US1981780A

US1981780A - Locking receptacle for milk bottles

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Publication number: US1981780A
Application number: US666928A
Authority: US
Inventors: Henry G Charlet
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1933-04-19
Filing date: 1933-04-19
Publication date: 1934-11-20
Anticipated expiration: 1951-11-20

Description

No'v.20, 1934. H. e. CHARLET 1,981,730

LOCKING RECEPTAGLE FOR MILK BOTTLES Filed April 19, 1953 [2592 279 6. Cariaij INVENTOR ATTOR N EY Patented Nov. 20, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT GFFIUE'.

1 Claim.

The object of the invention is to provide a device readily applicable to a wall surface at some convenient point for the reception of a milk bottle, so that when the latter is once seated in the device it may be effectively retained therein against surreptitious removal; to provide a device of the kind indicated which is releasable from the opposite side of the wall surface to which it is attached, as, for example, the interior wall surface of the house on which the device is mounted; and generally to provide a device of the kind indicated which is of simple form and susceptible of cheap manufacture.

With this object in view, the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is illustrated in the accompanying drawing but to which embodiment the invention is not to be restricted. Continued use in practice may dictate certain changes 20 or alterations and the right is claimed to make any which fall within the scope of the annexed claim.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a front elevational view of the invention.

Figure 2 is a sectional view on the plane indicated by the line 2-2 of Figure 1, the cap memher being shown in dotted lines in the elevated or release position.

Figure 3 is a top plan view.

The invention comprises a frame formed to provide a seat for the bottom or lower end of a milk bottle, this frame being formed from a metal plate coiled around upright bars at its opposite side edges and extended forward, as indicated at 12, at its lower end to provide the bottle seat proper which is bounded with a guard flange 14, terminally secured by rivets or other fasteners to the coiled portions of the plate 10 and turned in, as indicated at 16, under the forwardly extending portion of the plate. This arrangement provides an effective seat for a milk bottle 17, when the frame is attached to a wall surface, as may be done by means of screws 18, passed through eyes or openings in the plate.

The plate at the upper end is coiled to provide pintle receiving barrels 19 in which the pintle 20 of the cap 21 is received, the cap being likewise formed with barrels 22 embracing the pintle adjacent the barrels 19 but being separated from each other a suflicient distance to provide a space for the coil spring 23 which is disposed in surrounding relation to the pintle and terminally bears against the face of the plate and the under face of the cap. The spring 23 is a torsion spring and tends normally to elevate the cap to the dotted line position indicated in Figure 2.

The cap has a peripheral pendent flange 24 which overhangs the milk bottle 17 at the mouth and prevents it being removed laterally from the device by swinging the upper end outwardly and springing the cap slightly, as might be the case were the flange omitted.

A latching pawl 25 is provided for retaining the cap in its lowered position in opposition to the spring 23. This latching pawl is disposed in a sheet metal casing 26 riveted or otherwise secured to the plate 10. The pawl is spring actuated, as indicated at 27, to impel its nose in a direction to effect engagement of the nose with the opening a keeper plate 28 which is secured to the cap and which enters the casing 26 when the cap is swung down to bottle engaging position.

A release rod 29 is provided and connects with the tail end of the latching pawl, this release rod extending through an opening in the wall surface to which the device may be attached and terminating in a push knob 39 on the opposite side of the wall surface.

The spring tends normally to elevate the cap member to vertical position when a milk bottle may be readily inserted or removed. When the bottle of milk is delivered, it is seated in the device and the cap forced down against the pressure of the spring 23, until the pawl engages the keeper plate, when the cap becomes latched in its lowered position. The user desiring to remove the milk, will apply a pressure to the finger knob 30 which will result in rocking the pawl 25 on its pivot against the pressure of its spring 27. But the rocking of the pawl will release it from the keeper plate and as soon as release is effected, the cap will be automatically elevated by the spring 23.

The invention having been described, what is claimed as new and useful is:

A locking receptacle for milk bottles comprising a frame provided with a seat for the lower end of a milk bottle to prevent lateral movement of the same thereon, a cap hingedly mounted at the upper end of the frame and provided with a pendent bounding flange for overhanging the upper or mouth end of the milk bottle, said cap being swingable from a vertical upstanding position to a horizontal lowered position, the frame being formed with a casing at the back and just below the plane of the cap, a pawl interior to and pivotally mounted on the front wall of said casing, the casing being open at the upper end and closed by the cap when in lowered position, the cap frame is attached, and a hand knob carried at the remote end of the release rod, the pawl having a spring yieldingly impelling its nose toward the keeper plate and the cap having a spring tending to lift it to its raised position.

HENRY G. CHARLET.