AN IMPROVED SIPHON-BOTTLE
Year: 1884

page_text: I WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE of the firm of Haseltine Lake & Co Patent Agents
Southampton Buildings London in the County of Middlesex do hereby declare the
nature of said invention for "AN IMPROVED SIPHON-BOTTLE" to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved siphon-bottle.
Heretofore, all the siphon bottles or receptacles for siphons designed to retail
gaseous liquids (such as seltzer water for instance) have been made of perfectly
smooth, white or colored, glass. The liquid contained in these receptacles is only
affected by the transparency of the glass and derives therefrom neither brilliancy
nor any particularly luminous effect.
In order to obtain luminous effects in the liquid and to increase its limpidity
and brilliancy I make siphon-bottles from the vessels or receptacles of glass or
crystal termed "a cotes Vénitiennes." These receptacles, whatever shape they may
assume, are characterized by the fact that their outer surface is smooth and presents
neither angles, projections nor grooves whilst internally they have a polygonal
transverse section.
This polygonal section may assume the shape of a convex regular or irregular
polygon, or of a star or polygon having angles alternately projecting inward and
outward, with equal, or with irregular, sides. The improved receptacles (" a cotes
Vénitiennes") produce when empty the same illusion as glass or crystal cut
outwardly and having plane, convex, concave, or alternately plane and concave, or
plane and convex or convex and concave faces, these faces, whatever shape they may
have, being capable of presenting all the combinations which their number may
permit, and appearing in all cases separated by sharp edges or connecting lines
more or less rounded, and inwardly projecting or outwardly projecting. When
receptacles of this kind are filled with liquid they impart to the same, besides the
quality of transparency inherent to glass or crystal, a peculiar, brilliancy due to the
refraction of each cut face, the said faces acting like lenses having different foci.
The liquid seems then to scintillate and emit luminous rays.

page_text: The accompanying drawing shows in Figure 1 an elevation of one of these
siphons and in Figure 2 a transverse section of the same representing the internal
polygonal surface of the bottle or vessel, and its external surface which is a
continuous curve, more or less regular.
It is this application of vessels or receptacles "a cotes Venitiennes" to siphon-
bottles for containing and retailing seltzer water or other liquids in which gas is
stored under pressure that forms the novel feature of this invention.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
For the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake, and Co, Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London, in the County of Middlesex do hereby declare
the nature of my invention for "AN IMPROVED SIPHON-BOTTLE", 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 relates to an improved siphon-bottle.
Heretofore all the sipbon bottles or receptacles used and designed to retail
gaseous liquids (such as seltzer water) have been made of perfectly smooth white
or colored glass.
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The liquid contained in these receptacles is only affected by the transparency of
the glass and derives therefrom neither brilliancy nor any particularly luminous
effect.
In order to obtain luminous effects in the liquid and to increase its apparent
limpidity and brilliancy the syphon-bottles are, according to this .invention, made
as follows, that is to say, siphons are applied to vessels or receptacles of glass or
crystal such as are termed "à côtes vénitiennes." These receptacles, whatever
shape they may assume, are characterized by the fact that their outer surfaces are
smooth and present neither angles, projections nor grooves, whilst internally they
have polygonal transverse sections.
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The polygonal section may assume the shape of a convex, regular or irregular
polygon or of a star or polygon having angles alternately projecting inward and
outward with equal or irregular sides.
The improved receptacles "à côtes vénitiennes" produce when empty, the same
illusion as glass or crystal cut outwardly and having plane convex, concave, or
alternately flat and concave or plane and convex or convex and concave faces, these
faces, whatever shape they may have, being capable of presenting all the com-
binations which their number may permit and appearing in all cases separated by
sharp edges or connecting lines more or less rounded and inwardly projecting or
outwardly projecting. When receptacles of this kind are filled with liquid they
impart to the same, besides the quality of transparency inherent to glass or crysta
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page_text: a peculiar brilliancy due to the refraction of each cut face, the said faces acting like
lenses having different foci. The liquid seems then to scintillate and emit
luminous rays.
The accompanying drawing shows in Figure 1 an elevation of a siphon con-
structed according to this invention, and in Figure 2 a transverse section of the
same representing the internal and external polygonal surface of the bottle or
vessel and its external surface which is a continuous curve more or less regular.
The glass or crystal used for the said vessels or receptacles may be colored if
desired.
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:
The improved siphon-bottle for containing and retailing seltzer water or other
liquids in which gas is stored under pressure, which bottle is made by applying a
siphon to a vessel or receptacle such as is hereinbefore described and termed
'à côtes vénitiennes."