US797775A - Water-ice and ice-cream cartridge. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED AUG. 22, 1905.

s. LUSTIG. WATER ME AND 1GB 01mm CARTRIDGE.

ATTORNEFS EILEF TI Flu EF'IILIII APPLICATION FILED 313.16, 1904.

IIEIITE f STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL LUSTIG, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO NATIONAL IOEGARIITRIDGEd: NOVELTY COMPANY, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

WATER-MICE AND ICE-CREAM CARTRIDGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 22, 1905.

Application filed February 16, 1904. Serial No. 193,810-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL LUSTIG, a citizen of the United States, residing in Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tater-Ice and Ice- Cream Cartridges; 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, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked theron, which form a part of this specification.

This invention consists in an article of manufacture comprising a hollow elongated holder of thin. material having a relatively large mouth or' opening at one end and its other end. closed and a filling of some substance which by being frozen stands in said holder converted from a liquid into a semi solid or plastic state. In use the holder is compressed in the hand sufliciently to cause the contents to be forced therefrom at its open end in the same manner that the ordinary compressible paint-tube, for instance, is manipulated to eject its contents; but in the present instance by virtue of the above-described peculiar forms of holder portion and contents portion of the article the latter is essentially differentiated from others (such as that particularly mentioned above, for instance) in that when. held in the hand for compression the superficial portion of the contents will soften by melting from the warmth of the hand, so that not only is adhesion between the latter and the walls of the holder destroyed, but a kind of lubricant formed. Thus the contents will discharge without difliculty from the holder and as an incident thereto the danger of bursting the holder will be eliminated.

The invention will be found fullyillus tratcd in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 shows the article as held in the hand and as already partly compressed, so that its charge or filling protrudes therefrom; and Fi 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 show modified. forms of the holder or container.

The holder or container, as above stated, is in the form of a compressible cartridge or capsule closed at one end and provided with an opening at the other end approximating in size the size of said other end of the cartridge or capsule. The cz'irtridge or cap is formed of any heat-conducting material-such as heavy tin-foil, soft gelatin, sheetleadin which instance the s urface thereof should be protected by some coating which would prevent poisonous chemical action between the contents and the lead or any other suitable COHIPIGSSiblO material. It may be molded or otherwise shaped into the form shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, where such cartridge or capsule a has one end closed, as at b, and the other end formed with an opening 0, approximating in diameter the diameter of said end. (1 in Fig. l designates the plastic frozen. contents, or such cartridge or capsule may be produced by winding spirally a strip of some such mate rial as is above referred to, (see F ig. 4, where 6 indicates a cartridge or capsule thus shaped,) in which instance one end. of the cartridge is formed closed, as at while the other end is open, as at g, or, again, such cartridge or capsule may be produced by molding or casting the material used in the form of a cylinder, as at h in Fig. 5, or by winding a strip of the material spirally, as at i in Fig. 6, the closing of one end of the cylinder in either instance being effected by first flattening the same and then folding it one or more times, as at y' in Figs. 5 and 6.

If desired, the open or month end of the cartridge or capsule may be strengthened or reinforced in any suitable manner, as byfolding the edge portion back on itself, as at 7r: in Figs. 2, 4, and 5, or by rolling said edge portion back on a strengtheninga'ing Z, as at m in Figs. 3 and 6. The contents may be some frozen edible substance, as water-ice, ice-cream, or the like. It is usually first deposited in the holder and then refrigerated until sufliciently hard. It will be understood that in using the article it is held. in the hand, as shown in Fig. 1, and compressed until some of the contents protrudes from the holder, and when this has been bitten. oil or otherwise removed the holder is again. com pressed, forcing out more of the contents, and so on until the holder is empty. The warmth of the hand softens up the portion of the contents nearest the walls of the holder, destroying any adhesion between the contents and saidv walls, and in effect forming a lubricant, whereby the bulk of the contents is readily ejected from the holder without danger of bursting the latter.

I do not wish to be limited either as to the form of the cartridge or capsule, the material used in producing the same, or in any other particular not hereinafter expressly set forth in the claims.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a hollow collapsible holder having its body por tion substantially in the form of a cylinder, formed throughout of flexible heat-conducting material of uniform thickness in said body portion, and being open at one end and closed at the other, in combination with an SAMUEL LUSTIG.

Witnesses:

ALFRED GARTNER, JOHN IV. STEWARD.

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