US442088A

US442088A - Dose-measuring bottle

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Publication number: US442088A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-12-02
Anticipated expiration: 1907-12-02

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(No Model.) I

H. S. HERRIGK.

DOSE MBASURING BOTTLE.

No. 442,088. Patented Deo. 2, 1890.

www f UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

HERBERT SANFORD HERRICK, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

DOSE-M EASU RING BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 442,088, dated December 2, 1890.

Application iiled June 12, 1890. Serial No. 355,256. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, HERBERT SANFORD HER- RICK, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city and county of San Francisco, and State ot' California, have invented a new and useful Measuring Device, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to a measuring device for bottles, in which a receptacle formed in the neck of the bottle and a glass stopper act conjointly in measuring liquid contained in the bottle; and the objects of my invention are, iirst, to provide a means of easily and quickly measuring liquids contained in botties without the use of spoons or graduates; second, to provide a receptacle formed in the neck of the bottle in which the liquid is measured; third, to provide a means of allowing the liquid to iiow into the receptacle and to cut off such iiow, at the same time measuring the liquid by allowing only as much of such liquid in said receptacle as is desired to be measured, and also at the same time preventing the liquid already in said receptacle from iiowing back into the bottle, and, fourth,to provide a means of allowing the liquid to escape from said receptacle without the removal of the stopper ot' said bottle or the escape of any liquid from the body of said bottle. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-n Figure 1 represents abottle with its stopper in the position to allow the liquid contained in the bottle to flow into the receptacle. Fig. 2 represents the stopper in the position to allow the outflow of the liquid contained in the receptacle.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

A is a glass stopper, having on its side near its lower end a groove B, through which the liquid in the bottle enters the measuring-receptacle C. The upper end of the groove is on a line. with the upper inner side of the receptacle C.

When the bottle is held in a horizontal position and the groove B is opposite to the receptacle C, the liquid runs from the body of the bottle into the receptacle C. Then C is iilled, the stopper A is turned from the position it first occupied, as in Fig. l., to the position represented by Fig. 2. By this means the iiow of the liquid into C is stopped, any surplus liquid not needed to till C is cut o, the

receptacle C is completely filled, the liquid prevented from iiowing from C back into the bottle, and at the same time the hole D is moved into the position represented by Fig. 2.

D represents a hole through the stopper, opening at its top and also at its side on a line with the mouth of receptacle C. When the stopper is in the position represented by Fig. 2, the liquid confined in the receptacle can escape without any liquid at the same time iiowing from the body of the bottle and without the necessity of removing the stopper.

E represents a projection formed on the side of the stopper, operating in the groove F G. It will be seen that in Fig. l the stopper is in a position to allow the ilow of the liquid into receptacle C. In order to cut on' the flow of the liquid and at the same time to bring the hole D into the position to allow the escape of the liquid in the receptacle C, it is necessary to give the stopper a quarterturn. Now, in order to save all trouble of adjusting the stopper so that the groove B, the hole D, and the mouth of the receptacle C shall act in conjunction, this projection E and the guide F G are provided. In the iirst position projection E is against G; in the second it is against F.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a measuring device for bottles, the stopper A, having a hole D through it opening at its top and also at its side on a line with the mouth of receptacle C, together with a groove B at its lower side, the upper end of which groove is on a line with the upper inner side of the receptacle C, said groove and lateral opening of said hole being about one-quarter the circumference of the stopper apart, and a projection E, working in the guide F G, in combination with the receptacle C on the side of the neck of the bottle, midway between the top of the body of the bottle and the top of its neck, separate and distinct from the body of the bottle and made to contain the desired dose, and the guide F G in the top of the neck of the bottle, having a space equal to one-quarter the circumference of the stopper, in which the projection E moves, all substantially as shown and set forth.

HERBERT SANFORD I-IERRICK.

Witnesses:

J AMES E. GoRMAN, ROBERT LORENTZ.

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