AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR OPENING AND DISCHARGING BOTTLES WITH INTERNAL STOPPERS
Year: 1885

page_text: I WILLIAM WESTON of 79 Pitt Street Liverpool in the County of Lancaster
Gas Fitter do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for AN IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR OPENING AND DISCHARGING BOTTLES WITH INTERNAL STOPPERS
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
In the drawing of acrated water bottled in internally stoppered bottles, the
liquor is liable to spout out and overflow. Customers using these bottles in their
private houses complain of the messes caused in this way, and restaurant keepers
besides this soiling of the counter, are met with grumblings that part of the drink
that the customer has paid for has been upset and lost and therefore the full amount
ought not to be charged.
Now my invention is designed to obviate these difficulties and to construct
a simple and cheap apparatus which will give to the stoppered bottles all the
convenience of the "syphons" without their expense and incidental disadvantages.
It is best described by aid of the accompanying drawing in which:
Figure 1 is a vertical section and
Figure 2 a plan of the apparatus in the form I prefer for most purposes.
In these A is the body of the apparatus made of brass, cast-iron, ebonite or other
suitable material, and having a broad surface B for the hand to press against and
a cap fitted with an india rubber cushion C. D is a stout pipe screwed into A for
pressing down the internal stopper and acting as a conduit conducting the liquor
into the small internal chamber E; this pipe D can if desirable be cast solid with A.
Fa spout also screwed into A for the purpose of delivering the liquor into a glass.
The mode of using is as follows:
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The operator places a glass under spout F and inserts pipe D into the neck of the
bottle and presses down on B, the internal stopper is pressed in and the mouth of
the bottle comes against the cusbion C forming a seal. The liquor rushes D and
out at F till the force of the carbonic acid is spent. The apparatus is now lifted off
the bottle, and the remainder of the liquor poured out into the glass. It will be
obvious that in place of the elastic cushion C a leather washer with or without
a spring behind it, or an elastic comb could be used, but india rubber arranged
as shown is preferable, also that the shape of the apparatus might be varied
indefinitely without altering the principle of my invention.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1st. The manufacture and use of apparatus for drawing effervescing liquids from
internally stoppered bottles consisting of an annular cushion, fitting the top of the
bottle, a pipe and spout to deliver the liquor and push down the internal stopper
having an elastic annular cushion, cone or plug round it to close part of the mouth
of the bottle around the pipe and a handle or abutment on or annularly round the
centre line of the bottle for holding and pressing the cushion cone or plug by
means of the band, firmly against the mouth of the bottle, substantially as
described.
2nd. The special arrangement and construction of apparatus, substantially as
illustrated.