US747249A - Graduate. - Google Patents

Description

No. 747,249. PATENTED DEC. 15, 1903.

C. H. SMITH.

GRADUATE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 27, 1903. '1

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Patented December 15, 1903.

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CHARLES H. SMITH, OF WOONSOGKET, RHODE ISLAND.

G ADUATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 747,249, dated December 15, 1903.

Application filed July 2'7, 1903. Serial No. 167,196. (No modeh) T on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Woonsocket, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented new and useful Improvements in Graduates, of which the following is a specification.

My invention pertains to vessels, more particularly measuring vessels, such as apothecaries graduates; and it has for its object to provide a vessel having a plurality of pouring-lips of different sizes.

With the foregoing in mind the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claim when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of a graduate constituting one embodiment of my invention, and Fig. 2 a top plan View of the same.

Similar letters designate corresponding parts in both views of the drawings, referring to which A is a graduate, of glass or other suitable material, provided with the ordinary or any other suitable graduated scale a. The said graduate is peculiar in that it embodies three pouring-lips b c 01. These lips are of different sizes, as illustrated, and are arranged equidistant. In virtue of the graduate embodying three pouring-lips it will be observed that liquid may be poured from the graduate into a bottle or other receptacle through the lip ad-' jacent to said bottle or receptacle, and thus the necessity of turning the graduate precedent to pouring liquid therefrom is obviated, which is an important advantage. Again, it will be observed that in the event of one lip being broken the graduate is not rendered useless, since liquid may be poured therefrom through the remaining lips.

The provision of lips of difierent sizes is materially advantageous, because the large lip may be used when it is desired to quickly pour liquid into a bottle having alarge month, while the smaller lips may be used when liquid is to be poured into bottles having smaller mouths.

The three pouring-lips arranged equidistaut are materially advantageous, since when the graduate is grasped to pour liquid from one lip the other lips rest above the thumb and forefinger, respectively, of the users hand and preclude the graduate slipping through the hand.

It will be appreciated from the foregoing that notwithstanding the advantages which follow from the provision of the three pouring-lips my novel graduate may be produced almost, if not quite, as cheaply as the ordinary graduate; also, that the three equidistant pouring-lips add to rather than detract from the appearance of the graduate and render the same very convenient to handle.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an improved article of manufacture, a graduate having three pouring-lips at its upper end; the said lips being of difierent sizes to fit different bottles, and being arranged equidistant whereby two of the lips will necessarily rest above the thumb and forefinger of the hand when the graduate is grasped to pour liquid from the remaining lip.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' CHARLES H. SMITH.

Witnesses:

BELLE SMITH,

Giro. W. SPAULDING.

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