US1045071A - Toilet-powder dispenser. - Google Patents

Description

E. OLDBNBUSCH.

V TOILET POWDER DISPENSER.

APPLICATION FILED APB..3, 1912.

1,04,53,07 1 Patented Nov. 19, 191.2.

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TOILET-POWDER DISPENSER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 19, 1912.

Application filed April 3, 1912. Serial No. 688,166.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST OLDENBUSCH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city' of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Toilet-Powder Dispenser, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The present invention relates to toilet articles and more particularly to a dispensing container for toilet powder.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple and effective container and dispenser for toilet powder, so arranged that a movable closure may be automatically operated by pressure to release a portion of the contents of the container, and automatically closed after the pressure thereon is relieved, and to combine with such automatic closure, means whereby its opening movement is limited so that accidental displacement and disconnection between the closure and the container shall be prevented.

A further object is to combine with such an automatic closure a stop constructed and arranged to prevent the packing of the powder at the discharge openin of the container, and thus insure at a times a free discharge of the powder contained therein when desired.

To the above ends, the present invention consists of the toilet powder dispensing container and the devices and combination of devices which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

The present invention is shown in the accompanying drawing in which-- Figure. 1 shows the same in perspective;

Fig. 2 shows a side elevation and partial in cross section and of any desired length.

It is constructed of any suitable material, preferably in the form of a metallic tube which is closed at one end as shown at b, and open at its op osite end'c, forming a discharge opening or the toilet powder d..

The opening 0 is normally closed by means of a plate e which is in the form of a circular disk of metal substantially the same in diameter as the external diameter of the cylindrical container a.

The plate e is connected to a lever f in any suitable manner asby means of a tang g projecting radially from the periphery of the plate e, and arranged to take in an opening formed in the lever f and to be riveted therein as shown at h of Fig. 2. The lever f is provided with the projections 72. arranged to embrace the container (1 at opposite sides thereof and to be pivotally connected to the container at diametrically opposite points by means of the pivots i, the arrangement being suchthat the lever f may rock about the pivots 2 so as to permit the late 6 to be moved into and out of positlon to cover and uncover the discharge opening a. It is intended that the lever 7 shall be moved in the direction to cause the plate 6 to close the opening 0 by means of a spring, and for this purpose there 1s provided a spring finger in formed integrally with the lever f and projecting therefrom between the projections h and hearing at its free upturned end m against the container a acts to force the lever and the plate 6 in closed position as shown in the drawing.

For the purpose of opening the dispenser, the lever f is provided with a projecting finger n which projects some distance beyond the plate e and at its extreme free end will preferably be provided with a rounded contact piece 0, the arrangement being such that by holding the tubular dispenser a in one hand, the contact piece -0 may be brought into contact with the surface to which it is in the container from becoming packed by the action of moisture thereon, or from any other cause, the plate e is provided with an inwardly projecting pin p fixed rigidly thereto near its outer periphery, and at a point diametrically opposite from the point of connection between the spring f and the plate, so that the pin p projects some distance within the container 0 and partakes of the movement of the plate 0. The pin p travels diametrically across the lower end of the container and will break up and prevent the packing of the powder at the discharge end. The pin p also acts as a stop to limit the rocking movement of the lever f in the direction to open the container by coming into contact with the inner wall thereof and thus prevents an abnormal movementof the parts suificient to disarrange them, and also prevents undue stress being a plied to the spring is. For the purpose of introducing the powder 03 into the container, the container is preferably made in two parts, a relatively long part, and a relatively shorter part 9, the latter having a reduced portion 1* arranged to fit within the open end of the relatively longer portion of the container, and provided with a stop shoulder s which abuts against the open end of the relatively longer portion as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing. In order to fill the container with powder, the shorter portion q is removed whereupon the relatively longer portion may be filled with powder, and the shorter portion q fitted thereto. It will be noted that the spring is and the lever f are pivotally connected to the removable portion g, and that the spring 7'; has a bearing against the end of the relatively longer portion of the'container, and by its frictional contact therewith, assists'in maintaining the two arts of the container in operative connect'on with each other.

Preferably the container will be provided at the end opposite the discharge with a frame t of any suitable shape in outline, and provided with a recess or chamber at within which may be fitted a mirror '0 or other thing which it may be desired to display therein, such as a card or photograph.

The operation of the device has been sufficlently disclosed in connection with the cured at one edge to the said lever and nor- 7 mally closing the opening to the receptacle,

and a forwardly projecting cont-act piece connected to said lever and extending in advance of the cover plate at one side thereof.

2. A dispensing container for toilet powder comprising a rece tacle open at one end, a cover plate there or arranged to move across said open end of the receptacle, a'lever having wings laterally disposed at diametrically opposite points of the receptacle and pivotally secured thereto and having intermediate the wings a longitudinally extending spring finger bearing atits free end against the receptacle, the said lever extending parallel to and in close contact with the receptacle at one side thereof and extending beyond the open end of the receptacle to form a contact piece and the cover plate be ing secured at one point in its periphery to the lever and normally covering the open end of the receptacle and having a pin extending inward at a point diametrically opposite its point-of connection to the lever.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ERNEST OLDENBUSOH.

Witnesses: l l

' F. M. VAN HOUTEN,

' NELSQN STEWART.

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