US1523065A

US1523065A - Measured-sugar dispenser

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Publication number: US1523065A
Application number: US687683A
Authority: US
Inventors: Gessler Harry
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1924-01-22
Filing date: 1924-01-22
Publication date: 1925-01-13
Anticipated expiration: 1942-01-13

Description

Jan. 131. 1925.. 1,523,065

H. GESSLER MEASURED SUGAR DISPENSER Filed Jan. 22. 1924 PatentedJan. 13, 1925 UNITED STATES I 1,523,065 PATENT. OFFICE.

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MEASURED-SUGAR DISPENSER.

Application filed January 22, 1924. Serial No. 687,683.

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY GEBSLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, borough of Manhattan, in the'county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Measured-Sugar Dispensers, of which the following is a speci cation. a a

This invention relates to dispensing recepta'cles or containers and has particular reference to such containers intended for use for dispensing measured quantities of bulk, granulated, or pulverulent commodities such as sugar or the like. i

Among the objects of the invention is to provide a dispensing device of the nature indicated that will deliver substantially precise measured quantities of the commodity irrespective of the Variations in the maniplulation of the device incident to the use t ereof by different individuals who may manipulate the container in various ways, to different degrees of inclination, at

various s eeds, or the like. A further object of the invention is t provide a container for sugar that will be of a most sanitary nature, one that is practically dust-proof, and into which itwill be impossible for various users to insert their spoons for withdrawing sugar and also one that is adapted for use in either hand and when grasped from any direction, inasmuch as the construction is perfectly symmetrical as to its vertical axis and so will deliver irrespective of the direction in which it may be tilted.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a construction for dispensing quantities of sugar of variable volumes according to the desire of the management or owner and for the adjustment to be effected in the most simple, cheap, and reliable physical manner. a V

With the foregoing and other. objects in view the invention consists in the arrangement and combination ofparts hereinafter described and claimed, and while the invention is not restrictedto the exact details of construction disclosed or suggested herein, still for the purpose of illustrating a practical embodiment thereof reference is bad to the accompanying drawings, in which like reference characters desi nate the same parts in the several views, an in which Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a preferred-embodiment of the invention in normal upright position and with the volume adjusting device adjusted for a minimum discharge.

Fig. 2 is aview of the same mechanism inverted, one charge being delivered and another charge being directed toward the volume adjusting device. r

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary detail view correspondin to Fig. 1, but showing an adjusted position of the volume adjusting device for the discharge of a larger quantity of-su ar. y,

Re err1n now more specifically to the drawings shows a container 10 of any suitable composition, size, or design, but indicated as of glass and having a threaded open end or neck 11. Otherwise the container is solid or imperforate and hence adapted to be filled only through the threaded'neck.

'Fitted upon and normally closing said container and neck is a top 12 made preferably of sheet material such as, metal and comprising three principal parts as follows which are relatively easily constructed and assembled: A discharge member or nozzle 13, a baffle member 14, and a volume adjusting member or device 15. In the usual practice of this invention these three parts of the top are permanently connected to one another and are removable as a unit from the container when the latter is being filled. The discharge member or nozzle 13 is shown as of frusto-conical form and having an outlet 16 at its upper end while the lower portion or base is inthe nature of a flange 17 having an internal or female thread for direct co-operation with the threaded neck 11.

The baflie member may beqofany suitable design but is shown as in the nature of a conical cup inverted within the nozzle and held in fixed spaced relation thereto b means of studs or s acers 13", thus provi ing an annular disc argespace18 between thenozzle and the baflie. The rim 19 of the baflie is located preferably at about the plane of the union between the threaded ase 17 and the tapereddischarge nozzle.

The volume adjusting device 15 may be described" broadly as comprising a flat horizontal ring, or .body portion from which there extends upward from its center a cutoff flange 20 of frusto-conical form as shown and having its cut-off edge extended within the cup-shaped bafiie and hence above the plane of the rim 19 and similarly equally mg downward mm the ring or body portion of the volume ad'usting device is a flange portion 21 provi ed with an outside,

or male thread ada ted to co-operate direct ly with the threa ed base 17; The lower portion of this flange may be flangedinward,

at 22 so as to serve not only as a better means for grasping and. manipulating thevolume adjusting device for assemblage and adjustment, but 'also as a positive stop against which the edge of the neck of the container is caused to abut when the top is screwed upon the container. The device assembled and adjusted as shown in Fi .,land 2 will deliver a predetermined xed'and minimum quantity of the material, the measure. of such quantity being. the capacity of the space between' the rim 19 of the baflie, the upper portion of the vertical base, and that partof the body of. thevolume adjusting device lying outside the downward projection of the rim 19 thereon, this space and measure quantity being indicated at s in Fig. 1 and s in Fig. 3.. While that portion of material shown at s or s, Figs..1 and 3, will flow out through the nozzle at the nextturn, that portion lying between the-rim 19 and the cutofi flange will not be discharged but will flow ck again into the bafile .cup. This is wh a substantially uniform discharge is a ways obtained irrespective of the speed or. degree of inversion of the container. f Furthermore, it must be remembered that in the extensive use of these devices in public lunch rooms, hotels, and restaurants, the successive manipulations of a single device are erformed usually by different persons, w 0, having different personal equations, manipulate the device not only in diflerent directions but at different speeds and to various angles. It is to be observed also that each user leaves a measthe next person who t1 ts the container.

.The baflie 14, as a cup, is in no sense a measuring device, and hence it has' no bearing upon the charge measured except as its rim 19 may influence the charge in co-operation with the annulusor real volume adjusting member 15..

In assemblage the cupisfixed withinthe nozzle as indicated in the factory, and the volume adjusting device is inserted through the larger open end of the base, being screwedlupward as far as desired toward the baflie. When adj usted-for minimum dischargethemember 15 will be turned snugly up against the end of. the threadnear the tight thread so wherever the member 15 is a J usted it will remain until it is positively.

against the flange 22, locking all parts in 7o operative position. I

' In operation, for the delivery of a measuredquantity of sugar the container will be inverted or suitably inclined to cause the baffle cup to be filled substantially as 76 shown in Fig. 2, but because it is a baffle and prevents direct discharge'of the sugar none will be discharged as a result of the first tipping or inclination of the device.

When, however, the container is brought 80' again to or toward erect position a certain predetermined quantity. of the sugar will,

be caught and retained in the spaces ready for direct delivery through" the space 18 when the device is again tilted. Thism'ea'sured quantity of sugar'caught in the measuring space will presumably always be retained therein after -once being supplied so that anyuseriofthe dispensing device will always be able to secure directly thedesired quantity upon, tilting the container;

I wish to emphasize thatasa result of extensive experience in the practice of this device I have found that there is barely an with the volume adjusting device in fixed adjustment, irrespective of whether the tilting is done slowly or rapidly or according.

tov the degree of inclination thereof. For

variation in the amount of sugar dispense instance,if the device is tilted slowly back from the position ofFig. 2 to that ofFi'g. 1, the measuredquantity willbe as shown injFig. 1,all at one side. "If,'how'ever, the user should return the-device quickly to its erect position, the bulk of thematerial in the cup of Fig. 2 would be returned in bulk directly downward through the cut-otfflange 20 andso the measured quantityof the" commodity would bethat portion of the sugar in theannular space surrounding the cut-ofi flange and all of this, or practically all of it, would be" received directly upon the ,top

0 the volume adjusting member and be held in the form ofa ring in the space 8, ready for discharge throughthe space 18 when the device is again tilted for discharging. In all cases the quantity of sugar dispensed willbe more uniform thanfif itwere being" dippedfrom an openbowl by the use of spoons in the hands of i The delivery of the sugaris not only reliable as to quantity but very prom t as to 7 action, the pouring spaces being su ciently large for free flow at all times.

From Fig.3 it is the volume adjusting device 15 with respect to the rim 19 of the cup the measuringspace s is accordingly enlarged whilethe action or-mode of operation remains unchanged.

different people.

plain that by lowering R parts 15 and 17 afford therefore not only a cheap and easy manner of construction and assemblage of the parts but also a most satisfactory means for variation of the delivery capacity.

I claim:

1. A container, a discharge member attached thereto by means of threads, a bafiie member,attached to the neck, a volume adjusting device within the discharge member and located wholly above the container neck, said volume adjusting device comprising a horizontal support for the material measured and having an inner upwardly directed cutolf fian'ge providing a freely open center, and a bafiie member of inverted cup format-ion located between the volume. ad usting device support and the upper end "of the discharge member and within the rim of which battle member the flange aforesaid projects in spaced relation, the measure of the material being dispensed being determined by the capacity of the space between the support and the rim and outside the downward projection of said rim upon said support.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

HARRY GESSLER.