New or Improved Combined Bottle and Drinking Vessel.
Year: 1887

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Combined Bottle and Drinking Vessel.
I DAVID JONES of No. 233 Bloomsbury Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Pattern Maker do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has for its object to combine in one article a bottle or reservoir for
securely storing a potable liquid and a drinking vessel into which the liquid contained
in the reservoir can be transferred and from which it can be drunk.
I prefer to give to the combined bottle and drinking vessel the general figure of a
goblet that is a cylindrical vessel supported on a leg and foot. The body of the
vessel is divided by a nearly vertical division roughly resembling the inverted neck
of a bottle. This part of the body of the vessel is open at top and constitutes the
drinking vessel the oiber and larger part is closed at top and constitutes the bottle or
reservoir. The drinking vessels contracts from the top downwards. For the purpose
of filling the reservoir and protecting its contents from the air and for transferring
its contents to the drinking vessel I place a stopcock or tap at the bottom of the
drinking vessel. The barrel or casing of the said tap is formed of the contracted
lower end of the drinking vessel into which the plug of the tap is fitted by grinding.
The barrel
The port or liquid way crosses the plug which is hollow and open at top.
or casing of the tap has a portway with which the portway in the plug corresponds
when the plug is in its open position. The lower end of the plug is square and
receives the lever by which the tap is operated. The square end of the plug also
carries a closing plate which covers the end of the vent tube hereinafter described and
uncovers the said vent tube when the tap is open. The portway in the barrel of the
tap opens into the reservoir. When the tap is turned into one position the communi-
cation between the reservoir and drinking vessel is opened and when turned through
a quadrant the communication is closed. In the reservoir is a vent tube of small
diameter open both at top and bottom. The top of the said tube opens into the top
of the reservoir and its bottom passes through the bottom of the reservoir and when

page_text: not closed communicates with the atmosphere. This vent tube permits air to pass out
of the reservoir when liquid is entering it and permits air to enter the reservoir when
liquid is passing out of it.
The action of the parts is as follows:-The vessel standing vertically on its foot or
being held in a vertical or nearly vertical position the tap is opened. The communi-
cation between the drinking vessel and reservoir is thereby opened and the bottom
end of the vent pipe in the reservoir is at the same time unclosed. By now pouring
the liquid with which the reservoir is to be filled into the drinking vessel the said
liquid passes into the reservoir air escaping from the reservoir by the vent pipe.
When the reservoir is filled (which is indicated by the liquid passing down the vent
pipe) the tap is shut when the communication between the reservoir and drinking
vessel is closed the vent pipe being simultaneously closed. The liquid remaining in
the drinking vessel may be poured out of it. When it is wished to drink or pour out
the liquid in the reservoir it is only necessary to open the tap. The communication
between the reservoir and drinking vessel is opened and the end of the vent tube
uncovered.
The liquid in the reservoir passes into the drinking vessel air entering the reservoir
by the vent tube. By applying the edge of the drinking vessel to the lips as in the
use of a tumbler or wine glass and inclining the vessel the whole of the contents of
the reservoir may be drunk from the said drinking vessel or by inclining the vessel
its contents may be poured out if desired into another vessel.
Dated this Second day of November 1887.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: A New or Improved Combined Bottle and Drinking Vessel.
I DAVID JONES of No. 233 Bloomsbury Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, Pattern Maker do hereby declare the nature of my Invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:—
My invention has for its object to combine in one article a bottle or reservoir for
securely storing a potable liquid and a drinking vessel into which the liquid contained
in the reservoir can be transferred and from which it can be drunk.
I prefer to give to the combined bottle and drinking vessel the general figure of a
goblet, that is, a cylindrical vessel supported on a leg and foot. The body of the
vessel is divided by a nearly vertical division roughly resembling the inverted neck of
a bottle. This part of the body of the vessel is open at top and constitutes the
drinking vessel the other and larger part is closed at top and constitutes the bottle
or reservoir. The drinking vessel contracts from the top downwards. For the
purpose of filling the reservoir and protecting its contents from the air and for
transferring its contents to the drinking vessel I place a stop cock or tap at tho
bottom of the drinking vessel. The barrel or casing of the said tap is formed of
the contracted lower end of the drinking vessel into which the plug of the tap is
fitted by grinding. Or the tap barrel or casing may be made in a separate block
fixed at the lower end of the drinking vessel. The port or liquid way crosses the
plug which is hollow and open at top. "The barrel or casing of the tap has a portway
with which the portway in the plug corresponds when the plug is in its open position.
The lower end of the plug is square and receives the lever by which the tap is
operated. The tap lever also carries a closing plate which covers the end of the vent
tube herein after described and uncovers the said vent tube when the tap is open.
The portway in the barrel of the tap opens into the reservoir. When the tap is
turned into one position the communication between the reservoir and drinking vessel
is opened and when turned through a quadrant the communication is closed. In
the reservoir is a vent tube of small diameter open both at top and bottom. The top
of the said tube opens into the top of the reservoir and its bottom passes through the
bottom of the reservoir and when not closed communicates with the atmosphere.
This vent tube permits air to pass out of the reservoir when liquid is entering it and
permits air to enter the reservoir when liquid is passing out of it.
The action of the parts is as follows. The vessel standing vertically on its foot or
being held in a vertical or nearly vertical position the tap is opened. The communica-
tion between the drinking vessel and reservoir is thereby opened and the bottom end
of the vent pipe in the reservoir is at the same time unclosed. By now pouring the
liquid with which the reservoir is to be filled into the drinking vessel the said liquid
passes into the reservoir, air escaping from the reservoir by the vent pipe. When
the reservoir is filled (which is indicated by the liquid passing down the vent pipe)
the tap is shut when the communication between the reservoir and drinking vessel is

page_text: closed the vent pipe being simultaneously closed. The liquid remaining in the drinking
vessel may be poured out of it. When it is wished to drink or pour out tho
liquid in the reservoir it is only necessary to open the tap. The communication
between the reservoir and drinking vessel is opened and the end of the vent tube
uncovered. The liquid in the reservoir passes into the drinking vessel, air entering
the reservoir by the vent tube. By applying the edge of the drinking vessel to the
lips as in the use of a tumbler or wine glass and inclining the vessel the whole of
the contents of the reservoir may be drunk from the said drinking vessel; or by
inclining the vessel its contents may be poured out if desired into another vessel.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the
manner in which my invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in vertical section; Figure 2 in plan of upper side; Figure 3
in elevation and Figure 4 in plan of under side a combined bottle and drinking
vessel constructed according to my invention; Figure 5 represents details of the said
combined bottle and drinking vessel detached as herein after described and Figure 6
represents a portion of the combined bottle and drinking vessel with a modified
foot.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the
Drawing.
a is the drinking vessel and the bottle or reservoir, the two parts a and b being
divided by the nearly vertical divisions c. The driving vessel a is open at top and
contracts from the top downwards as represented and the bottle or reservoir is closed i
at top (see Figure 1). The external figure of the combined bottle and drinking vessel
is nearly cylindrical (see Figure 3) and is supported on the tripod foot d (Figures 1, 3
and 4) or on the foot. e shown in Figure 6: is the vent tube in the reservoir open
at top and bottom. It will be seen by reference to Figure 1. that the vent tube e opons
into the top of the reservoir 6 and its bottom passes through the bottom of the
reservoir and when not closed communicates with the atmosphere. By the use of the
said vent tube e air is permitted to pass out of the reservoir. when liquid is entering
it and air to enter the reservoir when liquid is passing out of it is the tap or stop-
cock (shown detached in Figure 5) situated at the bottom of the drinking vessel a
the said tap working in the block (shown separately in Figure 5) constituting the
barrel or casing of the tap. The plug of the tap is hollow at top and opens into the
drinking vessel a and the said hollow part communicates with the cross port or liquid
way in the plug of the said tap. In the barrel or casing is a portway h the
ends of which open into the reservoir b. The portway in the barrel or casing is
best seen in the separate view of the barrel or casing represented in Figure 5. When
the plug of the tap or stop cock is turned so as to open the tap, the port or liquid
way in it corresponds with the portway in the barrel y and communication between
the drinking vessel a and the reservoir is established. The tap fis opened and
closed by the lever i fixed on the square end of the plug by the screw nut k. On the
said lever i is a closing plate 2 by which the bottom of the vent tube e is uncovered
when the tap is opened and covered when the tap is closed. In Figures 1, 3 and 4,
the tap is represented open and the vent tube e uncovered by the plate. When the
tap lever is turned through an angle of about 90 degrees for closing the tap its
plate is brought over and closes the bottom of the vent tube e as indicated in dotted
lines in Figure 4.
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The
The combined bottle and drinking vessel is used in the following manner.
combined article being in the vertical position Figure I either standing on its foot or
being held by the hand in that position, the tap is opened by turning the lever i into
the position represented in Figure 4. The communication between the drinking
vessel a and reservoir is thereby opened through the port and portway and the
vent tube e is uncovered. Liquid is now poured into the drinking vessel a which
liquid passes into the reservoir b through the open liquid way and portway h, air
escaping from the reservoir into the atmosphere through the open bottom of the
vent tube e. As soon as the reservoir is filled with the liquid which is indicated by
liquid escaping from the lower end of the vent tube e the lap fis closed by bringing

page_text: the lever i into the position indicated in Figure 4, when communication between the
reservoir and drinking vessel is cut off and the vent tube e simultaneously closed.
The liquid which has been poured into the drinking vessel a beyond that necessary to
fill the reservoir & may now be poured from it. The reservoir b
may however be filled
by the use of a syphon opening into the hollow part of the plug instead of pouring
the liquid into the drinking vessel. In order to pour out or drink the liquid thus
stored in the reservoir b the tapfis opened and the vent tube e uncovered. The liquid
now passes from the reservoir into the drinking vessel through the open way f³ and
portway and air enters the said reservoir by the vent tube e as will be understood
by an examination of Figure 1. The contents of the drinking vessel may be drunk
by applying the lips to the edge of the said vessel and inclining it as in the use of a
tumbler or wine glass.
The drinking vessel a when made of glass may be graduated so as to measure in
the said drinking vessel the quantity of liquid drawn from the reservoir b. As it is
difficult to form the outer lip of the drinking vessel when made of glass in one piece
with the body of the bottle the said outer lip may be made separately and afterwards
attached in any convenient way to the body of the bottle. When the reservoir is to
be filled with aerated liquids or liquids under pressure the vent tube may be dispensed
with.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention -
A now or improved combined bottle and drinking vessel the parts of which are
constructed combined and used substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated
in the accompanying Drawing.