Improvements in Sprinklers or Receptacles for Condiments, Powders, and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 17th May, 1898-Accepted, 13th Aug., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sprinklers or Receptacles for Condiments, Powders,
and the like.
I, WILHELM HOECK, of Oergryte, Carlslund, Gothenburg, in the Kingdom of
Sweden, Manufacturer, 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:-
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The improved pepper or spice box which forms the subject of the present
application for Letters Patent, is applicable as a box in which spices in the
pulverised or ground state, or medicines in powder and other like substances can
be brought into commerce and into use.
The distributing boxes of similar type hitherto in use have their perforations in
the lid. In order to protect the contents from impurity there is requisite another
lid, or no provision at all is made for such a protection.
My improvement consists essentially in so constructing the box that its contents
can be sprinkled or can be shut off from contact with the outer air at will, without
having either to remove or to put on a special lid, the adjustment is effected by
means of a simple turn with the hand. i
Figures 1 to 3 of the accompanying drawing, show the nature of the invention;
and Figures 4 to 8 are modifications of the same idea.
The cylindrical box a of metal or other suitable material is provided with a
closely fitting lid b. In the parts of the box protected by the lid are formed at
one place the perforations c. The rim of the lid is cut out over a length which
corresponds to the perforated wall of the box. If now the lid be placed upon the
box in the position shown in Fig. 2, then the piece cut out of the rim and the
perforations in the wall of the cylinder will coincide. It is, therefore, possible to
sprinkle the contents of the box. If, however, the cover be placed in the position
shown in Fig. 3 the perforated cylinder wall will have opposite to it the rim of
the lid, and the cut out piece of the rim will be opposite to the unperforated wall
of the box. It will be obvious that in order to adjust the lid it is not necessary
to take the same off, but only to turn it round. In order to limit the turning to
the amount exactly necessary, there is provided on the side wall of the box the
projection whose point strikes the edges of the cut out piece d and limits the
turning motion.
Instead of having the perforations in the wall of the box and the cut out piece
in the rim of the lid, the opposite arrangement may be used making the perfora-
tions in the lid of the cut out portion in the box (see Fig. 4.).
If the contents of the box consist of coarse grained material it is advantageous
in place of the perforations to make slots (Fig. 5); these can again be either in
the wall of the box or in the rim of the lid. The modification of the invention
consists in the arrangement that the whole lid shall not turn, but that the same
shall remain rigidly fixed to the box and that only a ring placed between the two
projecting rings of the box shall turn and either cover the holes or release them.
This modification is illustrated in Figures 6 to 8. In Figure 8 the ring has been

page_text: taken off for the sake of clearness and shewn drawn above the same. Also in this
case either perforations or slots may be used according to circumstances, and the
holes can be made in the box and the cut out piece in the ring or vice versa.
All these combinations will attain the object of an air-tight closing device for
a pepper box, or the like which can be opened or closed by a single motion of the
hand, in order to enable the contents of the box to be scattered or to shut them off
from contact with the outer air and dust or dirt.
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:-
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The improved sprinkling box for holding condiments, medicines or other
powdered materials provided with perforations and a corresponding cut-out piece
respectively in the side and in a ring placed over the same, and which by turning
can be respectively caused to coincide, and thus allow of the escape of the contents,
or can be displaced with regard to one another in order to shut off the air, said
ring being separated or united to the lid, substantially as described and shown.
Dated the Seventeenth day of May 1898.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
322, High Holborn, London, W.C., Patent Agents for the Applicant.