Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 21st May, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Feb., 1897-Accepted, 27th Mar., 1897
I, MARY SCOTT ROWLAND, of 97 Fifth Avenue, New York City, U.S.A.,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to toilet articles and consists of a receptacle for toilet
powder, rouge and the like, adapted so as to be carried in a lady's pocket or muff,
or to have a place on the toilet table.
The object of this my invention is to provide in a compact and convenient form:
a box or case having three compartments, one for containing face powder, a second.
for containing a rouge pad, and a third to hold a powder puff. The compartment.
containing the face powder is covered with a sifter consisting of a depressed plate
having holes or perforations, which can be opened or closed as desired by a
similarly depressed pivoted rotating disc, having corresponding holes or perforations,
said compartment being closed above said sifter by a sliding or hinged lid. The
other two compartments are closed by a hinged lid provided on the inner or under
side with a small mirror.
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REGINALD W. BARKER,
Monument Chambers, London, E.C., Applicant's Agent.
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I, MARY SCOTT ROWLAND, of 97 Fifth Avenue, New York, in the County
and State of New York, 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 :-
This invention relates to toilet articles'; and it consists especially of a receptacle
for powder, rouge, and the like, which is adapted to be carried in a lady's pocket
or muff, or to have a place upon the toilet table. The particular object of the
invention however, is to provide in a compact and convenient form a combined box
for containing face-powder in one compartment, a rouge pad in another compart-
ment, and a powder, puff. in a third compartment. The compartment containing
the powder is covered with a sifter, consisting of a pivoted disk having perforations
which can be opened or closed, as desired, and said compartment is closed above
said sifter by a sliding or binged lid. The other two compartments are closed: by
a hinged lid, which is provided on its inner side with a small mirror.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and explained in detail,
I have annexed hereto a sheet of drawings, in which
Figure 1 is a perspective elevation of my said toilet box, showing it open.
Figure 2 is a plan view of the box' open.

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line 33 of Figure 2.
Figure 4 is a cross sectional view taken on the line 4 4 of Figure 2.
Figure 5 is a cross sectional view taken on the line 5 5 of Figure 2, and
Figure 6 is a cross sectional view similar to Figure 4 but showing a modified
construction.
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In the figures, A indicates the combined box; a a compartment which may
contain a powder puff; b a compartment which may contain a rouge pad, and ca
receptacle to contain powder. d indicates the walls of the box, which serve, with
the partitions e and f, to form the said compartments.
The compartment c is provided with a cover portion h, having a central
depressed and perforated portion. A disk plate i, having perforations corre-
sponding to those in the portion h is pivoted to said portion h at h', and adapted to
be turned thereon to register said perforations or to cause the imperforate portions
of each of said plates to close the perforations in the other of said plates. The
depressed portion of cover is hinged to wall d as at j, and may be swung open
upon said hinge. At the upper edge of each of the longitudinal walls of the box
are arranged slideways k, and a sliding cover is adapted to be placed in said
slideways and frictionally held therein. The inner end of said cover is
depressed at to pass under the cover of an adjacent portion of the box, aud
the outer end of said cover is turned down, as at 12, to effect a better closing.
The compartments a and b are provided with a common lid m, which is hinged
at m', and which, in closing, covers said compartments a and b and the depressed
edge of lid l. On the inner side of said lid m is fitted a mirror n.
The cross sectional view shown in Figure 6 illustrates a modified construction of
cover for the compartment c. In said view a lid o for said compartment is seen
to be pivoted or hinged at o', and also hinged upon the same pivot is the depressed
plate 2, the said plate in other respects being similar to the plate h before referred
to. It will be seen that the compartment c is provided with a seating c¹ for said
plate h or 2, the said seating consisting of a right angular flanged portion of the
walls d'of the box. The covers for said compartments may be provided with any
efficient securing device, such as a spring catch etc.
In the employment of the device, in order to utilize the powder in compartment c,
the powder puff p is removed from compartment b, the lid of compartment c is
opened, the perforated disk i is rotated to register its perforations with those of
plate h or h2, the box is reversed, and some powder is sprinkled upon the powder
puff; or, in order to provide a sufficient quantity of powder convenient for use
without taking surplusage, after the disk i has been made to register its
perforations with those of plate 1 or 2, the lid Z or o is closed, and upon shaking
the box a small portion of powder will pass through said perforations and rests
within the cavity formed by said disk i, wherein the powder. puff can be inserted to
take up such powder. In order that when shaking the powder through the
perforations the powder may not pass outside the concavity of disk i, I have
surrounded said disk with a raised periphery or bead, which is in close contact with
the lidoro when such lid is closed, thereby confining the powder to the
compartment thus formed and keeping the box tidy.
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. A combination toilet box divided into three compartments, a single cover for
two of said compartments, and a separate cover for the other of said compartments,
one of said compartments having an auxiliary cover, said auxiliary cover being
perforated, and having means for opening and closing said perforations, substan-
tially as set forth.
2. In a combination toilet box having a plurality of compartments, one of said
compartments having an outer, movable cover and an inner, movable cover, said

page_text: inner cover having a central concavity provided with perforations, a coincidently
concaved disk having perforations placed within the concavity of and pivotally
secured to said inner cover, and means for registering the perforations in said inner-
cover and disk, substantially as set forth.
3. In a combination toilet box having a plurality of compartments, one of said
compartments having an inner and an outer lid, said inner lid having a recessed,.
perforated portion, both of said lids being hinged upon a common pivot, substan--
tially as set forth.
Dated this 20th day of February 1897.
REGINALD W. BARKER,
Monument Chambers, London, E.C., Applicant's Agent.