Improvements in Night Commodes and Chamber Cupboards.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 8th June, 1892-Accepted, 23rd July, 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Night Commodes and Chamber Cupboards.
1, OSCAR HERMANN EBERT, of No. 1, An der Alster, in the City of Hamburg,-
Germany, Merchant, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in night commodes and chamber cupboards;
and it is designed to be fixed to a toilet, wash stand, or similar furniture of the
bedroom. The object of the said invention is to present the utensil in the desired
convenient position outside of and at a certain distance apart from the piece of
furniture in order to facilitate the use of the utensil particularly by corpulent
females.
I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated by way of example in connection
with a night commode in which
Figs. 1 and 2 are two sectional side elevations of the invention, the former showing
it closed and out of use and the latter opened and ready for use, while
Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 2.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
A basket or support provided with a handle is preferably employed to receive.
the vessel a, which either rests by its upper flange or by its bottom on the support.
At opposite sides of the latter are provided two legs c each having a vertical
notch c¹ for the reception of a stud e forming the free end of the downward-directed
foremost arm of a pair of lazy tongs d, d arranged so as to work in a vertical plane.
The free ends of both other foremost, but upward directed, arms of the lazy
tongs are pivotted to the support 6 by means of the bolts e', and the said support.
is either provided with extra feet or the legs c are adapted to carry the same.
when standing on the floor of the room-see Fig. 2. The rear arms of each lazy
tong d are pivotted by means of their centre bolt f to a bracket g fixed to the
back wall of the cupboard S and provided with a notch which is designed to
serve as a guide for the centre bolt h laterally projecting beyond the last-but-one
arm of the lazy tongs d. The said notch is preferably somewhat curved or inclined.
to the front end as well as to the base plate of the bracket, so that the basket b.
with the vessel a will not only occupy a comparatively lower position when drawn
out of the stand as illustrated in Fig. 2, but will also be secured at its position of
rest within the latter as illustrated in Fig. 1. For admitting convenient sitting, I
am accustomed to line the upper edge of the vessel a with an annular pad or a.
wooden ring having a smoothly finished upper surface.
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 carrying a chamber utensil or like vessel of convenience,.
consisting of a basket or other support for the reception of a vessel of said kind
and provided with legs to stand on, in combination with one or more lazy tongs.
adapted to be attached to the interior of a suitable cupboard, substantially as and.
for the purpose set forth.
T
1000
PHILLIPS & LEIGH.'
No. 22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.