New and Useful Distributor for Tooth-powder and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 7th June, 1899-Accepted, 11th Nov., 1899
New and Useful Distributor for Tooth-powder and the like.
I, JOSEPH COHN, of 12, Holzgraben, Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany, Apothecary,
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:-
My invention relates to a new and useful distributor for tooth-powder and the
like; and the objects of my invention are, first, to provide means for delivering
a certain quantity only of powder, when desired, and, second to prevent the
tooth-brush from being dipped in into the powder-casing, in order to maintain
the powder dry and clean.
I attain these objects by the apparatus illustrated in the accompanying draw-
ing, in which
Fig. 1 is a side-view of the entire conservatory;
Fig. 2 is the front-view of the same;
Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section of the apparatus, and finally,
Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
Between the two standards a, b, which constitute the frame of the entire
apparatus, is secured the distributor c, the upper opening of which is shut by
means of a cover k. The walls of this conservatory have an inclined direction
downwardly, so that the powder, contained in the distributor, is obliged to sink
when there is taken away the powder at the bottom of the distributor. The
bottom of the distributor c is formed by a fluted roller f, the shaft g of which is
mounted in the standards a, b. Both extremities of the shaft g are provided each
with a button h or a crooked handle or the like in order to turn the shaft g and
with it the fluted roller f. I prefer to provide such fluted roller with two or
three grooves only. Both standards a, are provided at opposite sides each
with projecting shoulders or bows i to support the tooth-brush, when the apparatus
is made use of, (Fig. 3). The standards a, & can be secured to a plate in order
to collect the tooth-powder that will fall from the brush. The apparatus is made
use of as described hereinafter: When I will take tooth-powder from the
distributor, I put the brush upon two shoulders i, so that the bristles are in an
oblique direction to the roller f (Fig. 3); by means of the button h I turn the
roller f, constituting the bottom of the distributor into the same direction, where
I have put the brush upon the shoulders i, into the right or the left.
The powder, contained in that of the grooves e of the roller f which is in the
distributor, falls, as soon as the said groove comes out of the casing, on the brush
which is prevented from being dipped in because the cover of the distributor
is shut.
The advantages of such casing, that can be made of any material, of glass,
porcelain, metal or wood, are the following:
The powder contained in the casing is prevented from absorbing moisture.
and cannot loose its scent; it is always dry and cannot be corrupted by dust and
the like. The roller f forming the bottom of the casing, which is fluted or

page_text: provided with grooves, delivers quickly by its being turned the desired quantity
only of tooth-powder and lets it fallen on the tooth-brush.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
In a distributor for tooth-powder and the like the combination with two
standards secured to a plate, of a casing the walls of which are inclined in the
downward direction, the upper opening of this casing being shut by means of a
cover, a fluted roller forming the bottom of this casing, the shaft of which is
mounted in the said standards and provided at both extremities with a button,
each of the said standards being provided with projecting shoulders, all essen-
tially as described and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 3rd day of June 1899.
JOSEPH MÖHLIG,
Agent for Applicant, Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany.