Dispensing apparatus

Claim 1

A DISPENSING APPARATUS FOR USE ON AN OPEN-END CONTAINER, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING A SUBSTANTIALLY DISCSHAPED FIRST MEMBER MOUNTABLE ON SUCH CONTAINER IN OVERLYING RELATION WITH RESPECT TO THE OPEN END THEREOF, SAID FIRST MEMBER BEING PROVIDED WITH AN ELONGATED ARCUATE FIRST APERTURE HAVING THE CENTER OF CURVATURE THEREOF COAXIAL WITH THE TRANSVERSE CENTER AXIS OF SAID FIRST MEMBER, A SECOND APERTURE ANGULARLY SPACED FROM SAID FIRST APERTURE, A THIRD APERTURE DISPOSED AT SAID CENTER AXIS, AND A PLURALITY OF ARCUATE-SHAPED FOURTH APERTURES DISPOSED ADJACENT THE OUTER PERIPHERY OF SAID FIRST MEMBER AND SYMMETRICALLY ARRANGED ABOUT SAID CENTER AXIS, SAID FIRST MEMBER HAVING A FLANGE ELEMENT ADJACENT THE PERIPHERY OF SAID FIRST MEMBER AND PROJECTING FROM ONE SURFACE THEREOF FOR ENGAGEMENT WITH SUCH CONTAINER OPEN END; AND A SUBSTANTIALLY DISC-SHAPED SECOND MEMBER MOUNTED IN SUBSTANTIALLY SUPERIMPOSED RELATION ON SAID FIRST MEMBER FOR LIMITED ROTARY MOVEMENT WITH RESPECT THERETO, SAID SECOND MEMBER BEING PROVIDED WITH A FIRST OPENING DISPOSED IN CONTINUOUS REGISTERED RELATION WITH SAID ARCUATE FIRST APERTURE, AND A PLURALITY OF SMALL PERFORATIONS ARRANGED IN A GROUP WHICH IS ANGULARLY SPACED FROM SAID FIRST OPENING, ALL OF SAID PERFORATIONS BEING IN REGISTERED RELATION WITH SAID SECOND APERTURE ONLY WHEN SAID SECOND MEMBER IS AT ONE TERMINUS OF ITS LIMITED ROTARY MOVEMENT; SAID SECOND MEMBER INCLUDING A POURING SPOUT HINGEDLY MOUNTED ON A PORTION OF SAID SECOND MEMBER CIRCUMJACENT SAID FIRST OPENING, SAID SPOUT OVERLYING AND CLOSING OFF SAID FIRST OPENING, WHEN IN ONE POSITION OF HINGED ADJUSTMENT, A PROTUBERANCE INTERLOCKINGLY ENGAGING SAID THIRD APERTURE, AND A PLURALITY OF DETENTS DISPOSED ADJACENT THE PERIPHERY OF SAID SECOND MEMBER AND INTERLOCKINGLY AND SLIDABLY ENGAGING SAID FOURTH APERTURES AND COOPERATING THEREWITH TO LIMIT THE ROTARY MOVEMENT OF SAID SECOND MEMBER.