US1367557A - Milk-bottle holder - Google Patents

Description

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MILK BOTTLE HOLDER. APPLICATION man M19, 1920.

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WILLIAM MOLENAAB, 0F PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

MILK-BGTTLE HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 8, 1921.

Application filed January 15, 1820. Serial No. 352,584.

Holders, of which the following is a speci fication.

In order to prevent the stealing of milk bottles, both full and empty, it hasbeen proposed to provide a holder in which the mill:- man could deposit the full bottle and. in so doing would render accessible an otherwise inaccessible empty bottle placed therein by the customer, the holder being so constructed that once the full bottle was placed in the holder it was not calculated to be withdrawn through the opening by which it entered but only in some otherway controlled only by the customer. This invention relates to devices of this character, and its object is to improve the construction thereof by making them more eiiicient for the purposes in tended inexpensive to manuicture and substantial and durable.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view oi? one form of the improved device;

Fig. 2 is a plan thereof;

Figs. 3, a and 5 are sectional views on lines 3-8, 1 4, and 5- 5, respectively.

Fig. 6 is a sectional detail of this form; and

Figs. 7 8 and 9 show in front and side ele. vations and top plan a modified form of the, invention.

In Figs. 1 to 6 the device is intended to be attached to the jamb of a doorway in close roximity to a hinged door or equivalent. he jamb is indicated at a and the hinged door or equivalent at b.

A sheet metal box or case 0 having upper and lower compartments (5 and 6 formed by the horizontal wall 7" is provided, the same being open from substantially top to bottom;

as at g, at what will herein be taken the back closed'from to to bottom. at the sides.

as by the side walls It, and closed at what will herein betaken as the front as at 2', so far as the upper compartment is concerned, but provided with a frontal opening j for the lower compartment e; there is also an opening 10- at the top of the case of a size and shape to permit the article, such as a mill:

' bottle, to be introduced into the'upper conr partment with the-minimum of clearance, and the bottom of the case may have another opening Z.

A sheet metal gate m is hinged on a horizontal pivot n arranged at the top of the front wall 2', the same opening inwardly and being normally held in the closed position, bearing against the under side ofrthe top of the case around the opening 76 therein, by springs 0. The receptacle formed by the sides h and front 2' of the upper part of the case and the door I) when the same is closed is provided with means which will cause the article, once the same has been entered. into the compartment (2 and clears the gate, to'be shifted and thereupon supported under and 111 a position to block a second opening movement of the gate. This is the upstanding element p at the bottom of the compartment 2 and rather nearer the back than the front thereof, the same having other functions to be hereinafter set forth. The dimensions of the compartment d and its gate in and the effective height of the element are such that when the bottle is entered through the opening I; and forces back the gate and in finally clearing the gate is forced thereby to the dotted line position 9 in Fig. l against the back oi the receptacle) and is stopped in its downward progress by the element 3) (said effective. height of which is represented by its dotted position, such element in the present adaptation being depressible), the bottle finally tilts over against the front wall 2', so that the gate, which has now sprung closed, isprevented by the bottle head from again being opened until the bottle has been removed otherwise than through theopening 7c. The removal of the bottle may of course be cheated by a person within the dwelling to which the door I) appertains opening such door exposing the opening 9 oi: the case and consequently the bottle.

When the person thus removes the filled bottle which is placed in compartment a? an empty bottle may be placed in compartment 6 and will be held and locked therein against removal (except by such person through the doorway) unless the element go is depressed from within the receptacle (1, as by introduoingthe full bottle into that receptacle. The sides of the opening j are formed as two inwardly projecting flanges r and along the bottom of this opening is'a' trough-shaped rest formed by a transverse ledge s at the bottom of the case forward of its opening Z and an upwardly inclined lip t projecting from said ledge. There is an angular member formed of sheet metal and including a walla which forms a closure for the opening and a wall 2: which closes the bottom opening Z. Its angular portion is fulcrumed by resting in the angle of the trough-shaped rest aforesaid, being kept in, that position by having two side notches u: at its angle receiving the flanges 1 To prevent its being disassembled from the case there is a pin x which passes through the case from one side h to the other. and is permanently fixed therein, being traversed by a brace g which connects the two walls uo of said mem her and is riveted thereto. a weight .2 which tends to hold the member in the position shown in Fig. l by full lines. A horizontal bolt 2, traversing the opening j near wall f, may slide up and down in suitable guides 8, and when wall a of the member u-o is in the closed position this bolt lies in upwardly open hook a on wall a and so looks it closed. A ttshaped lever, having its intermediate portion bent off at right angles to the plane of its extremities (such intermediate portion forming the element p aforesaid) has a shifting bearing and is thereby fulcrumed on a transverse pin 5, its extremities p underlying the bolt 2 and being kept in that position as it raises the bolt or allows it to fall by its portion ;0 being guided in holes 6 in the wall f. /Vhen the full bottle is introduced into the com partment 01 and falls onto the element 79 its fall is cushioned by the weight of the bolt 2, the bolt being lifted to the dotted line position in Fig. 1, so that the member uv may be swung on its fulcrum in the trough-shaped rest s-t. Member u-o can now be swung to the dotted line position in Fig. 1, that is, to the limit afforded by contact of its walls a and o with the flange 6 and pin 02, respectively, so that the empty bottle can be removed. I prefer to incline the wall a; downward toward the wall a so that the bottle in compartment 6 will be canted slightly toward wall a.

Figs. 7-to 9 show a modification in which a plurality of the two pairs of compartments (upper and lower) are provided in a single receptacle 7 the bolt and its operat ing element 8 and 9, corresponding to parts 2 and p, and their accessories being constructed and arranged so as to serve in common both pairs of compartments, In. this case, also, the compartments are not accessible from the back but only from the front; that is, the removal of the bottle from the upper compartments is effected by the customer employing a key 10 to unlock the frontal hinged door 11 common to both such Wall 0 carries upper compartments. In other respects the construction here shown is substantially like that first described.

Havin thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a device of the character described, the combination of a receptacle having a top opening, and a normally closed inwardly opening hinged gate controlling said opening, said receptacle having means to shift and thereupon support the article in the path of opening movement of the gate so that the article will itself block a second opening movement of the gate once said article enters and passes the gate, whereby the article cannot be removed through said openin 2. In a device of the character described,

opening hinged gate controlling said open ing, said receptacle having means to tilt and thereupon support the article in the path of opening movement of the gate so that the article will itself block a second opening movement of the gate once said article enters and passes the gate, whereby the article cannot be removed through said opening.

' 3. In a device of the character described, a receptacle having a side opening for passage of its contents, a closure for said opening, a substantially horizontal normally depressed but upwardly movable bolt, the receptacle having suitable guides for the bolt and the closure an inwardly projecting upwardly open hook adapted to receive the bolt, and a lever for raising the bolt fulcrumed in said receptacle on a substantially horizontal axis and shiftable transversely of said axis and having a shifting guiding engagement with the receptacle.

4. The combination of a case having side opening for the passage of its contents and a trough-shaped rest extending along the lower margin of said opening, a shifting angular lever having its angle portion fulcrumed on said rest in the angle thereof and having one side thereof forming a closure for said opening and the other a rest to angle having opposite marginal notches r ceiving the flanges.

6. In a device of the character described, the combination of a receptacle having a pair of compartments, one having an opening through which to enter an article thereinto and the other an opening through which to remove therefrom another article contained therein, a normally closed in- 10 Warclly opening gate controlling the first ing means, to shift and thereupon support 15 the first article in position to block a second opening of the gate once said article passes the gate.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

WILLIAM MOLENAAR.

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