Improvements in and Connected with Wash-stands.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Left. 31st May, 1889-Accepted, 3rd Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and Connected with Wash-stands.
ROBERT FERGUSON WALKER 8 Shannon Street Limerick Ireland Merchant does
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A soap stand, that can be secured to the underneath surface of the lid of a wash-hand
stand, which turns on pivots so that when the lid is closed it hangs over the baison,
and any drops from it fall into the baison, when the lid is lifted it holds the soap at any
angle the lid rests at.
Dated this 20th day of November 1888.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and Connected with Wash Stands.
I, ROBERT FERGUSON WALKER, of 8 Shannon Street, Limerick, Ireland, Merchant,
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 wash stands with pivoted soap dishes
which can be secured to the inside of the lid of a shut up wash stand carried in
bearings which overhang the side of the wash hand basin of an ordinary wash stand,
so that the soap dish is always horizontal, and drippings from the soap fall through
the perforated bottom of the soap dish into the wash hand basin, when not in use.
In the accompanying drawings Figures 1 to 4 show the invention as applied to a
shut up wash stand. Figure 1 shews the stand closed and Figure 2 shews it open.
Figures 3 and 4 are respectively enlarged end and front elevation of the soap dish.
The soap dish A is perforated and provided with pins B at its ends which are placed
in sockets C affixed to the lid of the wash stand, forming bearings in which the pins
on the soap dish are free to revolve and thus by the attraction of gravity, the dish and
its contents will always remain horizontal no matter at what angle the lid may be
placed. When the lid is closed, the drippings from the soap dish will fall into the
wash hand basin.
Figures 5 to 7 shew the invention as applied to an ordinary wash hand stand.
Figure 5 shews a perspective view, Figure 6 is an enlarged detached view of the
invention when turned up above the basin and Figure 7 is an enlarged view of
the brush holder D shewn in Figures 5 and 6. In this form of the invention the
soap dish is carried by the bearings forming part of the frame E hinged at F so
that it may be turned up into the position shewn in Figure 6 if desired. D is_a
receptacle for tooth and nail brushes and the like, and is affixed to the frame E.
This receptacle is provided with a hinged flap or valve G (see Figure 7) which is
open when the receptacle is in the turned up position Figure 6, and is closed
when it is in the position shewn in Figure 5. The frame E is so constructed
that the receptacle D is immediately beneath the soap dish A when turned up as
shewn in Figure 6, so that drippings therefrom will fall upon the outside of the
receptacle D and will pass through the flap or valve G into the interior of the said
recess and thus be prevented from falling upon the wash stand. When the frame E
is turned down, these drippings will pass out of the mouth of the receptacle D
and fall into the basin, the mouth of the receptacle D being made so as to overlap
the edge of the basin when the frame E is shut down as shewn in Figure 5.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
(1) The pivoted soap dish attached inside the lid of a shut up wash stand, sub-
stantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth and illustrated in Figures 1
to 4 of the accompanying drawings.
(2) The hinged frame E carrying pivoted soap dish A and. brush receptacle D con-
structed and operating substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth and
illustrated in Figures 5, 6 and 7 of accompanying drawings.
Dated this 31st day of May 1889.
CASTLE SMITH,.
Per F. W. Golby,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.