Patent Application
20230284806
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The disclosure relates to dispenser devices and more particularly pertains to a new dispenser device for storing a dispensing a plurality of different spices. The device includes a cylinder with a pair of chambers that each stores a respective spice. The device includes a foraminous strainer which partially covers each of the chambers. Additionally, the device includes a plurality of lids, each shaped to define a quadrant of a circle, which are each aligned with a respective chamber. A pair of the lids covers the strainer and a pair of the lids covers an exposed portion of a respective chamber. In this way respective lids can be opened to dispense spice through the strainer and respective lids can be opened for filling the respective chambers with spice. The prior art discloses a condiment bottle which has a plurality of chambers and a plurality of wedge shaped lids which each closes or opens a respective one of the chambers.
The prior art relates to dispenser devices including a salt and pepper shaker that includes a pair of button actuated dispensers for releasing either salt or pepper from respective chambers in the salt and pepper shaker. The prior art discloses a salt and pepper shaker that has a pair of chambers, each with a plurality of dispensing slots, and lid that is positioned on the salt and pepper shaker that can be tilted to expose the dispensing slots in a respective chamber. The prior art discloses a variety of salt and pepper shakers that each includes a plurality of chambers and a lid that is rotatably coupled to the salt and pepper shaker for opening a respective one of the chambers. The prior art discloses a multi-compartment storage container that has a plurality of chambers and a plurality of lids, each being hingedly coupled to a top wall of the storage container, for opening and closing respective chambers.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a cylinder that has a pair of chambers each is integrated within the chamber to contain a respective granular spice. A strainer is integrated into the cylinder and the strainer extends partially across the cylinder such that the strainer defines an exposed portion of the opening extending into the cylinder. In this way the exposed portion of the opening facilitates each of the chambers to be filled with the respective granular spice. Furthermore, the strainer is foraminous to facilitate each of the chambers to dispense the respective granular spice through the strainer. A plurality of lids is each hingedly coupled to the cylinder and each of the lids is aligned with a respective one of the chambers for opening and closing the respective chamber.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
A strainer 32 is integrated into the cylinder 12 and the strainer 32 extends partially across the cylinder 12 such that the strainer 32 defines an exposed portion 34 of the opening 24 extending into the cylinder 12. In this way the exposed portion 34 of the opening 24 facilitates each of the chambers 14 to be filled with the respective granular spice 16. The strainer 32 is foraminous such that the strainer 32 facilitates each of the chambers 14 to dispense the respective granular spice 16 through the strainer 32. The strainer 32 has a perimeter edge 36 and the perimeter edge 36 has a first side 38 and a second side 40. The first side 38 extends along a straight line and the second side 40 is convexly arcuate with respect to the first side 38 such that the strainer 32 has a semicircular shape.
The second side 40 engages the inside surface 28 of the outer wall 20 of the cylinder 12. The strainer 32 is aligned with the distal edge 22 of the outer wall 20. Furthermore, the strainer 32 is oriented such that the first side 38 bisects the opening 24 defined by the distal edge 22 of the outer wall 20. The strainer 32 is oriented such that the first side 38 extends along a line that is perpendicularly oriented with the dividing wall 26. In this way each of the first side 38 and the dividing wall 26 divides the opening 24 defined by the distal edge 22 into quadrants.
A plurality of lids 42 is provided and each of the lids 42 is hingedly coupled to the cylinder 12. Each of the lids 42 is aligned with a respective one of the chambers 14 and each of the lids 42 is positionable in a closed position for closing the respective chamber 14. Furthermore, each of the lids 42 is positionable in an open position for opening 24 the respective chamber 14. Each of the lids 42 has a lower surface 44 and an exterior edge 46, and the exterior edge 46 of each of the lids 42 has a primary side 48, a secondary side 50 and a tertiary side 52. The primary side 48 extends between each of the secondary side 50 and the tertiary side 52, and the secondary side 50 and the tertiary side 52 intersect at a point 54. The primary side 48 is convexly arcuate with respect to the point 54 such that each of the lids 42 defines a sector of a circle.
The secondary side 50 of the perimeter edge 36 of each of the lids 42 is hingedly coupled to the outside surface 30 of the outer wall 20 of the cylinder 12. Additionally, each of the lids 42 is aligned with a respective one of the quadrants defined by strainer 32 and the dividing wall 26. The lower surface 44 of each of the lids 42 rests on the strainer 32 when the lids 42 are positioned in the closed position. The point 54 defined on each of the lids 42 intersects at a central point 56 on the opening 24 defined by the distal edge 22 of the outer wall 20 of the cylinder 12 when the lids 42 are positioned in a closed position. As is most clearly shown in
In use, each of the first lid 58 and the second lid 60 that is aligned with the exposed portion 34 of the opening 24 into the interior of the cylinder 12 is opened to facilitate the chambers 14 in the cylinder 12 to be filled with a respective spice 16. Each of the first lid 58 and the second lid 60 that is aligned with the exposed portion 34 of the opening 24 into the interior of the cylinder 12 is closed to contain the spices 16. The first lid 58 that is aligned with the strainer 32 is opened to dispense the spices 16 contained in the chamber 14 that is aligned with the first lid 58. Furthermore, the second lid 60 that is aligned with the strainer 32 is opened to dispense the spices 16 contained in the chamber 14 that is aligned with the second lid 60. In this way the spices 16 contained in each chamber 14 can be independently dispensed or simultaneously dispensed, depending on the user’s preference.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
