Sonoco Development Incorporated

Sonoco Products Company

Gerd Rieker

Brian P Couchey

James E Johanson

James P Stevens

Victor J DesRosiers

Fedor Baranov

William E Leidel

Clint M Jones

A dispenser is provided for sprinkling a preset quantity of granted material, such as table salt. The dispenser comprises a granulated material reservoir, an enclosure, a metering cup, a cap, a collector and a diffuser. The reservoir has a side, a top and a bottom wall. The enclosure encases the reservoir side wall and is closed at one end by a cap adjacent to the reservoir bottom wall. The metering cup is positioned in the cap and an opening in the reservoir bottom wall communicates with and fills the metering cup. A collector is positioned adjacent to the top wall of the reservoir. A passageway formed between the reservoir sidewall and the enclosure communicates with the metering cup and collector. The diffuser is positioned adjacent to an opening in the collector and opposite the collector. When the dispenser is in the upright position, granulated material from the reservoir fills the metering cup. When the dispenser is inverted, the granulated material flows from the metering cup through the passageway to the collector. The collector directs the granulated material to the diffuser that sprinkles the granulated material over a desired area.

Metered material dispenser

A yarn carrier is provided of the type including a substantially rigid tubular core having passageways through the sidewall thereof for the passage of dye or wet finishing bath into the yarn to be wrapped thereon. A filter sleeve is wrapped around the outer surface of the tubular core to prevent entrapment of the yarn in the passageways and for filtering the dye and/or finishing bath. The filter sleeve is formed from a filter material which is wrapped into a sleeve and abutting edges of the filter material are bonded together along a seam. The seam is contemplated to be substantially continuous and extend the length of the sleeve. The tubular sleeve is slid over or heat shrunk onto the outside surface of the tubular core prior to the winding of the yarn thereon.

Filter sleeve for tubular filter core

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Troy, NY, United States of America

Gerd Rieker