Improvements in Bottle Discharging Apparatus.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Aug., 1897-Accepted, 25th Sept.,
1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottle Discharging Apparatus.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM GOLBY, of 36 Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by Société
Anonyme des Anciennes Usines Feldmann and Schneider, of 39 Rue Frère Orban,
Brussels, Belgium, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
The bottle discharging apparatus which forms the object of the present invention
is illustrated in two forms in Figs. 1 to 20. It is applicable to bottles of all kinds.
The first of these forms, illustrated in Figs. 1 to 10, ensures hermetical stopping
of bottles containing gases, such as carbonic acid gas, and is therefore specially
suitable for bottles containing effervescing drinks, mineral waters, c., whilst
the second, illustrated in Figs.. 11 to 20, only effects such a closing of the bottle,
that none of the liquid can run away; it is therefore specially suitable for the
drawing off of liqueurs-spirits, etc.
In both forms the application of the discharging apparatus to the bottle and the
manner of effecting the airtight attachment thereto is the same. The cork is
removed from the bottle and the bottle discharging apparatus with the elastic
compressible stopper G is introduced thereinto; (see Figs. 1, 5 and 6 in the one
case and Fig. 11 in the other), and is pressed closely to the neck of the bottle from
the inside with the aid of a conical pressure piece F by screwing the screw-
sleeve E which carries or bears upon the said pressure piece F. The screw sleeve E
can be screwed on to or unscrewed from the upper part of the delivery tube D,
whilst the stopper G is held up from below by a tightly screwed screw E.
The delivery tube D, leads upwards to a side discharge opening and contains a
small air-tube D¹ (Fig. 5) or N¹ (Fig. 12) which also leads to a side opening,
which latter serves however for admitting air into the bottle, whilst liquid runs
off through the pipe D. So far both forms are similar.
In the first form, Figs. 1 to 10, the pipe D is fastened on to a head-piece B,
which on one side, to the left shown in Fig. 1, is furnished with a lip or spout A
of suitable form, into which the liquid ascending from D enters through the
hollow space B', the channel B and the valve J; (see Figs. 5 and 8); the other
side of the head-piece B is provided with a guiding or controlling contrivance for
the valve J, consisting of a packing washer K which lies on the eage 0, of the
channel B, a packing washer R, lying against the partition wall between the
middle hollow space B₁ and the hollow space Q, a metal disc S, spiral spring T;
piston U, lever C, pressure piece V, link P³, projection P₁, and shutting off
screw W.
The operation of the apparatus for drawing off is as follows;--The lever C is
pressed simply by means of the thumb, the pressure piece V pushes the piston P

page_text: to the left, the valve washer K is lifted from its seat O and the liquid rising in
the pipe D runs out through A; this last mentioned lid or spout being screwed
on to the threaded portion N of the head-piece B. When the apparatus is not
being used, or when the liquid is being drawn off, the guiding rod M is kept
tight on the right side by means of the metal disc S and the elastic washer R,
this latter being under the pressure of the spring T; and whilst the apparatus
is not being used the elastic washer K hermetically closes the channel B₁ to the
left side of the guiding rod M, so that an absolutely hermetical closing is ensured
for gases of all kinds. If the lever O be released from the thumb, the rod M
returns quickly and the stopping is effected automatically at the same moment.
As the liquid runs out a drop is in a manner intersected or cut off in the middle,
at the moment of the supply being turned off so that it is possible in drawing off
to measure to a nicety the quantity so drawn.
In order, during the discharge of the liquid, to admit air into the interior of the
bottle, the finger is pressed, whilst the thumb is pressing on C, against the head
of a pin D, thereby pressing a spiral spring 1), which is held in a recess D⁹,
pushing towards the right side a curved frame D³ (see Figures 5, 9 and 10) which
latter is guided sideways right and left in indentations or notches on the delivery
tube D (Figs. 4 and 10) thereby lifting the elastic packing washer 1³ from the
discharge aperture D of the air tube D. The washer D³ lies in a holder
screwed into the curved frame D³.
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If the finger be removed from the left end of the curved frame, the spring De
will again automatically compress the washer D³. The curved frame 15 is
extended somewhat on the left, so that it can be pushed over the tube D and the
projecting edges or borders D9, then pushed back to the right and into the guiding
grooves 110.
In the second form of the apparatus a second concentric pipe B is pressed tightly
over the delivery tube D (see Fig. 12). This second pipe B is furnished on one
side with a long side opening. J for the delivery and opposite to the same with a
round opening for the admission of air. These two openings correspond with
similar openings in the tube D, so that when the pipe B is rotated by means of
a lever Cattached thereto, the two pairs of openings lie one over the other, and
on the other hand, when a backward rotation is effected, come into a position
such that the openings of the tube D are shut off by means of the walls or sides
of B.
The opening K¹ coincides with the upper open end of an air tube N¹ which rises
in the tube D. Figs. 13 and 14 show a front and rear elevations of the pipe B
with the holes J and K. With these the views of the tube D Figs. 19 and 201
and the horizontal sections Figs. 15 and 16 belonging thereto correspond. In
order to facilitate the pouring out from the aperture J a spout or lip is provided,
which said spout is attached to a third outer concentric tube A', likewise provided
with corresponding openings J and K see Figs. 11, 12 and 17. This tube A!
is made fast to the inner tube D by means of a screw L! and nut M, so that when
B is rotated the tubes D and A¹ remain un-moved.
The automatic backward rotation of the lever O and thereupon of the pipe B³
is effected as follows;-one end of a spiral spring O which surrounds B³ is
fastened by means of a screw. P¹ which passes through a slot in Be, to the tube D,
and the other end is secured to the lever C see Fig 18. If the thumb be then
taken from the lever C, a sudden quick return movement of the pipe B² results
and the last drop of the liquid at the opening will be in a manner intersected or
cut in two.
"At the same time whilst liquid is flowing out at J', air is able to pass into the
interior of the bottle through K and N.
As will appear from the foregoing and as may be seen by the drawings, the
discharging apparatus can be applied in the simplest manner to all kinds of
bottles, is most conveniently handled, and can be just as easily removed, for the
purpose of being used in drawing off liquid from another bottle.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascu.tained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is;-
1. Apparatus for discharging bottles of all kinds, consisting of a delivery
tube D, which in itself forms the material for packing or making tight around
the neck of the bottle, by means of an elastic casing G drawn thereover, which
is held from below by a ring H screwed on to D and from above is compressed
by the screwing down of a screw-sleeve E by means of a cone F so that the
cylindrical wall of the casing lies closely and tightly against the inner wall of
the neck of the bottle, the said delivery tube being provided at the upper end
with a side spout or lip on one side and on the other with an opening for the
admission of air, which latter opening joins on to an air tube in the interior of
the delivery tube D substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
2. In combination with the arrangement mentioned in Claim 1 for the packing
of the apparatus airtightly in the neck of the bottle, the first form of the
contrivance for automatic closing the openings of the delivery tube D and of
the air tube D¹ consisting on the one hand of the mechanism of the lever C, the
guiding rod M and the valve J K on the other hand of the mechanism of
the curved frame D5, the spring support D D7 and the valve 13 whereby
simultaneously with the pouring out by the thumb pressure on the lever C¹ the
opening of the air valve D³ is effected by the finger pressure on the curved
frame D, whilst upon the finger and thumb being withdrawn both valves are
automatically and hermetically closed substantially as described with reference
to Figs. 1 to 10 of the accompanying drawings.
3. In combination w ith the arrangement mentioned in Claim 1 for airtightly
packing the apparatus in the neck of the bottle, the second form or modification
cf the contrivance automatically closing the openings of the delivery tube D and
of the air tube N1, the distinguishing feature of which is the arrangement of
three concentric tubes A', B2, D each of which is furnished with a similar pair of
side openings JK, the outer tube A¹ as well as the inner tube D being firmly
arranged on the apparatus; the middle tube D on the contrary being rotatably
arranged around the axis of the delivery tube and provided with a thumb lever C¹,
so that when the latter is pressed, the tube B2 is rotated around the axis and
thereby the openings J1 K¹ of the three tubes are made coincident, whilst when
tu lever C is released a spring 01 returns the tube B3 automatically thereby
closing the outlet for the liquid as well as the inlet for the air entering the
interior of the bottle substantially as described with reference to Figs. 11 to 20 of
the accompanying drawings.
Dotad this 3rd day of droust 1807