US476402A - Syringe and syringe-box - Google Patents

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L. R. MEYER. SYRINGE AND SYRINGE BOX.

402, Patented June 7, 1892.

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SYRINGE AND SYRlNGE-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,402, dated June 7, 1892,

Application filed November 6, 1891. Serial No. 411,07 N0 Infi l-l To all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUCY R. MEYER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Syringe and Syrin ge-Box; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in a combined syringe and syringe-box, the invention pertaining more particularly to that class of syringes known as fountain -syringes. Its object is to improve and simplify the construction of syringe devices and boxes of the character referred to and gain many valuable advantages from the improved construction, pre-eminent among which is that of providing a neat and simply-constructed inclosing box or case, wherein all the parts of the syringe may be easily disposed and kept from sight, and which may, when occasion requires, be readily opened and arranged so that the effective parts of the syringe may be brought into practical use with facility and dispatch, thereby enabling this improved article of toilet use to be hidden from view except at those times when it is needed for actual use; and the invention therefore consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts, substantially as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure l is a vertical section of my improved combined syringe and syringe-box with its doors open and the operative parts of the syringe removed from their compartment, so that the device may be delineated in its actual operative position. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same when he doors are closed and all the working parts are completely inclosed and hidden from view, the device appearing then simply as an ordinary box or casing.

Like letters of reference designate corresponding parts in both figures.

In carrying my invention into practical eff ect I provide a suitably-shaped box; preferably of oblong or rectangular fcr'rn, having any desired and convenient size and made so that it will present exteriorly a neat and fluished appearance, so that it forms an unobjectionable article for location in a toilet-room.

A designates the example of box or casing shown herein. It is made of any desired material, provided at one end with a pair of eyes or hooks a, by means of which it can be suspended upon the wall of a room or at any other convenient point, as shown in Fig. 1. Thus the box having therein the fountain portion of the syringe can be fixed at the proper height. \Vhen once supported upon a wall or other object, it can be left there, needing only to be disturbed when it is opened for use and needing not to be taken down, except for cleaning or some similar purpose.

The box or casing A contains two main compartments, an upper and larger one B and a lower and smaller one C, said compartments being divided by the horizontal partition D, and the upper compartment B being designed to contain hot water or other liquid, which is to be used in the syringe, said compartment thus constituting the true fountain for the device, while the lower and smaller compartment 0 is designed to receive the operative parts of the syringe mechanism, which parts can be readily shut up within the compartment when desired or can be removed there from at any time for use.

The upper end of the compartment B is provided with a hinged cover E, having a suitable knob e, by means of which it can be manipulated in opening and closing. This cover fits down neatly over the end of compartment B, and when it is desired to fill the fountain all that the user needs to do is to open the cover E and pour the hot water into the compartment B. The lower smaller compartment O is likewise provided with a horizontal movable door F, which is hinged, as shown, and is readily opened and closed by the hand of the user, so as to gain access to the mechanism within said compartment and to permit the long syringe-tube to be with drawn therefrom for use.

The horizontal partition D is provided with a centrally-located short tube or nipple G, which projects downward.

H designates the ordinary rubber tube used with syringes, havingany desired length. One end of this tube connects with the nipple G.

Tube His designed to be coiled or wrapped into a small compass and situated'in the compartment C when the device is not in use. hen the device is in use, it is withdrawn from the compartment 0 in the manner shown in Fig. 1. Tube H carries at its other end any suitable syringe-point h, and it may be provided thereon with the compressing device 71, which shuts the iiow on or off.

Vithin the compartment C is an upright bar I, having thereon any suitable number of horizontal projections t', which are preferably screw-threaded and which are intended to support the syringe-points J, of which there may be several, having different functions and adapted for different uses. Thus all the numerous points ordinarily employed with a syringe can be readily arranged within the compartment O and kept out of sight when not in use.

The use of my combined syringe and syringe-box will be readily understood from the foregoing. Having filled the fountain with hot water or other suitable liquid, the user will then open therdoor F and withdraw the tube H for use. It will be readily understood that this can be done at any time with great facility and ease. The great advantage of the device consists in the fact that when the syringe mechanism is not in actual use it is V effectually concealed inside the casing, which is supported upon the wall or placed at any other convenient point, and which has no objectionable qualities in its appearance.

It is objectionable to have syringes exposed in toilet-rooms, especially those frequented by persons of both sexes, and accordingly my invention supplies a needed want in present-'- ing a neat and simple contrivance, which will insure the advantage of hiding these disagreeable objects and yet losing none of the benefits which OOmG'fIOID having them al ways at hand and ready for use at any time and as often as may be desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is y The herein-described combined syringe and syringe-box, which consists in a casing having two compartments, one of which serves as a fountain for containing water or other liquid or fluid and the other of which serves to contain the operative parts of the syringe, the intervening partition between said compartments having a tubular nipple to which the syringe-tube is connected, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix mysignatu re in presence of two witnesses.

' LUCY R. MEYER.

\Vitnesses:

Lizzrn E. HOLDING, MARY Eva GREGG.

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