AN IMPROVED, COMBINED POURING SPOUT AND STOPPER FOR BOTTLES AND OTHER VESSELS
Year: 1884

page_text: I JAMES MITCHELL of 16 Titchfield Terrace, Regents Park, in the County of
Middlesex, Manufacturing Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for "AN IMPROVED, COMBINED POURING SPOUT AND STOPPER FOR BOTTLES AND OTHER
VESSELS to be as follows:-
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My Invention consists of a false or removable pouring lip or spout to be applied
to bottles jars, cans, carboys and other narrow mouthed vessels, containing a liquid
(such as ink, oil, petroleum, strong acids &°) which it is required to pour out
without dribbling or waste.
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This contrivance consists essentially of a short length of a slightly conical tube
having a diameter suited to the mouth of the vessel in which it is intended to fit,
and provided or formed with a curved lip or a spout at or near its larger end.*
When the tube is to be provided with a lip, the latter is attached to one side of
the margin of its larger extremity; when to be provided with a spout, a hole of the
diameter of the intended spout is made in the wall of the tube at a point about one
third its length from the larger end, and thereat a short length of smaller tube,
constituting the spout in question, is attached at a suitable angle.
The instrument thus constructed is rendered fit to act as a stopper as well as a
pourer by having its superior (i.e. its larger) orifice furnished with a cork. In the
case of the lipped tube, a short cork will suffice, but in the case of the spouted
tube, the cork must be long enough to reach beneath the point of attachment of
the spout when it is inserted by the narrower end. In the latter case the pouring
of the instrument will be rendered better by stopping the upper orifice of the tube
above the spout by the opposite or thicker end of the cork, a notch having therein
been made at the edge of that extremity, for the admission of air during the act
of pouring.
The cork may be made to serve as a tap by being perforated transversely, with a
hole, of a diameter similar to that of the spout, at a point corresponding to the
place of attachment of the spout, and likewise at right angles thereto through the
centre of the end of the cork which is under most when it is inserted into the upper
orifice, a shoulder inside the tube and underneath the spout being provided, whereby
the cork will be arrested in its descent, and made to occupy always the same
position, and the admission of air during the pouring being secured by making a
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page_text: small perforation in the wall of the tube directly opposite the spout. The cork
treated in this manner acts precisely like a tap; when it is turned in the tube so
that the transverse hole therein coincides with the spout, liquid will run freely
through the continuous passage, when, on the contrary, it is so turned that the said
hole does not coincide with the spout, the passage is closed.
This lipped or spouted tube may be made of any suitable metal or of glass,
earthenware, vulcanite, gutta percha, celluloid or other proper material.
The lower or smaller end of the tube may have an external packing ring of cork
caoutchouc or other suitable material applied to it to make a tight fit in the mouth
of the vessel.
Or when made of glass, earthenware or vulcanite, the tube may be ground
externally to fit the mouth of the vessel and the lipped or spouted orifice may have
a glass or other stopper ground into it, the said stopper being treated similarly to
the cork as regards the contrivances for the better pouring out of the spouted
instrument.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I JAMES MITCHELL of 16 Titchfield Terrace, Regents Park. in the County of
Middlesex, Manufacturing Chemist do hereby declare the nature of the said
invention for "AN IMPROVED COMBINED POURING SPOUT AND STOPPER FOR BOTTLES
AND OTHER VESSELS" and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
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This Invention consists of a false or removable pouring lip or spout to be
applied to bottles jars, cans, carboys and other narrow mouthed vessels containing
a liquid (such as ink, oil petroleum, strong acids &) which it is required to pour
out without dribbling or waste.
The accompanying drawing represents some examples of the combined pouring
spout and stopper. Figure 1 is a vertical section and Figure 2 a plan of a pouring
tube provided with a spout Figure 3 is a vertical section, figure 4 is a plan and
figure 5 an elevation of a spouted pouring tube provided with a valve stopper
while figures 6 and 7 show a vertical section and plan of a pouring tube provided
with a curved lip.
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This contrivance consists essentially, see figure 1 of a short length of slightly
conical tube a, having a diameter suited to the mouth of the vessel in which it is
intended to fit with or without a bushing 6 of cork or other material or packing of
twine or other fibre and provided or formed with a spout c, a hole of the diameter
of the intended spout being made in the wall of the tube at a point about one third
its length from the larger end, at which a short length of smaller tube constituting
the spout in question is attached at a suitable angle-When the tube is to be
provided with a lip c as in figure 6, the latter is attached to one side of the margin
of its larger extremity.
The device thus constructed is rendered fit to act as a stopper as well as a pourer
by having its superior (ie its larger) orifice furnished with a cork or other stopper d―
In the case of the lipped tube figure 6 a short cork will suffice, but in the case of
the spouted tube figure 1, the cork must be long enough to reach beneath the point
of attachment of the spout, when it is inserted by the narrower end-In the latter
case the pouring may be effected by stopping the upper orifice of the tube a above
the spout by the opposite or thicker end of the cork, a notch having therein been
made at the edge of that extremity for the admission of air during the act of
pouring.
The cork or other stopper & may be made to serve as a tap see figure 3, by being
perforated transversely; with a hole e of a diameter similar to that of the spout,
at a point corresponding to the place of attachment of the spout, and likewise at right
angles thereto at f, through the centre of the end of the cork which is undermost when
it is inserted into the upper orifice of the tube a, a shoulder inside the tube and
underneath the spout being provided at a whereby the cork will be arrested in its
descent and made to occupy always the same position. The admission of air during
the pouring is secured by making a small perforation g in the wall of the tube
directly opposite the spout.

page_text: The cork in this manner acts precisely like a tap, when it is turned in the tube
Bo.that the transverse hole therein coincides with the spout, liquid will run freely
through the continuous passage; when on the contrary, it is so turned that the
said hole does not coincide with the spout, the passage is closed.
This lipped or spouted tube may be made of any suitable metal or of glass,
earthenware, vulcanite, gutta percha, celluloid or other proper material.
When made of glass, earthenware or vulcanite, the tube may be ground
externally to fit the mouth of the vessel and the lipped or spouted orifice may have
a glass or other stopper ground into it, the said stopper being treated similarly to
the cork as regards the contrivances for the better pouring out of the spouted
instrument.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1st A combined, pouring spout and stopper consisting of a tube to fit into the
mouth of a bottle or other vessel, provided with a discharge spout or lip and
adapted to receive a plug or stopper, substantially as shown and described with
reference to figures 1 and 6.
2nd The combination of a pouring spout of the kind described, with a plug or
stopper having a three way passage as described and shown in figure 3.
Dated this 21st day of April 1885.
C
J. MITCHELL.
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By his. Agents, A. M. & Wm Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London.