Improvements in Soap Dishes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 16th July, 1897-Accepted, 21st Aug., 1897
I, HENRY HARINGTON LEIGII, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., Fel. Ch. Inst. P.A., F.I. Inst.,
Lane, in the Administrative County of London Engineer and Patent Agent, do
practising as Phillips and Leigh of No. 22 Southampton Buildings, Chancery
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The present invention relates to improvements in soap dishes, and the object of
it is to prevent a cake of soap sticking to the bottom of the tray or standing in
water which has drained from it.
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In carrying the invention into effect, there is provided a series of ridges adapted
to stand within the soap dish, and upon and above the bottom of it. This series
may be either incorporated with the dish bottom, or may be a detachable piece com-
plete in itself.
The ridges of a series may be of any suitable cross section, and may be rectilinear,
circular, crossed at any angle by others of the series, or arranged with each other
in any suitable way and held together as may be desired.
Dated this 16th day of October 1896
HENRY H. LEIGH.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Soap Dishes.
I, HENRY HARINGTON LEIGH, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., Fel. Ch. Inst. P.A., Fel. I. Inst.,
practising as Phillips and Leigh, of No. 22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery
Lane, in the Administrative County of London, Engineer and Patent Agent,
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 present invention relates to improvements in soap-dishes, and the objects
of it are to prevent a tablet or cake of soap from adhering to the bottom of the
dish or perforated tray as the case may be; to obtain more perfect drainage of
the soap, and to keep it raised from the water which has drained from it.
In carrying my invention into effect, instead of making the interior bottom or
the tray of a soap dish quite plain or simply perforated, I provide the interior
bottom or tray with ridges, the said ridges being moulded or formed either integral
with the dish itself or as a separate tray to be placed therein. Whether the ridges
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page_text: be made integral with or separate from the dish, they have, preferably, sloping
sides so that the spaces between the projections form, practically, little troughs into
or through which the drainings from the soap can flow. When the series of ridges
constitute a separate removable tray it may be constructed to rest either upon the
bottom of the dish or to be suspended upon a ledge above the bottom as desired.
The ridges of a series are preferably made in the form of a geometrical pattern
and have sloping sides but may of course be of any suitable cross section, and the
pattern may be composed of rectilinear, curvelinear or mixed lines, and also
crossed at any angle by others of the series, and may be held together in any
suitable manner, the special feature being that the soap shall rest merely on one or
more ridges so as to present less bearing surface for the soap to stick to, instead of
the customary or less flat perforated surface in general use for the purpose.
In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of one pattern of
my improved soap dish tray when made separate from the dish.
Figure 2 is a plan of Figure 1.
Figure 3 shews, in central vertical section, a soap dish with a series of ridges
formed or moulded from and integral with the bottom thereof.
Figure 4 is a plan of Figure 3 with the cover removed.
Similar letters of reference indicate different views of the same parts. a indi-
cates the apex, and 6 the sloping sides, of the ridges; c is the dish and d the cover
thereof.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what :
claim is :-
1. A soap dish having one or more ridges with or without sloping sides raised
upon the interior bottom thereof integral therewith as and for the purposes
described.
2. A soap dish having a separate removable tray composed of a series of ridges
with or without sloping sides, the said tray resting upon the bottom of the dish or
upon a ledge therein, as and for the purposes described.
Dated the 16th day of July 1897.
HENRY H. LEIGH, C.P.A.