IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR DRAWING LIQUIDS FROM CORKED BOTTLES OR OTHER VESSELS."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederic Edward Eden Hooper and Arthur George Luke,
both of No. 30, Charing Cross, in the County of Middlesex, for an Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR DRAWING LIQUIDS FROM CORKED
BOTTLES OR OTHER VESSELS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederic Edward Eden
Hooper and Arthur George Luke at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents on the 6th March 1880.
FREDERIC EDWARD EDEN HOOPER and ARTHUR GEORGE LUKE, both of No. 30,
Charing Cross, in the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
DRAWING LIQUIDS FROM CORKED BOTTLES OR OTHER VESSELS."
Our Invention relates to apparatus for drawing liquids from corked bottles or
other vessels, so arranged that the outflow of the liquid can be stopped or regulated
without the use of a stopcock. For this purpose we form on a tube an external
screw thread extending over a portion of its length; beyond the thread we fix a
handle on the tube, part of which projects some distance beyond the handle.
Through the part of the tube which is threaded we make several lateral holes,
forming communications between the outside and the interior of the tube, and we
either form the end of the tube beyond the thread with an open mouth and a sharp
cutting edge, or we close the mouth and give it a sharp tapering point. For
drawing liquid from a corked bottle or other vessel, we by means of the handle
screw the tube into the cork until one of the lateral holes of the tube passes
beyond the interior end of the cork, whereupon the liquid finds its way into the
tube, and issues from its projecting end. When it is desired that the liquid should
issue more rapidly, we screw the tube farther, in, so that several of the lateral holes
present themselves in the interior of the bottle or vessel beyond the cork.
it is desired to stop the outflow of the liquid, we screw back the tube until all the
lateral holes are brought within the body of the cork, and are thereby closed. In
the case where the tube is made with a sharp open mouth it cuts a core of cork as
it is screwed in, and this core serves for the time as a plug to the end of the tube.
When the tube is thus made open at both ends, the cutting action of its sharpened
edge facilitates its passage through the cork, and its interior can be readily inspected
and cleansed. The tube whether open or closed at the end may be used as a
corkscrew to withdraw the cork. When it is not required for this purpose the
screw thread on the tube may be dispensed with, the tube in that case being
introduced into the cork with a boring action like that of a bit or bradawl. The
handle on the tube may be made with a knife edge or claw to cut or fracture cord
or wire securing corks.
When

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditons of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Frederick Edward Eden Hooper and Arthur George Luke in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 31st August 1880.
FREDERIC EDWARD EDEN HOOPER and ARTHUR GEORGE LUKE, both of No. 30,
Charing Cross, in the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
DRAWING LIQUIDS FROM CORKED BOTTLES OR OTHER VESSELS."
Our Invention relates to apparatus for drawing liquids from corked bottles or
other vessels, so arranged that the outflow of the liquid can be stopped or regulated
without the use of a stop cock. For this purpose we form on a tube an external
screw thread extending over a portion of its length; beyond the thread we fix a
handle on the tube, part of which projects some distance beyond the handle.
Through the part of the tube which is threaded we make several lateral holes,
forming communications between the outside and the interior of the tube, and we
either form the end of the tube beyond the thread with an open mouth and a sharp
cutting edge, or we close the mouth and give it a sharp tapering point. For
drawing liquid from a corked bottle or other vessel, we by means of the handle
screw the tube into the cork until one of the lateral holes of the tube passes
beyond the interior end of the cork, whereupon the liquid finds its way into the
tube and issues from its projecting end. When it is desired that the liquid should
issue more rapidly, we screw the tube farther in, so that several of the lateral holes
present themselves in the interior of the bottle or vessel beyond the cork. When
it is desired to stop the outflow of the liquid, we screw back the tube until all the
lateral holes are brought within the body of the cork, and are thereby closed. In
the case where the tube is made with a sharp open mouth, it cuts a core of cork as
it is screwed in, and this core serves for the time as a plug to the end of the tube.
When the tube is thus made open at both ends, the cutting action of its sharpened
edge facilitates its passage through the cork, and its interior can be readily inspected
and cleansed. The tube whether open or closed at the end may be used as a
corkscrew to withdraw the cork. When it is not required for this purpose the
screw thread on the tube may be dispensed with, the tube in that case being
introduced into the cork with a boring action like that of a bit or bradawl. The
handle on the tube may be made with a knife edge or claw to cut or fracture cord
or wire securing corks.
The accompanying Drawings represent several constructions of apparatus
according to our Invention. According to the construction shewn in Fig. 1, the
apparatus consists of a tube A, the end of which a is sharpened to a chisel edge, so
that when pressed down and turned round by the hand applied to the handle B
it will cut its way through the cork C, retaining inside of it a plug of the cork
which will close its end, as indicated at c. When it is desired to draw liquid from
the bottle, the tube A is pushed in until one or more of the holes D which are
bored laterally into it come beyond the cork, in which case liquid will flow through
these holes into the tube, and issue at its mouth d. A wire E serves to clear
the tube of the plug of cork. The tube may be made with its end closed and
terminating in a sharp point a¹, as shewn in Fig. 2. Otherwise the tube A may
have on it a screw thread F, as shewn in Fig. 3, where the tube is made open at
the end with a sharp cutting edge at a, or in Figs. 4 and 5 where the tube bas its
end closed and a sharp point a¹. We find it convenient to employ an interior
tube G, Fig. 6, which can be inserted in the tube A, as shewn in Fig. 4, to keep the
holes D clear of small fragments of cork, such as might otherwise project through
them.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, we claim,-
The use for withdrawing liquids from corked bottles or other vessels of a sharp

page_text: edged or pointed tube which can be screwed or forced through the cork until
lateral holes of the tube according as they are are presented below the cork or not
permit or stop issue of liquid at the exterior mouth of the tube, substantially as
herein described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Frederic Edward Eden Hooper and Arthur
George Luke, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty seventh
day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
eighty.
(L.S.)
F. E. EDEN HOOPER.
ARTHUR GEORGE LUKE. (L.S.)