DECANTER LID ASSEMBLY

• US 3,632,025 A
• Filed: 09/04/1970
• Issued: 01/04/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: August C. Purpura, Harold Bloomfield
• Original Assignee: August C. Purpura, Harold Bloomfield
• Inventors: Bloomfield, Harold, Purpura, August C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Tollberg, Stanley H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shannon, Jr., John P.
• Application Number:
  US05/069,690
• Time in Patent Office: 487 Days
• Field of Search: 222/570,556,472,473,474 220/32 224/45P
• US Class Current: 222/472
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 19/12 Vessels or pots for table use
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 23/0241 for bottles; Decanters

Abstract

A decanter lid assembly in which the lid is held in place by a hinge bar in turn held in place by the shank of a handle for the decanter, thus to provide a simplified arrangement for facilitating labor-saving assembly of the lid with respect to the collar of the assembly, which clampingly embraces the neck of the decanter bowl.

Claims

1. An improvement in a lid assembly for the pouring spout of a decanter in which the pouring spout includes a neck, an opening, and a lid for removably closing the opening, the improvement comprising a. a hinge plate b. means for providing a hinged connection between one end of the plate and the lid, c. means extending from the neck of the pouring spout laterally in parallel spaced relation with respect to each other, d. a handle having a shank positioned between said last-named means, e. lateral extension means provided by the hinge plate in spaced relation with respect to each other to receive therebetween an end portion of the shank of said handle, f. and a bolt connection between said means extending from the neck of the pouring spout, and said shank.

2. The improvement in a lid assembly for the pouring spout of a decanter as defined in claim 1, wherein the means providing the hinged connection between the hinge plate and the lid comprises a hook provided at one end of the hinge plate, and an extension provided by the lid and having an opening formed therein to receive the hook.

3. The improvement in a lid assembly for the pouring spout of a decanter as defined in claim 2, wherein the extension is substantially triangular in cross section, providing a leg having the opening formed therein to receive the hook.

4. The improvement in a lid assembly for the pouring spout of a decanter as defined in claim 1, wherein the shank of said handle has opposite sides countersunk to receive therein the said means extending from the neck of the pouring spout when said shank is insertEd between said means.

5. The improvement in a lid assembly for the pouring spout of a decanter as defined in claim 2, wherein the extension provided by the lid constitutes a fingerpiece to facilitate pivoting the lid into open position with respect to the spout.