US1350118A - Receptacle - Google Patents

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T. C. SPELLING. RECEPTACLE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 7, I9I7.

` Patented Aug. 17, 1920.

UNITED STATES THOMAS C. SPELLING, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug'. 1T, 1920.

Application led September 7, 1917. Serial No. 190,112.

Y 10 all 'whom t may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS C. SPELLING, a citizen of the United States, residing at N ew York city, have invented new and useful Improvements in Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to receptacles for ink, pen and other materials useful in writing with a pen. It has for an object the provision of a containing member having a compartment additional to that adapted to contain a writing fluid and that provided for a penstock, carrying a pen, Suitable for the reception and retention of pens and paper, carrying also on the containers, means for locking and sealing the ink and writing materials other than the penstock.

The details of construction and arrangement of parts and the adaptability of the mechanism to the accomplishment of the object will fully appear from the ensuing specific description, when read in connection with the accompanying drawings forming Vpart hereof wherein the preferred and a modied embodiment of the invention are illustrated.

Figure 1 is a top view of the principal member, alone, it being hereinafter designated as the receptacle. Fig Q represents the member in which a writing pen may be placed and confined after use, said member hereinafter to be designated as the pen container. It is suitably formed t0 be fitted into the smaller of the two round compartments shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional I view of Fig. 2. Fig. 4, is a perspective view of a member employed to shift the seals attached thereto from opening 1 of the two round compartments and the rectangular central opening, 2, whenever it is required that these shall be opened to obtain access to their contents, and then closed, after use, said member being hereinafter designated as the arm, and Fig. 5 is a side view of same. Fig. 6 is a perspective eX- terior view of the bottom of the device, and of a small strip of material suitable for a cross-base, designed to increase the basearea, tovprevent the container tipping over as a result of only slight disturbance. Fig. T represents a combined penstock and point, drawn out full length for use, and Fig. 8 represents the same with a lower portion drawn within the upper part, preparatory for insertion within the pen container. Fig. 9 is a side view of the receptacle alone with the seals locked in place, and Fig. 10 is the same with the arm shifted on its axle after being unlocked to release the seals. Fig. 11 represents a slight modification of the invention.

rFhe following is a more specific description, reference being had to figures, like reference figures representing identical parts in the several views except that a mere continuation of the same series of reference figures are used in the modification. Reference numerals 1, 2 and 3 designate compartments in the receptacle, of which Fig. 1 is a top view. This member may be of glass, wood, metal, Celluloid, fiber or hard rubber. These compartments extend to the bottom, 4, leaving the relatively thin shell, 5, the thicker shell, 6, and the walls, 7. The element represented by numeral 2, (the pen container), comprises the button, 8, and the leg, 9, which has formed centrally therein'the roundy opening, 10, into which the pen, shortened as seen in Fig. 8, is designed to be inserted. In order to secure frictional engagement between the shell of the leg, 9, and the penstock, 11, as well as between said shell and the interior wall of compartment, 3, Said leg is slotted on opposite sides, as seen at 12, and is slightly flattened adjacent to the slots, causing a slight distention of the intermediate portions, 13, the lower halves of the terminal being drawn together, however, at 14, to facilitate the insertion of the. pen container in said compartment, 3. L

The opening in the button, 8, is slightly enlarged down to the interior shoulder 49 to make room for the collar, 15, the latter to be made of rubber, cork or other yieldable substance, its ofiice being to engage the portion, 1G, of the cap, 17, of the penstock and frictionally hold it in place while not being used. The rim, 1S, of the -cap will rest in place on the collar, 15, as seen in Fig. 10.

Preparatory to the act of inserting the pen container in compartment, 3, the arm, 19, is laid on the elevated rim 46 formed on the receptacle around compartment 3 and the pen container is then inserted simultaneously through the round compartment, i0, of the arm into the compartment the under side of the button resting on the rim, 21, of the arm surrounding said compartment, 20. 'The arm carries, attached thereto, the lining, 22, formed of rubber, or

other elastic material, to seal the central compartment, 2, said compartment being designed and suitably formed as a receptacle for a small roll of writing paper, with space suflicient for the retention of pen points and other small articles. rl`he arm also carries the peculiarly formed stopper, 23, for sealing the mouth of the compartment, 1, said compartment being designed for reception, and retention of writing fluid. The stopper, toA be formed of rubber, cork or other yieldable material, has a rounded and downwardly projecting center, 2%, and the thin exterior rim, 25, to rest in place on the upper rim, 26, of the ink container. An area of the stopper around its border, on its under side, is Vflattened and said thin exterior rim, 25, is left, corresponding in area with the narrowest part of the top margin of compartment, 1 The stopper may be fastened to the arm by riveting through a hole made in the arm and stopper, as seen at 47 or inl any suitable manner.

On the outside of the ink container, is the enlargement of the shell of the receptacle, 27, in which is the groove, 28, into which the free end, 29, of the arm, 19, is pressed simultaneously with pressing the stopper into the mouth of compartment 1., here designated as the ink container, in the act of sealing the latter. rlhe arm being formed of spring steel, or of other suitable resilient substance, the end, 29, may be pressed downwardly along said trench until the turned point, 30, because of resilient action, engages the horizontal undercut 31 below the rela-- tively sharp edge, 32.- As a. result of effecting this engagement, the lining, 22, frictionally engages the quadrangula rim, 33, of the compartment 2; likewise, the rim, 25, is by such manipulation, of the arm, brought into tense frictional lcontact with said rim, 26, and a perfect seal of the contents of compartments 1 and 2 results. In order to intensify the frictional contact of the stopper on rim 26 the arm 19 is indented downwardly as seen at 55, whereby small distentions are formed on the opposite side. To shift these sealing members out of place, and so obtain access to the containers, a linger tip may be used at the slightly turned extremity, 34, of the arm to release it whereupon the arm may be lifted and turned in either direction, for instance, las shown in Fig. 10. The pen may be then drawn out of the container which remains in the compartment, 3. The pen is then made full length by pressure on the knob, 39. Additional steps in utilizing the device are too obvious to require mention.

A thin strip being removed from the bot-- tom, between points, 35- and 36, the thin slab, 37 of resilient material, is made to replace said strip, and being centrally riveted, or otherwise attached, to the bottom, as

shown at 3S, a pivot is formed around which the slab may be turned, as occasion may require, across'the base of the container, to increase the aggregate base-area, lessening the liability of the device to be upset in use. liVhen the slab is'so turned the receptacle stands evenly on it and the portions 50 of the receptacle. The slab is indented to form the distentions 5l which when the slab eX- tends lengthwise, fit into the cavities l0 formed in the base of the receptacle, and so fasten the slab.'

rl`he foregoing is a description of one of the simplest and smallest forms of the in-A vention. The' entire structure here de-v scribed and illustrated may be contained, less the enlargement, 27, and the button, S, within a dimension of three inches lengt two inches width, and one-half inch t ness and of course it can be enlarged at In such formation, the pen ais seen in Fig. is of the usual five inches in length, and, with the lower portion drawn in, seei in Fig. 8, the length is two and three-quarter., inches. rIhe penstoclr is of the usual diameter, or live sixteenths of an inch, and any style or ordinary size ofpen point may bev used. The pen container, may, with slight modification, serve as a container for a fountain pen,` and inasmuch as the invention may be embodied in various other forms, I Ydo not by reason of the foregoing description and these drawings preclude myself of theA right to embody it in other forms and to apply it to other uses, consistently with this specification and claims.

Having thus set forth thevspecilication, I claim as follows: l

l. A receptacle comprising'an ink container, a pen container, an intermediate compartment for other materials useful in writing with a pen, and means for seiur-v ing, locking and sealing the ink container and compartment, said means consisting of a flat arm journaled around the neck of the pen container, the arm extending over the compartment and ink container, carrying sealing means for both, and having ,a terminal acutely bent at its extremity, to facilitate its engagementwith relatively sharp edged enlargement on the init con tainer. 4

2. A receptacle comprising an ink container, a pen container, an intermediate compartment for other materia-ls useful in writing with a pen, and means for securing, locking and sealing the ink container and compartment, said means consisting of a fiat arm journaled around the neck of the pen container extending over the compartment and ink container, carrying sealing means for both, and having ai terminal acutely bent at its extremity, to facilitate its engagement with a` relatively sharp edged enlargement of the ink container, said terminalbeing of dimensions correspond-V ing with those of a groove formed in said enlargement.

3. In a receptacle comprising an ink container, af pen container, an intermediate compartment tor other materials useful in writing with a pen, means for securing, locking and sealing the ink container and compartment. the means comprising a locking arm, formed of resilient metal or other such suitable material, said arm formed of a thin flat member journaled around the neck of the pen container and a reduced free end acutely bent to frictionally engage the relatively sharp edge of an enlargement formed on the receptacle, the reduction of the free end being sufficient to lit it into a groove in the enlargement, portions of the arm, upon said engagement, resting with resilient torce on sealing members attached to it on its under side, said sealing members registering with the mouths of the ink container and compartment and in frictional Contact with the rims formed around and about them.

Ll. In a receptacle, a pen container slotted and slightly iattened on two opposite sides ot its leg portion and reduced at its lower terminal, said slotted and liattened formation causing frictional engagement between the leg portion of the container and the penstock within the container, said container having also the intermediate portions distended as a result of said flattening to cause frictional engagement between the intermediate portions and the walls of a compartment in the'receptacle.

5. In a receptacle of the character described, a pen container having a button, a collar of yieldable material litted into an opening in the button and resting on the shoulder formed by the top edge of the container, anda penstock having a cap, said collar rictionally engaging the cap and holding the penstock within the container.

6. A receptacle containing a compartment for ink and other compartments, separated by partition walls, and means for increasing' base area of the receptacle, the means consisting of a thin plate of resilient material centrally pivoted in a recess formed in the bottom of the receptacle and shiftablc on and around a pivot centrally riveted to the bottom within the recess, the plate formed with indcntations on one side and corresponding distentions on the other, the distentions, in place, in frictional engagement with and in cavities in the bottom of the receptacle.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this snecification this lst day of September, v1.91

THOMAS C. SPELLING.

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