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US 5,330,081 AGranted
Measuring dosage dispenser
AssigneeImpact Products, LLC
InventorRobert A. Davenport
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Abstract
A portion measuring device of the type having a first, flexible, reservoir having an inlet, and a second, portion measuring, reservoir in fluid communication with said first reservoir. The first, flexible, reservoir is of a larger volume than that heretofore known, and may have a handle to aid in holding. The second, portion measuring, reservoir has a rotatable closure with a pouring spout or opening therein. A configured periphery is provided on the closure to aid in turning the same.
Claims4
A measuring device including:
- a) a first flexible reservoir portion including a central circular inlet having a male threaded connector portion;
- b) a second portion measuring reservoir portion including a circular bottom wall, an upwardly extending circumferential side wall enclosing the bottom to form a cup-shaped reservoir and terminating in a radially and axially extending retaining wall portion, an inlet having a concentric upwardly extending lip portion, and a concentric downwardly depending wall having a threaded female connecting portion for attachment to the male threaded connector portion of said first reservoir portion;
- c) a tube in fluid communication between said first reservoir portion and the inlet of said second reservoir portion;
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- d) a closure for said second reservoir portion including a concentric downwardly depending lip in axial alignment with the inlet of said second reservoir portion to receive an end of said tube, a diametric ridge provided within the downwardly depending lip to space the end of said tube from said closure to provide fluid flow between said tube and the downwardly depending lip, and an outer downwardly depending side wall having a radially inwardly extending in mating engagement with the retaining wall of said second reservoir portion for retaining said closure on said second reservoir portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.