mprovements in Vessels for Measuring Granulated or Comminuted Matters.
Year: 1890

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
mprovements in Vessels for Measuring Granulated or Comminuted
Matters.
I, HERBERT JOHN HADDON, of the firm of Herbert & Co., Patent Agents, of 18
uckingham Street, Strand, W.C. London, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
ngineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention a communication to me
om abroad by George Henry Hazelton of Boston, in the County of Suffolk, and
ate of Massachusetts, United States of America, and in what manner the same is
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
atement:-
Figure a vertical and median section of a piteuer or vessel for holding and.
measuring sugar, coffee, or various other matters in a granulated or comminuted
state.
Figure 4 is a vertical section of the mouth piece on line 1-1 of Figure 3.
Figure 5 is a horizontal section of the same on line 2-2 of Figure 3.
Figure 6 is a side view of the mouth piece showing one of the ways of applying
the dome to the neck.
The nature of the invention is defined in the claims hereinafter presented.
In the drawings A. denotes the pitcher or vessel having a mouth a at top adapted
to connect to a tapering mouth piece B the latter having fixed to it a handle o and
being surmounted by a neck and a scoop shaped nose c, the chamber within
said nose communicating with the neck, its mouth being closed by a cover a secured
to a bail pivoted to an eye i projecting from the exterior of the said.neck b.
Secured to said bail is a projection by which the cover g can be moved away
from the educt of the chamber when desired. The neck is closed at top by
a dome C which may be applied to the neck by screw threads as shown in Figures 3
and 4, or it may be hinged thereto and held closed by a catch a fixed to the
neck and engaging at its free end with a projection from the dome, see Figure 6,
either way shown permitting access to be had to tho-interior of the neck when
desired: Extending from opposite sides of the interior of the neck and inclined
downward toward the junction of said nose with the mouth piece, are ledges m,
they being shown as somewhat curved to conform to the shape of the gate E which
is pivoted at n to opposite sides of the neck, and arranged to hang therein-so that
when the vessel is turned over, or inverted to eject the contents of the vessel from
the educt of the chamber f, the said gate will swing against the underside of the
said ledges and the contents will pass into, and fill the dome.
In operating the pitcher to eject its contents, grasp the handle o and swing the
bottom upward, the gate E will close against the ledges and the contents fill the dome
and the portion of the neck between the dome and the pivot of the gate, next swing
the vessel in the opposite direction or bottom down, till the axis of the vessel
stands at an angle of forty-five degrees or thereabouts, which will cause a part of the
contents in the dome to pass into the chamber f, the balance returning to the
vessel, and the gate will remain against the ledges. Next, again swing the bottoin
of the vessel upward and the dome and the part of the neck between it and the
pivot n will fill as before and the part of the contents that previously entered the
chamber, will at the same time be ejected therefrom through the educt during
said movement of the vessel. This operation may be repeated until the desired
quantity or number of spoonfulls have been ejected from the vessel when on
setting the latter down on its bottom the gate will swing into the position shown

page_text: in Figure 3 and the portion of the contents which was deposited in the chamber f
during the last swing of the vessel will fall back thereinto.
From the foregoing it will be seen that none of the contents of the vessel will
stand in the upper portion of the neck and chamber when said vessel is at rest,
and thus there will be no liability of said parts to become clogged.
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 -
:-
1. In a pitcher or vessel having a mouth piece provided with a neck closed at its
top and an eduction chamber communicating with the said neck and the vessel, the
ledges m arranged within said neck, and the gate E pivoted therein, the latter
when the vessel is tilted forward operating with the ledges to close the bottom of said
eduction chamber, and when the vessel is upright to open the said bottom essentially as
and for the purpose explained.
2. The combination with the tapering mouth piece B surmounted by a neck band
an eduction chamber f, communicating with each other, of the dome Chinged to said
neck and the spring catch adapted to fasten said dome in position, essentially as
shown and set forth.
3. The combination of the mouth piece B the neck band eduction chamber f com-
municating with each other, the dome C the ledges m and the gate E pivoted
within said neck, the cover g and the bail fixed to the latter and pivoted to the
neck.
4. The combination of the vessel A mouth-pieco B provided with the neck band
chamber communicating with each other and the vessel, the dome C, ledges m
and gate E, said gate adapted to operate with the ledges as and for the purpose
explained.
Dated this 10th day of 110900
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.