Improvements in Castors or Sprinklers for Sugar, Salt, Pepper, and other Spices.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 1st June, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Castors or Sprinklers for Sugar, Salt, Pepper, and
other Spices.
A communication to me from EDUARD ACKERMANN, of Köln, in the Empire of
Germany, Merchant.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the Firm of Edwards and Co., Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 65 and 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, 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, and accompanying drawing, that is to say :-
This invention has for its object a novel device or arrangement of apparatus, for
sprinkling or delivering pepper, spices, or the like, through an opening at the
bottom, by simply pressing a knob, the substance being properly and certainly
discharged in greater or less quantity, according to the amount of pressure
exerted.
In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates different forms of the invention,
but all upon the same principle,
Figure 1 is a vertical section through an apparatus having an inner glass lining,
and more especially adapted for delivering salt.
Figure 2 is a side view of the same.
Figure 3 is a horizontal section through x-y, Figure 1.
Figure 4 is a horizontal section through u-, Figure 1.
Figure 5 is a vertical section, shewing the apparatus applied below an ordinary
portable pepper mill.
Figure 6 is a vertical section through a modified form of the apparatus, more
especially adapted for sprinkling sugar.
Figure 7 is a horizontal section through w-z, Figure 6.
The novel apparatus which forms the subject of the present invention, is
applicable to sprinkling spices of different kinds, and also for hygroscopic
substances such as salt, and it may be contained in holders of different shapes.
For sprinkling or delivering salt, a glass or porcelain lining is preferably used,
or a holder made of such material. As illustrated in Figure 1, the holder A
in which the salt placed, consists of a glass or porcelain cylinder b, with a similar
bottom c and cover a, these three parts being fitted and held together by a metal
frame consisting of stays k with openings between, the bottom r and cap g being
screwed or otherwise attached. The lower part of the frame at h may be made of
any desired shape.
In the centre of the vessel or holder, is arranged a vertical spindle C, which is
capable of revolving on its axis as well as moving endways, and upon the upper part
of the spindle are carried helical threads of quick pitch which pass through a
corresponding fixed nut. At the lower end of the spindle is an enlargement or
knob D above which are fixed a number of vanes E. The spindle C is constantly
pressed up a helical spring. The spindle may be of any suitable material. In
Figures
to 4, it is supposed to be of glass or porcelain, in which case a guide Qis
provided in the upper part of the apparatus, in which a metal spindle provided.
with a projecting point e and a knob B can turn and move end ways. If the inclined
threads are arranged on the upper part of the spindle, it must be connected to the
lower spindle in such manner that its movement is transmitted to the latter.
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page_text: therefore the knob B is pressed down, the projection D at the lower end of the
spindle partly opens the hole in the bottom of the chamber, and at the same time
the vanes E are turned round and depressed, and part of the substance contained in
the apparatus is delivered and evenly scattered through the bottom.
In the modified arrangement shewn in Figure 5, a similar apparatus is shewn
below an ordinary portable pepper or spice mill. The spindle C, vanes E, lower
knob D, and upper knob B, are similar to those shewn in Figures 1 to 4, but round
the spindle C the grinding cone M of the mill is fitted upon the tube J, the handle
for turning the mill being fixed upon this tube. A bracket G through which the
spindle passes carries a helical spring which holds up the central spindle. When
in use, the upper space A' holds the substance to be ground, and the lower space A
receives it when ground, so that a small quantity of the material is first ground, and
then, when at table, the person using it by a simple pressure upon the knob B
delivers and sprinkles the required quantity. This arrangement is especially useful
for pepper.
Figures 6 and 7 shew another form of arrangement, in which the chamber A is
made of metal, but otherwise resembling those already described. The bottom n is
provided with radial sets of holes o (Figures 6 and 7). Above it turns a number
of arms or scrapers s, fixed upon a central boss t, which is provided with inclined or
helical grooves fitting upon corresponding helical ribs or feathers upon the central
spindle P which does not revolve. The upper end of this spindle at u is square,
and is moveable endways through a corresponding square guide Q in the cover of
the apparatus. By pressing the knob B down, the arms s are made to revolve and
scatter some of the contents through the holes o in the bottom. This form of
apparatus is useful for sprinkling sugar and the like in considerable quantity upon
cakes and tarts, as well as for distributing salt and pepper.
The apparatus may be used for any suitable spices or materials, and the details
may be modified more or less according to the purposes to which it is to be
applied.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In castors or sprinklers having a delivery opening below, the delivering and
sprinkling arrangement consisting of a spindle C with fixed arms or vanes E and
helical threads e on the spindle, so that by pressing the spindle in the direction of
its longitudinal axis the spindle and the arins are moved round helically, and the
lower opening at the same time partly opened, substantially as described and
illustrated.
2. The modified form of arrangement of the delivery opening in Claim 1, in
which the arms are carried by a central boss fitting upon helical threads
or feather upon a central spindle which does not revolve, so that by pressing
the spindle down endways the arms are made to revolve horizontally above
radial sets of holes in the bottom of the apparatus, substantially as described and
illustrated.
Dated the 1
EDWARDS & Co.,
65 and 66, Chancery Lane, Agents for the Applicant.