US2461319A - Soap dabber - Google Patents

Description

Patented Feb. 8, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 4 Claims.

This invention deals with a container for holding soap, and more specifically, a container which facilitates the dabbing of a cake of soap with metal wool or other cleaning means employed at the sink.

The invention may be more readily understood by reference to the drawing which illustrates some of the many features involved. Figure l s a side view of the soap dabber of the present invention. Figure 2 shows the top View of the dabber mounted on the water faucets of a kitchen sink. Figures 3 and i are top and side views., respectively, of another form of mounting for the soap container. Similar numerals refer to similar parts in the various figures.

Referring again to the drawing, numeral I represents a heavy metal wire having a loop 2 to nt over a faucet pipe i2, a straight length 3 between the hot and cold water faucets I3, and loop 4 surrounding the other pipe faucet i I. The end terminating around loop d is locked to 3 by a sliding ring lock 5.

At the other end of wire i is a larger loop 6 Whose plane is at right angles to the vplane of loo-p A. Mounted in loop is hemispherical wooden bowl i fitting into hemispherical chromhim-plated jacket 8 having circular groove 9 into which loop 5 ts snugly. Spherical soap cake I0 is inserted in bowl l, and dabbing is done on the top of the soap cake. Sliding ring lock 5 locks the end of loop 6 to straight section I.

Instead of terminating as in Figures 1 and 2, the end of loop B may be extended as I5 in Figures 3 and 4. This end I5 passes under loop I4 which has a horseshoe shaped bend to fit snugly over pipe I2, thus providing a rigid fastening means for the assembly. Sliding ring 5 is then employed to loci; together end I5 with straight portion 3.

Although member I is made of metal wire, other materials of construction are not precluded, and plastics and other materials are suitable. This also applies to bowl 'I and jacket 8, the latter being omitted, if desired. Wooden bowl -1 may be replaced by a water-proofed paper container, or one of other suitable material. A disposable paper container is preferred.

Although the drawing indicates member I to be of circular cross section, a band or other type of 'cross section may be used. Also, the bowl may be of any other shape, e. g. oblong, square, and the like, although a hemispherical shape is Ipreferred. Also, section 3 may be made extensible by employing a sliding joint to enable tting to other than standard faucet combinations.

When the spherical cake of soap is placed in the hemispherical -container in the unit described, 1t becomes rmly xed therein particularly during use when water works its way around the V bottom surface of the cake. Fastening means 5 and 5 may be of any type, although a sliding ring is preferable.

claim:

1. A soap dabber to t over a double kitchen faucet combination, comprising a circular loop tting around one faucet pipe and having one terminal extending out to the other faucet, the other terminal substantially completing said loop and also extending for a short distance alongside the rst mentioned terminal, means for locking the last mentioned terminal to the rst mentioned one, a substantially semicircular loop on the first mentioned terminal, fitting over the other faucet pipe, a length projecting from the second loop terminating into a third loop having a plane perpendicular to the planes of the other loops and, after substantially completing said third loop, extending for a short distance alongside the other terminal of the same loop, means for locking both extended terminals of the latter loop, and a cake of soap mounted in the last named loop.

2. A soap dabber according to claim 1 in which the last-named loop has mounted therein a container in which the soap is placed.

3. A soap dabber according to claim 1 in which the extension of the last-named loop is extended under the second-named loop.V

4. A soap dabber according to claim 1 in which the locking means is a ring sliding on the extending terminal of the rst circular loop leading to the other faucet and large enough to also accommodate the Vother terminal of the loop.

FRANK A. FORTINO.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the le of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,539,850 Kostenbauder June 2, 1925 1,820,794 Giguere Aug. 25, 1931 1,867,525 Piersall July 12, 1932 1,957,353 Piersall May 1, 1934

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