US1240308A - Safety-depository for milk-bottles. - Google Patents

Description

M. CAIBGIANO.

SAFETY DEPOSITORY FOR MILK BOTTLES.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.28,I9I1.

Patented Sept. 18, 1917.

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SAFETY-DEPOSITOBY FOR MILK-BOTTLES.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 18, 1917.

Application filed February 28, 1917. Serial No. 151,401.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL CAGGIANO, a citizen of the Kingdom of Italy, and a resident of New York, county of New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Depositories for Milk-Bottles, of Which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to improvements in safety depositories for milk bottles which are adapted to hold the same safely after having been deposited therein by the distributing milk man.

The purpose of the present invention is to prevent the loss of milk by theft. For this purpose the novel safety depository is so constructed as to be applied to or hung on the top rail or the top of the lock stile of the door frame. If the door is closed the depository can not be removed nor a milk bottle therein because the depository is held tight between the top of the door and the adjoining wood-work or part of the wall, andgthe cover of the device can not be lifted untilthe door is opened and the device re portion of the depository allowing a milk ottle to pass when shifted in and supporting it until removed from the top. Another feature of the invention is that one milk 7 gi'b'ottle may be deposited within the device and one safely suspended in the means for its holding it just mentioned. The depository being hung on the door renders it unnecessary to out, drill or otherwise injure and disfigure the door for the purpose of applying thereto a milk de ository. These and other features will be Fully described hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 represents in central longitudinal section a safety depository as applied to a door with one milk bottle therein and a second one held and suspended thereby.

Fig. 2 is a detail view in central section of the top portion of the depository with the cover or lid partly opened.

Fig. 3 is a cross section on line 33 of Fig. 1 without any bottle in the depository.

Similar characters of reference denote like parts in all the figures.

In the drawing, a represents a tubular receptacle of such diameter as to conveniently hold a full sized milk bottle. In the bottom portion of the tube a there is permanently secured a circular strip of metal 6 preferably by small rivets 0. As shown in Figs. 1 and 3 this circular strip of metal is located on the inside of the bottom portion of the tube a and has formed thereon a plurality of leaf springs d integral therewith and curved upwardly and inwardly as shown in Fig. 1. This system of leaf springs thus is radially arranged with the narrowest portion near the center where it leaves an opening 6, as best shown in Fig. 3.

The top of the tube a is provided with a cover or lid 7 secured thereto by a hinge g, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, one hinge leaf being secured to the inner top surface of the tube a and the other to the bottom surface of the cover 7. At either side of the hinge and secured to the bottom surface of the cover there are two metal strips of which one 72 is shown in the drawing. Those metal strips rise upwardly beyond the tube near the hinge 9 where the tube is somewhat out to allow of the passage'of the metal strips h and of the convenient location of the hinge. The upwardly rising portion k of the metal strip h is again bent at a right angle and forms a horizontal portion h Each portion k again is bent at a right angle downwardly formingva curved section it, as indicated at h. The described device forms a combined hinged cover and hook to suspend it on the top rail or look stile of the door frame 2'. As shown in Fig. 1 it is impossible to remove the safety depository when the door is closed as during the night. When the milk man comes in the morning he pushes one bottle of milk 7' from below through the leaf spring device into the tubular receptacle a and a second bottle is suiiiciently to bring the rim of the bottle beyond the leaf spring device which then engages the neck of the bottle and holds it in a suspended condition. In the morning when the door is opened the depositor may be removed. The cover now is lifted and the bottle 7' taken out whereupon the bottle k is shifted'into the receptacle and taken out from the top.

In the described manner one milk bottle may be placed in the depository by the distributing milk man. However a family dosiring two bottles or a bottle of milk and a bottle of cream may have placed one bottle into the depository and the other safely suspended therefrom as described.

It is impossible to remove the depository or a milk bottle therefrom as long as it is hung on the door and the door closed. The tangular sections adapted to fit the top of a cover or lid of the receptacle can not be door, and means in the bottom portion of opened for the removal of the milk bottle the receptacle allowing of the insertion and until the depository has been removed from support of a milk bottle' and of securely the door. A single milk bottle is supported suspending a second one therefrom. within the receptacle by the leaf spring de- 3. In a safety depository for milk bottles vice. If two bottles are deposited then one a leaf spring device in the bottom portion of bottle is suspended from the leaf spring dethe depository composed of a bottom ring vice which enga es the bottle neck below its with radial leaf springs formed integrally rim and the to ottle rests upon the top of therewith extending inwardly and leaving the suspended bottle. Thus the leaf spring a central opening, the said leaf springs device performs two functions by virtue of yielding when the bottle is inserted and reits rising curved leaf springs leaving a centurning into the normal position to suptral opening of proper size to allow of the ort the bottle and permit of suspending a suspension of a second bottle. second bottle by engaging with their inner I claim as my invention: ends the neck of the'bottle below the rim. 1. A safety depository for milk bottles 4:. In a safety depository for milk bottles comprising a tubular receptacle, a leaf a combined hinge cover and hook device spring device in its bottom portion having composed of the hinged cover with two bars upwardly curved, radial leaf springs exrigidly secured on its under surface, the tending inwardly and leaving a central said bars forming a rectangular hook beopening, and a hinged cover at the top with yond the hinge of the cover adapted to be a hook device rigidly secured thereto comhung on a door.

posed essentially of rectangular sections Signedat New York, N. Y., this 14th adapted to fit the top of a door. day of February, 1917 2. A safety depository for milk bottles MICHAEL CAGGIANO. comprising a tubular receptacle, a hinged Witnesses: cover at the top with a hook device rigidly LOUIS DE JULIO, secured thereto composed essentially of rec- PASQUALE CARUSO.

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