US475431A

US475431A - Disinfecting device

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Publication number: US475431A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-05-24
Anticipated expiration: 1909-05-24

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A. P. BECK. DISINFBGTING. DEVICE.

Patented May 24, 1892.

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ALBERT P. BECK, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

DISINFECTING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 475,431, dated May 24, 1892.

Application filed May l. 1890. Serial No. 350,249. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ALBERT P. BECK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland,

such as will enable others skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to a device for automatically supplying and dispensing a disinfecting or deodorizing fluid; and it consists in the combination and arrangement of'parts hereinafter described,and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l represents an elevation of the device, the stop-cock thereof being not shown. Fig. 2 is a sectional View on the central vertical line of Fig. l. Fig. 3 isa transverse section on the line x of Fig. l. Fig. 4 represents a modified form of construction of the device, shown in central vertical section. Fig. 5 is a transverse section .of the device shown in Fig. 4, taken on the line y y; and Fig. 6 is a detached view of the clip for compressing the wick.

The device consists of a chamber A, of any desired form, for holding the disinfecting fluid, which chamber is provided with lugs a or equivalent means for fastening it securely in place to prevent its being removed or disarranged accidentally or by mischievous or meddlesome persons and to avoid the necessity of placing it where it will become befouled in use. In the chamber A or its wall is formed a tube or channel b, whose upper end is open wit-hin the chamber, and its lower end opens on the exterior, and preferably at the bottom of the chamber A and Within a chamber B, forming the upper or funnel-like end of a conducting-tube c, by which the disinfecting fluid is conveyed to the precise point at which it is to be applied. A Wick cl-passes through the channel h and depends from the top thereof to the bottom of the fluid-contaihing chamber A.

To accomplish the best results, the deodorizing or disinfecting fluid should be supplied continuously in small quantity, which prevents the odor of the fluid from becoming ,effiuvia to be overcome.

noticeable, while at the same time enabling it to act more energetically upon the noxious The wick by which the fluid in the chamber A is drawn up and conveyed down the channel b delivers the fluid in successive drops into the chamber B, whence it trickles along the delivery-tube c to the point of application, and by more or less compressing the wick the speed with which the fluid is discharged may be very exactly regulated, and when once adjusted remains constant. To effect this compression of the wick,I place upon the Wick at the point where it emerges from the channel b a spring-clip e, adapted to compress the wick against the Wall of the channel b, as shown in Eig. 2, and by forcing the clip more or less over the Wick any desired degree of compression is obtained. Instead of forming the channel b in the substance of the chamber A or as a separate tube affixed therein a simpler and cheaper method of forming the channel is shown in Eig. 4, in' which the channel for the wick is formed by a simple groove in the outer surface of the fluid-containing chamber, extending from the top to the bottom thereof, and the chamber B is made long enough to allow the fluid-chamber A to be inserted therein, closely fitting within it and resting on the contracted lower part thereof, the groove thus forming a channel between the two vessels.

It is often desirable to stop the flow of the disinfecting fluid for a time without removing the device or emptying it of its contentsas, for instance, while making repairs to closets, dac., or during vacation of schools. For such purpose I provide a stop-cock g in the tube c, preferably just below the chamber B, as shown in Fig. 5, and this cock may be adjusted to pass the fluid drop by drop, by which means any accumulation of the fluid above the stop-cock while the latter is closed will be prevented from escaping too rapidly and wasting when the cock is opened.

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

1. In a disinfecting device, the combination, with a fluid-containing chamber A, having a tube or channel b, of a wick d, a means for compressing said wick, receiving-chamber B, closed to the external air and into which the wick channel opens, a conducting-tube c, con- IOC nected to said chamber for conveying the fluid said chamber and provided with a stop-cock therefrom to the point of application, and a g to regulate or suppress the How of luid,submeans in said cond uetin g-tube to regulate or stantially as shown and described.

suppress the iowof fluid therefrom, subst'an- In testimony whereof I affix my signaturein 5 Lially as shown and described. presence of two Witnesses,

2. In a disinfeeting device, the combina- ALBERT P' BECK tion of a fluid-containing chamber A, having lugs a, tube or channel l), Wick d, spring-clip Witnesses:

e for compressing said wick, receiving-chaln- WVM. JOHNS, Jr., :o ber D, and a conducting-tube c, connected to LORIN PRENTISS.