Improvements in Portable Vessels for use in Preserving and Drawing off Liquids.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 10th Sept., 1897-Accepted. 23rd Oct. 1897
[Commun
ad by EMIL LYCHENHEIM of Schwartau, near Lubeck,
in the German Empire, Brewery Proprietor.]
Improvements in Portable Vessels for use in Preserving and Drawing
off Liquids.
I, HENRY HARINGTON LEIGH, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., Fel. Ch. Inst. P.A., F.I.
Inst., practising as Phillips and Leigh of No. 22 Southampton Buildings, Chancery
Lane, in the Administrative County of London, Engineer and Patent Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows.
This invention relates to improvements in portable vessels for use in preserving
and drawing off liquids, particularly for domestic use, and refers more especially
to that class of such vessels, which are composed of a chamber for containing
the liquid to be drawn off and of a chamber for containing the expelling agent,
such as carbonic acid gas. The invention consists of certain novel features of
construction and arrangement of the chamber containing the expelling agent
and of the reducing valve in the pipe leading therefrom.
In this improved portable vessel, the chamber containing the expelling agent
is a tubular ring suitably shaped so as to form the base or support of the chamber
containing the liquid. The valve, conveniently employed for reducing the
pressure of the gas designed for entering the liquid chamber, is arranged within
the unoccupied central space of the said ring. In consequence of this arrange-
ment, the said reducing or pressure regulating valve is easily accessible and yet
protected against outer influences. Moreover, the said arrangement allows of
absolutely air-or-gas-tight connections between the reducing valve, the pressure
pipe and the pressure chamber or ring, respectively.
The ring chamber containing the expelling agent may be detachably connected
or united with the liquid chamber by any suitable means, so that the said parts
may be dismounted or removed from each other.
The head piece or cover closing the liquid chamber or vessel is provided with
a suitable discharge pipe in communication with a suitable tap, for instance with
a tap having a fixed plug and a moveable casing in order to prevent dropping.
A separate stop cock or cut off valve may be provided between the discharge pipe
and the tap.
The pressure pipe of the expelling agent is connected with the dome shaped
head piece, by any suitable means, for instance, by a screw-cap, so that the said
agent having passed a suitable stop cock, enters the head piece and the liquid
chamber, respectively. The head piece may also be provided with a suitable
safety valve.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Portable Vessels for use in Preserving and Drawing
off Liquids.
I, HENRY HARINGTON LEIGH, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., Fel. Ch. Inst. P.A., F.I.
Inst., practising as l'hillips and Leigh of No. 22 Southampton Buildings, Chancery
Lane, in the Administrative County of London, Engineer and l'atent Agent, 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 to improvements in portable vessels for use in preserving
and drawing off liquids, particularly for domestic use, and refers more especially
to that class of such vessels, which are composed of a chamber for containing
the liquid to be drawn off and of a chamber for containing the expelling agent,
such as carbonic acid gas. The invention consists of certain novel features of
construction and arrangement of the chamber containing the expelling agent
and of the reducing valve in the pipe leading therefrom.
In this improved portable vessel, shown in the accompanying drawing in
vertical section, the chamber containing the expelling agent is a tubular ring a
suitably shaped so as to form the base or support of the chamber 6 containing
the liquid. The valve c, conveniently employed for reducing the pressure of
the gas designed for entering the liquid chamber b, is arranged within the un-
occupied central space of the said ring. In consequence of this arrangement,
the said reducing or pressure regulating valve c is easily accessible and yet pro-
tected against outer influences. Moreover, the said arrangement allows of
absolutely air-or-gas-tight connections between the reducing valve c, the pressure
pipe d and the pressure chamber or ring a, respectively.
The ring chamber a containing the expelling agent may be provided with
suitable feet a¹ and detachably connected or united with the liquid chamber b
by any suitable means, so that the said parts may be dismounted or removed
from each other. In the example shown the said connection between the two
chambers is effected by means of rods g hinged to the ring chamber a and screwed
to a ring piece h resting upon the upper edge of the liquid chamber b.
The head piece or cover b¹ closing the liquid chamber or vessel b is provided
with a suitable discharge pipe e in communication with a suitable tap el, for
instance with a tap having a fixed plug and a moveable casing in order to prevent
dropping. A separate stop cock or cut off valve e³ may be provided between the
discharge pipe e and the tap el.
The pressure pipe d of the expelling agent is connected with the dome shaped
head piece b, by any suitable means, for instance, by a screw-cap i, so that the
said agent having passed a suitable stop cock d¹, enters the head piece and the
liquid chamber, respectively. The head piece may also be provided with a suitable
safety valve k.
The head piece b₁ may be attached to or fixed in the opening or mouth of the.
vessel 6 in the following manner. The mouth or opening of the vessel b is
lined with a suitable ring 1; within this ring is placed the head piece b¹ resting
upon a suitable shoulder of the latter and held in place by pins or studs pro-
jecting from the ring, these pins in connection with suitable notches or recesses
(not shown in the drawing) in the edge of the head piece form a kind of bayonet-
clutch. The air-or-gas-tight connection between the said parts is obtained by
means of a packing ring m of India rubber or any other elastic material and a screw

page_text: ring n arranged upon the head piece and adapted to act in well known manner
upon the elastic ring m placed in the annular space between the head piece b
and the lining ring
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:-
A portable vessel for use in preserving and drawing off liquids provided with
a pressure chamber arranged under the liquid chamber thereby characterized
by the pressure chamber consisting of a hollow or tubular ring (a) and the
reducing valve (c) of the pressure pipe (d) arranged within the unoccupied
central space of the tubular ring (a), the said reducing valve being thereby easily
accessible and yet protected against outer influences, substantially as and for the
purpose set forth.
Dated this 10th day of Sentember 1897
HENRY H. LEIGH, C.P.A.