US3064860A

US3064860A - Dispensing device

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Publication number: US3064860A
Application number: US787530A
Authority: US
Inventors: Madaffer Frank
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1959-01-19
Filing date: 1959-01-19
Publication date: 1962-11-20
Anticipated expiration: 1979-11-20

Description

Nov. 20, 1962 Filed Jan. 19. 1959 F. MA DAFFE R DISPENSING DEVICE 3 Sheets-Sheet 1' IN V EN TOR. FRANK MADAFFEB (M A Mz ATTORNEY Nov. 20, 1962 F. MADAFFER 3,064,860

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IN V EN TOR FRANK MADAFFER (M XM ATTORNEY States 3,064,860 DISPENSING DEVICE Frank Madaffer, Erie, Pa. Filed Jan. 19, 1959, Ser. No. 787,539 Claims. (13]. 222-153) This invention relates to dispensers and, more particularly, to dispensers for use on bottles for dispensing beverages.

This application constitutes an improvement over Patent No. 2,566,669.

The said patent discloses a dispensing device for beverages having a device thereon for counting the number of drinks dispensed from the device; however, the said patent does not disclose a means to prevent pieces of broken glass adhering to the device from contaminating the beverage in a subsequent use. The present invention contemplates a device which cannot be removed from the bottle and which provides a means for preventing shattered glass particles from becoming affixed to the device which might contaminate a subsequent beverage in a bottle on which the device is subsequently used.

In the device disclosed herein, an improvement is provided over the said prior patent in that the present invention provides a means to eliminate the residue of broken particles of glass on various parts of the locking mechanism of the device which might result in nullifying its locking potential. Also, the broken glass aflixing itself to the device would become a hazard to persons who used the beverage dispensed from the bottle.

Further, the device disclosed in the prior patent may be tightened so tight as to burst the bottle on which it is used because of the toggle action with which the device grips the bottle.

The present invention provides a locking assembly which will have a slight give and will not burst the bottle. The filter assembly as disclosed with the locking device is so constructed that it functions as an adjunct to the locking factor of the device by abutting the shoulder of the bottle and it thereby provides an additional safety measure, thus allowing the dispenser to be turned an even direction without danger of bursting the bottle. The mesh also acts as a filtering medium.

It is, accordingly, an object of the present invention to provide a dispensing device which is simple in construcinvention consists of the combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and more particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes may be made in the form, size, proportions, and minor details of construction without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings:

PEG. 1 is a View of a device according to the invention;

FIG. 2 is a View of another embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 3 is a view of another embodiment of the inventron;

FIG. 4 is a view of another embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 5 is an enlarged detailed view of the locking lugs on the bottle shown in FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a cross sectional View taken on line 6-6 of FIG. 1;

PEG. 7 is a view of another embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 8 is a cross sectional view taken on line 88 of FIG. 7; and

FIG. 9 is a view of the pouring spout used in connection with the device shown in FIG. 1 shown broken away from the device.

Now with more specific reference to the drawings, the embodiment of the invention shown in FIG. 1 discloses a bottle '19 having a neck 11 with the upper end of the bottle 16 flared outwardly at 12 and a locking mechanism 13 supported in the bottle 10. The space between the locking mechanism 13 and the bottle neck 11 is indicated at 14 as the pouring passage.

A dispensing device 15 is similar to that shown in Patent No. 2,5 66,669. The device 15 has a sealing washer 17 disposed between it and the upper end of the bottle it} and the dispenser 15 has a connecting sleeve 36 attached thereto which surrounds a passage 16. The sleeve 36 is received in an upper end 34 of a sleeve 31. The hollow threaded sleeve member 31 is fixed to the sleeve 36 by means of a pin 35 which has heads formed thereon and the lower end of the sleeve 31 has a locking lug 18 supported thereon. The locking lug 18 has keys therein which engage splines 29 on a connecting rod 28. The connecting rod 28 has an enlarged threaded head 30 integral therewith which has external threads thereon which engage internal threads 32 on the sleeve 31.

The lower end of the connecting rod 28 has a threaded bore 25 therein which receives the threaded part of a stud 37 which comprises a round shank having a head 19 thereon. The stud 37 extends through a bore in a locking finger member 20 and locks it to a lower end 27 of the connecting rod 28. Locking fingers 22 are swingably connected to the locking finger member 20 by means of pins 24 and the fingers 22 are disposed in circumferentially spaced slots 23 in the locking finger member 20.

A strainer 21 made of cloth, fine mesh, or the like has an opening therein which receives the head 19 of the stud 37 and the cloth extends outwardly and then upwardly and inwardly to surround the ends of the fingers 22. The end portions of the cloth extend outwardly and flare downwardly as shown to engage the inner surface of the bottle 10 and the cloth overlies the upper surface of the fingers 22 as shown. Therefore the fingers 22 can be swung upwardly into generally parallel relation to the rod 28 for inserting the device into a bottle 10. When the device is applied to a bottle, gravity will cause the fingers 22 to fall out generally to the position shown in PEG. 1 whereat the device can be tightened by rotating the sleeve 36 to lock the dispenser 15 in the bottle 10 and the locking lug 18 will prevent the device from being unscrewed and the device will remain therein until the bottle it? is broken. The strainer 21 extends completely over the entrance from the bottle to the neck thereof. The lug 13 has threads 26 thereon and the fingers 22 fit into the slots 23.

In the embodiment of the invention shown in FIG. 2, a body 116 of the dispenser is adapted to be supported on a bottle with a washer resting on top of the upper surface of the bottle around the mouth thereof. A sealing washer 131 is disposed between a boss and an outwardly extending flange 129 of a cage 126.

A locking lug 111 has a lug nut 119 with internal threads 118 thereon which hold the lug 111 together. A square shank 117 is received in a locking finger support 112 which has spaced recesses 113 therein which receive fingers 114. The fingers 114 are swingably at- 3 tached to the locking finger support 112 by pivot members 116 which hold the locking fingers 114 thereto.

A fabric filter member 115 has an annular recess therein between the top and [bottom members thereof which receives the fingers 114. The lug nut 119 is fastened to nylon cords 120 and is attached thereto at 124. A spindle 121 is a generally round cylindrical member which is attached to a ratchet member 122 by means of a rivet 123.

The upper ends of the cords 120 are fastened to the spindle 121 at 125 and the spindle 121 is concentric to receive the cage 126 which is a generally hollow cylindrical member having a lower inwardly extending flange 125a which surrounds the spindle 121. The cords 126 extend through holes 127 in the cage 126.

The inwardly extending flange 125a has spaced ratchet members 128 thereon which engage notches in the ratchet lock member 122. The upper end of the cage 126 has the outwardly directed flange 129 which is received between the

rubber sealing washers

130 and 131 and they are locked together by means of a rivet 129a which extends into the boss 135.

A spring washer 132 generally U-shaped in cross section is disposed in a groove 137 in the boss and the spring washer 132 urges a pin 133 to the position shown. The pin 133 is fixed to the spindle 121 at an upper end 134 thereof and a washer 136 is disposed inside of the spring washer 132. The groove 137 has a recess 138 therein which overlies the spring washer 132 and holds it in place. 'The spring washer 132 can be inserted before the pin 133 is inserted and a retaining flange 139 extends upwardly and overlies the groove 137 to hold the device. together.' It will be noted that the boss 135 is slidingly received in an inner peripheral surface 141 of the body 110.

The embodiment of the invention in FIG. 3 shows a member22 1 similar to the member 121 and adapted to be attached to a dispensing member. A cord 229 is concentrically fixed to a lower end 223 of the member 221 at 222 and extends downwardly and is fixed to a member 2 19 which is similar to the nut 119 shown in FIG. 2. The cord 220 is fixed to the nut 219 at 224.

In the embodiment of the invention shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, a bottle 31% is shown having a neck 311 with an outwardly extending flange portion 312. A locking mechanism 313 is supported on the bottle 310 and a passage 314 in the neck 311 of the bottle 310 indicates the discharge passage.

A boss 315 of the dispensing mechanism similar to that shown in Patent No. 2,721,005 has a hollow passage 316 for fluid to flow to the outlet therein and spaced slots or recesses 317 are formed in the boss 315. The recesses 317 receive locking fingers 319. A locking ring 318 is received between the washer 323 and a washer 334. The washer 334 rests between the ring 318 and the upper end of the neck 311 of the bottle 319. The internal locking fingers 319 are swingably connected to the boss 315 by a pin 320 and springs 321'are disposed in spaced notches 322 which are in the'form of holes in the boss A counterbore 324 is formed in the boss 315 and is relieved to provide overlying flanges 330 having internal threads 331 therein which engage external threads 329 on locking fingers 326. The locking fingers 326 are pivoted to the locking ring 318 by means of pins 327 and the threads 329 are formed on the outside of the fingers 326'. The fingers 326 are received in spaced grooves 325 in the ring 318 and the fingers 325 terminate at the lower end in'locking ears 328. The ring 318 has spaced notches 7 lugs 332.

In the embodiment of the invention shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, a winged lug nut assembly 418 is threadably mounted on a threaded rod 428. The rod 428 can be used in a device such as shown in FIG. 2 in place of the spindle 121. The rod 423 has external threads 432 which extend the entire length of the rod 428. A slot or keyway 429 is machined into one peripheral edge of the rod 428 and runs from one end of the rod 428 to the other. The winged lug nut assembly 418 has a sleeve 435 with internal threads therein which mesh with the external threads 432 of the rod 428. V

The sleeve 435 has oppositely disposed ears 436 which receive wings 422. The wings 422 are pivotally fastened to the ears 436 with pins 424.. The wings 422 are machined in such a fashion as to swing upwardly and against the rod 428 but they will not lower past a horizontal plane passing through the sleeve 435. Welded to the outer peripheral surface of the sleeve 435 is a key .37 extending downwardly and then inwardly and having an inwardly directed end to be received and held in locking position in the keyway 429 much the same as the locking lug 18 in FIG. 1.

FIG. 9 shows a broken view of the device 15 which is like the member 21 shown in Patent No. 2, 721,005. A cylindrical filter member 45 is pressed into a passage 46 in the device 15. The cylindrical member 45 has a filter screen and cloth therein to remove any broken glass which may have entered above the filter member 45;

The foregoing specification sets forth the invention in its preferred practical forms but the structure shown'is capable of modification within a range of equivalents without departing from the invention which is to be understood is broadly novel as is commensurate with the appended claims. 7

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:

1. In a beverage dispensing apparatus adapted to be attached to a beverage bottle and dispense measured pore tions therefrom, a dispensing device, said dispensing device terminating at its lower end in a bossed portion having a hollow therethrough, the lower end of said bossed portion being adapted to rest on the upper end of said bottle around the dispensing opening'therein, an elongated member attached to said bossed portion and extending down into said bottle, a finger support attached to said elongated member, spaced fingers on said finger support, means to draw said finger support toward said elongated member and to lock it in position thereon, said fingers being swingably attached to said finger support and swingable outwardly and downward to engage the inside of 7 said bottle and means to limit the downward swinging of said fingers, a flexible filter member in the form of a disk attached to said elongated member extending outwardly and adapted to engage the inside of said bottle adjacent the neck thereof aroundthe entire circumference of said bottle, and means on said disk surrounding said finger, holding said filter member thereto forming a' filter to prevent particles of'glass from entering the neck of said bottle. 7, V

2. The dispensing device rectied in claim 1 wherein said means to draw said finger support toward'said elongated member comprises spaced cord members attached to said finger support and extending upwardly toward said bossed portion, said elongated member extending through said finger support, spaced openings in the lateral side of said finger support, said cord members extending through said spaced openings and attached to said elongated mem-v ber and adapted to be wrapped around said elongated member When said dispensing device is rotated. 3. The dispensing device recited in claim 1 wherein said finger support is attached to said elongated member by a cord attached tothe axial center of said elongated member and to the axial center of said finger support.

4. The dispensing device recited'in claim 1 wherein. p

5 means to reduce the length of said finger support comprises a hollow in said elongated member, threads inside said hollow, and a threaded member extending into said hollow and attached to said finger support.

5. The dispensing device recited in claim 1 wherein 5 said elongated member comprises a threaded member connected to said bossed portion, and said means to draw said finger support toward said elongated member comprises threads on the outside of said elongated member engaging threads in said finger support.

UNITED STATES PATENTS Senich July 30, 1901 McNutt June 4, 1907 Lesnick Sept. 4, 1951 Cornelius July 29, 1952 Lesnick Oct. 18, 1955 FOREIGN PATENTS Germany Mar. 18, 1932