Portable slop bucket seat for sick rooms / [Ernest Leigh].

  • Leigh, Ernest.
Date:
1901
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Portable slop bucket seat for sick rooms / [Ernest Leigh]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    JSP 9249 A.I). 1900 Date of Application, 19th May, 1900 Complete Specification Left, 18th June, 1900-Accepted, 23rd Feb., 1901 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. Portable Slop Bucket Seat for Sick Rooms. Ernest Leigh 5 Littleton Place, Stoke, Devonport, Clerk Alfred Deane Davis 51 Albert Road Stoke Devonport Ironmonger do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows: — Seat made of wood strengthened by strips across grain, rounded out on top 5 face in imitation of w.c. seat so constructed underneath to prevent it slipping off pail or bucket and fastened either by iron or wood buttons under ears of same— Can be used on either galvanised iron or enamel slop pails. Dated this 19th dav of May 1900. ERNEST LEIGH, 1° ALFRED DEANE DAVIS. COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. Portable Slop Bucket Seat for Sick Rooms. We, Ernest Leigii of 5 Littleton Place, Stoke, Devonport Clerk and Alfred Deane Davis 51 x^lbert Road Stoke Devonport Ironmonger, do hereby declare 15 the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement: — This invention relates to improvements in connection with portable slop buckets or seats for sick rooms, the object being to provide a portable arrangement or seat that can be applied to an ordinary house pail or bucket so as to convert same 20 into a night commode and one which will at the same time be comparatively inexpensive. Our invention will be fully described with reference to the accompanying draw¬ ings in which I ig. 1 is a plan of the portable seat, 25 Fig. 2 an inverted plan of same showing the means whereby it is attached to the bucket, Fig. 3 perspective view of a slop bucket with the seat applied thereto. Fig. 4 perspective view of a form of catch employed to hold the seat securely in contact with the top of the slop bucket and Fig. 5 a perspective view at right 30 angles to the position of the illustration in Fig. 3. In carrying out our invention we provide a seat a of any suitable material but pre¬ ferably of wood having formed in the centre thereof a hole of a similar shape to that generallv found in ordinary water closets or night commodes. Externally the seat a may be of any suitable shape and on its underside it may be strengthened in any suit- 35 able manner such as by strips of wood b screwed or otherwise secured thereto, though it should at the same time be understood that the recess c formed on the underside of the seat a by these strips may on the other hand be cut out of the solid seat a. [Price 8<7.]