US163919A - Improvement in mucilage-holders - Google Patents

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H. T. CUSHMAN.

M u ci I ag e H o I d e r.

Patented im 1, 1875.

No.16v3,919.

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STATES PATENT @Futon HENRY T. GUSHMAN, OF BENNINGTON, VERMONT.

IMPRQVEMENT IN MUCILAGE-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 163,919, dated June 1, 1875; application filed March 18, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY T. GUsHMAN, of Bennington, in the county of Bennington and State of Vermont, have invented an Improved Mucilage-Holder, of which the following is a specification:

This mucilage stand or case is designed to supply a long-sought-for disideratum among book-keepers, clerks, and others who in the prosecution of their business have frequent occasion to use mucilage or other adhesive material. Its novelty consists in combining in one stand a chamber to contain dry adhesive material, (which I put up in any suitable form desired, as, for instance, in granulated or regular geometrical forms, which forms or pieces are of such size that one of them when dissolved forms sufficient liquid adhesive material to charge the reservoir,) and a reservoir in which to dissolve such material and hold the solution when prepared for use.

These two features maybe so constructed and arranged that that portion of the stand which contains one of the receptacles shall serve as a cover or cap to and an inclosure of the other. Its utility consists in creatng a chamber within the stand, which can be securely and tightly inclosed for storing dry adhesive material in a granulated, cubical, spherical, or other desired form, and which chamber has capacity for containing enough of such material to keep the reservoir supplied for months or years, if need be. This provision facilitates the ready replenishing of the reservoir when empty, as it is only necessary to remove the cap and from the chamber remove and deposit in the reservoir such quantity of the dry material as when dissolved will make the requisite amount of liquid mucilage, the material being of such -a character as to be soluble in either hot or able for use, it being well known that when a.

large quantity of any of the adhesive gums in liquid form, or pastes, is kept for a long time exposed in an ordinary stand, it in time becomes rancid, too viscous, and entirely unt for use.

The construction and general features of my invention are apparent from the drawing hereto annexed, and which forms a part of this specication, which exhibits a semi-elevation and semi-vertical section of my invention in the same figure.

I have shown but one of many adaptations of which my invention is susceptible, in this the reservoir being located above the material-chamber; but, by a slight change of construction, any skilled mechanic could vary or depart from this particular form of construction without essentially chan gin g the character of the combination-as, for instance, by constructing the reservoir and chamber in the same horizontal plane and side by side.

I have constructed, and shown in the drawing, a base, A, ot' wood, or other suitable material, turned to asize and shape, and provided with a shoulder, I, to receive the cap B. The interior of this base is chambered ont, as seen at H, to receive the solidified or granulated mucilaginous material D D. (Here shown in the form of lozenges.) rlhe cap B is ofthe same or similar material as the base, and is constructed with an externally-curved swell or enlargement, K, the interior being concaved correspondingly; the object of this peculiar form of construction being to create an annular concave chamber within the cap, and between that vand the glass reservoir J, for the reception of the material inserted therein for the purpose of fastening the reservoir within the cap. There is an aperture in the top of this cap, through which the neck of the fountain or reservoir protrudes.

In process of construction, when the several parts are ready to be put together, I invert the cap B, and insert the neck of the reservoir through the aperture in the cap B provided therefor, takin g care that the shoulder about the neck of the reservoir makes a tight joint with the interior adjacent corner of the cap B at L. I then fill the chamber between the reservoir and the annular concavity of the -cap withany liquid or plastic material, C, which has the property of hardening rapidly up to about the point M, leaving space sufficient to allow ot' the cap being brought to its seat on the base,

Without the top edge of that portion of the base forming the chamber H coming in contact with the concrete C. By thus filling in the space up to the point M the material C closes over the bottom of the reservoir, so that when solidified it prevents the reservoir from becoming loosened or detached Without breaking' out and removing such lling.

When properly constructed and put together this stand bears no external evidence of being more than a common reservoir or fountain,the ,joint I being concealed by its peculiar form of construction.

Its advantages over all sorts of mucilagefountains heretofore used consist in the fact that, in the style, and constructed upon the principles herein elucidated, and stocked with drymaterial,it can be safely packed and transported by mail or otherwise any distance Without danger of breakage or injury, the design being to construct the case or stand which in.

closes the glass reservoir and the dry adhesive matter, composed of the base A and cap B, of such material that any ordinarily rough handling, blows, or dropping ofthe same will entail no injury or damage to either the reser- Voir or contents. i

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure and protect by Letters Patent, is

l. Mucilagestands provided with a chamber for containing dry adhesive material, and a separate reservoir for dissolving such dry material, and containing the liquid adhesive product so formed, all combined in one case, in which that portion ofthe case which incloses or protects the glass fountain or reservoir also serves to cover or inclose the chamber containing the dry material aforesaid, substantially as described and set forth.

2. The combination of the base A, provided with the chamber H, with the cap B and reservoir J, for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereto affixed my hand at North Bennington, Vermont, this 9th day of March, A. D. 1875.

HENRY T. CUSHMAN. Witnesses:

S. B. HALL, FRANK G. MA'rrrsoN.

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