An Improved Case or Holder for Shaving Soap Sticks or other Articles Requiring a Regulating Feed.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Apr., 1898-Accepted, 18th June, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Case or Holder for Shaving Soap Sticks or other
Articles Requiring a Regulating Feed.
I, CHARLES NICHOLSON, of The Leylands, Hatfield, Doncaster, Gentleman, 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 follow-
ing statement:-
This invention relates to an improved case or holder for shaving soap, sticks,
or other articles and has for its object to provide means for raising or causing the
soap or other article to protrude sufficiently out of the case for shaving or other
purposes.
For this purpose I provide the case with a series of short tubes fitted together
so as to slide or telescope one within the other the inner or central one of which
carries a plate upon which rests the shaving stick or other article. Each of these
tubes has a slot cut obliquely to about one third of its circumference into which
fits or engages a pin fixed to the lower end of the tubes. The bottom of the case
is provided with a cap to which the outer or lower tube is fixed by means of a
screw stud and nut.
When the said lower tube is revolved, by means of the cap, the pins travelling
along the slots, cause the tubes to be raised thus pushing the shaving stick or
other article out of the case the required distance, the inner tube being kept from
revolving by means of two notches in the plate fixed thereto engaging with
vertical ribs on the inside of the case.
And in order to more fully describe my invention reference is made to the
accompanying sheet of drawings in which Fig. I is an elevation, partly in section,
of the case or holder with the telescopic tubes collapsed and a shaving stick therein.
Fig. 2 is a vertical section with the tubes fully extended and Fig. 3 is a separate
view of the telescopic tubes in their extended position. Fig. 4 is a top plan of
the case. Fig. 5 a section of the lower cap and Fig. 6 a plan of the same.
screw or
a is the case or holder of cylindrical shape, b is the telescopic tubular feeder
formed of the outer or lower tube or section 61 the intermediate tubes and the
central or upper tube or section 6³. c is the cap fitted on the lower end of the
case so as to revolve thereon. The tube b' is fixed to the cap c by a
stud d passing through a square hole c' in the cap and secured by a nut d'. The
tube 6 is provided with the plate or disc e for supporting the shaving stick f,
and el are the notches in the said plate which engage with ribs a¹ formed on the
inside of the case for preventing the plate from revolving. g are the oblique
slots cut in each of the tubes or sections b and gl are the pins engaging therewith
and fixed to the lower ends of each of the said tubes with the exception of the
lower one 6. In order to extend the tubes b for raising the stick f out of the
case to the required extent the operator holds the case with one hand whilst with
the other he revolves the cap c. This permits of the partial revolution and raising
of each of the tubes or sections 6 by the action of the slots g and pins g₁ the latter
when at the upper ends of the slots, preventing its corresponding tube or section
from further motion so as to cause the next one below to be actuated.

page_text: To replace the stick f within the case the cap c is turned in a contrary direction
thus lowering the telescopic tube 6 and with it the said stick which is held
securely in the case by a cap placed on the top thereof.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed. I declare that what
I claim is:―
(1) The improved case or holder for shaving sticks or other articles requiring
a regulating feed comprising a telescopic tubular feeder fixed at one end to a
revolving cap fitted to the lower end of the case and provided at the other end
with a plate formed with notches engaging with ribs on the inside of the case the
sections of the feeder being provided with an oblique slot and a pin engaging
one another to cause the vertical motion of the same substantially as described
and shewn in the drawings.
(2) In cases or holders as above claimed the combination of the outer case a
provided with ribs a¹ the telescopic feeder 6 the caps c screw nut d¹ plate e
formed with notches el slots g, pins g¹ and cap h, substantially as described and for
the purposes specified.
Dated this 23rd day of Anvil 1808
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.