CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED FOR IMBIBING OR SUCKING IN LIQUIDS, KNOWN AS "BOMBILLAS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Bellamy, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Electro-plater, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS USED FOR IMBIBING OR SUCKING IN LIQUIDS, KNOWN AS
"BOMBILLAS," "
Sealed the 18th January 1867, and dated the 21st July 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Bellamy at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st July 1866...
I, WILLIAM BELLAMY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Electro-
plater, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED FOR IMBIBING OR SUCKING IN LIQUIDS, KNOWN AS
"BOMBILLAS," to be as follows:-
The articles known as "bombillas" are tubes having at one end thereof a
bowl in which are several holes or apertures; they are largely exported to
South America, and are used in the following manner :-The bowl is placed
in the liquid desired to be imbibed or sucked in, and the other end of the
tube in the mouth of the person using the apparatus, who imbibes or draws
up the fluid.

page_text: The first part of my Invention relates to an improved manner of forming
the bowl. Usually the plates which form the bowl have been soldered together,
so that the edges have to be afterwards dressed by a separate and distinct
operation. According to my improvements the plates used for forming the
bowl are pressed together, or the edges may be closed by a lathe. In this
manner no dressing is afterwards required, but the article is ready at once for
plating.
The second part of my Invention relates to the manner of forming the holes
or apertures in the bowl: According to the present method the piece of metal
which forms the bowl has holes pierced therein one at a time, but by my
method all the holes needed are pierced in the blank at one time by a single
movement of the press. The said blank is afterwards raised and clipped,
when it is ready for putting together; it is afterwards closed at the press,
and so finished.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Bellamy in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th January 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BELLAMY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Electro-plater, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Bellamy, Her special licence that I, the said William
Bellamy, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as-I, the
said William Bellamy, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS USED FOR IMBIBING OR SUCKING IN LIQUIDS, KNOWN AS
BOMBILLAS, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William
Bellamy, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: was to be performed, and cause', the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months, next and immediately after the date.of.the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Bellamy, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following.state
ment (that is to say):-
The articles known as "bombillas" are tubes having at one end'thereof a bowl
in which are several holes or apertures; they are largely exported to South
America, and are used in the following manner:-The bowl is placed in the
liquid desired to be imbibed or sucked in, and the other end of the tube in
the mouth of the person using the apparatus, who imbibes or draws up the
fluid.
;
The first part of my Invention relates to an improved manner of forming
the bowl. Usually the plates which form the bowl have been soldered together,
so that the edges have to be afterwards dressed by a separate and distinct
operation. According to my improvements the plates used for forming the
bowl are pressed together, or the edges may be closed by a lathe. In this
manner no dressing is afterwards required, but the article is ready at once for
plating.
The second
part of my Invention relates to the manner of forming the holes
or apertures in the bowl. According to the present method the piece of metal
which forms the bowl has holes pierced therein one at a time, but by my
method all the holes needed are pierced in the blank at one time by a single
movement of the press. The said blank is afterwards raised and clipped,
when it is ready for putting together; it is afterwards closed at the press, and
so finished.
That my Invention may be better understood I have annexed Drawings
thereof, which I now proceed to describe.
Fig. 1 is an elevation, partly in section, of a bombilla having a circular
bowl, and Figs. 2 and 3 are an elevation and cross. section on line a, b, of a
bombilla having a spoon-shaped bowl. In each case the two plates forming
the bowl are shewn united according to my Invention. One plate is laid
within the previously raised edge of the other plate, and the said raised edge.
is then turned over or closed by the press so as to assume the form shewn in
section at c in all the Figs. and thus firmly to secure the two plates together.
The holes shewn in each plate of the bowl are all pierced at one time by a
single movement of the press previous to the plate being raised into the
required form.

page_text: Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is or may be performed, I desire it to be understood that
I claim as the Invention to be protected by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent,-
First, the improved mode or manner of making or forming the bowl of
"bombillas," as herein-before set forth and described.
Second, the improved mode or manner of making or forming the holes or
apertures in the said bowl, as herein-before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Bellamy, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Witness,
G. R. HOLLAND,
Patent Office,
Birmingham.
WILLIAM BELLAMY. (L.s.)