US1365689A - Dispensing appliance - Google Patents

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H. H. HAYWOOD.- DISPENSING APPUAICE. Armcmon min Aumzo. mm

Patenmd Jan. 18, 1921.

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HARRY H. HAYWOOD, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERL CAN PAPER GOODS COMPANY, OF KENSINGTON, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

DISPENSING APPLIANCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 18, 1921.

Application filed August 20, 1919. Serial No. 318,656.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY H. HAYWOOD, a citizen of the United States, residing-at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dispensing Appliances, of which the following is a specification. I

This invention relates to a dispensing appliance. I employ this title as a matter of convenience and for the further fact that the device has been found especially efficient for receiving and dispensing various kinds of articles although it is primarily intended to receive and deliver drinking cups. In the drawings accompanging and forming part of the present speci cation I have shown in detail one of the several forms of embodiment of the invention which to enablethose skilled in the art to practise the invention, will be set forth fully in the following description. Clearly I do not restrict myself to this'disclosure; I may depart therefrom in several particulars within the scope of the invention defined by the claims following said description. As will be obvious I-have several motives in view. Among them is the provision of an article of this character which is susceptible of inexpensive production, which may be easily mounted for use, which is strong and practicable, and by which the proper delivery or dispensing of the articles may be insured. There are other equally important points involved in the invention which'will, with the foregoing, be fully brought out in said description.

. Referring to said drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a dispensing appliance involving the invention and illustrating a way of using the same.

Fig. 2 is a side and Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the elements shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view of the package support with the package therein.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the appli- I being on a much smaller scale than the other two.

The appliance includes in its organization two main elements which are desirably re movably associated as I will hereinafter explain. One of these elements, which constitutes a frame or part such as a bottle containing water for illustration, and the other or the secondary member sustains the cups or their equivalents which are to be dispensed. It will of course be clear that I employ these designations main and secondary more or less for convenience in distinguishing and identifying the parts.

A water cooler with body Q'and faucet 3 is surmounted by bottle4.

The frame or main member comprises a clip portion which is of circular form although not necessarily a fullcircle. As a matter of fact I prefer that it be less than a full circle and more than a half one, it being ordinarily about three quarters of a circle. This leaves a mouth 7 through which may be passed the upper portion of the body ofthe bottle 4 at which time the clip portion snugly embraces the bottle. This clip p0rtion may be of any suitable material such as heavy wire, this being sufficiently resilient to enable the clip portlon to be opened out for connection with the bottle. In fact I prefer. that this frame or main member 5 be all of such heavy wire. From what might be considered as the rear ends of the clip portion 6, the arms find 9 rise, these arms as shown being parallel with each other.

c From the upper ends of the arms the con- 12, for strength and to constitute a spring,

and one of them being continued forwardly as at 13, the forward continuation terminating in a downwardly-extending shank 141 having a hook 15 at its free end, which I might note at this point presents a convenient support for the auxiliary member of the dispenser. The clip portion 6 snugly embraces the bottle 4 near the upper end thereof, the arms 8 and 9 engaging firmly against the back of the bottle, {and the branches, coil 12, and continuation 13 resting substantially against the top of the bottle or at least what is shown as the top because the bottle is really reverted. The shank 14 fits against the front of the bottle. The main member or frame 5 is therefore held firmly and-properly to the bottle; and

against accidental withdrawal under ordinary circumstances yet it can when necessary be freely taken or slipped from place.

The auxiliary or packagesupporting member includes in its structure the two side pieces 17 and 18 in parallelism with each other and above which are disposed the side pieces 19 and 20. The side pieces 17 and 19 cooperate to constitute one side of the package-supporting member, the other side being presented by the similarly superposed and parallel side pieces 18 and 20. From the rear ends of the side pieces 17 and 18 extend laterally and inwardly, the branches 21 and 22 which are coaxial their inner ends as shown being spaced apart. From these inner ends the arms 23 and 2'1, parallel with each other, depend and terminate in downwardly and forwardly extending angularlywlisposed spring fingers 25 and 26 which diverge forwardly and upon which the package 16 rests as I will later explain. These fingers 25 and 26 will, it is clear, be resilient or springy. At the front of the member 15 are approximately bowed or roughly-speaking U-shaped portions 27 and 28 the branches of which are united with the front ends of the respective side pieces 17, 19, 1S and respectively. From the rear ends of the upper side pieces 19 and 20, the branches 29 and 30 coaxial with each other extend and are furnished with a loop 31 adapted to removably engage the hook 15' which I have already mentioned. The auXi iary member 15' is practically therefore in the form of a skeleton basket into which the package 16 is slipped from above or through the upper open end of the auxiliary support. The bottom of the package rests upon the fingers and 26, the front ends of which extend slightly beyond the package. the sides of the package engaging against the side pieces 17, 19, 18 and 20, its front against the portions 27 and 28 and its back against the poitions 21, 22, 23, 24:, and 29 and the package being thus properly held while cups are being dispened therefrom. In fact the members 15 and 16 jointly rest against the body of the bottle 1, the parts in question being suspended from the main member 5.

The package has a carton or box as 32 which is of pasteboard or some other usual substance. Its bottom slopes forwardly and downwardly to conform to and to rest on the resilient fingers. The front edge of the carton or box bottom is spaced from or free of the front wall of the box. In its forward portion is a finger slot 33 open at its front side and which registers with but is somewhat wider than the slot 8 1 in the lower edge portion of the front wall of the box and which receives usually the thumb of the hand. The cups 35 are of the flat kind and are in a stack or pile within the box or carton 32, the lowcst lat cup of thc superimposed series partly re ting on and inclined in the box with its front closed end against the front of the box.

It is a simple matter to remove the lowcst cup of the stack. To do this the prospective user of the lowermost cup pulls the same forward until it is entirely free of the box. Of course the second cup of the stack will then drop and be sustained partly by thc bottom of the box, the stack haying settled on the withdrawal of the lowest cup.

It will be remembered that l have dcscribed the front wall of the carton 252 as resting upon the forward ends of the spring fingers 25 and 26 which as a matter of fact extend slightly beyond said forward wall as shown best in Fig. (l. The two lingers 25 and 26 sustain the stack of cups. and the front wall rests on said spring fingers, this front wall having of course. a ccrt'ain amount of resiliency. The bottom inclined wall of the carton or box has a slot Ilil in which a finger or thumb may be introduced.

It will be assumed that as shown in Fig. ii.

a finger has been placed against the lowcrmost cup of the stack and that said lowermost cup is drawn forward in the direction of the arrow in said view. On such motion the lowermost cup will, relatively more thc fingers 25 and 26 away from the lower cdgc of the front wall 32, a distance snfiicicnt: to permit the slipping forward of the lowermost cup and only this. the second cup of the stack beiilg effectually prevented from moving forwardly on the pull. lVhcn. hoiw ever, the lowermost cup is fully withdrmvn. the stack can settle a. distance sul'iicient to permit what was the second lt'iwermost cup to rest on the forward portions of the two spring fingers 25 and 26.

While two yieldable fingers as 25 and 26 which support the package of drinking cups, is a desirable construction. it may not always be necessary to employ this number. The fingers as I have set forth. extend forwardly beyond the front of the package 16 and necessarily forwardly beyond the rear plane of the front of the skeleton member 15. These fingers are at opposite sidcs of a slot as in the bottom of the packagc 16 in view of which it is utterly 'impossiblc for a user to pull from the package simultaneously two cups. The bottom of thc carton or box 32, as l have explained, is free at its forward edge of the front wall of the carton so that: the weight of thc carton resting on a finger or fingers as $25 and 2.6 will effectually and positively prcvent a user from withdrawing from the carton more than one cup at a time.

What I claim is:

1. A drinking-cup paclmge-holder conr prising a skeleton cup-receiving body ha ing means by which it may be supported.

the bottom of the body having a forwardlyextending finger spaced from the planes of the sides of the body, the front end of the finger extending forwardly beyond the plane of the rear surface of the front of the bod 2. A drinking-cup ackage-holder comprising a skeleton b0 y having means by which it may be supported, the bottom of the body having forwardly extending fingers spaced from each other and spaced from the planes of the sides of the body, the front ends of the fingers extendin forwardly beyond the plane of the rear ace of the front of the body, combined with a package of superimposed paper drinking cups, the package being slotted in its bottom and front walls, the bottom wall resting on said fin ers which are situated at opposite sides 0 the slot, said bottom wall being free of the front end of the package. 3. A drinking-cup package-holder coInprising a skeleton cup-receiving body, hav ing means by which it may be supported, the bottom of the body having forwardly-diverging fingers spaced from the planes of the sides of the body, the front ends of the fingers extending forwardly beyond the plalne of the rear surface of the front of the bi) y.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HARRY H. HAYWOOD. Witnesses:

FRANK W. LOUGHERY, THOMAS J. DAVIS.

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