Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Filling Lamps or other Vessels from Cans, Bottles, or the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 6th June, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 7th Mar., 1892-Accepted, 4th June, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Filling Lamps or other
Vessels from Cans, Bottles, or the like.
We JOHN MOORE of 56 Boundary Street, Southport, JOHN ANDERSON,
4 Riding Street, Southport, JOHN TAYLOR, 51 Cannon Street, Manchester and
RICHARD LOVETT READE of Sale all in the County of Lancaster, Agent,
Merchant, Gentleman and Merchant respectively, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object a simple device for filling lamps and other vessels
with a liquid up to any given level distance from the top without fear of causing it
to overflow.
The invention consists in bringing two pipes one inside the other through the
cork or stopper of the vessel from which the liquids are poured. The outer pipe
extends a very short distance into the vessel, the inner pipe extends further and has
a bend to one side so that when the bottle or vessel is being poured from this, the
orifice of this small pipe shall project above the liquid and thus allow air to pass
and take the place of the liquid withdrawn. The end of the larger pipe above the
stopper is bent in the same plane as the smaller pipe, but in the reverse direction,
so as to form a spout, the smaller tube is bent with it and terminates near its
termination. On the outer tube a flange or rubber washer fixed movable or
adjustable is placed to regulate the depth to which the tube enters the lamp or
other vessel to be filled. The mode of action is as follows:-The apparatus being
fixed in the orifice or mouth of the can or other vessel from which the oil or other
material is poured the outer end of the larger pipe is inserted into the lamp or
other article to be nearly filled. The oil or other liquid is then poured into this
latter vessel, the pouring continues until the liquid rises in the lamp or other
vessel to a point where it covers the orifice of the pipe, it then ceases to run any
further as the air cannot enter the vessel from which the oil is being poured. As a
quick method of connecting the two pipes I prefer to insert the one in the other,
bend them and then pinch the outer pipe at one point so as to tightly grasp the
inner one.
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WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Filling Lamps or other
Vessels from Cans, Bottles, or the like.
We, JOHN MOORE of 56 Boundary Street, Southport, JOHN ANDERSON,
4 Riding Street, Southport, JoHN TAYLOR 51 Cannon Street, Manchester and
RICHARD LOVETT READE of Sale, all in the County of Lancaster, Agent,
Merchant, Gentleman and Merchant respectively, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object a simple device for filling lamps and other vessels
with a liquid up to any given level distance from the top without fear of causing it
to overflow.
The invention is best described by aid of the accompanying drawing showing a
section of a bottle and our apparatus fixed therein.

page_text: The invention consists in bringing two pipes A and B one inside the other
through the cork or stopper C of the vessel D from which the liquids are poured.
The outer pipe A extends a very short distance into the vessel D, the inner pipe B
extends further and has a bend to one side so that, when the bottle or vessel is
being poured from, the orifice of this small pipe B shall project above the liquid
and thus allow air to pass and take the place of the liquid withdrawn. The end of
the larger pipe above the stopper is preferably bent in the same plane as the
smaller pipe, but in the reverse direction, so as to form a spout, the smaller tube is
bent with it and terminates near its termination. In larger apparatus, this
termination is preferably a little less than the diameter of the larger pipe from the
end of the latter, thus allowing room for a cork or stopper to be inserted, but in
small apparatus, such as that used for oiling cans, ink bottles and the like,
to have the orifices of the two pipes in the same plane.
prefer
On the outer tube a flange or rubber washer can be fixed, movable or adjustable
to regulate the depth to which the tube enters the lamp or other vessel to be
filled.
The mode of action is as follows-
The apparatus being fixed in the orifice or mouth of the can or other vessel from
which the oil or other material is poured, the outer end of the larger pipe is inserted
into the lamp or other article to be nearly filled. The oil or other liquid is then
poured into this latter vessel, the pouring continues until the liquid rises in the
lamp or other vessel to a point where it covers the orifice of the pipe B, it then
ceases to run any further as the air cannot enter the vessel from which the oil is
being poured. As a quick method of connecting the two pipes, we prefer to insert
the one in the other, bend them and then pinch the outer pipe at one point so as to
tightly grasp the inner one.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is-
In apparatus for filling lamps or other containers two tubes or conduits A. B
passing through the stopper or cock, the one A. ending just inside the stopper,
the other B curved up into the air space (or upper part of the container when
pouring) whereby the liquid can run out through the one while air enters at the
other.
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WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and London, Patent Agents.