US299266A - Basin or bowl - Google Patents

Description

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J. S. RICHARDSON.

v BASIN OR BOWL No. 299,266. Patented May 27, 1 884.

NTTEn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN S. RICHARDSON, OF LOlVELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

BASIN OR BOWL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,266, dated May 27, 1884.

Application filed October 5, 1883.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN S. RICHARDSON, of Lowell, in the county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Basins or Bowls, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is an isometrical perspective view of a basin or bowl embodying my improvement, and Fig. 2 a vertical transverse section of the same.

Like letters of referen ce indicate correspond ing parts in the different figures of the drawings.

My invention relates to that class of basins or bowls which are used in sinks and washstands for washing the hands, face, &c.; and it consists in corrugating or constructing one side or section thereof in such manner as to form awash-board, thereby adapting them for use in washing handkerchiefs, cuffs, collars, and other small articles of wearing-apparel.

The nature of the improvement will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following explanation, an elaborate description of the same being rendered unnecessary by the extreme simplicity of the invention.

In thedrawings, A represents the body of the bowl or basin; B, the wash-board, and O D the handles.

The body may be composed of tin, copper, china, glass, porcelain, pottery-ware, or any other suitable materials.

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The wash-board forms a part of the interior o face of the wash-basin, and is formed integral with the body, as shown, being rolled, stamped, or struck up by any suitable tools or machinery for the purpose from the same sheet of metal of which the body is made, either before or after the same is formed.

When the basin or bowl is made of cast metal, the board is molded and cast integral with the body, and when composed. of china, porcelain, glass, pottery-ware, &c., it may be molded at the same time. The handle 0 is disposed at the center of the board, and is for hanging up the basin or bowl, as when hung up by that handle the water will drain from the corrugations of the board and allow it to dry thoroughly.

I do not confine myself to making the board of any special size or length, as it may extend entirely around the vessel, if preferred; or to providing it with either plain or irregular corrugations, as, instead of the corrugations, a series of protuberances of any proper shape, adapted to serve as a rubbing-surface or wash.- board, may be formed on the interior thereof. Having thus explained my invention, What I claim is As a new article of manufacture, a circular sheet-metal basin having a segment of its body corrugated to form a wash-board, and provided with a handle at its corrugated side, substan- 7o tially as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN s. RICHARDSON.

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