Patent ID: 8684237

Claim:
A granular material dispenser comprising a. a housing having a storage chamber for storing said material; b. a manually-operable dispensing lever extending from said housing; c. an adjustable dispensing mechanism mounted below said storage chamber in said housing and connected with said dispensing lever for selectively dispensing a predetermined quantity of said material from said chamber in response to actuation of said lever; d. said dispensing mechanism having an outlet chamber of variable volume and comprised of an assembly of at least two hollow, open-ended conduits, one sized and mounted to slide within the other, with the outlet of one of said conduits being an outlet for said chamber; e. said housing having a bottom wall with a bottom outlet opening through which said material is dispensed from said housing, said outlet opening being displaced laterally from said outlet chamber when said lever is not actuated to dispense material; f. said outlet chamber being movable by actuation of said lever from a first position with said outlet chamber being blocked, to a second position with said outlet chamber in communication with said outlet opening for dispensing the contents of said outlet chamber through said bottom outlet opening under the force of gravity, and g. an adjustment mechanism having a manually-operable adjustment member accessible from outside said housing and manually operable to adjust the position of said conduits relative to one another and thereby adjust the volume of said outlet chamber.