Improvements in Bottles and Appliances connected therewith.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 16th June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 15th Mar., 1893-Accepted, 6th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottles and Appliances connected therewith.
1 JAMES LANE of 59 Union Street Smethwick in the County of Stafford
Joiner do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates: Firstly to improvements in bottles to be used in bottleing
ale and other sedimentary liquids its object is to confine the sediment undisturbed
in the bottom of the bottle whilst drawing off the clear liquid and thereby to effect
a saveing of the same.
It is obvious that in drawing off liquids of the nature referred too from bottles
of the ordinary type the air on entering the mouth of the bottle frequently causes
the workeing up of the sediment, to prevent which I employ a bottle provided with
an outlet near the bottom thereof by preference slanting downwardly from the
interior for the facility of drawing off the liquid, and adapted to receive a cork or
other suitable appliance for closcing the same, and which is situated at such a distance
from the bottom of the bottle as to allow the clear liquid to be drawn therefrom
whilst preventing the sedement from haveing an outlet therewith while the bottle
is upright. The bottle may be provided with an opening in the top in the usual
way to facilitate the cleaning and filling of the same or the outlet hereinbefore
referred too may be adapted for that purpose in lieu thereof.
This invention secondly relates to improvements in connection with corks for
bottles by which they may be drawn without injury thereto and thereby utilized
for other such like purposes.
may
I employ a fine cup headed bolt which is caused to enter through the cork and
to receive a nut provided with an eye or the like capable of connection with an
hook or other instrument by which the cork may be drawn. Otherwise I
employ a milled cap in lieu of said eye provided with teeth or the like capable of
takeing into the end of the cork and which may be grasped with the thumb and
finger and by the rotation of which the cork may be released from the bottle.
The bolt and its appendages may be tined enameled or otherwise protected
against rust and applied to new corks when those originaly employd therewith
are of no farther service.
The details of this invention may be modified in eny equivalent manner if
desireable.
Dated this I th day of June 1892.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottles and Appliances connected therewith.
I, JAMES LANE, 59 Union Street, Smethwick, Staffordshire Joiner 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 relates chiefly to improvements in bottles, to be used in bottling
ales, and other sedimentary liquids. Its object is to confine the sediment undis-
turbed in the bottom of the bottle, whilst drawing off the clear liquid, and thereby
to effect a saving of the same.
Reference to be had to the accompanying drawings as a part of the Specification.
It is obvious in drawing off liquids of the nature referred to, from bottles of the
ordinary type, the air on entering the mouth of the same, when in a position for

page_text: decanting, frequently causes a working up of the sediment, to prevent which, I
provide an outlet (1.), as shown in Figure (1.) by which the liquid may be drawn
off in a clear state, leaving the sediment undisturbed in the bottom of the bottle.
The said outlet is by preference closed by a cork, which is inserted before filling,
the end of which is kept back slightly from the inner surface of the bottle, and may
be coated with sealing wax, or its equivalent, to resist the adherement of the
sediment.
In drawing the aforesaid cork, a sharp pointed instrument may be used, which is
thrusted into the same, and by pressure against the neck (2.), the cork extracted.
The said neck rests upon the edge of a glass, or other vessel, used in decanting,
when it will be necessary to lean the bottle forward at the top, to prevent spilling
the liquid. Other means may however be employed in closing the said outlet if
desirable.
Previous to decanting, it will be necessary to remove from the mouth of the
bottle, the cork or stopper, in the original way, to give vent to the bottle; or
equivalent means may be employed.
By preference the side of the bottle from the horizontal centre of the outlet (1)
to the bottom of the bottle, projects as shewn in Figures 1 and 2, by which
arrangenient the sediment is prevented from lodging on the interior of the neck (2)
when settling in the bottle.
This invention secondly relates to improved arrangements for the purpose of
drawing corks from bottles by which the corks may be repeatedly used to effect
the same purpose, and also, when of no further service, the means hereinafter
described and shewn in Fig. 3, of the accompanying drawings, may be applied to
new ones.
The means I employ in carrying this part of my invention into effect consists of
a cup headed bolt (3) which enters through the cork (4) and receives a nut (5) the
top part of which is formed into a loop which is diminished, and gradually increasing
in width from the centre thereof to the bottom part of the same whose diameter is
similar to that of the cork.
may
In drawing the cork an instrument such as a corkscrew may be used, except the
screw is substituted by an hook, adapted to take into the said loop, or the loop may
be adapted to receive any instrument by which the cork may be drawn.
sometimes substitute the nut 5 by a cap of wood or other suitable material, slightly
larger than the neck of the bottle, adapted to be grasped by the hand, in which
case the cap will be secured to the bolt by a nut of the ordinary type. It will be
evident that on tightening the nut, the edge of the bolt head will maintain such a
pressure against that end of the cork which enters the neck of the bottle, that the
strength from the liquid cannot escape, as it is possible by way of the screw thread in
the original arrangement.
The details of this invention may be modified if desirable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is ;
(1.) In bottles to be used in bottling ales, and other sedimentary liquids, the use
of an outlet (1), as shewn in Figure (1), to be employed substantially in the
manner, and for the purpose herein set forth..
(2.) The use in combination of a cup headed bolt (3) and nut (5) as shewn in
Fig. 3 of the accompanying drawings or in lieu of the nut (5) a cap of wood or
other suitable material to be employed substantially in the manner and for the