Improvements in Wash-hand Basins, Dishes, or other Utensils or Receptacles in which the Contents are Liable to be Splashed About.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Nov., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Aug., 1890-Accepted, 27th Sept., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wash-hand Basins, Dishes, or other Utensils or
Receptacles in which the Contents are Liable to be Splashed
About.
I, ROBERT WILLIAM MARTIN of 44 Portland Street, Southport in the County of
Lancaster, Inventor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object the prevention of splashing in the various articles
enumerated under the title of the specification.
It consists in forming the article with, or attaching thereto, a second in-curved
rim joining on to the walls of the article, so that any tendency to splashing shall be
destroyed by the rim guiding the splashed contents back into the vessel.
In pouring out the water it is poured over the rim, but as a little would collect in
the hollow between the rim and the walls a small hole is made in the ring of a wash-
hand basin or dish through which the last drains of the water can pour out.
Dated this 20th day of November 1889.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wash-hand Basins, Dishes, or other Utensils or
Receptacles in which the Contents are Liable to be Splashed
About.
I, ROBERT WILLIAM MARTIN, of 44 Portland Street, Southport, in the County of
Lancaster, Inventor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to he particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:-
This invention has for its object the prevention of splashing in the various articles
enumerated under the title of the specification.
It consists in forming the article with, or attaching thereto, a second in-curved rim
joining on to the walls of the article, so that any tendency to splashing shall be
destroyed by the rim guiding the splashed contents back into the vessel.
The drawing shows the application of the invention to an ordinary wash-hand
basin,
Figure 1 being a section, and
Figure 2 a plan with a portion broken away.
A is the second in-curved rim above mentioned, which, in the example shown, is
coterminous with the usual outer rim B, though this is not absolutely necessary, as it
may be attached to or formed upon any convenient part of the wall of the basin.
In pouring out the water it is poured over the rim A, but as a little would collect in
the hollow between the rim and the walls, a small hole a may be made in the said rim
(especially in the case of a wash-hand basin or dish) through which the last drains of
the water can be poured out.
The hole a may be fitted with a movable plug a¹ which may conveniently be attached
to the basin by a small chain a².
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is.
A wash-hand basin, dish or other vessel of the kind described. having a rim, such

page_text: as A, projecting inwards from the vessel and adapted to prevent the contents from
being splashed over the edge thereof, said rim being formed either with or without a
hole for draining off the contents, substantially as described.
Dated this 21st day of August 1890.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and London, Patent Agents.