Liquid-distributer.

Application filed July 11,1905.

Vatentea May 22,1906.

Serial No. 269,198.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Louis Perotti, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jer5 sey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Liquid-Distributers, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements m liquid-distributers, particularly to to medicine-distributers of the kind described in my previous patent, No. 788,118, of April 25, 1905.

My invention has for its object to provide for a bottle appliance which will permit the 15 discharge of aliquid or medicine in prescribed quantities—a teaspoonful or table-spoonful— so as to prevent an overdosing of the medicine and the spilling thereof on the floor or the clothes of the person taking the medicine. 2o Another object of this invention is to avoid the necessity of using spoons for taking the medicine.

My present improvement differ^ from that shown in my former patent in that the valve 25 arrangement in the glass bulb is dispensed with, whereby the apparatus is greatly simplified in its construction and rendered less expensive. .

A further improvement of the present in30 vention consists in the arrangement of the connection-body between the glass bulb and the neck of the bottle.

In order to make my invention more clear, the same is illustrated in the accompanying 35 drawings, in which similar reference-letters denote corresponding parts, and in which—

Figure 1 is a vertical section through the apparatus and a part of the neck of the bottle, the apparatus and the bottle being shown 40 in a reversed position. Fig. 2 is a cross-section through line a; a: of Fig. 1, showing the connection-piece between the bulb and the bottle closed; and Fig. 3 is the same section showing the connection-piece open.

With reference to the drawings, a denotes the bottle, b its neck, and c a body of elastic material, preferably rubber, having two hollow ends a e, which are separated from each other by a solid part/. The latter, which has an elliptical cross-section, (see Fig. 2,) is 5α provided with a straight cut g, extending through the longer axis of the ellipsis and throughout the entire height of said solid part. Owing to the contractibility of the body c, the cut g will normally be tightly 55 closed and prevent the liquid from passing from the hollow end d into the hollow end e. By the exertion of a lateral pressure upon the solid part/at both ends of the longer axis of the elliptical cross-section the said body will 60 adopt the shape shown in Fig. 3, whereby the cut g will widen, and thus establish a communication between the two hollow ends d e of the body c. One of the ends of said body is adapted to be slid over the outer flange of the 65 neck of the bottle and the other end thereof over a flange formed on the hollow neck i of a hollow glass bulb li, which serves as the liquid measurer or distributer proper. This glass bulb is at a point adjacent to the neck i 70 thereof provided with a nozzle j. When the bottle, with the liquid-distributer applied thereto, is reversed, the nozzle will extend in an inclined position upward, as shown in Fig.

1. Upon opening of the rubber valve c the 75 medicine will be allowed to flow from the bottle into the bulb and fill the same to the desired extent, whereupon the liquid can.be taken in by tilting the bottle and applying the nozzle to the mouth. The outer surface Co of the glass bulb may be provided with a graduation (shown in Fig. 1 by dotted lines) to show how far the bulb must be filled to hold a teaspoonful and table-spoonful.

It is understood that some changes may be 85 made with the various parts of the arrangement shown without departing from the spirit of my invention.