US1073155A - Alcohol or powder appliance. - Google Patents

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S. A. MILLER.

I ALCOHOL 0R POWDER APPLIANCE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 23, 1913- Patented Sept. 16, 1913.

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ALCOHOL or, rcwnan Ambiance.

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Patented Sept. 16, 1 91 3.

evalu t on illcdianuary 2a, 1913. Serial No. 743,710.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, SARAH A. Mimics, a,

citizen of the United States, residing at 173 West Eighty-first street, New York, county of New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements'in Alcohol or Powder. Appliances, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

The present invention relates to a means by which a single receptacle or box having a suitable handle may be provided with a detachable soft fabric covering and adapted to furnish such covering with a supply of dry powder or of alcohol or other bathing fluid to moisten the same, the handle being preferably constructed to apply the box with ease to any part of the body.

The invention embraces a box having a detachable cover which permits its being filled with powder or alcohol, such cover being perforated with suitable holes to discharge the powder or alcohol. A soft porous fabric is secured detachably over the perforations and is itself unperforated if designed to be used with the alcohol, as it absorbs the alcohol freely and furnishes a moist rubber. If designed to'be used with the powder, it is preferably perforated with holes corresponding to those in the box so that the powder may be shaken out't hrough the two sets of perforations, and the soft fabric covering utilized to spread and rub the powder upon the body.

As a larger number of holes is required for discharging powder -than for discharging a liquid like alcohol, the box is provided with two interchangeablefcaps secured removably thereon by a screw-thread or a bayonet-lock, one cap having but few perforations to use with'alcohol, and an unperforated fabric covering, and the other cap having more perforations adapted to use with a correspondingly perforated fabric covering for applying powder.

The invention will be understood by reference to the annexed drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a plan of the device fitted up for the application of powder; Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same; Fig. 2 is an edge view of the box with a ca screwed thereon; and Fig. 2 is an edge view of the box with a ca secured thereon by abayonetlock; Fig. 3 1s a perspective view of a detachable cap perforated for use with powder' Fig. 4 is a similar view of the cap perforatedw th two ho esfor us with alco- 1191; Fig. 5 isasection of a cap with an un-x/ perforated co ering secured thereon for use 5;;

with. alcohol; and. Fig. 6 is a. section of a cap perforated fliruse with powder and hav mg a perforated covering secured "thereon,

The box a has a handle 6 projected from one edge near the bottom, a wire handlebeing shown extended to suill'cient length for applying the box to the back or other parts 0 the body.

In Fig. 2, the edges of the box and cap are shown formed with a screw-thread engagement, to make the cap'detachable.

Fig- 2 shows a box with radial pin (l thereon and right-angle notch d in the cap to fit the same, as is common with a bayonetlock. T he caps in Figs. 3 and 4 are shown with similar screw-threads so. as to be interchangeably secured upon the box, the one in Fig. 3 having twelve holes e for discharg- 1ng powder freely; while that in Fig. 4 has only two holes 6' for discharging alcohol.

The fabric-covering for the cap, as shown in Fig. 7, is a square section of felt or porous cloth 1 which is secured detachably upon the cap by stretching its edges over the edge of the cap and securing them removably thereto by a cord or elastic band g. Such construction enables the renewal of the fabric-covering when it is soiled or worn, as it is particularly liable to be when used for giving an alcohol rub. Such detachab lity and renewability is one of the chief advantages of my construction.

The orous fabric is shown in Figs. 1 and 6 provided with perforations e in corre spondence with the holes e in the cap, and the fabric is shown adjusted so that the holes in the fabric and the cap coincide and the powder may be shaken out through the same.

The fabric covering is shown in Fig. 5 unperforated and stretched over the two holes 6' in the cap, which is thus adapted to furnish a supply of fluid to the fabric covering through which it filters, keeping the same moist while in use.

It is obvious that the fluid can only be applied to the surface of the body by rubbing the fabric-covering upon the skin, which in time soils and fouls the covering, so as to need renewal or cleansing. By holding the fabric detachably upon the cap by means of a cord or elastic, it is readily renewed, and

the device thus kept in a sanitary condition. 4 The caps being interchangeable, it is obvious that the box may be supplied with either powder or bathing fluid, and a suitable cap and covering secured thereon for using the powder or fluid in the desired manner.

The form of handle attached to the box is immaterial, and either a long or short handle may be provided; but a long flexible handle such as is'shown in the drawing is most convenient for applying the device to the back and many other parts of the body.

Having thus set forth the-nature of the invention, what is claimed herein is:

In a device for applying powder or alcohol, the combination, with a box having a handle Brojected from one side, of interchangea le perforated caps with means for locking them removably upon the box, and a porous fabric secured upon each of the said caps, one of such fabrics having holes to coincide with the holes in its cap.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SARAH ANN MILLER.

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