E. M. HASTINGS & H, C, BILBR0. COMBINED AND PEPPER SHAKER, APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 30, 1908, 923,65O. Patented June 1, 1909,

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8.1 vestore. it-1 cases A//cu/a/ZostesZoya ZéZ506/o c Veazwéy elitotic UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. EDMUND M. HASTINGS AND HOWARD C. BILBRO, OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA. COMBINED SHAKER. No. 923,650. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 1, 1909. Application filed June 30, 1908. Serial No. 441,112. To all whom it may concern: Be it known that we, EDMUND M. As tions are adapted to be brought into register 55 TINGs and HoWARDC. BILBRO, citizens of the with the perforations 6 in the disk 3 by United States, residing at Birmingham, in means of an actuating stem or pin 11, the the county of Jefferson and State of Alabama, latter having one of its ends secured to the have invented new and useful Improve disk 3, while the free end thereof is formed with an enlarged actuating head 12. The 60 ofments which in Combinedthe following Salt is and a specification.Pepper Shakers, stem 11 projects laterally through an aper This invention relates to improvements in ture 14 in the threaded flange 15 of the cap. 10 combined , and one of Encircling the stem is a coil spring 16', hav the principal objects of the same is to provide ing one of its ends abutting against the ac a rigid cover and a movable cover for the tuating head 12 while the other end con 65 salt and pepper, and means carried by the tacts with a portion of the threaded flange 15. movable cover for automatically keeping the When desiring to use pepper the actuating 15 pepper receptacle closed. stem is pressed and the E. will ride in the An object of the invention is to provide a i space disposed between the top edge of the device of this character which is simple in salt compartment and the top edge of the 70 construction, efficient in practice and one pepper container and turn the disk 3 until which can be manufactured and sold at a the perforations 6 therein registers with the 20 comparatively low cost. perforations i? in the cap, such movement With the above and other objects in view of the disk throwing the perforations 4 out the invention consists in the details of con of registry with the perforations 9 in the 75 struction and in the arrangement of parts cap and closing the salt compartment. Af which will be hereinafter more fully de ter sufficient quantity of pepper has been 25 scribed and claimed. obtained, the pressure upon the actuating These and other objects may be attained stem is released and coil spring 16' will auto matically return the disk 3 to its respective 80 theby meansaccompanying of the construction drawing, in which:illustrated in position. The enlarged head 12 prevents Figure i is a perspective view of a com the spring from being displaced from the 30 bined salt and pepper shaker made inac stem. Attention is directed to the fact that cordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is a the shaker is always set for salt. central vertical section of the same, and Fig. From the foregoing description taken in 85 3 is an under plan view of one of the disks. connection with the accompanying drawing, Referring to the drawing for a more par the construction and mode of operation of 35 ticular description of our device reference the invention should be clearly understood numeral 1 designates the salt shaker which without a further extended description. may be made of or other suitable mate Changes in form, proportions and minor 90 rial, and having located or integrally dis details of construction may be made within posed therein a pepper container 2 which the scope of the claim without departing 40 projects above the top edge of the salt shaker, from the spirit or sacrificing any of the thereby forming a space for the actuat advantages thereof. - ing stem which will be later described, to Having thus described the invention what 95 ride. A perforated disk 3 is provided with a is claimed as new, is: series of perforations 4 which overlie the A combined salt and pepper shaker com salt compartment 5, and a series of smaller prising a salt receptacle, a pepper receptacle perforations 6 disposed above the top of the located in and projecting above the salt pepper chamber 7. The said disk 3 is pivot receptacle, a cover provided with perfora 100 ally connected to the cap or cover 8 and is tions and a flange threadedly engaging the salt seated upon the top edge of the pepper con receptacle, a disk interiorly pivoted to said 50 tainer 2. The cover 8 is formed with a se coverpepper and receptacle, seated upon thereby the formingtop edge a ofspace the ries of perforations 9 of similar size to those between the top of the salt compartment designated by 6, and disposed above the and the pepper receptacle, a stem carried by 05 salt chamber. A series of perforations 10 the disk and adapted to ride in the space are formed in the cap 8, and said perfora between the top of the salt compartment 2 923,650 and the pepper receptacle, a portion of the In testimony whereof we affix our signa stein projecting tangentially through said tures in presence of two witnesses. flange, a spring encircling said extended por EDMUND M. HASTINGS. tion of the stem, said spring abutting at one end against the flange and at the other end HOWARD C. BILBRO. against the head for automatically closing Witnesses: the pepper receptacle and leaving the salt EDWARD T. RICE, perforations open. S. H. RICE.