Apparatus for dispensing measured quantities of granular materials

Claim 1

A DISPENSER, COMPRISING IN COMBINATION, INNER AND OUTER HOLLOW BODIES OF A PAIR OF SLIDABLY ADJUSTABLE TELESCOPED HOLLOW BODIES, ON OF SAID HOLLOW BODIES HAVING A TRUNCATED END PROVIDING A SHORTER AND LONGER LENGTH THERETO; GRADUATED QUANITIY MARKINGS ON ONE OF SAID HOLLOW BODIES DENOTING QUANTITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TELESCOPIC POSITION OF SAID TWO HOLLOW BODIES; STOP MEANS ON ONE OF SAID HOLLOW BODIES TO HOLD SAID HOLLOW BODIES AT A FIXED TELESCOPIC POSITION WHEN SAID STOP MEANS ARE ENGAGED; CONTAINER PIERCING MEANS EXTENDING FROM THE SHORTER LENGTH OF SAID ONE HOLLOW BODY HAVING A TRUNCATED END; A CLAMP MEMBER SWIVELLED TO AND COOPERATING WITH SAID CONTAINER PIERCING MEANS TO CLAMP SAID DISPENSER AGAINST A CONTAINER; AN INNER GATE AT SAID TRUNCATED END INCLUDING AN . INNER GATE OPENER TO ALLOW POWDERED OR GRANULAR MATETIAL TO ENTER SAID HOLLOW BODIES UPON ACTUATUON OF SAID OPENER; A DISCHARGE GATE ASSOCIATED WITH SAID OTHER ONE OF SAID HOLLOW BODIES AT THE END THEREOF NO IN TELESCOPIC ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID FIRST MENTIONED HOLLOW BODY; AN ELONGATED RESILIENT MEMBER HAVING A SHOE AT ONE END THEREOF TO ENGAGE SAID STOP MEANS, AND A CURVE AT THE OTHER END THEREOF TO PRESS ON SAID CLAMP MEMBER SO THAT SAID CONTAINER IS HELD FAST BETWEEN SAID CONTAINER PIERCING MEANS AND SAID CLAMP MEMBER; AND, ADJUSTABLE HOLDING MEANS FASTENED ON SAID HOLLOW BODY NOT HAVING SAID STOP MEANS, SAID ELONGATED RESILIENT MEMBER BEING HELD THEREON.