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US 4,217,941 AGranted
Ketchup rapping apparatus
OwnerVitale Catalanoinventor
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Ketchup rapping apparatus having a pair of L-form racks hinged to one another, each adapted to hold a ketchup bottle in a stationary seated position, one of the racks being pivotable through 180 degrees from a back-to-back relationship with the other rack to carry its bottle to inverted vertical alignment with the other bottle, a resilient guide cup to be disposed between the mouth ends of the aligned bottles for avoiding glass-to-glass bottle contact and for guiding the bottle being inverted down into the aligned position with the other bottle, a latch for securing the pivoted rack in the inverted position to allow easy porting of the apparatus in the inverted condition, and shock absorbing pads on the bottom of the non-inverted rack enabling rapping of the latter in the inverted condition of the apparatus against a solid surface so as to jar free a clogged ketchup flow condition without damaging the apparatus or the bottles.
Portable apparatus for effecting transfer of ketchup from one narrow-necked bottle to another, comprising a pair of L-form racks, each rack having a base member and an upright back member, each base member having a recess in its upper face for seated disposition therein of one of the bottles, clamp means fixed to each rack for securing the related bottle in seated position, a leaf hinge connecting the upper ends of the upright back members of the racks to one another enabling pivoting of one rack relative to the other from a back-to-back normal relationship of the racks through 180 degrees to an opposed inverted position in which the mouth ends of the bottles seated in the racks are disposed in axially aligned opposed relationship one above the other, the base members are disposed in opposed spaced overhead relationship, and the upright back members are disposed in linear extension of each other.
Apparatus for effecting a vertical inversion of a narrow-necked ketchup first bottle relative to a narrow-necked ketchup second bottle so as to allow gravity flow of the contents of the inverted first bottle down into the second bottle, the apparatus comprising a first and a second L-form rack, each rack having a base member and an upright back member and adapted to have seated on its base member one of the bottles in a restrained upright normal position, a truncated coned cup opening at its bottom into a depending tube, the tube being receivable in the mouth end of the second bottle, the coned cup being adapted for reception of the mouth end of the first bottle upon relative inversion of the latter bottle, a hinge connecting upper ends of the back members of both racks together enabling pivoting of the first rack and the first bottle seated therein from a back-to-back normal position of both racks to an inverted position relative to the second rack, in which position the base member of the inverted first rack is disposed in an overhead aligned spaced relation to the base member of the second rack and in which position the back member of the inverted first rack is disposed in linear vertical extension of the back member of the second rack, and in the pivoting of said first rack relative to the second rack the mouth end of the first bottle being caused to be entered into and guided down the coned cup to a seated position therein in axial alignment with the mouth end of the second bottle.
Apparatus as in claim 14, wherein a separate clamp mounted to each upright back member is adapted to receive the neck of a ketchup bottle in an upright position on the related base member so as to restrain the ketchup bottle in a clamped condition against displacement from its seated position.
Apparatus as in claim 14, wherein the underside of the base member of the rack that is not inverted defines a heel area provided with shock absorbing material for cushioning the apparatus in the secured position of the inverted rack to enable rapping of said heel area against a solid surface for effecting relief of any clogged condition that might develop in the transfer of ketchup from the inverted bottle to the other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.