Patent ID: 8439231

Claim:
A powder dispensing apparatus, comprising: a hollow housing chamber adapted to receive and store an amount of powder substance, said housing chamber including an open top end and a closed bottom end; a middle chamber removably fastened to the housing chamber, the middle chamber including a top and bottom end; a removable, rotatable measuring device including an open cavity adapted to receive and measure a predetermined amount of powder substance from said housing chamber, said measuring device being removably and slidably engageable with the middle chamber; and a tapered top chamber removably fastened to said middle chamber, said top chamber adapted to receive said powder substance from said open cavity, said top chamber also adapted to dispense said powder substance; said top chamber including an open top end; wherein the measuring device includes a locking tooth which is rotatable from a first position which locks the measuring device in the middle chamber to a second position which unlocks the measuring device from the middle chamber to allow removal of the measuring device from the middle chamber; the middle chamber includes a locking ring including a central open portion and a radial opening extending radially outward from the central open portion; and the radial opening is arranged to receive the locking tooth when the locking tooth is in the second position.