Combined Funnel, Strainer, and Clothes Sprinkler.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Aug.. 1896
Complete Specification Left, 10th May, 1897-Accepted, 12th June, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Combined Funnel, Strainer, and Clothes Sprinkler.
I, WILLIAM LUTHER PIKE of Groton, County of Tompkins, State of New York,
U.S.A., Inventor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In this invention a funnel shaped body is provided at its bottom or delivery end
with an internally and externally screw threaded tubular part on the outside of
which may be screwed any suitable shapes and sizes of nozzles. Into the inside of
the tubular part may be screwed a strainer which may be used with or without a
nozzle, and into the same part may also be screwed a perforated metal disc which
serve as a clothes sprinkler. Both the strainer and the sprinkler are provided with
lugs to obtain a purchase for screwing into, and unscrewing from the tubular part of
the funnel body.
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1006
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
I, WILLIAM LUTHER PIKE, of Groton, County of Tompkins, State of New York,
U.S.A., Inventor, 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 :--
The device of this invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing,
Fig. 1 being an outside view of the same shewing the general form and relative
sizes of the attachments.
Fig. 2 a sectional view of the lower end of the funnel with the strainer and a nozzle
in position thercon.
Fig. 8 a plan view of the strainer.
Fig. 4 a similar view of the clothes sprinkler and
Figs. 5, 6, 7, views of different sized nozzles.
1 is the funnel proper made of any suitable material screw threaded at its lower
end as at 2 to receive the different attachments as they are needed. 4, 5, 6, 7, are
nozzles of different sized lower openings for use with small and large bottles, etcetera,
and adapted to screw over the outside of the screw threaded part of the funnel
interchangeably.
8 is the strainer composed of a threaded body 10 adapted to screw into the inner
part of the screw threaded portion of the funnel. This threaded body has near its
lower edge lugs 9 attached to its inner side for the purpose of forming a purchase
to enable the strainer to be easily removed from the funnel. The fine mesh or wire
cloth of the strainer is attached by any suitable means. The strainer can be used in
the funnel either with or without the nozzles.

page_text: 11 is the clothes sprinkler attachment screw threaded like the strainer and also
provided with lugs for its ready manipulation. It is constructed with a perforated
sheet metal disc 12 which may also serve as a strainer in cases where the strainer 8 is
of too fine a mesh. When the strainer or sprinkler is screwed into the lower part of
the funnel it may be borne against by the upper contracted part of the nozzle so
that there will be a mutual clamping action preventing accidental displacement of
either part.
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 a combined funnel, strainer, and clothes sprinkler, the combination of a
funnel, having its lower end screw threaded, a series of interchangeable nozzles
adapted to fit the outer periphery of said screw threaded portion, a strainer adapted
to fit the inner periphery of said screw threaded portion, and a clothes sprinkler
adapted to fit the inner periphery of said screw threaded portion, and adapted to be
used interchangeably with said strainer, substantially as described and shewn.
2. In a combined funnel, strainer, and clothes sprinkler, the combination with the
funnel having its lower end provided with internal and external screw threads, of a
strainer adapted to engage the interior threads of the funnel, a series of interchangeable
nozzles adapted to engage the exterior thread of the funnel and contracted below this
latter to prevent displacement of the strainer and sprinkler, and a sprinkler adapted
to engage the interior threads of the funnel and to be used interchangeably with the
strainer, substantially as described and shewn.
1007
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89 Chancery Lane, London, W.O., Agent for the Applicant.