US967356A - Stop-funnel. - Google Patents

Description

A. J. FAJEN n E. M. DEILLER. STOP FUNNEL.

APPLIOATIO'N FILED 11110.17. 1908.

967,356; f Patented Aug.16,191o.

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ARTHUR J'. FAJEN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, AND EUGENE IVI. DEILLER, OF NEWARK,

NEW JERSEY.

STOP-FUNNEL.

Specification cf Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 16, 1910.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it wknown that we, ARTHUR J. FAJEN and EUGENE M. DnILLnR, citizens of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the borough of Brooklyn and State of New York, and Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, respectively, have invented certain Improvements in Stop- Funnels, of which the following is a speci- Iication.

This :invention relates to that class of funnels commonly employed by liquor dealers in filling bottles, such as bottles of whisky and the like, from a larger package.

The objects of the invention are to provide an improved funnel for such purposes; to secure ready accessibility to the valve of the funnel; to obtain a construction which shall be positive, easily operated and not liable to get out of order; to simplify the device as a "whole, and to secure other advantages and results 'i may be brought out in the following description.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like niimerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several iigures, Figure 1 is a plan of a stop funnel embodying our invention, and Fig. 2 is a `vertical central section of the same.

In said drawings, 1 indicates the bowl of the funnel, usually and preferably made of copper with a broad open top to receive liquid and contracting at its bottom 2 and having a central bushing 3 seated therein. This biishing is interiorly threaded, as shown, and receives the exteriorly threaded reduced upper end et of a. spout or nozzle Said nozzle 5 is thus readily detachable, for purposes hereinafter set forth, and impervious union of it with the bowl 1 is insured by a washer G between the parts. The said nozzle 5 has the upper part of its liow passage 7 radially enlarged, as at 8, and upon the shoulder 9 formed thereby is a seat ring 10, of rubber or the like and held by a spring ring 11. The valve seat thus formed is therefore a part of the nozzle, and is very readily accessible from the open upper end of the same when the nozzle is taken olf. A ball valve 12 is adapted to coperate with said valve seat from above, said ball being carried on the lower end of a stem 15 which extends centrally and vertically up through the bowl. The said ball 12 is of course below the bottom of the bowl so that it is exposed and freely accessible when the nozzle is off. At

the bottom of the bowl, at the inside, and

covering the outlet through the bushing 3, is a strainerlS; this strainer comprises a reticulated piece of metal soldered at its edges to the bowl bottoni, and preferably arched upwardly at its center. An eyelet 141 is provided at the center of said strainer 13 and which receives the valve stem 15 to guide the same and hold it central while not impeding in any way its up and down sliding.

Near the top of the bowl 1 is a narrow cross piece 16 extending from side to side of the bowl, and which is apertured at its middle to also receive the valve stem 15, and. thus with the eyelet 14: below positively con line the movements of said stem to a longitudinal direction. Below the said crosspiece A 16, between the same and a stop collar 17 Xed on the valve stem, is a spiral spring 18 which by its expansion normally forces the valve stem and valve 12 downward and seats the latter. The bowl of the funnel may thus be lilled with liquid and the funnel carried about without a drop escaping from the nozzle.

For opening the valve when desired, a lever 19 is fulcrumed in substantially horizontal position in the bifuroated end 12 of a bracket 21 secured to the top part of the handle 22 of the bowl, and projecting inwardly over the bowl sufficiently to secure necessary leverage to operate said lever 19. The outer end of the lever 19 forms a thumb piece 23, and the inner end or end over the bowl is connected to the upper end of the valve stem 15, as by being apertured to receive said upper end and then having a nut 24 screwed on said end above the lever, as shown. i

By the construction thus described, the valve may be instantly and positively operated to control flow from the bowl of the funnel. Furthermore, those parts of the mechanism which are not freely accessible from the top of the bowl, to wit, the ball valve and its seat, are readily gotten at for purposes of renewal or the like by screwing off the nozzle. Great convenience and siinplicity is thus secured.

Having thus described the invention, what We claim as new is The herein described stop-funnel, comprising in combination a body portion consisting of a bowl having an aperture in its bottom and a bushing thicker than the walls of said boWl permanently iXed in said aperture 'and interiorly threaded, a nozzle having its upper end or end next the body portion eXteriorly reduced and threaded to screvv` into said bushing and providing an annular exterior shoulder at the base of said reduced portion, said nozzle also having its interior passage radially enlarged for said upper end portion of the nozzle and providing an interior annular shoulder at the base of said enlargement, a packing Washer upon said exterior shoulder of the nozzle adapted to be pressed thereby against the body portion of the funnel When the nozzle is screwed into the body portion, a seat ring on said interior shoulder of the nozzle, a ball valve above said seat ring in said enlarged portion of the nozzle passage, a rod extending upward through the body portion from said ball, a spring normally seating said ball valve, and means connected to said rod for raising the ball valve from its said seat. ARTHUR J. FAJEN. EUGENE M. DEILLER. In the .presence of- RUSSELL M. EVERETT, ETHEL B. REED.

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