Dispensing apparatus

Claim 1

A DISPENSING APPARATUS COMPRISING A FIRST MEMBER PROVIDED WITH AN APERTURE DISPOSED IN OFFSET RELATION WITH RESPECT TO A CENTRAL TRANSVERSE AXIS OF SAID FIRST MEMBER, SAID APERTURE HAVING A FIRST SEGMENT OF THE PERIMETER THEREOF, ADJACENT THE PERIPHERY OF SAID FIRST MEMBER, OF ARCUATE CONFIGURATION WHEREBY THE CENTER OF CURVATURE IS SUBSTANTIALLY COINCIDENT WITH SAID CENTRAL TRANSVERSE AXIS; SAID FIRST PERIMETER SEGMENT BEING PROVIDED WITH A PROTUBERANCE DISPOSED ADJACENT TO BUT SPACED FROM ONE END LIMIT OF SAID FIRST PERIMETER SEGMENT, AND A SECOND MEMBER MOUNTED IN OVERLYING RELATION ON SAID FIRST MEMBER FOR LIMITED ROTARY MOVEMENT WITH RESPECT THERETO ABOUT SAID CENTRAL TRANSVERSE AXIS; SAID SECOND MEMBER BEING PROVIDED WITH AN OPENING IN CONTINUOUS REGISTERED RELATION WITH SAID FIRST MEMBER APERTURE, AND A SPOUT ELEMENT HINGEDLY CONNECTED TO A SEGMENT OF SAID OPENING PERIMETER AND HAVING A BASE PORTION, AND A SIDE PORTION EXTENDING ANGULARLY THEREFROM THROUGH SAID OPENING; SAID SPOUT ELEMENT WHEN IN A CLOSED POSITION HAVING THE BASE PORTION THEREOF OVERLYING AND CLOSING OFF SAID OPENING; SAID PROTUBERANCE ENGAGING SAID SIDE PORTION SO AS TO RESTRAIN RELATIVE ROTATIONAL MOVEMENT BETWEEN SAID FIRST AND SECOND MEMBERS IN ONE DIRECTION OF ROTATION, AND SAID SIDE PORTION ENGAGING A SECOND SEGMENT OF THE PERIMETER OF THE APERTURE OF SAID FIRST MEMBER SO AS TO RESTRAIN RELATIVE ROTATIONAL MOVEMENT BETWEEN SAID FIRST AND SECOND MEMBERS IN THE OTHER DIRECTION OF ROTATION WHEN SAID BASE PORTION IS OVERLYING AND CLOSING OFF SAID OPENING.