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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
WALTER H. PECK, OF DALLAS, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO L. B. ALFORD, OF
DALLAS, TEXAS.
DISINFECTING APPARATUS.Specification of Letters Patent,
Patented June 9, 191.4.
Application filed April 7, 1913. Serial No. 759,430.
lb all whom it may concern
Be it known that I, WALTER H. PEci, a
citizen of the United States, residing at
Dallas, in the county of Dallas and State of
5 Texas, have invented certain new and useful
Improvements in Disinfecting Apparatus, of
which the following is a specification.
This invention has for its object to provide
a novel and improved disinfecting appa-
10 ratus which will automatically discharge the
disinfecting fluid drop by drop.
The invention also has for. its object to
provide an apparatus of the kind stated in
which the container is the original package
15 in which the disinfecting fluid is sold, and
to provide a holder and feed device for said
container embodying certain novel features
of construction to be hereinafter described
and claimed.
20 In order that the invention may be better
understood, reference is had to the accom-
panying drawing in which-
Figure 1 is an elevation of the apparatus,
and Fig. 2 is a central vertical section
25 thereof.
referring specifically to the drawing the
container, which holds the supply of disin-
fecting fluid, is a bottle 10 which is inverted
and placed in the holder to be presently de-
30 scribed, means being provided whereby the
fluid is discharged in drops or minute quan-
tities. The bottle is the original package in
which the disinfecting fluid is sold. Thus,
an extra container for the fluid is not needed
35 and when the bottle is empty, it may be re-
moved and a full bottle put in its place. The
supply of disinfecting fluid can therefore be
readily replenished without spilling or wast-
ing the same.
40 The holder for the bottle 10 is a cylindri-
cal cup 11 provided with ears 12 for attach-
ment to a wall or other support. The cup is
open at the top and the bottle is adapted to
be inserted thereinto. Near the top of the
45 cup is an internal shoulder 12a on which the
bottle rests and whereby it is held in in-
verted position, the neck of the bottle ex-
tending down into the cup a suitable dis-
tance, with its mouth spaced from a false
50 bottom 13 in the cup, said false bottom be-
ing spaced from the bottom 14 of the cup.
From the false bottom 13 rises a tube 15
which opens therethrough, and is adapted to
receive and hold a wick 16 which extends
55 from the top of the tube and dips into the(lisinfecting fluid. The bottom 14 has an
outlet 17 to which may be connected a pipe
18 leading to the place where the disinfect-
i.g fluid is to be dropped. On the bottom
14 is also placed a sheet 19 of felt or other 60
absorbent material. The side of the cup 11,
between the bottoms 13 and 14, has perfora-
tions 20 to permit escape of the odors rising
from the disinfecting fluid absorbed by the
sheet 19. 65
Over the bottle 10 is placed a cap 21 to
entirely cover that part of the bottle which
extends from the cup 11. The shoulder 12"
is formed by making an annular inward in-
dentation in the cup, and on the cap, near 70
the bottom thereof, are lugs 22 which seat in
this indentation and thus serve to hold the
cap in place on the bottle. The cap fits over
the upper portion of the cup and thus in-
closes the entire portion of the bottle which 75
extends from the latter. In the side of the
cap is a vertical slot 23 through which the
bottle is exposed so that the state of the
contents of the bottle may be observed.
Upon placing the bottle 10 in the cup 11 80
as described, the disinfecting fluid is dis-
charged into the latter and rises until it
covers the mouth of the bottle, after which
the discharge from the bottle ceases. When
the liquid level in the cup drops below the 85
bottle mouth, a flow from the bottle again
ensues until the bottle mouth is again cov-
ered. Thus a uniform level of disinfecting
fluid is automatically maintained in the cup.
From the cup, the liquid is taken up by the 90
wick 16 and dropped on the sheet 19. The
odors rising from the impregnated sheet es-
cape through the perforations 20, and the
surplus fluid in the sheet passes by the way
of the outlet 17 and the pipe 18 to the place 95
where the fluid is to be dropped.
The disinfecting fluid is discharged uni-
formly in minute quantities, and without
waste, so that the apparatus is inexpensive to
maintain in working order. 100
The structure of the apparatus is simple
and cheap, and there are no complicated
parts liable to get out of order.
I claim:
1. In a receptacle, a cup having an in- 105
wardly extending annular recess struck in
the wall thereof, a sheet metal cap having a
slot extending upward from the bottom, and
having two corners formed at the bottom
thereby, said corners being adapted to spring iio1,099,720.
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Peck, Walter H. Disinfecting Apparatus, patent, June 9, 1914; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth857878/m1/2/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.