US2589817A

US2589817A - Vaporizer carrier

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Publication number: US2589817A
Application number: US123463A
Authority: US
Inventors: Katzman Max
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1949-10-25
Filing date: 1949-10-25
Publication date: 1952-03-18
Anticipated expiration: 1969-03-18

Description

March 18, 1952 M KATZMAN 2,589,817

VAPORIZER CARRIER Filed Oct. 25. 1949 Arme/vir:

Patented Mar. 18 1952 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE VAPORIZER CARRIER Max Katzman, Brooklyn, N. Y. Application October 25, 1949, Serial No. 123,463 Claims. (Cl. 21S- 40) This invention relates to carriers for vaporizers and has for one of its objects to provide a stable carrier and stand combination for a vaporizer. Another object is to provide a simple and inexpensive handle for a vaporizer which may be Aeasily and conveniently attached and removed.

Another object is to provide effective means for preventing separation of the vaporizer container and its lid while the electric current is on, in order to protect the used against burns from touching the heating element and against receiving an electrical shock.

A still further object is to provide a protective carrier which will prevent the vaporizer container from cracking or breaking by cushioning the shock when the unit is set down sharply.

A still further object is to provide a vaporizer carrier and stand combination which may be formed as a sheet metal stamping, and which will always rest firmly on a horizontal surface.

Other objects and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings in which similar reference characters denote corresponding parts:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of an illustrative carrier and stand unit in place on a vaporizer;`

Fig. 2 is a top View showing the container and handle and; y f

Fig. 3 is a top View in section, on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1, illustrating the construction of the stand.

Referring to the drawings, the vapcrizer unit is generally shown at I0, and is of usual construction, comprising a conventional liquid container II, which may be a glass jar. Heating electrodes I2 are attached to, but insulated from, 'the bottom of a cap I3 which is adapted to be l screwed onto the top of the container II. The

cap I3 also includes a vapor emission spout I4, and electrode terminals I5 and I6 which project from the lid I3.

Q The combination carrier and stand which embodies the invention is generallydesgnated at Il. It is constructed principally of resilient sheet metal or other suitable resilient material. Itis .basically a U-shaped spring clamp formed provide a lower jaw or bases I8, an upper jaw I9 and auconnecting handle member 20.

The upper jaw- I9 comprises an-inbent upper E f.

end.: of the handle member 20 and a rigid, notched, insulating extension plate 2I secured thereto by rivets 22. The plate 2I is designed to t around the protruding electrode terminals I5 and IB and to extend between the cover and an extension cord plug when the latter is applied to the electrode terminals for heating the vaporizer. The handle member 20 is curved outward away from the vaporizer at its upper end to provide a. handgrip space between the handle and the vaporizer, but has its lower end curved and sloped inward, with a sloping portion near its lower extremity disposed to engage and bear resilientiy against a lower margin of the vaporizer.

The base I8 is an inturned, desirably integral, extension of the handle member 20. It forms a three point support for the vaporizer. At the lower end of the handle member ZIJ the metal extends downward past the bottom of thevaporizer and is curved to U-form to provide a rear foot 23, which connects with a substantially horizontal body portion 24. The body portion 24 is divided to form divergent arms 25 whose outer ends are bent downward and Ythence curved to U-form to provide forward spaced feet 26. Beyond the feet 26 the arms 25 terminate in upstanding lingers 2'I which extend well above the plane of the body portion 24.

The metallic portion of the carrier may be stamped to provide the divergent arms 25 directly. An economy of metal can be realized, however, if a strip of metal is rst stamped with the arms in parallel relation and the arms are subsequently spread to the form shown.

The carrier is applied to the vaporizer by inserting the electrode terminals I5 and I6 into the notches of the plate 2| with the carrier spring in inclined relation to the vaporizer as illustrated in dot and dash lines in Fig. 1. The handle and vaporizer body are then pressed to ward one another to force the carrier into the full line position illustrated in Fig. 1.

With the fingers 2l and the lower extremity of the handle 20 engaging the bottom portion of the vaporizer periphery at substantially equally spaced points, and with the notched extension plate 2I interloclred with the electrode terminals I5 and I6, the carrier cannot be accidentally separated from the vaporizer. The carrier forms a stable support for the vaporizer which serves to support the hot vaporizer at a distance from any surface upon which the carrier is set. The carrier therefore interferes with the direct transmission of heat from the vaporizer to the supporting furniture, and thereby aids in protecting the furniture from damage.

When the handle 2U is grasped in the usual manner to transport the vaporizer and the vaporizer is then set down, there is a natural tendency to set down the unit so that the rearward foot 23 of the carrier touches the supporting surface first. The vaporizer container II being generally constructed of glass, is likely to be rather fragile, and the sudden shock created when the unit is carelessly placed on a supporting surface may crack the container II. To avoid this danger the carrier is so constructed that the base I8 does not normally rest against the bottom of theon tainer I I in the region of the foot 23. f

The arms 25 and the body 24 of the base do not extend in a plane parallel with the plane defined by the lowest points of the three supporting

feet

23, 26, 26, but do extend in a plane which slopes downward from the front to the rear. The bottom of the vaporizer container l l is, however, caused to occupy a substantially horizontal attitude, and hence to diverge rearwardly from the arms 25 and the body 24.

This divergence is brought about by reason of the fact that the normal space between the fingers 21 on the one hand and the lower eX- tremity of the handle 29 on the other is insucient to accommodate the container I l. The ngers 21 and the handle 29 therefore eXert a squeezing action upon the container. The lower extremity of the handle 29 deviates sufficiently from the vertical, and from parallelism with the iingers 21, to cause it to cam the lower rear edge of the container upward. This causes the Arear portion of the container to be resiliently supported at a short but important distance from the surface of the -body 24. With this construction, the shock applied to the foot 23 when the carrier is set down will not be transmitted as a shock to the container I l, but will be absorbed by the resiliency of the handle 29. This action effectively protects the container against cracking.

When the handle is in place the cap l'3 cannot be removed without first removing the handle and stand unit. The user is prevented, Vtherefore, from taking the device apart, thus being prevented from burning himself on the heating electrodes I2. In case an electrical plug, not shown, is seated on the electrode terminals it effectively interferes with the removal of the carrier from the vaporizer, at least until the electrical connections are broken. Since the cover cannot be removed until the carrier has been removed, there is no danger of exposing the electrodes while they are connected to the source of current.

It will now be appreciated that the novel carrier and stand combination will serve to fully realize the several objects hereinabove expressed. The details of present description are to be regarded as illustrative, and not as limiting, inasmuch as numerous variations in structure may be made within the scope of the claims.

I have described what I believe to be the best embodiments of my invention. I do not wish, however, to be confined to the embodiments shown, but what I desire to cover by Letters Patent is set forth in the appended claims.

I claim:

l. A combined carrier and stand, for a vaporizer which includes a container body and a cover with electrode terminals projecting upward from the cover, said carrier comprising an upper jaw engageable with the top of the cover, a lower jaw or base engageable with the bottom of the container body and an intervening handle member resiliently connecting the upper and lower jaws and tending to hold said cover to said container body, said lower jaw and handle member disposed to embrace the lower'portion of the container body, and said upper jaw including a notched extension plate which is adapted to be interlocked with the electrode terminals.

2. A combined carrier and stand, for a vaporizer which includes a container body and a cover with electrode terminals projecting upward from the cover, said carrier comprising an upper Vjaw 4engagea-ble with the tcp of the cover, a lower jaw' or base engageable with the bottom of the container body, and an intervening handle member resiliently connecting the upper and lower jaws and biasing them toward one another, said lower jaw being in the form of an extension of the handle member and including a body and a pair of branching arms, said body and each of said arms being curved to form a supporting foot. each of said arms terminating in an upstanding finger, the ngers in cooperation with the handle member being adapted to grip the lower portion of the container body, and the upper jaw including a notched extension plate which is adapted to be interlocked with the electrode terminals.

3. A combined carrier and stand, for a vaporizer which includes a container body and a cover with electrode terminals projecting upward from the cover, said carrier comprising an upper jaw engageable with the tcp of the cover, a lower jaw or base engageable with the bottom of the container body and an intervening handle membe resiliently connecting the upper and lower jaws, said lower jaw being in the form of an'extension of the handle member and including a body and a pair of branching arms, said body being curved to provide a rear foot and said arms being curved to provide front feet, each of said arms terminating in an upstanding linger, the lingers in cooperation with the handle member being adapted to grip the lower portion of the container body and to cause the handle member to cam the container upward at the rear away from the lower jaw.

4. A combined carrier and stand for a vaporizer which includes a body and a cover with electrode terminals projecting upward from the cover, said carrier comprising an upper jaw engageable with the top of the cover, a lower jaw or base engageable with the bottom of the container body, and an intervening i handle member resiliently connecting the upper and lower jaws and tending to compress said body and kcover therebetween,

. said lower jaw and handle member disposed to embrace the lower portion of the containerbody, and said upper jaw including a notched rigid extension plate of insulating material which is adapted to be interlocked with the electrode terminals.

5. A combined carrier and stand comprising a lower jaw and an upper jaw and an intervening handle member resiliently connecting the upper and lower j`aws and tending to bias said jaws toward one another, said lower jaw being in the form of an extension of a handle member and including a body and a pair of branching arms,

said body being curved to provide a rearfoot and said arms being curved to provide front feet,` i each of said arms terminating in an upstanding finger, and said upper jaw including a notched'1 extension plate.

MAX KATZMAN. REFERENCES CITED The following references are of .record the flle of this patent:

UNITED sTATEs PATENTS Herr ce July 15, 1947