US820062A - Dispensing device for receptacles - Google Patents

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No. 820,062. PATENTED MAY 8, 1906.

A. J. MOTTLAU. DISPENSING DEVICE FOR REGEPTAGLES.

, APPLICATION FI LED FEB.25,1905.

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AUGUST J. MOTTLAU, OF NEW roan, N. r, assissos o BoRuENs CONDENSED MILK 00., A (,QRPORATION or NEW. JERSEY.

DiSPENSlNG DEJECEE FOR RECEPTACLES Specification of Letters Patent;

Patented May 8, 1906.

Application filed February 25;l905. Serial No. 247,241..

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, AUGUST J. MOTTLAU, a subject of the King of Denmark, residing at the city of New York, in the borough of Manhattan and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dispensing Devices for Receptacles, of which and exact description.

My invention'relates to combined means for storing and handling pulverized materials requiring for their preservation exceptional exclusion of air or moisture and under con-v ditions involving repeated and hasty withdrawals'of specified portions thereof;

The pulverized material to which I par ticularly refer is malted milk, for instance; and the object of my invention is to provide therefor a receptacle of such construction as to exclude the atmosphere or liquids to an exceptional degree from reaching the main body of'the malted milk contained in such receptacle, while at the same time admitting of exceptionally rapid access to acomparatively small uncovered portion of such malted milk, withdrawal therefrom of a specified part by means of a dispensing instrumentality normally kept within the malted milk itself, and thus exempted from accumulating moisture, and also the return of'said dispensing instrumentality to its said normal position and the recovering of the receptacle. I

attain these objects by the devices and com- .u

binations of devices ii strated in the accompany ng drawings, in which Figure 1 IS a vertical section of my inven-' tion, partly in elevation. Fig. 2 is detaii front elevation of the cover and dispensing instrumentaiity. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the detail illustrated in Fig. 2.

My combination of devices may be treated as comprising three elements or parts. (Respectiveiy indicated in Fig. 1 by the letters E B and by the details shown in Figs. 2 and 3.)

E is a container or receptacle, the sides of which are downwardly contracted and preferably constructed of glass, so as Without opening to disclose its contents.

B is a reservoir, constructed,preferably, of metal and provided, as shown, with an apropriate base A of such proportions to insure its stability. Reservoir E is detachably connected with receptacie E by any convenient means adapted to secure as airso as to insure ted milk in re {and protected. concition. ithat the special relation to passage 0, as aforesaid and .as

tight a seam as possible between the partsas, for instance, a screw-threaded connection, as shown in Fig. 1 at e. Reservoir B is .con-

structed so as to comprise two separate passages b and 0, both extending upwardly from the main body of the reservoir. One of these passages" admits therethrough into the reser-- voir the contents of receptacle E. The other passage affords access from without to the contents of reservoir B. It will be observed that by reason of the construction shown the pulverized contents of receptacle E pass therefrom into reservoir B and tend to rise into assage 0 above the level of the materiai divi in the latter from passage 2'), whereby the said contents are exposed to the atmossphere onl ,on the surface thereof within passage c. tis desirable that receptacle E should be constructed as air-tight as possible, If a cover f is used, any convenient means should be emplo ed to secure its combination with receptac e E in as air-tight a manner as possible.

f is a cover for the open passage of reservoir B, which cover is preferably constructed in anyconvenient form to as to insure as efficacious a seal as possible for the contents. The cover f may be advantageously constructed so as to present a conical pro ection into the opening, which seats itself tightly when home to place in a revcrseiy-coned portion of the passage. To cover Irigidly secure a dispensing instrument or spoon gand provide the thus combined cover and spoon with a convenient handle g. The dispensing instrument g is preferably disposed that its spoon part proper shall be normally contained within and covered by the malted miik, thus insuring its being withdrawn full of the malted miik whenever coverf is removed and also and particulariy preserving the spoon and all parts of the dis ensing implement contacting with the i uisitely and desirable dry It will be observed construction of cover fin its shown in Fig. 1, results in assisting automatically in the centering and descent of the cover to its normal seat when the-combined cover and dispensing implement are after withdrawal thrust back to normal place in relation to reservoir 3, the malted-milk contents being of such character as to present substantially no obstruction to the entry therein of the spoon when coverfis restored to place. g g

The operation of my device is as follows: The malted milk is introduced into receptacle E until same is filled, likewise passage 7) and reservoir 5 and passage c to a level above the division between the passages b and c. When it is desiredtc withdraw for use a portion of the contents, the-combined cover f and dispensing instrument 9 are Withdrawn, conveniently by manipulating the handle 9'. The spoon g will deliver the required quantity of malted milk, after which the cover and its combined dispensin instrsmcnt are ,likewise by a single movement restored to normal osition and the contents again covered. I will he observed that as the contents are withdrawn from time to time the level thereof in receptacle E will graduallydescend; but the construction is such that at all times the malted. mill; contained in my device will be substantially excluded from injurious access thereto of atmosphere or moisture except only at the momentarily-exposed surface Within the passa e 0, which latter, owing to its disposition relatively to the bulk of the contents, precludes in an exceptional degree the communication to the latter of any deteriorating influences to which it may momentarily be exposed, duripg the momentar uncoveringsof passage (3.

It wi 1 be observed that the receptacle or container E-is downwardly contracted that is to say, its diameter is greater at the top than at the bottom-tlie interior of the receptacle being conoidal or the frustum-of an in-v verted cone; also, that the shape, proportions, and mutual relations'of the receptacle E, reservoir B, including its passages d and c and dispensing instrument 9, are such that the latter is normally when the passage 0 is closed directly located under the central lon-v itudinal axis of receptacle E, from which it i ollows that the contents of E are partially supported by the sides of receptacle E, their descent retarded correspondingly and desin ably, and tendency to overflow passage 0 obviated, whereas the normal position of s con 9 insures in each instance the withdl awal of contents fromthe center of the bottom of the column contained in E and Z),

' thereby insuring more uniform delivery. It

1 scenes bridging of the contents in .b is diminished comparatively loose condition of the "contentpdniJpinsured, relieved in a measure from the entire weight of the column of con-.

tents contained in'E, thus further facilitating the withdrawal of the contents by the spoon a.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following, viz.:

1. The combination of a race tacle havin its interior umformly downwar 1y contracted to its minimum diameter at an outlet down 2. The combination of a rece tacle having its interior uniformly downwar y contracted to its minimum diameter at an outlet (1mm wardly disposed, a reservoir disposed be neatlr said receptacle connected therewith through said opening and having a delivery" openin upwardly disposed, a movable cover normal y closing said delivery-opening of said reservoir and a dispensing implement rigidly secured to said cover and havin a spoon member normally disposed within said reservoir and underlyin the central ve-rtical' longitudinal axis of sai receptacle.

3. The combination of a reservoir having tvlo upwardlyextending separate openings, a longitudinal vertically-disposedreceptacle uniformly tapering to. its minimum diameter at a bottom outlet concentric with and communicating with one of said openings. of said reservoir, and, on another opening of said reservoir a cover comprising a dispensing implement having a spoon element normally disposed within said reservoir directly and under the central vertical axes of said receptacle and of said opening connecting therewith.

In witness whereof I subscribe my signature in the presenize of two witnesses.

' AUGUST J. MOTTLAU.

Witnesses FRANK S. Oman, l/VALDO M. OHAPIN.

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