US1524046A - Dispensing container - Google Patents

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.S. P. LOVELL ET AL DISPENSING CONTAINER Filed Jan. 5, 1923 ray.

Patented Jan. 27, 1925.

UNITED STATES:

I 1,524,04i6 PATENT "OFFICE.

STANLEY P. LOVELL AND KENNETH D. HAMILTON, OF BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

DISPENSING CONTAINER.

Application filed January 5, 1923.. Serial No. 610,893.

' T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, STANLEY P. LOVELL and KENNETH D. HAMILTON, citizens of the United States, residing at Brockton, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dispensing Containers; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to dispensing containers and is moreyparticularly concerned with containers of this type used for solutions or liquids which, upon standing, tend to assume a non-uniform constituency, as, for example, by a settling of undissolved or suspended materialsor a stratification of liquid components. liquids are being used or dispensed from a container it is necessary to stir 'or agitate them at frequent intervals in order that the proper compositon of the liquids may be secured and the desired results accomplished. Many of these containers are provided with special dispensing means for delivering the liquid in a convenient manner and in the desired amounts according to the character of the liquids and its mode of use.

It is one of the objects of the present in- .vention to provide a dispensing container of the above type with conveniently arranged and efficiently operating means for stirring or agitating the liquid contained therein when the dispensng device is actuated. 7

Another object of the present invention is to provide a container of the above type with actuating mechanism for the agitating means so connected with the dispensing device that the actuating of the latter automatically effects the actuation of the agitating means.

With these objects in View the present invention consists in the devices andc0mbinations of devices hereinafter described and more particularly defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings the present invention is shown as embodied in a dispensing container especially designed and adapted for use in-shoe factories for liquid finishing materials. Such containers usually consist of a pan to hold the liquid, a cover for the same, and a dispensing roller projecting above the cover and dipping into the liquid. The operator ordinarily uses When such a small sponge to apply the blacking or stain, and he moistens this with the stain by drawing it across the exposed face of the roller, thereby rotating the latter in the liquid. This movement, however, of the roller is not suflicicnt to keep the liquid properly agitated particularly where pigments are employed which are held rather in suspen sion in the liquid than in solution, and unless the operator stirs or agitates the liquid at frequent intervals, an objectionable variation in color or shade of shoes treated will result, particularly between those treated at the beginning and at the end of the day.

In the illustrated embodiment of the present invention such a dispensing container is provided with an agitating device in the is a vertical sectional View on line 2--2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view taken on line 33' of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a detailed longitudinal, vertical, sectional view of the agitating device.

Referring to the drawings, the circular receptacle or pan 6 for the liquid 8 is pro vided with a dished cover 10 having an annular lip 12 received over the edge of the pan. The cover also has a central rectangular' opening 14 to accommodate a moistening roller 16 which is provided with a shaft 18 journaled for rotation in depending cars 20 on the cover; The edges of the opening 14: adjacent the roller are turned inwardly as indicated-at 22 to present a finished appearance and so that there may be no sharp edges that could possibly catchthe sponge or the operators hand. The means for agitating the liquid comprises the circular plate 24 having at opposite sides the upstanding turned flanges 28 to provide bearing surfaces for the actuating cams 29. These cams may obviously be of any desired shape but preferably consist of eccentrics mounted upon the roller shaft 18 adjacent the roller, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

The agitator plate 24; is preferably provided with a plurality of apertures or perforations through which the liquid flows ill] ' cars 26 with circular openings 27 having in-v lltl form of rectangular openings 30, and in order to insure still further the thorough circulation and mixing ofthe liquid, the-metalfrom these openings is not wholly removed but is bent upwardly to form inclined vanes or flanges 32 for directing toward the roller the'liquid passing up through the openings e The agitator plate 24 is also preferably provided with a rectangular slot 36 between the'ears 26 to receive the roller 16 when the agitator is in raised position. It will be seenthat both the cover and the agitating device may be constructed from single sheets of metal by stamping operations.

In operation the Workman draws his sponge across the top of the roller 16, thereby-replenishing the supply in the sponge and by rotation of the roller replenishing the supply on the roller, Usually thesponge is drawn across the rollertwo or three times to ensure an'ainp'le supply of liquid in the sponge, any excess being removed by squeezing or pressing the sponge against the sloping surface of the cover 10, the surplus liquid returning to the pan. Upon each revolution of the roller the agitator plate 24 rises and falls through the liquid, atthe same time having a back and forth endwise motion due to the action of the cams'within the circular openings 27 ofthe ears 26 of the; agitator plate. With this construction,

"thorough agitation of the liquid and resulting uniformity in the color of the finished product is'insured, without any additional mental effort or appreciable-physical effort on the part of the operator.

-Although in the drawings an agitator platehas been illustrated which is operated through the action of a pair of similarly disposed cams or eccentrics, itis'to be understood that other and Various forms-of agitatorsinayfbe einployed 'which may be 'operatedby a Wide varietyinechanisins' without-departing froi'n the spirit of the present invention.:.

Having thus described the present inventionywhat is claimed is: v,

1. A-dispensing container for liquid comprising a'receptacle for the liquid, a closure for the top of the receptacle, means for dispensing the liquid contained in the receptacle,fan agitating device for agitating the liquid, and mechanism located within the receptacle and beneath the closure for actuating the agitating device. v

2. A dispensii'i'g container for liquids comprising a receptacle for liquid, means actuated by the operator for dispensing the liquid container therein, an agitating device for agitating the liquid, and connections betWeen the dispensing means and the agitating device for actuating the agitating device by the dispensing means, the connections being located within the receptacle.

3. A dispensing container comprising a receptaclefor the liquid, a depressed slotted cover for the receptacle, a inoistening roller mounted within the receptacle and partially submerged in the liquid and projecting through the slotted cover, and means actuated by the rotation of the roller for agitating the liquid.

4. A dispensing container comprising a receptacle for the liquid, a dispensing device comprising a inoistening roller partially submerged in the liquid, an agitator plate for agitating the liquid, connections for actuating the agitating plate from the roller. and a closure for the top of the receptacle :having an opening forthe projection therethrough of the roller, the roller and agitat- 'ing plate being supported on the cover.

5. A dispensingcontainer comprising a receptacle for the liquid, a moistcning roller, a cam mounted at each end of the roller. and an agitating device submerged in the liquid and suspended-upon the cams, whereby the agitating device will be raised and lowered (when the roller is rotated.

'6. A dispensing container coinprisinga receptacle for the liquid, dispensing means,

an agitating device comprising a plate submerged inthe'liquid andprovidedwith a [plurality of perforations and "deflecting vanes, and mechanism for raising and lowering'thefagitating device in the liquid.

7. A'dispensing device comprising a pan for the liquid, a cover having an opening therein, a inoistening roller iotatably supported on the cover and hayingits upper portionprojecting through the opcningin the c'oveit'and its lower portion submerged in the liquid, cams at each end of-tlie roller and rotating therewith, and a perforated 'plate submerged in the liquid having an opening to ,IGCGIVG the roller and provided with upstanding ears having openings to receive the cams.

8. A dispensing container comprising a recjeptacle'for the liquid, a closure for the top of the receptacle, said closure being provided with an opening, a moistening roller and agitating (evice connected therewith located within the "rece )tacle and beneath the closure, the top of the rollerprojecting through the opening in the closure and the botto'in of'the rollerbeing submerged in the liquid. l v

STANLEY P. LOVELL. KENNETH D. HAMILTON.

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