatus and of the soap
detaching and delivering apparatus respectively.
A bar of soap is secured in the tube A Figure 1 closed on the top and opened at
the bottom and a weight on the top of the soap fitting in the tube serves to press it
downwards. The lower half of the casing B Figure 1 is firmly connected with
the base F Figure 1 and receives the lower part of the tube A and contains a
hollow drum C Figures 1 and 4 provided outside with small graters a Figures I
and 4 which bear against the bar of soap which is pressed against them by the
weight resting on its top. Between these graters are the empty spaces Figures 1
and 4. A handle D is secured on both sides of the lengthened axley Figure 4 of
the drum.
By turning one of the handles D and thus the drum C, the graters scrape off in
passing particles of the soap which is pressed against them and continue doing so
until the turning ceases. These particles of soap fall at first into the drum from
which they pass through the empty spaces of the graters and finally drop through
the opening E at the bottom into the hand ready to receive them. Any particles
which should collect over the graters drop through the spaces into the drum and
leave the apparatus in the same way as described above.
As the frequent turning of the drum by means of the handles D involves some
trouble, unnecessary or wilful waste of soap is effectually prevented quite
independent of the fact that appropriating and carrying away soap in that form
must necessarily present difficulties.
Instead of graters small knives in Figures 1 and 4 can be fitted on the drum so
as to scrape or cut off slices of the soap.
In order to insert the soap into the apparatus it is opened by turning with a key
the eccentric which is mounted in the base F until the projecting point i of the
support e resting in the base is set free so that the support e of the base can be

page_text: drawn out and thus the tube A. The soap is inserted in the tube A from below
after which the apparatus is closed by the eccentric operated by a key as
above described.
This arrangement is exceedingly simple and at the same time allows a thorough
inspection of the drum and of the cleansing of the inside.
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
1. An apparatus for delivering soap in small quantities consisting of a holder for
containing the soap and of a cutting apparatus fixed to the holder and adapted to
detach small particles from a piece of soap pressed against it, the whole sub-
stantially as described.
2. An apparatus for delivering soap in small quantities consisting of a holder for
containing the soap and provided with a means for .locking the same and of a
cutting apparatus fixed to the holder and adapted to detach small particles from a
piece of soap pressed against it the whole substantially as described.
3. An apparatus for delivering soap in small quantities consisting of the base F
on which the different parts are mounted, of the drum C adapted to be rotated from
the cutside in a casing B secured to the base F and when so rotated to detach small
particles from a piece of soap pressed against it and guide them to a suitable
opening, and of the tube A secured to the base F and to the casing B and adapted
to retain the soap and guide it into the drum C the whole substantially as
described.
Dated this 9th day of November 1892.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.