US1260765A - Condiment-holder. - Google Patents

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,FRANKVWL eaanv, or warm, CALIFORNIA.

CQNDIMENT-HOLIDEB,

Specificati on of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 26, 1918.

Application filed May 21, 1917. Serial-No. 169,975.

To all whom it may concern: i

Be it known that I, FRANK W. GnAnY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Taft, in the county of Kern and State of California, have invented a newand useful Condiment-Holder, of which the following is a specification.

Thedevice forming the subject matter of this application is a condiment holder, adapted to receive separate materials such as salt and pepper, and the invention aims to provide novel means whereby the perforations in a rotatable lid may be disposed above either compartment, thereby to permit a discharge of the material in either compartment.

Anotherobject of the invention is to provide novel means whereby, at the will of an operator, the supply from both compartments may be cut ofi.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generallv and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in. the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 shows in top plan, a condiment holder constructed in accordance with the present invention;

Fig. 2-is a top plan of the receptacle, the lid being removed; and g Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

In carrying out the present invention there is provided a receptacle including a bottom 1 and a side wall 2, the receptacle being of circular cross section. The receptacle includes a top 3 which, preferably, covers one-third of the cross section of the receptacle. The receptacle is provided with an upright partition 4, extended between diametrically opposite points on the side wall 2, and extended between the upper edge of the receptacle and the bottom 2 thereof. The partition 4 separates the receptacle into a compartment 5 and a compartment 6.

The top 3 preferably is formed integrally with the side wall 20f the receptacle and with the partition 4.

A lid 7 is journaled for rotation on the upper end of the receptacle, in contact with the upper surface of the top 3 and in contact with the upper edge of the partition 1, the lid 7 being mounted to turn on a pivot element 8 which may be a screw, engaged with an opening 9 in the upper edge of the partition 4:. The lid 7 may have a depending flange 10 surrounding the upper end of the receptacle. The lid 7 is provided with perforations 11, located in an area the extent of which is less than the area of the top 3. Threaded into the lid 7 is a screw 12 which projects below the lower surface of the lid.

The lid 7 may be rotated until the lower end of the screw 12 abuts against one edge of the top 8 at the point 14, and then the perforations 11 will communicate with the compartment 6. The lid 7 may be rotated until the lower end of the screw 12 abuts against the partition 1- at the point 15, and then practically all of the perforations 11 will. communicate with the compartment 5. Further, the screw 12 may be backed part way out of the lid 7, and the lid may be rotated until the perforations 11 lie above the top 3, the compartments 5 and 6 being closed by the imperforate portion of the lid 7. Under the circumstances above men tioned, the screw 12 may be advanced to bear on the top 3 at the point 16, and then the lid 7 will be held against rotation, both of the compartments 5 and 6 being closed.

The condiment holder forming the subject matter of this application may be Inanipulated by a blind person, to secure either pepper or salt, it being necessary merely to rotate the lid 7 in one direction or the other, until the lower end of the screw 12 abuts against the top 3 at the point 14, upon the one hand, or against the partition 4 at the point 15, on the other hand.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is In a condiment holder, a receptacle having a bottom, and a top extended part way across the receptacle, the receptacle embodying a longitudinal partition extended between the top and the bottom and dividing the receptacle into compartments; a lid j ournaled on the receptacle and having perforations adapted to register with the compartments one at a time and to lie above the top, When the lid is rotated; and a clamping adapted to be advanced to engage one edge of the top, and to engage one side of the partition, at different times, thereby to limit the rotation of the top and to dispose the perforations above the respective compartments;

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixed my signature 1n the presence of two Witnesses.

FRANIC W. GRADY. Witnesses:

R. E. HAN Los, B. GREENE.

flopiel of thin patent may be obtained for five eents each, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patenta. Washington, 120.

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