US270701A

US270701A - Wash-stand

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Publication number: US270701A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-01-16
Anticipated expiration: 1900-01-16

Description

(No Model.) W. SCOTT.

WASH STAND.

No; 270,701. Patented Jan. 16,1883.

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receptacle for slop-jars and other kindred UNITED STATES WILLIAM O. N. SCOTT, OF

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

WASH-STAN D.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,701, dated January 16, 1883.

Application filed November 21, 1882; (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM O. N. Soorr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Wash-Stands, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a chamber-vessels, whereby the disfigurement of the walls, carpets, floors, and furniture of the apartment is avoided and an unsightly chamber article conveniently removed from view. In one form of my invention a washstand has one of its end panels hinged at the back of the stand, so as to be capable of being swung back and forth as a door, and this panel is provided on its inner side with a bracket or shelf, upon which the vessel to be inclosed is placed, so that when such vessel is not in use it can be closed in the stand, and thus concealed. I secure this panel or door to a rod hinged to the wash-stand and provide it with a handle, whereby it may be partly rotated, and thus move the door, and in order to facilitate the closing of the door I secure it to the stand slightly out of the vertical, so that it will act partly by gravity.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in the several figures of which like partsare similarly designated, Figure 1 is a perspective view with the door closed. Fig. 2 is a similar viewwith the door open, showing a slop-jar in place on the shelf; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of my rod-hinge.

The wash-stand a may be of any approved construction.- I utilize one of its end panels, b, by making of it a door, swinging open from hinges at the back of the stand.

The hinge I employ consists of a rod, 0, having fixed hinge-leaves d, to which the door is secured, and having other hinge-leaves, e, secured to the wash-stand, in which leaves e the rod turns to open and close the. door b. The rod 0 is provided with a fixed or removable handle, f, by which it and its attached door are operated. This handle preferably stands parallel with the side of the wash-stand and somewhat above its top when the door is closed, so as to avoid contact with articles upon such stand, and in opening the door such handle turns outward from the stand, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, respectively; but I do not limit the invention to this arrangement of the handle, nor to this position of the door. Neither do I confine my invention to-this location of the door, as it is obvious such door may be at the front of the stand, although such location will not be so convenient as the side.

The door is provided with a shelf, 9, pro jecting from its inner face horizontally, and a space is left within the wash-stand large enough to receive this shelf and whatever it can holdfor example, a slop-jar, as shown. This shelf is braced by a bracket, h, beneath the same.

The jar or other vessel is retained upon the shelf against accidental displacementby means of a molding, 'i, projectingas a vertical flange above the edge of the shelf, or by a wire loop, k, hinged to the inside of the door and adapted to be thrown around the neck or body of the vessel, and so arranged as to be easily removed therefrom to permit the removal of the vessel. The shelf so made possesses the merit of allowing the easy placing and removal of the vessel without lifting to any considerable height, and the emptying of its contents into a pail by tilting it on the shelf; and, further, the shelf will receive a vessel of any shape.

The loop or bail 7t and flange 2' will preferably both be employed, the one to hold the vessel at its top and the other at its bottom against accidental displacement.

In using my invention the door is swungstand, and the stand thus have the appearan cc of an ordinary stand, while the unsightly vessel is removed from view and the splashing of the walls, &c., avoided.

I do not limit my invention to a door hung out of the vertical.

My invention is applicable to wash-stands already made as well as those specially constructed to receive it.

Too

to receive and support a slop-jar, and a hingingrod, c,'substantially as shown and described, provided with a handle at its upper end to swing said door to move the jar-shelf in and out such stand, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a wash'-stand, an end panel fixed to the rod 0, which is hinged to the stand, and provided with a handle, whereby the door may be moved back and forth upon its hinge, combined with a vessel-receiving shelf attached to such hinged panel, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. The combination of the rod 0, having fixed hinge leaves (I and hinge-leaves e, in which said rod may turn, and an operatinghandle, f, with a panel or door, I), attached tosaid fixed hinge-leaves, and provided with a 20 shelf, substantially as shown and described.

4. In a wash-stand, adoor and the hingingrod 0, constructed substantially as described, provided with a handle to move said door back and forth upon its hinge, combined with 25 a vessel-receiving shelf attached to such door, and a loop, substantially as specified, to hold the vessel upon the shelf against accidental displacement, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my 30 hand this 21st day of November, A. D. 1882.

WILLIAM O. N. SCOTT.