US555888A - Holder for disinfectants - Google Patents

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NITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY P. ROBERTS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HOLDER FOR DISINFECTANTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters ZPatent No. 555,888, dated March 3, 1896..

Application filed October 7, 1895. Serial No. 564,845. (No model.)

To (0% whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY P. ROBERTS, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, State of Mas saohusetts, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Holders for Disinfectants, 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, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved holder, the front wall being represented as broken out; and Fig. 2, a horizontal section of the same.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures of the drawings.

As is well known, it is customary to employ disinfectants in solid form in urinals and similar places connected with a sewer system or other flowing-water outlet. This is frequently in the form of balls known as moth or camphor balls. As they wear away or become accidentally broken, they clog the outlet to the basin and cause an overflow which results in much damage.

My invention is designed particularly to overcome this objection and to supply a device for so containing the disinfectant that it cannot clog the flow in the basin and yet retain all sanitary effects.

In the drawings, A represents the body of the holder, and B a urinal-basin of ordinary construction.

The body comprises a rectangular box, of metal, provided at its top with a cover and on each side with a tubular slideway O. In each way 0 a coiled spring 9 is disposed. A rectangular clampin g-rod D has its ends fitted to slidein said ways, said ends being provided with buttons f, which rest on the springs and are forced outward thereby.

Interiorly of the body there is a partition 71, forming guideways with the walls of said body. These ways w open at their lower ends into a pocket or receptacle j, formed on the lower end of the body and projecting in front thereof. The walls of this pocket are perforated at m.

On top of the partition 71. there is an in Verted-V-shaped partition 11 for the purpose of directing the balls into the ways 10.

In the use of my improvement the device is disposed in the urinal-basin B, the rod D being depressed and disposed under the lip m of said basin. This holds the apparatus firmly in position, the pocket j being disposed at the outlet of the basin.

The body being filled with the camphor balls 76 they run down and fill the pocket j, where they are subject to the moisture in the urinal through the perforations m and dissolved for the purposes specified without interfering with or clogging the outlet of the basin in a manner which will be understood without a more explicit description.

It-wil1 be understood that the form of the apparatus may be varied to suit the different forms of basin employed, and means other than that shown may be employed for detachably securing it in said basin without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus explained myinvention, what I claim is 1. A disinfectant-holder comprising a body providedwith a perforated pocket; ways connecting said body and pocket; and devices for detachably securing. said holder to a basin of the class described all being combined and arranged to operate substantially as specified.

2. The herein-described disinfectant-holder comprising a body; a spring-pushed clamping-rod thereon for securing said body to the article to be disinfected; a foraminous pocket on said body; and ways for discharging the disinfectant from said body to said pocket substantially as specified.

3. The body, A, provided with the partition, 1', and ways, w, in combination with the perforated pocket, j, into which said ways open; and the spring-pushed rod, D, all being arranged to operatesubstantially as set forth.

HENRY P. ROBERTS.

"Witnesses:

O. M. SHAW, EDWARD KEENAN.

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