Improvement in the Manufacture of Washing Bowls or Basins and similar Articles or Vessels.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Nov., 1889-Accepted, 7th Dec.,
1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in the Manufacture of Washing Bowls or Basins and
similar Articles or Vessels.
I JOHN BEVINGTON of Broad Street Hanley in the County of Stafford
Earthenware Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
In the use of Washing Bowls or Baisins and in similar articles or vessels made of
Porcelain, Earthenware, China and other similar bodies and materials, whether made
with a rim or a concave or a straight edge at the top, or otherwise, great difficulty is
experienced in emptying or removing the same from place to place and danger of
breaking and breakage is often caused in consequence of the Bowl Baisin Article or
Vessel not being firmly held by the band and I propose to remove or avoid all such
difficulty or danger by making a slot, hole, or aperture (by cutting out with a knife
or tool a piece of the body forming the Article or Vessel, of an elongated or other
shape) on either side or both sides of the article or vessel and of a convenient size to
enable the fingers or one or more of them to be inserted therein so as to allow or
give a firm grip or hold of the Bowl Baisin article or vessel when taken in the
hand for any purpose whatever and either to leave the slot hole aperture or cutting
so made with a plain facing or to or to ornament the same by a design or other
decoration suitable to the body of which the Bowl Baisin Article or Vessel
is made.
13
גד
1000
Dated this
First day of February 1880.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in the Manufacture of Washing Bowls or Basins and
similar Articles or Vessels.
1 JOHN BEVINGTON of 22 Chancery Lane London and of Kensington Works
Hanley in the County of Stafford Earthenware 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:-
In the use of Washing Bowls or Basins and in similar Articles or Vessels made of
Porcelain Earthenware China and other similar bodies or materials whether made
with a rim or a concave or straight edge at the top or otherwiso great difficulty is
experienced in emptying or removing the same from place to place and danger of
breaking is often caused in consequence of the same not being firmly held by the
hand and I propose to remove or avoid all such danger by making a slot or hole or
aperture by cutting out with a knife or tool a piece of the body (forming the article
or Vessel) of an elongated or other shape on either side or both sides of the Article
or Vessel and of a convenient size to enable the fingers or one or more of them to be
inserted so as to give a firm grip or hold of the Article or Vessel when taken in th
hand for any purpose whatever and either to leave the slot hole or aperture or cutting
so made with a plain facing or to ornament the same by a design or other decoration
suitable to the body of which the Article or Vessel is made.
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 new novel and original idea or invention of cutting or making the slot or hole

page_text: or aperture in the sides of the Washing Bowls or Basins and similar articles in the
manner before described and for the purposes mentioned and whether made and left
with a plain facing or ornamented by or with any design or other decoration suitable
To the body of which the Article or vessel is made.
Dated this First day of November 1889.