US1020833A - Atomizer. - Google Patents

Description

B. J. MANNING.

ATOMIZER.

APPLICATION FILED APB..15, 1911.

Patented Mar. 19

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ELMEB JASPER MANNING, 0F JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN.

ATOMIZEB.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application led April 15, 191.1.

Patented Mar. 19, 1912.

serial No. 621,268.

To all whom z't may concern Be it known that I, ELMER J. MANN-ING, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Janesville, in the county of Rock and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and Improved Atomzer, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are: to pro- -videi an apparatus of the character menis. disclosed in the structure illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which like characters of reference denote correspondinparts in all the views, and in whichigure 1 is a perspective view of an atomizer constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention; Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same taken on the median line, and showing the lparts in contracted position; Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section, showing the parts distended preliminary to operation; Fig.l 4 is a cross section taken on the line 4 4 in Fig. 2; and 5 is a cross section taken on the line 5--5 1n Fig. 2.

To provide a convenient receptacle for the carriage ofcertain medicaments in form to be administered at any time I have constructed the tubular holder 10. At the bottom of the holder 10 I have introduced an air inlet tube 11, at the inner end whereof is provided a valve chamber 12. The valve chamber -12 is of usual construction to provide a seat for the ball valve 13. The valve 13 is moved to its seat by a spiral spring 14 which is suitably mounted in the chamber 12.

, The tube 11 has fonmed thereon a suitable screw thread to engage a tapped perforation in the disk 15, which is tted within the tion 20 near the bottom 16 thereof. The partition 20 has erected thereon at the center thereof an air tube 21. The tube 21 is enlarged Where the same joins the partition 20 to form the base 22. The base 22 is rovided with a screw thread upon whic is screwed the removable tube 23. The tube 2l is provided with a delivery orifice 24 at the end thereof, and the tube 23 is provided with an orifice 25 at the end thereof, the two orifices being juxtaposed and alined. The delivery of the air from the tube 21 across the space se arating" the orifices 24 and 25 and outwar through the orifice 25 forms a suction to draw the liquid containedv in 5 guiding the holder 10. Thefwalls of the lower end of the holder 10 are slightly eularged, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3, and are turned to form a shoulder to rest against the nut 26 when the same is screwed to position on the tube 19. The holder 10 is loosely mounted in the tube 19 to rovide between the juxtaposed sides of t e said holder .and tube a passage for air entering the space between the nut 26 and the body of the holder 10. f

When in the operation of the invention the tube 19 is drawn downward to the position shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, the

-surrounding air is sucked through the space between the tube andr holder and into the body of the tube 19. The ed es of the disk 18 yield readil to permit t e air to pass into the body o the tube'19. When now the.

from the said chamber up through the tube 21, thence through the orifices 24 and 25 to the outer air. As stated, in. this action the suction formedI by the rush of air from one to rounding the tube 30.

the other of the said oricesserves to draw upward the liquid A, and to atomize the same. The holder l0 is closed by a cap 27. The cap 27 is screw7 threaded to register with threads formed on the outer end of the head 28. Between the squared shoulder formed on the cap 27 and the head is a packing 29 adapted to form a water-tight joint at this point. The cap 27 being removed, the holder 'l0 is filled with the liquid A, as shown in SFigs. 2 and 3 of the drawings. The cap 27 is provided with a lcentral tube 30 which eX- tends downward into; the holder 10. Between the tube 23 and the tube 30 is formed an air passage which serves to equalize the air pressure in the holder 10 and the outer atmosphere. This provision overcomes any tendency to form a vacuum in the holder 10 above the liquid. It further `provides for equalizing the pressure of the air in the said holder should the same become heated to expand.'

yThe operation of the invention is as follows: When the liquid has been laced in the holder 10 and the parts are olded together, as shown in 2 of the drawings, it will. be noticed that the apparatus may be carried freely in the pocket without fear -of the contents leaking therefrom. If the apparatus be upturned so that the pro-truding end of the tube 23 be depended, the liquid A will pass into the holder 1-0 to the end thereof having the cap 27 and sur- There being no opening of the tube 3.0 from the ca pV 27, the li uid is held in the space surrounding the l.said tube 30. When it is desired to use the apparatus as an atomizer this is accomplished by the operator grasping the holder 10, using the groove 32 for that purpose, and then drawinfg outward the tube 19 to the position shown in Fi 3 ofuthe-.drawings. The end 'of the tu e 23 is then in- -serted in the mouth or nostril as the need requires, W en the operator, whlle steadylng the apparatus by his grasp of the head Y and cap forming the groove 32 in the manner' stated, forces the tube 19 "in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 3 toward the closing'position shown` in Fig. 2. As

stated, the air .which'has ybeen trappedlfinfA the tube 19 isby this action transferred V"to the chamber under the partition 20 and upward throu h the tube A21, and outward therefrom. t 'rough the orifices 24, and through the orifices -25 is emitted from the tube 23. The\suction caused by the passage of air between the two orifices in the' manner described exhausts the airzcontained infthe space between the two tubes 21 and '23, drawin the medicated'liquid into-'the tube 23an into the pathof the air passing between the two orices,=from the 'orifice 25 whereof the mixed air and medicament is voided as a vapor. i

`Having thus `described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. An atomizer, comprising a tubular holder havingfa perforated bottom an air tube mounted on said bottom alined withv said perforation and having a delivery oritice at the opposite end thereof; a second tube mounted in liXed relation to the said air tube and havingreceiving perforations near the said bottom and a delivering ori* fice at the opposite end alined with the orie ices in said air tube; a hollow cylinder 'plunger inclosing said tubular holder and provided with air trapping means adapted .to` take air into said cylinder and to ex-\ haust air therefrom through said tubes; an'

air compression chamber mounted on said holder at the lower end thereof in open communication with said air tube; means for admitting the air to saidr compression chamber from said plunger adapted to prevent the egress #from said chamber to said plunger; and closure means for said tubular holder adapted to surround the delivery end of said tubes.

2. An atomizer,l comprising a tubular holder having a perforated bottom; an airv tube mounted on said bottom alined with I said perforation and having afdelivery orifice at the opposite end thereof; a second tube mounted in fixed relation to the lsaid air tube and having receiving perfo-rations (near the said bottom and a delivering ori-A when delivered in said` chamber; and closure means for said tubular holder adapted tp surrounds the delivery end of said tubes.

3, An atomizer, comprising a tubular holder havingfa perforated'bottom; an air tube mounted on said bottom alined with said perforation and having a delivery orice atv'the `o' posite end thereof; a second tube mounte 1n fixe air tube and having receiving perforations near the said bottpmand a delivering orice at the opposite end alined with the orifces' in said air tube; a hollowl vcylinder relation to the said i plunger `inclosing 'said tubulari holder and A provided .with a1r trapping means adapted to take air into said cylinder and to exhaust air therefrom through said tubes; an air compression chamber mounted on Isaid holder atv the lower end thereof in.'l open communication with said 'air tube; a pres-v.v

' when delivered in' said chamber;

sure closed valve opening into said chamber from said plunger adapted to trap the air and a closure member for said tubular holder, said member having' a tubular extension to inold the said second tube and to extend Within the body of said tubular holder.

4. An atonnzer, comprising a tubular holder having a perforated bottom; an air tube mounted on said botto-m alined with said perforation and having a delivery oritice at the opposite end thereof; a secon'd tube mounted in ixed relation to the said air tube and having receiving perforations near the said bottom and a delivering oriice at the opposite end alined with the orifices 1n said alr tube; a hol-low cylinder plunger inclosing said tubular holder and provlded with air trapping means adapted tc take air into said cylinder and to exhaust air therefrom through said tubes; an air compression chamber mounted on said holder at the low-er end thereof in open communication with said air tube;lmeans for admitting the air to said compression chamber from said plunger adapted to prevent the egress from sald chamber to said plunger; a screw threaded cap-adapted for mounting on said tubular holder to close the same, said cap being provided with a tubular extension adapted t-o` infold the`said second tube, and a suitable packing between the said holder and said cap to form a Water tight joint.

Intestimony whereof .I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

ELMER JASPER MANNING.

Witnesses:

ELLSWORTH ALLEN, JASON CURTIS.

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