An Improved Milk Receiver.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 21st June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 16th Aug., 1892--Accepted, 17th Sept., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Milk Receiver.
I WILLIAM GEORGE WOODCOCK, Newcastle Chambers, Nottingham, Mineral
Merchant, do hereby declare that I am in possession of an invention the title of
which is AN IMPROVED MILK RECEIVER which has been communicated to me
from abroad by Edward Batters, Toronto, Ontario, Canada do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The door of each house at which milk is to be delivered has two holes cut
through it covered by a plate secured to the outerside of the door.
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The upper part of the plate is perforated and provided with a flap for the
admission of letters with the word "letters upon it a second perforation below is
provided with a door hinged to the plate and has a lock on the inside capable of
being unlocked with a key carried by the milk seller.
The second perforation is provided with an inclined shute which passes through
and a short distance past the thickness of the door, the hinged door has the word
"milk" on the outside.
On the inside of the door below the shute are a pair of metal loops or hooks
which engage with a pair of metal hooks or loops secured to the sides of a milk
receiver.
The receiver may be of tin or other metal or material, inclined at the top to the
same angle as the shute in the door plate and provided with a hinged lid. Below
the lid the back of the receiver is perforated to admit of a sliding spout provided
at its lower end with a perforated plate or a piece of gauze wire cloth, sliding
vertically in slots. The spout has a stop piece on its lower side to prevent it
falling into the receiver, the top end of the spout is closed and lies close to the
inside of the hinged door, the upper side of the spout is closed by a door hinged to
it, on the top of the door is a slide or pocket to contain a ticket on which is
indicated the quantity of milk to be left by the seller.
The milk seller when required unlocks and opens the hinged door, partly
withdraws the spout through the shute, draws out the ticket on the lid, throws up
the lid and pours the required quantity of milk down the spout the milk passing
through the perforated or gauze strainer into the receiver, he retains the ticket
closes the spout lid, pushes the spout downwards and locks the hinged door over it.
Thus any amount of milk the receiver will contain may be delivered and securely
retained until removed by some one inside the house lifting the receiver off
the loops or hooks.
After being emptied the receiver, spout, and strainer may be cleaned, scalded
and replaced for a fresh supply.
Dated this Twentieth day of June 1892.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Milk Receiver.
I WILLIAM GEORGE WOODCOCK Newcastle Chambers Nottingham Mineral
Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a side view of an improved milk receiver, placed on the inner
side of a door, portion of which is shown in edge view.
Figure 2 shows a front view of the receiver with its lid raised.
Figure 3 shows an enlarged view of the outer side of a plate to be secured to
the front of a door.
Figure 4 an enlarged side view of a sliding spout hereafter referred to.
The door of each house at which milk is to be delivered has two holes 1 and 2
(see Figure 1) cut through it covered by a plate 3 secured to the outside of the
door.
The upper part of the plate is perforated and provided with a flap for the
admission of letters, with the word "letters "
upon it.
A second perforation
below is provided with a door 4 having the word "milk upon it hinged to the
plate, the door has a lock on the outside capable of being unlocked with a key
carried by the milk seller.
The second perforation is provided with an inclined shute 5 which passes
through and a short distance past the thickness of the door.
On the inside of the door below the shute are a pair of metal loops or hooks 6
which engage with a pair of metal loops or hooks 7 secured to the sides of a milk
receiver 8.
The receiver may be of tin or other metal or material, inclined at the top to the
same angle as the shute to the door plate and provided with a spout at the front
and a lid 9 hinged to the back.
Below the lid the back of the receiver is perforated to admit the shute 5 within
which a spout 10 slides.
The sides of the spout at the lower end form two slots in which a perforated
plate or a piece of gauze wire cloth 11 slides vertically.
The spout has a stop piece 12 on its lower side which rests on the outer lower
edge of the shute 5 when drawn outwards by the milk seller preventing it from
falling into the receiver.
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The top end of the spout is closed and lies near the inside of the closed door 4
when not in use, the upper side of the spout is closed and provided with a door 13
hinged to it having a slide or pocket 14 on the top to contain a ticket 15 on which
may be indicated the quantity of milk to be left by the seller.
The milk seller when required unlocks and opens the door 4 partly withdraw's
the spout through the shute by the hook 16 draws out the ticket on the lid,
throws up the lid and pours the indicated quantity of milk down the spout, the
milk passing through the perforated or gauze strainer into the receiver.
He retains the ticket closes the spout lid, pushes the spout downwards into the
position shown at Figure 1 and locks the door 4 over it.
Thus any amount of milk the receiver will hold may be delivered and securely
retained until removed by some one inside the house lifting the receiver off the
loops or hooks by means of the handles 17.
After being emptied, the receiver, spout and strainer may be cleaned scaulded
and replaced for a fresh supply.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
An improved milk receiver substantially as described and illustrated in the
Jinxed
Dated this day of
Witness:
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Nottingham.
1892.
WILLIAM GEORGE WOODCOCK.