Improvements in or connected with Soap Boxes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 23rd June, 1891-Accepted, 25th July, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Soap Boxes.
I, THOMAS BAKER, of Freehold, Pontnewynydd, near Pontypool, in the County
of Monmouth, Chair Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
:-
The object of this invention is to provide means for hanging soap boxes on the
rims or upper edges of ordinary wash basins, pans, buckets, or other vessels. The
invention may be adapted to soap boxes at present in use or the soap box with my
improvement added thereto may be specially constructed.
To adapt my invention to soap boxes at present in use I provide a wire or metal
frame having a curved loop or loops to clip over the rim of an ordinary basin or
other vessel to which the soap box is to be attached. In the case of a wire frame
the ends of these loops are turned over at right angles and are formed into pointed
shanks which are driven through the side of the soap box. When the invention is
made in the form of a metal frame it may be screwed or otherwise rigidly secured
to the side of the soap box. To keep the box upright and even with the top of the
basin or other vessel, a pin or pins or other projections may be driven into the box
or formed on the frame, the heads or tops of which said pins or projections abut
against the side of the vessel and thus keep the box horizontal or practically so.
In the bottom of the soap box I place a perforated tray standing upon feet or their
equivalents so that there is a cavity formed between the under side of the tray and
the bottom of the box into which the water drains.
When constructing a soap box in accordance with my invention, I prefer to
stamp it out of one piece of metal and turn up the sides to form the box, one
of the sides being made somewhat larger than the other for this purpose, is
curved over so as to hang upen or clip the rim of an ordinary wash basin or
other vessel. A perforated tray may also be placed in the bottom of the box as
before described.
Dated this 13th day of January 1891.
CASTLE SMITH,
Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, EC.,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Soap Boxes:
I, THOMAS BAKER, of Freehold, Pontnewynydd, near Pontypool, in the County
of Monmouth, Chair 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 :-
The object of this invention is to provide means for hanging soap boxes on the
rims or upper edges of ordinary wash basins, pans, buckets, or other vessels. The
invention may be adapted to soap boxes at present in use, or the soap box-with-my:
improvements added thereto may be specially constructed.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 shews a perspective view of one form of my invention, adapted to the
wooden soap boxes at present in use and made of wire bent to the desired shape;
Figure 2 shews a perspective view of a wooden soap box with this wire form of
my invention attached, and

page_text: Figure 3 is a view of a washing pan with the soap box shewn in Figure 2 hung
on the rim or top edges thereof.
Figures 4 to shew another form of my invention made from sheet metal and
also adapted to ordinary wooden soap boxes. Figure 4 is the blank or pattern
shewing the shape in which the metal is stamped out; Figure 5 shews the metal frame
ready for attachment to any ordinary soap box, and Figure 6 shews it so attached.
Figure 7 shews the shape of the blank or pattern of a soap box with my
improvements added thereto, to be stamped out of one piece of sheet metal, and
Figure 8 shews a perspective view of such a soap box.
Figures 9 and 10 shew details of a perforated metal tray to be placed inside an
ordinary soap box.
Referring to Figures 1 to 3, the wire is bent upwards at right angles at A A and
curved over so as to form the loops B B, the stems C C are then continued in a
vertical line for a suitable distance and the ends are turned outwards at right
angles to the stems and are formed into pointed shanks D D. These pointed
shanks are driven horizontally through the side of an ordinary wooden soap box as
shewn in Figure 2, and an ordinary pin, nail, or other projection E is secured to
the soap box in such a position as to project therefrom for a suitable distance.
Thus when the soap box is in position on a basin or other vessel as shewn in
Figure 3, the loops B rest upon the upper edge or rim thereof and the projection E
will abut against the side of the vessel and thus keep the soap box upright and
level with the top of the vessel. More than one of the projections E may be used
if required.
In the sheet metal form of my invention shewn in Figures 4 to 6 the metal is
stamped out to the shape shewn in Figure 4, with four or other suitable number of
nail or screw holes F and with a tongue G. The upper part of the metal frame is
blocked or curved over as shewn in the perspective view Figure 5 so as to form
the curved channel or way B2 to rest upon the upper edge or rim of the basin or
other vessel, and the tongue G is turned out at right angles to the back C³ and in
the same direction as the channel B³, so as to form the projection to abut against
the side of the basin or other vessel to which the soap box is to be attached, and
keep the soap box horizontal or practically so.
For a soap box specially constructed and having my improvements adapted
thereto I stamp the box out of one piece of metal of the shape shewn in Figure 7,
and turn up the sides to form the box; one of the sides H, being made somewhat
larger than the others for this purpose, is curved or bent over at its upper end so
as to form the curved channel B2 to rest or hang upon the rim or upper edge of an
ordinary wash basin or other vessel. T is a slit made in the side H of the blank
Figure 7 which is bent outwards and pressed down close to the side and turned
over at right angles thereto or approximately so, thus forming the tongue or pro-
jection G as shewn in Figure 8.
I wish it to be understood that the soap box may be hung on the outside of the
washing pan or other vessel as shewn in Figure 3, or it may be hung on the inside
thereof, in which latter case the projection E or its equivalent may be dispensed
with.
Figure 9 shews a plan of a perforated metal sheet and Figure 10 shews the same
in perspective made up into a tray with the sides J J bent downwards so as to form
feet on which the metal perforated tray so made may be stood in an ordinary soap
box. By this mode of construction the water draining off from the soap placed on
the tray will pass through the perforations into the cavity formed between the
underside of the tray and the bottom of the soap box.
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) My improved attachment for soap boxes consisting of a wire or metal frame

page_text: with or without a projection or projections to keep the soap box upright and level
with the top of the vessel when suspended in position thereon by the aforesaid loop
or loops, channel or way or other equivalent means, substantially as and for the
purpose hereinbefore set forth and illustrated in Figures 1 to 6 of the accompanying
drawings.
(2) The improved form of soap box stamped or cut from one piece of sheet metal,
having a curved or other shaped channel or way B' and a tongue or projection G
on one of the sides constructed substantially in the manner described with reference
to Figures 7 and 8 and for the purpose stated.
(3) The construction and use of a perforated tray to be placed inside a soap box
of ordinary construction substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth
and illustrated in Figures 9 and 10 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of June 1901
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.