US853427A

US853427A - Combined funnel and measuring-receptacle.

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Publication number: US853427A
Application number: US30212706A
Authority: US
Inventors: Robert C Stoewsand
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1906-02-20
Filing date: 1906-02-20
Publication date: 1907-05-14
Anticipated expiration: 1924-05-14

Description

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R. c. STOEIWSANDJ COMBINED FUNRBL AND MEASURING REGB'PTAGLB.

APPLIULTIDH IILIIZID FEBJO 1906.

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ROBERT C. STOEWSAND, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. COMBINED FUNNEL AND MEASURlNG-FIEOEPTACLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14, 1907.

Application filed mary 20, 1906. Serial No. 302,127.

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT C. S'ronw- SAND, 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 Combined Funnels and Measuring-Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in receptacles for measuring and handling liquids; and has among the salient objects of its invention to provide improved means for allowing the fluid to escape through a funnel in the bottom of the receptacle; to provide means whereby the funnel is supported out of contact with the surface on which the receptacle rests; to provide a construction which will serve the purpose of an ordinary funnel and at the same time stand in an upright position on the surface on which it is placed; to provide an improved device whereby the plug-valve is easily removed from or inserted in the funnel to provide an extremely economical and efiective construction, the mechanism of which is not only con veniently arranged to permit the filling of'the receptacle but is easily and readily cleaned and in general to provide an improved construction of the character referred to.

I am aware that devices have been patented in which the liquid is allowed to escape through the bottom of the receptacle, andin which valves controlled by spring pressed levers have been employed to regulate this escape. My invention has to do with improvements in the construction and arrangement of such devices. The particular advantages of my construction will more clearly appear in the following description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the receptacle showing the spring pressed lever and plug in position in the funnel. Fig. 2 is an axial sectional view of a portion of the receptacle, showing the plug within the funnel.

In the drawings 1 designates as a whole the receptacle which may be graduated as a measure or not as desired, having a handle 2, a bottom 3, and a down standing flange 4, on which the receptacle stands. The bottom 3 converges downwardly from the side of the vessel toward its center, which is cut away to permit the attachment of a funnel 5. In order that all the liquid may flow through this funnel it is thus placed at the lowest part of the sloping bottom and has its top flushwith the bottom of the vessel. A- plug valve 6 is conveniently shaped to fit tightly within the funnel 5 and may be readily removed or inserted by means now to be described. This valve, as conveniently made, comprises a disk portion 6, provided with an annular plug-flange fitting the funnel, a head 7 having an extension which passes through the disk, and a sleeve fitting over the extension of the plug and against the under side of the disk, said sleeve and extension being rigidly united. The head 7 has a transverse opening 8 through which is inserted the lower end of a connecting rod 9. This rod 9 is shaped substantially in a double reverse curve as shown clearly in Fig. 1. Its lower end is inserted into the opening 8 of the plug, then bent to an obtuse angle and extends diagonally up to and rests in sliding contact with the side of the vessel to which the handle 2 is attached; from thence the rod is bent inwardly and continues diagonally upwardly and toward the center of the vessel until it nearly reaches the top of the latter when it is again bent toward the handle side of the vessel. I

The object of shaping the rod in the manner just described is to guide it in its upward and downward movement by its engagement with the side of the receptacle and to place it as far as possible out of the way when the receptacle is being filled, as will more clearly appear hereafter- To actuate this rod I provide a spring-pressed thumb-lever 10 pivotally mounted on, and in alinement with, the handle of the vessel, as at 11, and provided at the under side of its outer end with a coiled spring which is suitably fastened to the handle 2. The opposite end of this lever is pivotally connected with the upper end of the arm 9, at 13. The cooperating action of these parts is one of the features of my invention. If the leverpivot alone were used and the connecting arm rigidly connected to the lever, the plug would on raising the arm bind against that portion of the funnel opposite the handle side of the vessel. The use of the second pivot, at 13, prevents this binding as that portion of the arm which is in contact with the side of the vessel will now on the pressing down of the thumb-lever slide along and be guided bythe side of the vessel and a direct upward force will be applied to the plug.

As heretofore noted the bottom of the vessel is providedwith a down turned flange whiclii preferably is one piece with the side of the receptacle. This flange is cut away at 14 so as to be readily set over the handle of a jug or similar vessel which is to be filled. An opening 15 is cut in the flange so that the funnel can be readily viewed when the re ceptacle is being used to conduct liquid to another vessel.

The operation of the device is obvious, the receptacle being filled with liquid to be conducted to another vessel is held by the handle and placed over. the receptacle to be filled. The lever is now pressed down by the thumb, actuating the connecting arm and removing the plug from the funnel. As soon as the liquidhas run out the pressure is removed from the lever and the spring at once forces down the actuating arm which in turn forces the plug into position in the funnel.

I claim as my invention:

A combined measuring cup and funnel comprising a generallycylindric euplil e receptacle provided with a downwardly-com verging bottom having at its middle portion the upper part of said handle and the thumbpiece of said thumb-lever, a funnel connected to the bottom of the cup and surrounding said outlet, a supporting rim or flange formed in continuation of the side-body of the cup and extending below the lower end of the funnel, and a peephole formed through said flange and exposing the delivery end of the funnel to view.

ROBERT C. STOEWSAND.

Witnesses:

EMILIE Ross, FRANK L; BELKNAP.