US1852652A - Metallic receptacle - Google Patents

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April 5, 1932. o. E HARAR|5 1,852,652

METALLIC RECEPTACLE Filed April 24,A 1930 Patented Apr. 5, 1932 UNITED .STATES ORA E. HARRIS, OF K-E-ARNEY, NEBRASKA METALLIC REGEPTACLE Y Application led April 24, 1930. Serial No. 446,855.

This invention relates to improvements in a metallic receptacle of the type disclosed and broadly claimed in my co-pending application entitled Confection coating apparatus, filed August 7 1929, under Serial N umber 384,174, and has for its primary object to provide a simple and highly efficient rack therefor for holding coated confection.

To the above end, generally stated, the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and dened in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the apparatus with the cover raised and with the rack in an operative position;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary view in vertical section showing the rack in an inoperative position;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary vertical section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1, and further showing a coated confection supported on the rack; v

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary perspective view of the apparatus showing the dipping compartment and hinge rod therein; and

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary view in section taken on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1, on an enlarged scale.

The numeral 6 indicates a leg supported rectangular metallic tank having in one end 1' a melting vat or compartment 7, normally closed by a hinge cover 8, and its other end a coating or dipping compartment 9. On the back of the tank 6 is an extension having in one end a compartment 10 for holding a supply of paper discs, an intermediate lcompartment 11 for holding a supply of sticks, and in its other end a compartment 12 for holding a supply of assembled discs andl sticks to form holders A. One of these holders A is shown in Fig. 3 and the card board Adisc and stick .are designated :by the ,letters fB and aG, respectively. Each disc B Yhas 4a central ihole iand each sti'c'kfG `has va `pointed :end and :in assembling the same `the `pointed end Fofffsaid Istick :is insertedithrough the hole l!) fin said fdisc, which fis Jof 'a smaller diameter than that of the,st"ick;and hence, is A'friction- `ally held "in place'.

A single `cover l'ishinged'to'the tankextension -and is of 'suchs'ize ftocover'saidtank l andfextension Hin-ged @within the compartment 12 Vclose Lto the front Wallfthereoi :is 'a frack "14 formed from a .fsin'gle piece of wire .and arranged to be turned into an upstanding operative 90 position, .as shown by full :lines inFig. 1 and rby broken lines in Fig. -5, for-into an Ainoperative position Awilt-hin 'the `compartment 12 wherein `the esame is closely -`positioned `to .the ,front Wall thereof, ias shown fby full 55 lines `in Fig. r5. The pur-pose `of :this rack 14 is :to permit `a supply fof the -h'olders A 'to z'be :piled up iin 1the ycompartment y12 (above the top thereof, :thus increasing 1the holding capacityof said'comfpart-ment andatthe same '70 time prevent Isaid holders from falling finto the compartment 9.

The holders A are fused for holding hemispheres of ice cream D, -cut Vfrom 'bulk E y ice cream by a-dipper, while `dipping/thesame inni-a vcoating tmaterial and `while hardening. These holders A alsoafford'convenient means by which the coated .confection .may be fheld Whileeating the same. Y

After a hemisphere .of .ice ycream 4has Abeen cutbya-d'ipper lfromlbulk ice creamand while still :held in the dipper, Vthefpointed ,end of the stick C of one of the holders A is pressed L-into the hemisphere, at the .axis thereof. until stopped by the engagement ofthe disc B with a the viiatside or base of sai'dhemisphere. With the holder A thus secured Ain the ihengiisphere the ice fcream lis discharged `from Vthe vclipper y and held lby said holder and then inverted and dipped into a coating material, Jnot shown, in the compartment 9 to a depth to which the hemisphere is entirely submerged but not to such a depth as to cover the disc B. The coated confection is then lifted from the coating material by the holder A, turned into is shown in Fig. 8. The upper ends of the Y socket-like members 17 flare so as to freely receive and direct the sticks C therein.

The rack 15 is arranged to be supported from the tank 6 outward of the left hand end thereof. as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and is detachably secured. thereto by a separable hinge 18. This hinge 18 includes a transverse hinge bar 19. rigidly secured at its end to the front and rear walls of the compartment 9 Close to the left hand end thereof, and a cooperating hook-like member 20 formed in one end of the plate 16` see Fig. 3.

The hinge member 2() is formed by laterally offsetting the plate 16 on the opposite side thereof from the holders 17 and bending the same in cross section to substantiallv a semicircle. Said plate 16 is of such width as to extend between the front and rear walls of the compartment 9 with a working lit. The hinge member 20 extends the full width of the plate 16 and holds the rack 15. when in an operative position in which it extends outward of the tank 6 and supported on the upper edge thereof. against either forward or rearward shifting movement on said tank.

To applv the rack 15 to the hinge rod 19 said rack is inverted and placed in the compartment 9 with its holders 17 extending downward and its hinge member 20 resting on said rod. In this position of the rack 15 it forms a cover for the compartment 9. is supported at its free end on the partition between the compartments 7 and 9 and does not interfere with the closing of the cover 13. To move the rack 15 from its inverted or inoperative position to an operative position the same is swung about the hinge rod 19 until stopped in a horizontal position outward of the tank 6 by its engagement with the upper edge thereof. With the rack'l thus supported in an operative position its hinge member 20 is securely interlocked with the hinge rod 19.

The spacing of the holders 17 is such that the coated confection thereon does not come in contact with each other.

If desired, the rack 15 may be detached from the apparatus, loaded with coated confection, and used as a carrying tray.

What I claim is:

A metallic receptacle including a tank having therein a transverse fixed hinge rod, and a rack comprising a flat plate having a plurality of upstanding tubular holders, said rack having at one end a wide hook-like hinge member arranged to lit around the hinge rod when the rack is inverted to completely enclose the tank in an inoperative position of the rack and to interlock with said rod when the rack is turned into operative position outward of the tank and supported on the adj acent end of the tank.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ORA E. HARRIS.

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