US1174285A - Measuring-receptacle. - Google Patents

Description

C. H. BITTER.

MEASURING RECEPTACLE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 14, 1914.

Patented Mar. 7,1916.

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MEASURING-RECEPTACLE.

mg -Receptacles, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to measuring receptacles, and belongs to that class of containers for tea, coffee, spices and similar commodities which embody within themselves means for delivering a predetermined amount of the contents thereof, doing away with the necessity of measuring Or weighing the same after being removed from the container.

In the drawings;,Figure 1 shows my device in front elevation. Fig. 2 is a vertical medial section thereof. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the movable cylinder. Fig. 4 is a plan view of my invention with the cylinder 4 removed.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several figures.

1 is a base, upon which is supported a circular rim 2, by means of legs 3. Fixed in the rim 2 is a cylindricalreceptacle 4 provided with a cover 5. Rotatably mounted on the base 1 upon a central pivot, at a, is a cylinder 6, the diameter of which is ap proximately the same as that of the cylinder 4. The cylinder 6 is provided with a plurality of compartments 7, by means of radial' partitions 8, and the plate 9 of the base 1 is provided at the front part of the device with an opening 10, corresponding in shape to the compartments 7.

A shield 11 is secured on the inner face of the cylinder 4, by means of clips 12, the upper plates of which are preferably provided with slots 13, engaged by small bolts 14 provided on the outside of the can with wing-nuts 15. The shield 11 is normally held at a point just above the cylinder 6, and so as to cover the compartment which is in position to discharge its contents through the opening 10, as shown in Fig. 4., By means of the slots 13 and bolts 14 such shield is permitted a slight vertical adjustment.

l/Vhen the compartment 4 is provided with a supply of spices or other'wares all of the compartments 7 are immediately filled thereby, except those which are immediately beneath the shield 11, and upon the cylin- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 7, 1916.

Application filed November 14,1914. Serial No. 872,142.

der 6 being rotated upon its pivot, all of said compartments will become filled, except that the one immediately above the opening 10 will be relieved of itscharge, and each compartment, upon reaching that point' will similarly discharge itsload, the re-filling thereof from the chamber 4 being prevented by the shield 11. Inorder that the contents of the receptacle 4 may not pass downwardly through one of the compartments 7 p when only .a part thereof projects over the opening 10,. it is necessary to give the shield 11 considerable width, so that practically three of the compartments 7 are covered thereby, as shown in Fig. 4. i

The cylinder 6 is provided with a plurality of knobs l6,"cor'responding: in number with the compartments 7, and .by means of whichthe part 6 maybe rotated. Depending loosely from the rim 2- is a wire catch 17 the straight bar of which is in the path of the knobs 16, by which means the cylinder 6 is stopped with one of the compartments 7 in register with the opening 10.. The amount of the discharge is thereby limited to the contents of such compartment. By raising the catch the cylinder may be given another partial revolution.

By providing the compartments 7 with a desired capacity, it will be evident that the desired amount of commodity will be re ceived from the main cylinder and then discharged thereby. For example, each of the:

compartments 7 could be fcrmed of a suitable size to contain five cents worth or ten cents worth of a given spice. and in case double the amount were required two partial revolutions of the cylinder 6 would be Qiiven in place of one. By raising the shield 11 the amount which each compartment would.v deliver through the opening 10 would bev vided for, similar to that of the clips 12. Theupper cylinder could thus beraised and the lower cylinder 6 replaced with'one possessing a greater depth, and capable of containing in each compartment a larger quantitv of the required commodity.

For convenience the base 1 may be provided with a draw 19, just beneath the opening 10, to receive the charge which passes downwardly through such opening, or the lower part of the base can be done away with and the measured quantity received in a sack or other receptacle.

It will beobvious that the parts 4: and 6 comprise practically one compartment or cylinder, the lower part of which is movable with reference to the upper part, all of such cylinder being constantly filled with the desired commodity, except the compartment from which the discharge has been made. This does away with any uncertainty of feed from the upper to the lower part of the device, and also precludes the use of auxiliary means to compel such feed.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

1. In a device of the class described, a base provided with a suitable opening; a receptacle mounted thereon at a suitable height; a cylinder rotatably mounted beneath said receptacle and provided with a plurality of compartments adapted to discharge successively through the opening in said base; means for preventing the filling of any such compartment while in position to be discharged; and means for vertical adjustment of said receptacle.

2. A device of the class described, comprising a suitably mounted stationary receptacle; a rotatable receptacle immediately beneath the same, adapted to receive the contents thereof, provided with a plurality of similar compartments; means for permitting the discharge of the contents of said compartments, successively, at a point beneath the same; a shield supported above said movable receptacle and adapted to prevent the re-filling of any of said compartments while the same is in position to discharge; and means for vertical adjustment of said shield.

In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHRISTOPHER H. BITTER.

\Vitnesses V. N. H'AsKnLL, FRANK W. HAsKELL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

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