US2132518A - Ink bottle dispenser and stopper - Google Patents

Description

Oct. 11, 1938.

Filed July 29, 1936 H ill/111mm,

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Patented Oct. 11, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFlCE INK BOTTLE DISPENSER AND STOPPEB. Ernest Schlueter, Jamaica, N. Y.

Application July 29,

3 Claims.

The present invention relates to an improved stopper and dispenser for ink bottles and is more especially adapted for use on ink bottles containing from two tofive ounces of writing fluid.

The main feature of advantage in the present structure is that it can be adapted to provide a closed seal for the bottle when so desired, and

may there often be'adapted to act as an automatic supply reservoir, thereby to provide ink as 1-1') required for pen dipping or fountain pen filling.

Other features of advantage will be apprehended as the herein description proceeds and it will be obvious that modifications may be made in the structure herein without departing from the spirit hereof or the scope of the appended claims.

In the drawing,

Fig. 1 is a view in elevation showing the ink bottle and device in ink reservoir supplying position;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a view in elevation showing the bottle and devce in sealed, stoppered assembly;

Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the main body of the stoppering device taken on the line 4-4, Fig. 5, looking in the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 5 is a plan view of Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is a sectional view of the valve or ink cut off means taken on the line 66, Fig. 7, looking in the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 7 is a plan view of Fig. 6; and

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary sectional View of the valve device, enlarged, to show various details of structure.

As in Fig. 3, the bottle 2 is shown with the dispensing device mounted thereon to act as a closure for the bottle, and this is accomplished by providing the dispensing device, which is preferably made up of a moulded phenolic condensation compound, with a thin, upstanding bottle neck engaging annulus 8, Fig. 4, said annulus being sufficiently flexible to be firmly engageable into the opening of the bottle neck so as to be proof against accidental displacement therefrom.

As shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the body I of the dispensing closure, is circular in plan outline, and is sufliciently thick to permit of the provision of an ink well bore 5 therein, and a parallel ink entry bore I2 therein, which is formed, in part, by the said annulus 8. A communicating bore I, joins the entry bore l2 to the ink well bore 5, so that ink may flow from bore I2 to spaced bore 5.

The ink well bore 5 is provided with a frictionally mounted rotatable closure valve, Figs. 1,

1936, Serial No. 93,154.

2 and 3, the same comprising a thin walled cylindrical body portion 6, having a flanged portion 4, the valve being open at the flanged portion only, and being provided with a valve opening 9 in its cylindrical wall, Fig. 6. ing when the valve is fitted into the ink well bore 5, as in Figs. 3 and 1, may be rotated therein to either close the ink supply ductl, as in Fig. 3, to close the device against evaporation and spillingof the ink, or to open the valve interior as an 10 ink well, to the duct 1, which is in communication with the bottle contents.

As viewed in Fig. 3, the device is intended to be a stopper for thebottle and may be sold therewith as a substitute for the usual cork.

When the bottle and'device are reversed as in Figs. 1 and 2, the device then becomes an ink well and ink dispensing means, by rotating the valve member so that its side aperture 9 registers with the duct 1, and thereby permits ink to flow into the valve body 6, from which the ink becomes accessible for use, by reason of the valve and ink well portion being oiTset from the reservoir bottle as fully shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

The stopper at its open end is provided with a wiper and baffle disc II, this being shown in Figs. 6 to 8 inclusive, this, and the valve, being made of the same material as the main body of the device, the bafile being inclined inwardly of the valveand terminating in a reentrant central bore l2. If the device and bottle are accidently upset from the dispensing position of Fig. 1, or turned completely over, as in Fig. 8, the excess ink will tend to flow into the chamber A, Fig. 8, and thus, to a large extent, is prevented from a free discharge from the device. A small capillary air vent I5, Fig. '7, is provided in the bafile, so that after an upset, upon the device being righted, air may enter into chamber A and release the ink therein.

The battle Il, may be applied to the valve by any suitable means, and may be, as indicated in Fig. 8, moulded into the valve flange by its outer rim I6.

The body I of the device, has a stop pin I3, Figs. 1 and 5, located adjacent the edge of the inkwell bore 5, to act as a stop for the rotative valve, and the flange 4 thereof has a stop groove I4, Figs. 1 and 7, the limits of said groove, which is located on the under edge of the flange, forming means to register the valve port 9 with the duct I, as in Fig. 1, and to prevent turning the valve too far when closing the same.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the present device provides a sealedstopper, which This latter open- 5 may act as a closure to the bottle, and which when reversed with the bottle, to form a support therefor, becomes a closable inkwell, which may be opened to admit a supply of ink thereto, from the reservoir bottle, as required.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed is:

1. In combination, a circular base of phenolic condensation compound having therein a diametric duct, an upstanding cylindrical well bore at one end of the duct, and an entry bore at the other end surrounded by a thin flexible upstanding cylindrical wall integral with the base; an inverted bottle having its neck receiving said wall in a liquid-tight manner and holding the bottle firmly upright; a thin-walled cylindrical ink Well frictionally engaging liquid-tight the wall of said well bore, and having a lateral aperture adapted, when the Well is turned, to move into or out of register with the duct; said well being provided with an interiorly upwardly flared upper flanged portion engaging on the top of the base and provided portion above the flare with an annular groove opening toward the well axis; and a downwardly concavo-convexed baffle disk fitted in said groove and having a central opening allowing free passage of a pen and forming a lower lip above the ink level; the vertical projection of the center of gravity of said bottle, and of the bottle and base as a whole, being well 7 within and remote from the perimeter of the base when the bottle is inverted, the center of gravity of the bottle and. base, when the base is inverted and the bottle upright and resting on its bottom, being near the axis of the bottle, whereby the bottle and base are held steadily when either is uppermost, the upstanding flexible wall furnishing a holding means without additional expense; said baflle being free of contact with ink when in use, whereby when the ink is run from the well into .the bottle and said aperture closed, and the bottle is set upon its bottom with the base, baille and well inverted, the friction of the stopper will hold it in place and said baffie will prevent ink from dripping or spilling.

2. In a combination as in claim 1, a pin projecting from the top face of said base; said flanged portion having an arcuate slot receiving said pin and of a length to stop said well with the aperture in registering and non-registering positions relative to the duct.

3. In a combination as in claim 1, the baflle being provided with a marginal capillary perforation communicating with the interior of said enlarged portion.

ERNEST SCHLUETER.

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