US1348211A - Fountain-pen-filling device - Google Patents

Description

A. T. CROSS.

FOUNTAIN PEN FILLING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 1|, 1919.

1., 348,2 1 1 Pa ented Aug. 3, 1920.

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' ALon zo TOWNSEND cross, or PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

, I-rOUNT m rEN-FILLING DEVICE. Y

3 211 I V 1 specif cation of Letters Patent. ."Patented A g; 3 1920.- Applicationjflledhpril11,19.19. Seria1No.289,38 2. I Q

To all whomit may concern: v Within the counter bore 11 at the upper 65 le it known that I, Aron/1.0T; Cross, a opposite end of the dispensing tube is citizen oi the United States, and a resident a ball 17 which is arranged to seat in the of Providence, in the county, of Providence lower portion of the counter bore and withand State of Rhode Island, have invented in the upper end of the main hereof the discertain new and useful Improvements in pensing .tube, to form an outlet valve' the Fountain-Pen liilling Devices, ofwhich the extreme upper endfoi' the tube, and consef fl i i a specification. quently'th'e upper. end of the counter bore My present invention relates generally to 11, being closed by an imperiorate plug 18. fluid dispensing apparatus,and.more par- 'Adjaeent the last mentioned end of the. ticularly to a simple form of hand controlled tube 10, a filling spout 19 extends laterally dispensing arrangement to be applied to from the counter bore 11 provided withla I bottles, and while my invention is capable downturned extremity20 which may be pro application, is espejected partly within the barrel of a fountain cially designed for the filling of fountain pen so asv to effectively guide the stream of pens other than what are at present known fluid into the pen as desired.

of more or less general as self fillers, the object of my arrangement The tube 10 is similarly provided with a being the provision of a simple device for laterally projecting nipple 21'communicatdispensing ink from bottles, whose structure ing with its main bore between the inlet and is such that it may be readily inserted in and outlet valves above mentioned, and serving removed from the applied position, with as a support and a rigid connection for a but single movement, as well as one which flexible compressible bulb 22, each pressure will be sufliciently rigid in use to permit of upon which servesto expel from the tube its manipulation with but one hand, While 10, through the outlet valve 17, liquid which the other hand holds the fountain pen or has previously been drawn into the tube:

other device to be filled. through the inlet "alve when the bulb is al- With the above in mind, my invention relowed to expand. sides in the details of construction, arrange- Around the tube 10 is slidably mounted a ment and operation to be now described lu 23 for the purpose of closing the mouth with respect to the accompanying drawing, oi a bottle, such asfor instance the bottle forming a part of this specification, and 2 1, within which the dispensing arrangement 35 wherein: Ina be utilized.

The figure is a vertical longitudinal sec- 7 n connection with this plug 23, which is tion of my invention, illustrating its praeslidable along the tube 10 so as to compentical application. sate for bottles of different heights, is a cap Referring now to this figure, my inven- 25 which partly receives the plug 23 and tion proposes a liquid dispensing device which in practice overlies the shoulder which includes an elongated rigid dispensaround the upper mouth of a bottle so as not ing tube 10 having counter bores 11 and 12 only to protect the bottle but the plug 23 as at its relatively opposite ends. The counwell, the latter being in most instances ter bore 12 receives a ball 13 which, in 00- formed of a more or less perishable material operation with the apertured plug 14:, in the nature of cork. It will also be noted threaded within this end of the tube, forms that the plug 23 has an opening 26 at one an intake opening, the plug having lower Side through which atmospheric pressure is extensions 15 which support the respective constantly supplied to the interior of the end of the tube 10 away from contact with bottle 24 in connection with which the disthe adjacent parts so as to provide for the penser is utilized,by virtue of a vent openfree inflow of fluid through the openingof 7 ing 27 through the cap 25. These openings the plug 14: and into the tube 10. Between 26 and 27 are alined with one another when its counter bore 1.2 and its main bore, the the device is in use, but when in dis-use and tube 10 has a series of internal ribs 16, in order to prevent oxidation of the contents against which the ball 13 moves in its inof the bottle, the cap 25 may be rotated, it ward travel to prevent obstructing the inbeing freely movable on the tube 10 with the flow of fluid. plug 23, so as to shift its vent opening 27 its bore between said valves, a bottle closing.

out of registration with the opening 26 of the plug and thus result in complete closing of the bottle 24.;

It is obvious that my invention and the construction thus clearly explained and pointed out, is-capable of ready insertion in and removal from its connectionv with. the; 7

bottle as shown, is equally as ready of adjustment to bottles may be applied in and removed fromoperative position, as. well as manipulated in use, with but; one hand, leaving the other hand entirely free iorholding and'manipulating the penfto'befilled; or

I claim 1; A fluid dispenser 'ior bottles consisting of a dispensing tube havingintake and outlet valves and provided with a discharge spout, a hand'compressible'bulb connected With said tube and'in communication with plug around and shiftable along, said tube, and a cap'around the tube and rotatable on the plug, said cap and said plug having openings parallelvto the axis of the tube and movable into and'out of registry with one another by virtue of'rotation of'the cap.

2. A fluid dispenser for bottles, consisting counter bores of difierent types, and plugmounted -around 3. A fluid dispenser for-bottles, comprising a straight rigid tubehaving amain bore mnnieation with the main bore balls seated in the counter outletivalves, a rigid discharge. spout'leading from the counter bore of the outlet"valve, a plug surrounding thet'ube and slidable therealong, a cap al'sosurrounding the tube and slidable therealong and rotatable; with respect: to the said plug, said plugand said,

cap ,having vent openings 5 movable I into and out of registry with'oneanoth'er, anipple extending laterally from the tube; between its inlet andoutletvalves, and compressible' bulb secured to and carried by the-said nipple, as described.- 7 I ALONZGWGWNSE-N-D -GROSS.

bores and forming intake and 40 and counter bores at opposite endsincom-

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