Improvements in Slop-pails.
Year: 1890

page_text: .Date of Application, 8th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 29th Nov., 1890--Accepted, 3rd Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Slop-pails.
I, ROBERT RHODES of the Firm of Messrs. Thomas Rhodes & Sons, Lye Stourbridge
in the County of Worcester Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of my said
invention to be as follows:
My invention has for its object improvements in slop pails which is principally
applicable to use in bedrooms as a toilet bucket and also as a slop pail which often
saves the necessity altogether of bringing a slop pail into the bed room as the.
combination toilet bucket answers both purposes.
My combination toilet bucket and slop pail is made to any desired pattern or
shape and preferably from metal both externally and internally and is supplied
with a suitable handle which turns down upon suitable staples or hinges and a
suitable lid of any desired pattern may be fitted with a handle thereto but I generally
use a large hollow brass knob upon this lid made up from stamped metal so as to
allow a substantial hold upon it and the appearance is improved thereby without
much cost. Inside the bucket and at some little distance down from the top edge
upon which the before mentioned lid proper fits I make or form a ledge by setting
in the metal of the bucket or an artificial ledge or rest may be formed without
setting in the sides of the bucket. Upon this ledge or rest I fit another loose or
removable lid or top such as that used upon toilet buckets with the centre shield
fixed above the contral hole or holes to hide them and through which under the
sides the slops pass to the inside thereof. When the bucket is carried away to
be emptied both lids are then removed when the contents may be discharged. When
in use in the bed room ordinarily the top lid may be removed and left off if so
desired.
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Slop-pails.
1 ROBERT RHODES of the Firm of Messrs. Thomas Rhodes & Son, Lye, Stourbridge
in the County of Worcester Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of my said
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 has for its object improvements in slop pails which is principally
applicable to use in bed-rooms as a toilet bucket and also as a slop pail which often
saves the necessity of altogether bringing the slop pail into the bed room as the com-
bination toilet bucket answers both purposes.
My combination toilet bucket and slop pail is made to any desired pattern or shape
and preferably from metal both externally and internally and is supplied with a
suitable handle which turns down upon suitable staples or hinges and a suitable lid of
any desired pattern may be fitted with a handle thereto but I generally use a large
hollow brass knob upon this lid made up from stamped metal so as to allow a sub-
stantial hold upon it and the appearance is improved thereby without much cost.
Inside the bucket and at some little distance down from the top edge upon which the
before mentioned lid proper fits, I, make or form a ledge by setting in the metal of
the bucket or an artificial ledge or rest may be formed without setting in the sides
of the bucket. Upon this ledge or rest I fit another loose or removable lid or top such
as that used upon toilet buckets with the centre shield fixed above the central hole or

page_text: holes to hide them and through which under the sides the slops pass to the inside
thereof. When the bucket is carried away to be emptied both lids are then removed
when the contents may be discharged. When in use in the bed-room ordinarily the
top lid may be removed and left off if so desired.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practice I have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings upon which
I have fully illustrated the nature of my said invention.
Figure 1, is a general view of my combination toilet bucket and slop pail A with
the lid B removed to shew the interior lid D.
Figure is a vertical section through the bucket A with both lids on.
Figure 3, is a plan of Figure 2.
Figure 4, is a vertical section through the bucket A with both lids removed.
Figure 5, is a plan of Figure 4.
In carrying my invention into effect I form my combination toilet bucket and slop
pail A to any desired pattern or shape and preferably in metal with a suitable handle a¹
which turns down; and a lid B of any desired pattern may be fitted thereto. I prefer
to use the large hollow brass knob 61 upon, the lid B, made up from stamped metal so
as to allow of a substantial hold upon it and also to improve the appearance without
much cost. Inside the bucket A and at some little distañen down from where the top
lid B rests I form the ledge a' or an equivalent rest in any suitable manner and upon
the ledge or rest I fit the loose or removable lid or top D having the central shield d'
fixed above the central hole to hide the said hole d' through which the slops pass to
the inside of the bucket. When the bucket is being carried away both lids B & D
are placed on as seen in Figure 2 but when being emptied both lids are removed as
seen in Figure 4 and when in use in the bed-room the top lid B may be loft of if so
desired.
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 improvements in slop pails herein set forth and illustrated on the drawings so
as to combine the parts A B and D in such a manner as to serve either as a toilet
bucket or slop pail.
Dated this 27th day of November 1890
of November 1890.
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.