Improved Box, Tray, or Receptacle for Holding Soap.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 21st Jan., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION,
Improved Box, Tray, or Receptacle for Holding Soap.
I, ALFRED WILLIAM MCQUEEN, residing at No. 1031, Valencia Street, in the City
and County of San Francisco, State of California, United States of America, Book-
keeper, 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 relates to an improved box, tray or receptacle for holding soap,
and is more especially intended for use in proximity to wash basins or bowls where
the wet soap, after use, can be deposited and kept convenient for use, and in which
it will be allowed to drain and quickly become dry.
It consists of a box or tray, either with or without cover. The box or tray is
made in a
single integral piece, preferably of metal, pressed or otherwise formed
into shape, and adapted to be either hung upon a wall or provided with feet, which
permit it to stand upon a horizontal surface. Its bottom is formed with alternately
raised ledges and openings, so that the soap will rest upon the ledges and drain
itself through the openings, and the sides and ends of the box are provided with
openings through which air is permitted to circulate, all as hereinafter more fully
described.
Referring to the accompanying drawing
in which,
Fig. 1, is a perspective view of a square tray, with the cover or lid raised above
it: the tray is tipped, so as to show the ribs on its bottom.
Fig. 2, is a similar view of an oval-shaped tray; and
Fig. 3, is a similar view of an elongated circular cornered tray, with a hanging
bracket on its rear side.
The box, tray or soap receptacle, A, as shown by the drawings, may be either
rectangular, as shown at Fig. 1, or made with rounded ends, as shown at Figs. 2
and 3. In either case it is formed by pressing, spinning or molding in a single
integral piece. If a cover is used the upper edge of the sides and ends are pressed
inward so as to form a ledge for the cover to rest upon.
In pressing, spinning or molding the box or tray its bottom is formed with two
or more parallel ribs, b, b, which extend transversely across the bottom, and inter-
mediate between these ribs, and on each side, are perforations, c, c, c. A lip is
also pressed downward from each corner, of the bottom to form feet, or short
legs, d, for the recentacle to stand upon.
A circular portion, E, is removed from the upper edge of the front and rear sides
of the box opposite each other, to permit the fingers of the person who attempts
to remove the piece of soap to enter far enough below the upper edge of the box
to grasp the piece of soap near its bottom. The sides of the box are provided
with perforations, f, f, which permit a free circulation of air into and through
the tray or receptacle, and the cover of the tray, if it has a cover, is also provided
with like perforations.
This soap receptacle is preferably made of sheet metal, in which case it is pressed
or spun from a single sheet, but it can also be made of india rubber or other
composition, which is pressed into form and vulcanized or otherwise hardened.

page_text: I thus provide a convenient soap receptacle or tray which cannot be easily broken
and in which the soap will be held in a suspended position on the transverse ribs
so that it will drain itself and be surrounded with fresh air that circulates all
around it.
Having now particularly; described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
A soap receptacle or tray formed by pressing, spinning or molding in a single
integral piece, having transverse ribs on its bottom and intermediate openings
between said ribs, and provided with numerous perforations in its sides and ends
to permit a circulation of air on all sides, and also having a circular portion
removed from the front and rear upper edges opposite each other, substantially
as described.
Dated this 23rd day of November 1898
ALFRED WILLIAM MCQUEEN.
Bottomley & Liddle,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Applicant's Agents.