Improvements in and connected with Receptacles and Dishes for Holding and Draining Soap Tablets, and Preventing Waste of such Tablets.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 28th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 1st Feb., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Receptacles and Dishes for
Holding and Draining Soap Tablets, and Preventing Waste of
such Tablets.
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I, EDWARD JOHN ROGERSON, of Summerbridge, via Leeds, Rope and Twine
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, to be as follows:-
My invention has reference to receptacles and dishes for holding soap tablets, so
as to drain such tablets and prevent waste, while in a moistened state.
According to my invention I employ a drainer made with a raised outside rim
and sunken or depressed interior (the sides of which all round are at an angle)
The soap
through the centre of which is a hole for the passage of the water.
tablet after use is laid upon the top or across the raised outside rim, and by this
means the water is drained away from it, so drying the soap and preventing waste
by keeping the soap away from the water in the bottom of the receptacle or dish.
The sides of the said drainer may be fluted, corrugated, ribbed, or plain as
preferred, and the said drainer may be made of porcelain, earthenware, enamelled
iron, or other suitable material. Or the drainer may be made with the centre part
raised, and tapering sides, with a hole through such centre part, and the soap
tablet lies while draining immediately over such hole. The said tapering sides
may be plain, fluted or otherwise.
The said drainer may be arranged so as to fit into the dish or receptacle which
is formed upon the lavatory basin, or into a separate dish.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent to the Applicant.
Improvements in and connected with Receptacles and Dishes for
Holding and Draining Scap Tablets, and Preventing Waste of
such Tablets.
I, EDWARD JOHN ROGERSON, of Summerbridge, via Leeds, Rope and Twine
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 :-
My invention has reference to receptacles and dishes for holding pieces of soap
or tablets, so as to drain such, and prevent waste, while in a moistened state.
Soap dishes as heretofore constructed tend to set up a capillary attraction
between the soap and dish directly the soap has been wetted and laid in the soap
dish, which prevents the possibility of drainage of the soap.
The object of my invention is to break or destroy this capillary attraction so
that the wet soap is drained immediately it is placed in the dish.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1, is a sectional elevation showing drainer arranged with outside rim.
Fig. 2, is a plan and Fig. 3, a sectional elevation of drainer arranged with the
centre part raised.
Fig. 4, is a side view of modification of dish.
According to my invention, see Fig. 1, I employ a drainer A made with a raised
outside rim B and sunken or depressed interior C, (the sides of which all round are
at an angle) through the centre of which is a hole D for the passage of the water.
The soap tablet or the like after use is laid upon the top or across the raised
outside rim B and by this means the water is drained away from it, so drying the
soap and preventing waste by keeping the soap away from the water in the bottom
of the receptacle or dish.
The sides of the said drainer A may be fluted, corrugated, ribbed, or plain as
preferred, and the said drainer may be made of porcelain, earthenware, enamelled
iron, or other suitable material.
Or the drainer A may be made with the centre part B raised, and tapering
sides C, with a hole D through such centre part. The said tapering sides may be
plain, fluted, or otherwise.
The said drainer may be arranged so as to fit into the dish or receptacle which
is formed upon the lavatory basin or into a separate dish, and may be of any
suitable shape, round, square, oval, or the like shape.
In Fig. 4, the dish is formed with a turned up rim E, so that when the soap lies
against the said rim, the water is drained through F.
The dish may be plain or fluted, but preferably the latter.
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 1
claim is :-
1. A drainer, for pieces of soap or tablets, having a raised rim, and sunken or
depressed centre or interior, with fluted tapering sides, so that when the soap, in a
wet state, is laid across the said outside rim the water is drained away from the
soap, so preventing waste, such as shown and described with reference to Fig. 1, of
the drawings annexed.
2. A drainer, for pieces of soap or tablets, having a raised centre part, tapering
sides, and central hole, so that when the soap or tablet, in a wet state, is placed on
the centre part the water is drained away from the soap, so preventing waste, such
as shown and described with reference to Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings annexed.
3. Soap drainers constructed in the manner and for the purposes such as shown
and described.
Dated this 27th day of December 1805
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent to the Applicant.