Improvements in or Additions to Mirrors or Looking Glasses.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Dec., 1892-Accepted, 4th Feb., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Additions to Mirrors or Looking Glasses.
We, WILLIAM JAMES WEBSTER of No. 198 Bethnal Green Road in the County
of Middlesex Looking Glass and Picture Frame Maker and JOSEPH CHARLES
BRYANT of No. 36 Great Dover Street in the County of Surrey Glass Writer 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 framed mirrors or looking glasses such as shaving
glasses and other framed looking glasses which are designed to be suspended
against the surface of a wall or other surface when in use and the said inven-
tion consists in the combination with a looking glass of the said kind of a cup
or receptacle or cups or receptacles for containing spills matches or other small
articles and a shelf the said receptacle or receptacles being secured to the frame
of the glass at the side or sides thereof and the said shelf being connected to
the lower part of the said frame by means of hinges preferably in such a manner
that the said shelf may be turned up and folded flat against the frame of the
glass.
The said invention is illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the accompanying
drawings
Figure 1 being a front view Figure 2 a plan view and Figure 3 a side view
of a shaving glass provided with a cup for the reception of spills and having a
shelf at the lower part the said shelf being shown in, position for use.
Figure 4 is a side view of the same showing the shelf turned up and folded
flat against the frame in front of the glass and
Figure 5 is a transverse section of a portion of the lower part of the frame
of the glass and a portion of the shelf drawn to a larger scale than the other
figures and showing the hinge by which the said parts are connected.
In the following description of the said figures the parts thereof are referred
to by the letters marked thereon. The same letters of reference indicate the
same parts in all the figures of the drawing.
a is the frame of the glass. 6 is the cup or receptacle for spills which_cup
is secured at c, c to one side of the said frame. d is the shelf which is secured to
the lower part of the frame by means of hinges e, e the knuckles of which are
placed at the front of the frame (as clearly shown in the section Figure 5) in
order that the said shelf may be supported when in position for use by the
bearing of the back part of the upper side thereof against the underside of the
frame and to admit of the said shelf being turned up against the face of the frame
as shown in Figure 4 for convenience in packing.
The said invention is not limited to the number or form of the cups or receptacles
secured to the sides of the frame nor to the precise method illustrated of con-
necting the shelf to the frame.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
:-
The combination with a framed shaving glass or other framed hanging looking
glass of a recentacle or recentacles secured to the side or sides of the frame of

page_text: the said glass and a shelf secured to the lower part of the said frame substan-
tially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the Nineteenth day of December 1892.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.