US2327618A - Server or dispenser - Google Patents

Description

Aug. 24, 1943. R. BERNHARDT SERVER OR DISPENSER.

Filed May 4, 1940 Patented Aug. 24, 1943 a Y 2,327,61F

3 Claims.

This invention relates to servers or dispensers such as syrup pitchers or the like, having springpressed closures or slides for closing the spouts and is particularly directed to means associated with the slides for opening the sameand for providing abutments for the closure springs;

Heretofore devices of this kind have been pro-f posed or used in which the slide is [provided with a button riveted or otherwise attached thereto to provide a finger or thumb piece and other means provided on the slide for engagement with the spring.

The thumb piece or actuating member I is preferably made substantially as shown in Figure 4, and includes a longitudinal strip or tongue [6 which is adapted to fit in the recess l3, and a thumb piece II which extends upwardly through the slot l4, and which has a substantially circumferential. flange portion [8. The

lower edges l9 of the flange or thumb portion In accordance with thepresent invention I pro- 7 vide a combined thumb piece and spring abutment or retainer which may be readily applied to the slide and will remain in operative position without being rigidly secured thereto.

In general the objects of the present invention 1:

are to provide an improved slide or closure blade for containers, having a combined thumb piece and spring engaging member detachably engaging therewith; to provide a novel thumb piece for a server cut-off or closure blade; to provide a combined thumb piece and spring abutment which may be readily and cheaply made and easily applied to the blade; and to provide such other advantages and improvements as will ap pear more fully hereinafter.

. In the accompanying drawing illustrating this invention,

Figure 1 is a side view of the top portion of a.

pitcher or'server embodying this invention; v

Figure 2 is a sectional view on an enlarged scale;

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 33 of Figure 2;

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the thumbpiece member; and

Figure 5 is a perspective view of the slide or blade. L f As shown in the drawing, 6 indicates any suitable container having a cap or top 1 provided with a handle 8'. The cap has a pouring spout, 9 on the side opposite from the handle and has a guideway 5 for receiving and guiding a cut-01f slide or closure .blade l8, preferably of the form shown in Figure 5. This blade is held'in operative position by means of buttonsor retainers I I.

The blade Ill-has a longitudinal embossment or raised portion 12 providing a bearing or recess engage with thetop surface of the blade when in operative position and extend slightly beyond the ends of the slot M. The forward end of the tongue [6 is bent downwardly or at substantially rightangles to provide a projection or abutment 20 which is engaged by one end of an operating spring 2| as shown in Figure 2. This spring is mounted in a channel 22 in the cap or cover I which is preferably made of plastic material with the'channelformed integrally therein. The upposite end of the spring engages with an abutment 23 forming one end of the channel. The cap may also be provided with a vent 24 which is located adjacent the rear end of the channel.

It will be readily seen that the blades I6) and.

the operating members maybe easily stamped from sheet metal and. made at a very. low cost.

5 When the parts are to be assembled theprojec- When thus assembled the spring engages with the projection or abutment and tends to urge holds the operating I3 on the inner side thereof. The embossment' is also provided with a transverse slot. I spositioned at some distance from the forward end thereof as shown in Figure-5.

tion or abutment 20 and the tongue [5 are in- .serted in the slot l4 and then swung up to operative position as shown in Figure 2, with the shoulders is resting on the top of the slide. The tongue and the spring are then assembled in position in the cap or top as shown-in- Figure 2.

the slide or blade H! to closed position, and also member I5 in its operating position.

When the server is to be used the operator will ordinarily grasp the handle 8 with the thumb against the thumb piece I! and press back on the thumb piece to openthe slide to permit the contents to pass out the spout. When the thumb is removed the slide will be returned to closed position by means of the spring; r 1

7 .While I have shown my improved operating member or thumb piece as applied to a particu- V lar form of slide, it isapparent that theseparts I may be modified or, made of different shapes for other forms of serversand therefore I do not wish to be limited to the particular construction herein shown and described except as specifled in theifollowing claims, in which I claim:

I 1. In combination, a spout closure blade having V i a longitudinal embossment providing arecess on the lower side thereofand having a-transverse slot in the embossed portion, an operating member having a narrow strip adapted to be inserted through the slot and having one end bent to form an abutment for a spring, the opposite end of the member extending upwardly and having a flanged portion with its lower edge resting on the blade and tending to hold said portion at right angles to the blade. 7

2. A container of the character set forth, having a cap-with a spout at one side thereof and having a guideway in the upper surface in alignment with the spout, and a channel extendin longitudinally of the guideway, a cut-01f blade slidably mounted in the guideway, means for holding the blade in the guideway, a blade operating member having one portion extending through the blade into said channel and providing an abutment for one end of a spring, a spring interposed between the abutment and the opposite end of the channel, said operating memben H also extending upwardly from the blade and providing a thumb piece for'moving the blade to open position.

3, The combination with a container having a cap provided with a spout, of a blade slidab'Iy:--' mounted on the cap i'oropening and closingthv" spout, said blade having a transverse slot therein,

an actuating member-havinga thumb piece exj tending upwardly through the slot, and also havj ing a tongue at right angles to the thumb piece j engaging with the lower surface of the blade, the end of the tongue being bent downwardly at 'substantially right angles to the blade, and a spring coacting with the cap and the downwardly b'ent endofv the tongue tending to urge the blade! to a closing position.

RUDOLPH BERNHARDT;

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