US229067A

US229067A - Chaeles k

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Publication number: US229067A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1880-06-22
Anticipated expiration: 1897-06-22

Description

. Shaving g No. 229,067. Patented June 22, I880.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES K. WILLIAMS, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

SHAVIfiG-CUP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 229,067, dated June 22, 1880.

Application filedOctober 4, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES K. WILLIAMS, of Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State ofMissouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shaving-Cups, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the ac companying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention has for its object to provide an improved shaving-cup, whereby the soap used in the same is prevented from being wasted and the entire cake of soap utilized; and the invention consists of acup having the interior bottom surface thereof provided with a series of upwardly-projecting points or pegs adaptedto receive and hold the soap placed thereon, all as will be hereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my improved shaving-cup, with the side broken away to more clearly show the interior construction, and Fig. 2 is a top-plan view thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in both figures.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the body of my improved shaving cup or mug, which may be constructed of any suitable material, the interior bottom surface, B, thereof being provided with a series of upwardly-projecting points or pegs, a, as shown in the several f ures, said points or pegs being arranged at such distances apart as to be best adapted to receive and hold the soap placed thereon.

It may be observed that by the use of the common shaving-cups the soap placed therein, when worn down very thin, soon becomes broken in to small pieces, which stick to the shavin g-brush and are thrown away as being worthless; but by means of my present invention the cake of soap, being placed upon the points a, gradually settles down to the bottom of the cup as the soap becomes softened by the action of the water placed therein for shaving purposes, and the points to retain the soap upon and between them until thelast particle of the soap is taken up by the shaving-brush.

The advantages of my invention will be readily apparent without a more minute description, inasmuch as it combines in its construction and operation a high degree of utility and economy with a ready adaptation to the purpose contemplated.

I am aware that dishes having points on their inner surface for the purpose of preventing meats from changing position during the process of carving are old, and I do not wish to be understood as claiming such an invention broadly; but

What I do claim as new and useful is- As a new article of manufacture, the hereindesc'ribed shavingcup, having the interior bottom surface thereof provided with a series of points or pegs, a, to retain and hold the soap placed therein, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

U. K. WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

'1. S. DENISON, J. P. FITZPATRIOK.