US397104A

US397104A - Salt-box

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Publication number: US397104A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-02-05
Anticipated expiration: 1906-02-05

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| I (-NoModel.) i E. S. AYER.

SALT BOX.

No. 397,104. Patented Feb. 5, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELLERY S. AYER, Oh KOS'JON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SALT-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,104, dated February 5, 1889. Application filed September 17, 1888. Serial No. 285,582. (No model.)

To all whom it may (2010007 71,;

lie it known that l, ELLERY S. AYER, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, State of Massachusctts,-have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Salt-Boxes, of which the following is a description. sut'ficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appcrtains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of myimproved salt-box; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the rin detached and Fi 3 alike view showin D 7 b D a modification in the formation of the ring.

Like letters and figures of reference indicate correspondingparts in the different fig ures of the drawings.

My invention relates to that class of saltcells which are ordinarily known as saltshakers; and it consists in certain novel features, as hereinafter fully set forth and claimed, the object being to produce a simpler, cheaper, and more effective device of this character than is now in ordinary use.

The nature and operation of the improvement will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following explanation.

In the-drawings, A represents the body of the box, B- the cover, and C the percussionring.

The body A is cylindrical in form, and is provided at one end with the perforated screw-cover B, in the usual manner. The body is provided centrally with two outwardly-proj ectin annular flanges, a.

The ring 0 is preferably composed of metallic tubing, as shown in Fig. 2, and is loosely disposed on said body between the flanges a), being of such diameter that it will not pass over said flanges. The body being filled with salt in the usual manner and the cover B secured in place, when it is desired to use the box, the ring 0 isgrasped in the hand and the box shaken in the ordinary way. This causes the body to slip back and forth through the ring and strike its flanges forcibly against the same,producing a percussion which shakes and loosens the salt within the body, so that it will readily pass through the perforations .2 in the cover B, in a manner that will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters without a more explicit description.

In the modification shown in Fig. 3 the percussion-ring C is filled with lead, m, or similar substance, to impart weight thereto, so that when in position on the body said body maybe grasped in the hand and the weighted ring engage the flanges a: with sufficient force to loosen the salt when said body is shaken.

Having thus explained my invention,what I claim is 1. In a salt-box, a body provided centrally with two annular flanges and a perforated cover, in combination with a percussion-ring encircling said body between said flanges, substantially as set forth.

2. In a salt-box, a body provided with a perforated cover and two centrally-disposed annular flanges, in combination with a Weighted percussion-ring disposed on said body between said flanges and fitted to slide longitudinally thereon, substantially as described.

3. The body A, provided with the perforated oover I3, and annular flanges 00,111 combination with the hollow percussion-ring C, provided with the filling m, said ring being disposed in said body between said flanges and fitted to slide longitudinally thereon, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

ELLERY S. AYER.

Vi tnesses:

\ O. M. SHAW,

E. M. SPINNEY.