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SCIENCE, MECHANICS, INVENTION
Sanitary Ice Cream Cone Dispenser
A new container for ice cream cones, devised by James W.
Kennedy of Canton, Ohio, makes the manual handling of
ice cream cones by soda clerks unnecessary. The cone is
delivered to the customer in a receptacle that engages the
bottom com- of the cylindrical holder in which a stack of
cones are contained. A pointed pin, carried by the cone
receiver, penetrates and holds the cone when it is to be
removed from column in the tubular dispenser. The pin
has a large button on its outer end, which is pressed with
the thumb to cause it to penetrate the lower end of the
cone in the cone cup. When the thumb is released the
pin springs back. The column of cones is held in place in
the magazine by spring arms arranged at its lower end,
which press lightly against the bottom cone. When it is
withdrawn they spring into engagement with the next
higher cone. The dispenser may consist either of a single
tube supported from the wall, or a number of tubes sup­
ported from a bracket, which may be rotated to bring on*'
of the tubes over an opening in the bracket through which
the cone is removed in theconc receiving cup. The tubes,
besides serving as dispensing magazines, also form con­
venient shipping cases for ice cream cones.
Better than a Slave-Power Punkah
E\ery man can be his own electric plant by using a de­
vice lately invented by an Indiana seeker after cooling
breezes. The fan he invented is an attachment for a rock­
ing chair and the power generated by the gentle move­
ment of the chair back and forth on its rockers propels
the fan, which wafts its zephyrs upon the individual in the
chair.
The operation of the fan is comparatively simple. A
shaft reaching the floor is given an upward thrust by the
backward swing of the rocker. This shaft, through a
journaled connection with the shaft of the fan itself, pro­
vides the motive power for turning the blades, overhead.