IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WITHDRAWING LIQUIDS FROM BOTTLES
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Lloyd Wise at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th January 1877
WILLIAM LLOYD WISE, of Chandos Chambers, Adelphi, in the County of Mid-
dlesex "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR WITHDRAWING LIQUIDS FROM
BOTTLES" A communication from abroad by Mı Hemy Galante, of Paris, France.
This Invention, communicated to me by M Hemy Galante, of Paris, France,
relates to what he calls a moveable aerosyphon apparatus
It is well known that mineral waters in bottles, and especially sulphurous waters,
such as the Enghien, Bonn, and Aix waters, soon lose then good properties on
exposure to the atmosphere, hence it is recommended that the bottles containing
them be kept carefully corked up and neck downwards during the intervals between
meals, or when the contents are not immediately required, but the bottles having
been once uncorked generally remain uncorked and upright during such meal and
other times when the contents are likely to be so required, and even if an attempt
be made to cork the bottles the operation is badly performed, because it is difficult
to insert by hand the cork, swollen at its lower end, which the bottlers of mineial
waters put in by pressure, and also because the cork is pierced by the corkscrew
used for drawing it in the first instance
The appliance forming the subject of the present Invention is designed to obviate
these inconveniences, and by its use the liquid may be poured into a glass while
the bottle remains with its neck downwards, and covered with a certain quantity
of mineral water, which forms an excellent obturator or closing valve Moreover
air can enter the bottle only whilst the liquid is being withdrawn
According to this Invention a tube made of a substance such as tin or galvanized
metal, which is rigid and not acted upon by mineral waters, is introduced into the
bottle To this tube is fitted a bent tube, spout, or syphon, and a metallic flanged
cup or ferrule covered with india-rubber, coik, or some other elastic substance to
serve as a cork for tightly closing the neck of the bottle
The lower end of the tube is provided with a small aperture, through which air
can pass into the tube, the end of which within the bottle is closed by a small valve
of india-rubber or other suitable material, fixed to the end of a rod, which passes
entirely through the tube lengthwise and carries at its lower end a button, between
which and a disc which closes the lower end of the tube is interposed a spiral
spring.

page_text: After the tube has been inserted into the bottle the latter is turned neck down-
wards, and placed in a stand of suitable construction, so that the button at the
lower end of the valve 1od rests in a recess of the stand Everything being thus
aranged it will be sufficient to piess upon the inverted bottom of the bottle, which
will compress the spiral sping, open the valve, and permit air entering by the small
aperture to rise in the tube to pass through the upper aperture (now open) of this
tube, and to pass into the bottom of the inverted bottle above the liquid therein
As a consequence, the liquid will run into the space between the tube and the
flanged cup or ferrule, and will flow out by the bent tube, spout, or syphon into any
glass or receptacle 'placed to receive it In this manner the bottle may be emptied
to the level of the open extremity of the bent tube, spout, or syphon, and the
operation of withdrawing liquid from the bottle can be repeated as often as may be
necessary, the liquid contents of the bottle always remaining thoroughly isolated
fiom the external air in the intervals, in fact, on the pressure of the hand being
withdrawn from the bottom of the bottle the spiral spring will act by resuming its
extended position to close the upper end of the tube by the valve