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US 4,303,178 AGranted
Portable receptacle
OwnerFisher A. Ford, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A cylindrical container having combination means for removable access to the interior thereof as well as for positioning said container to another object.
Claims3
A portable sputum receiving receptable comprising:
- a cylindrical, open ended, fluid receiving body, having means at its open end for receiving a cap;
- a hollow, open ended, cap member removably affixed to the open end of said body, said cap member comprising a cylindrical skirt, a top, a sputum receiving aperture through said top and oppositely positioned cutouts in said skirt;
- a slidable lever extending through and outwardly of both said cap cutouts, said lever having (a) an aperture therethrough normally misaligned with said cap aperture, (b) a pressure receiving flange at one end for permitting a force to cause sliding of said lever thereby aligning said cap and lever apertures, and (c) means for fixedly positioning said lever to a car window, said positioning means comprising a flange depending and approximately normal to said lever at its other end, whereby said flange may be inserted intermediate the window glass and frame;
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- spring means for biasing said lever toward a position wherein said cap and lever apertures are misaligned.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.