Lazy susan porcelain powder dispenser

Claim 1

A fluent material dispenser including base means, an upright post, the lower end of said post being stationarily mounted from said base means for support of said post in an upright position from a support surface upon which said base means rests, separate top and bottom horizontal support plates mounted on said post in vertically spaced relation and for rotation relative to and about said post, sleeve means rotatable on said post and keyed to each plate and thereby interconnecting said plates against rotation relative to each other, a plurality of upright tubular fluent material reservoirs supported from and extending between corresponding peripheral portions of said plates spaced about and outward from said post, the upper and lower ends of said reservoirs opening upwardly and downwardly through said top and bottom plates, respectively, manually actuatable dispensing means carried by the lower end of each reservoir and operable to dispense a predetermined quantity of fluent material from the corresponding reservoir, a horizontal closure plate mounted on said post above said top plate and for rotation relative to and about said post, said closure plate includng outer peripheral portions closely overlying the upper ends of said reservoirs, one of said outer peripheral portions including a single vertical opening formed therethrough selectively registrable with the upper ends of said reservoirs upon angular displacement of said closure plate about said post relative to said top plate, said sleeve means including a first lower sleeve rotatably mounted on said post above and downwardly frictionally abutted against opposing upper surface portions of said base disposed about said post, said bottom plate including a central supportive sleeve portion rotatably mounted on said post and downwardly abutted against the upper end of said first sleeve and keyed thereto for rotation therewith, said sleeve means further including a second sleeve rotatably mounted on said post and downwardly abutted against the upper end of said sleeve portion and keyed thereto for rotation therewith, said top plate including a central supportive sleeve portion rotatably mounted on said post and downwardly abutted against and keyed to the upper end of said second sleeve portion for rotation therewith, said closure plate including a central supportive sleeve portion rotatably mounted on said post above said top plate sleeve portion and downwardly fricitonally abutted thereagainst for rotation therewith, whereby said closure plate will rotate with said top plate when said top and the bottom plates are rotated relative to said post, and yet said closure plate may be rotated relative to said post independent of rotation of said top and bottom plates relative to said post.