Double tube dispensing device

Claim 1

A LIQUID DISPENSING DEVICE FOR USE IN CONTROLLING THE FLOW OF LIQUID FROM ONE RECEPTACLE INTO ANOTHER, SAID DEVICE COMPRISING A TUBE HOLDING MEMBER FORMED OF A FLEXIBLE, SLIGHTLY COMPRESSIBLE PLASTIC MATERIAL AND BEING INSERTABLE INTO A CYLINDRICALLY SHAPED INTERNALLY THREADED CAP OF THE TYPE HAVING BOTH ENDS OPEN AND HAVING AN INTURNED ANNULAR FLANGE AT THE UPPER END THEREOF, THE CAP THREADEDLY ENGAGING THE EXTERNALLY THREADED DISCHARGE SPOUT OF THE RECEPTACLE, THE PERIPHERAL EDGES OF SAID TUBE HOLDING MEMBER BEING TAPERED OUTWARDLY TO PERMIT COMPRESSION THEREOF BETWEEN THE ANNULAR FLANGE OF THE CAP AND PERIPHERAL EDGES OF THE RECEPTACLE SPOUT WHEN SAID CAP IS IN THREADED ENGAGEMENT WITH THE RECEPTACLE SPOUT TO THEREBY SEAL AND CLOSE SUCH A RECEPTACLE FROM THE EXTERIOR, SAID TUBE HOLDING MEMBER HAVING UPPER AND LOWER SURFACES AND HAVING A CENTRALLY LOCATED DISPENSING TUBE RECESS THEREIN, SAID DISPENSING TUBE RECESS BEING FORMED BY A PAIR OF GENERALLY CIRCULAR OPENINGS COMMUNICATING RADIALLY THROUGHOUT THEIR AXIAL EXTENTS WITH EACH OTHER, AN ELONGATE, FLEXIBLE, LIQUID DISPENSING TUBE BEING FORMED OF EXTRUDED PLASTIC AND INCLUDING A PAIR OF TUBULAR ELEMENTS INTEGRALLY FORMED TOGETHER ALONG THEIR LENGTHS BY A COMMON WALL PORTION, THE INNER DIAMETER OF EACH OF SAID TUBULAR ELEMENTS BEING SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM THROUGHOUT THE LENGTH THEREOF, ONE OF SAID TUBULAR ELEMENTS COMPRISING A LIQUID DISPENSING TUBE AND THE OTHER OF SAID ELEMENTS SERVING AS AN AIR PASSAGE, SAID DISPENSING TUBE HAVING ONE END PORTION INSERTABLE IN SNUG FITTING RELATION WITHIN SAID DISPENSING TUBE RECESS SO THAT THE ADJACENT TERMINAL EDGES OF SAID TUBULAR ELEMENTS ARE DISPOSED SUBSTANTIALLY COPLANAR WITH THAT PORTION OF THE LOWER SURFACE OF SAID TUBE HOLDING MEMBER CIRCUMSCRIBING SAID APERTURE WHEREBY LIQUID WILL FLOW THROUGH THE LIQUID DISPENSING PASSAGE FROM THE RECEPTACLE INTO A SECOND RECEPTACLE UNTIL THE LIQUID WITHIN THE LATTER RISES TO A LEVEL TO CLOSE THE END OF THE AIR CONDUCTING TUBULAR ELEMENT, A PAIR OF RELATIVELY SHORT CYLINDRICAL ELEMENTS FORMED OF RIGID MATERIAL AND EACH BEING INSERTABLE INTO SAID ONE END PORTION OF SAID TUBULAR ELEMENT TO REINFORCE THE ONE END PORTION THEREOF, AND A SUBSTANTIALLY FLAT CLOSURE MEMBER HAVING A PAIR OF CLOSURE ELEMENTS PROJECTING THEREFROM OUR INSERTION INTO ONE OF THE RESPECTIVE ENDS OF SAID TUBULAR ELEMENTS FOR CLOSING THE SAME.