Year: 1887

page_text: I HENRY LYON of 10 Saint James Street Bacup in the County of Lancaster hair
dresser do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists principally of an improved shaving pot and soap vessel for
the use of hair dressers and barbers the object of the invention being to ensure the
use of fresh clean hot water, and fresh soap and lather, together with a clean shaving
pot and brush for each person shaved.
The improved shaving pot consists of a vessel of earthenware or other suitable
material, round the upper rim of which is formed a hollow perforated tube which is
connected by a pipe and stop tap to the hot water supply.
This pot is provided with a removable top fitted with an internal flange against
which the hot water passing through the perforations is projected so as to thoroughly
wash out the interior of the shaving pot. To the bottom of the vessel is connected a
waste pipe provided with a stop tap. This valve is intended to be let into a table or
bench so that its top is flush with the surface thereof. In connection with this
improved shaving pot I have fixed against the wall or other convenient place a funnel
shaped vessel to contain dry or powdered soap. The lower end of this vessel is made
with a neck or tube which is fitted with a spring valve or door like a powder flask,
and the brush being dipped in the clean hot water is held underneath when by touching
the spring a sufficient amount of this dry soap is allowed to fall on the wet brush to
make the lather upon the face.
The soap vessel may be fitted with a strip of glass down the front so that the
quantity of soap powder contained therein can be at all times visible.
Dated this 1st day of February 1887
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Improved Apparatus to be Used for Shaving Purposes.
I HENRY LYON of 10 Saint James Street Bacup in the County of Lancaster Hair
Dresser 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 consists principally of an improved shaving pot and soap vessel for
the use of hair-dressers and barbers, the object of the invention being to ensure the
use of fresh clean hot water, and fresh soap and lather, together with a clean shaving
pot and brush for each person shaved.
The nature of my said invention and the manner in which the same is to be carried
into practical effect will be readily understood on reference to the annexed sheet of
drawings.
Fig. 1. on the annexed drawings is an elevation, and Fig. 2 a vertical section of my
improved shaving pot and Fig. 3 is a front elevation, and Fig. 4 a vertical section of
my improved soap vessel.
The improved shaving pot consists of a vessel a, a of earthenware or other suitable
material round the upper rim of which is formed a hollow perforated tube b, b provided
with a nozzle c, c which is connected by a pipe and stop tap to the hot water
supply.
The hollow rim b, b may be perforated on the inner side (instead of at the bottom
as shown) in which case the pot or vessel a, a may be provided with a removable lid
or cover fitted with an internal flange against which the hot water passing through
the perforations is projected so as to thoroughly wash out the interior of the shaving
pot a, a.
To the bottom of the vessel a, a is connected at d, d a waste-pipe with a stop tap;
an overflow is also provided at e, e.
This vessel a, a is intended to be let into a table or bench so that its top is flush with
the surface thereof as shown at Fig. 2.
My improved soap vessel (see Figs. 3 and 4.) consists of a funnel shaped vessel f,f
of earthenware or other suitable material supported by a metal plate g, g which may
be fixed against the wall or other convenient place.
This vessel is intended to contain dry or powdered soap. The lower end of
the vessel fits into a neck or tube h, h which is fitted with a spring valve or sliding
door i, i like a powder flask and the brush being dipped into the clean hot water in the
vessel a, a is held underneath the funnel-shaped mouth k, k and by pressing in the
knob, the spring valve or slide i, i is opened, and a sufficient amount of the dry
powdered soap is allowed to fall onto the wet brush to make a lather upon the
face.
The vesself, f may be fitted with a strip of glass down the front if required 50
that the quantity of soap powder contained therein may be at all times visible.

page_text: 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 :-
The improved shaving pot and soap vessel substantially as herein before described
and illustrated by the drawings annexed whereby the use of clean hot water, and fresh
soap and lather, together with a clean shaving pot and brush is ensured for each
person shaved.