US1017419A - Sputum-receptacle. - Google Patents

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J. KNAPP & J, LIGART.

SPUTUM REGEPTAGLE.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 3, 1911.

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JULIUS KNAPP AND JULIUS LIGART, 0F PASSAIC, NEW JERSEY.

SPUTUM-RECEPTAGLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented set. is, 1912?;

Application filed ()c'cober 3, 1911: Serial No. 652,520.

sanitary condition, it has for its principalobject to provide a sputum receptacle which shall always appear clean and neat to persons using it. To this end we provide, in a vessel preferably contained in an outer casing or shell, a rocking sputum receiver which, dipping into a disinfecting solution which itcompletely obscures from view, is so connected with a cover that the latter cannot be moved to or from the open position without rocking the sputum receiver, so that sputum deposited on the receiver is at once washed off on closing the cover, leav ing the receiver free or clean of sputum on the next subsequent opening of the cover. Preferably the receiver is heavier at one side of its axis of rocking motion than at the other, so that it normally tends to draw the cover to the closed position.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved sputum receptacle; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the rocking receiver, removed; Fig. 3 is a front to rear vertical sectional view of the device; Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view showing the receiver in elevation; Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a fragment of the outer casing or shell; and Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the liquid containing vessel.

a is a rectangular box or casing provided with a cover Z) attached to the casing by means of the hinges 0. This cover may be moved on its hinges by any convenient means, for instance, by means of the vertical rod This rod has a shoulder 2 near its lower end which rests on a rearward projection f of the cover afforded by a plate suitably secured to the cover and having its rear end (directly affording said projection) turned up at an angle'of about 415. The lower end-portion it of the rod is reduced, and coiled about the same, between a shoulderi and a guiding bracket j which projects from the back of the box and in which said reduced portion of the rod slides,

is a spring k, normally holding the rod in its elevated position. The rod may be kept y from upward displacement by either of the pins Z and m arranged therein, one below the projection f and the other below the bracket 7'.

Arranged in the casing a is a vessel '22- adapted to receive a disinfecting or other liquid 0 and having a flange g0 projecting clear around the same at its topor mouth portion and seated on the edge or mouth portion of the box or casing a, which latter the vessel rather snugly fits. A vertical groove 9 is cut in the inner surface of one of the end walls of the vessel 71., extending from the top ofsaid wall about half way down the same; opposite the lower end of said slot the corresponding end wallhas a. hole G" formed therein. The lower entlof the slot and the hole aiford bearings for the trunnions s of the rocking receiver a, the same being substantially in, the form of a part cylinder. in its normal position the curved surface of this receiver is immersed in the liquid 0, it maintaining that position under the action of gravity, because as shown, its trunnions s are near its upper or flat side 27- and are in a vertical plane cutting the receiver substantially centrally thereof. Projecting from its upper or fiat side is a handle u whereby the receiver may be removed from the vessel, having tilted the re :eiver sui'iiciently so that the right hand trunnion in Fig. 4 may be withdrawn from its bearing. At one end the rocker t is provided with a projecting screw 1) forming a pivot, the same appearing in Fig. 3 in eccentric relation to the trunnions s and slightly forward thereof. To the under side of the cover is attached a fitting 'w affording a pivot on. The pivots o'and w are connected by the link y, whose length is such that when the rocker is in its normal posi tion the cover stands closed.

[2 is a stop projecting inwardly from the rear wall of the vessel a and serving to limit the rocking motion of the receiver when the cover is opened.

W hen downward pressure is applied to the rod (5 to open. the coveras heretofore explained, the link 3 transmits rockingrnotion to the receiver if, which may turn on its bearings until it is limited by the stop a. in that position its curved side is up, and,

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interior of the vessel, it obscures from View the liquid 0. Any sputum which may have been: fleposited 011 the ROW-GZKPQSSd or curved Surface of the receiver Wiii ha ve been washei. 013 by the liquid 0, so that the interior aspect of the device is quite cleanly and sanitary in appearance to the user. Upon releasing pressure 011 rod 63 the spring /0 andthem tion of gravity on the receiver i coepemte t0 retu n the parts to their normal positiciie. When it hecemes necessary to change the iiquici a hrvihg raised the ceveiand. ached the iii g1 teem one 017: the pivets w we)? may he removed item the vessel We end. then the vessel Withdrawn 15mm the casing" a3.

Having thus rhiily described our inventieii, whet We aim J. as new and desire to sehy Letters Patent ie:-

sputum receptacle eomprisiiig, in eembinetion, e vessel containing a liquid, 2i cover for said vessei movable to close 01" expose the mouth thereof and normally 0ccupying the closed position, a rocking sputum receiver jmmieied Within said vessel on a horizontal axis disposed in a, vertical plane cutting the receiver substantially centrally thereof and said receiver having the part thereof beiw its axis normally dipping into the liquid, pert-cy1ii1dficei in fomi and heavier then the part of the receiver above said axis, and means, connecting the cover end receiver, for causing them to move tegethei', suheteintieily as described,

testimeii "whereof We efiz: our" signeturee in presence of two Witnesses.

J EUS KNAMPP, JULiIUr-S L1G: Pt itiiesees "ii e111? "WARD,

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