Improvements in and relating to Siphons for Aërated Water Bottles or the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 26th Mar., 1892
COMPLETE STEGITIGATION.
Improvements in and relating to Siphons for Aërated Water Bottles
or the like.
A communication by THE NORWEGIAN SIPHON COMPANY, LIMITED, of "
Christiania, in the Kingdom of Norway.
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I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6 Bank Street,
Manchester both in the County of Lancaster & 323 High Holborn in the County
of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, 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 certain improvements in siphons for bottles containing
mineral waters, etc., and especially has for its object to simplify the construction of
such siphons so as to reduce the number of parts and thereby the cost of manu-
facturing the same.
The invention consists in the arrangement and combination of parts as well as in
the construction of the several parts constituting the improved apparatus and will
be more specifically described in the following Specification, reference being had to
the annexed drawings, which illustrate by way of example a few constructions of
the improved siphon according to this invention.
Figure 1. is a longitudinal section through a bottle provided with the improved
siphon attachment.
Figure 2. illustrates a modification, and
Figures 3, 4, and 5 indicate other ways of fastening the siphon arrangement to
the bottle.
S is the siphon-tube, which is, at the point where the elbow spouts branches off,
provided with a perforated extension, through which the valve stem T passes. The
stem T is at its upper end provided with a button or knob t, and at its lower end
with a disc v serving as holder for the valve V. This valve V is shown in the form
of a cone but it may also be of a disc, bell or other suitable shape, and may be
made of india rubber or other suitable material and closes the pipe opening by the
pressure of the gas in the bottle.
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The packing or joint around the stem at its exit above is established by means of
an annular piece (preferably conical and of rubber or similar yielding substance)
and, between the knob t and the washer o on the said plug, there is laid a spiral
spring that will transfer the pressnre of the finger and the knob to the elastic-
plug, thereby compressing this latter and securing the tightening around the
stem at the moment when the valve is opened and the fluid passes out through
the pipe.
Instead of placing the valve at the lower end of the pipe S, it may also be placed.
at a higher point, whereby the length of the valve-stem is reduced. In Figure 1,
as well as in Figure 2, the siphon pipe is fastened to the bottle by means of a screw-
plug P in one piece with the pipe, which plug is screwed into threads in the bottle,
a rubber ring R being laid between the flange p and the top of the bottle for
making a tight joint. As is usual for common corked bottles, a wire may be bound
over the flange and around the bottle neck, so as to absolutely secure it against
loosening. As shown in Figure 1, the pipe S and the plug P are cast or otherwise
made in one single piece; but in Figure 2 the pipe S is made of glass and is fixed
to a short pipes made in one piece with the plug P. At the point where the valve
is placed, the glass tube is enlarged as shown at u. In Figure 2, also, there is
used, instead of a washer, a cap of which fits over the extension and is adapted to

page_text: tighten the plug r, this cap being provided with screw-threads so that it may be
screwed down.
The above described siphon arrangement may be used for bottles of any kind
and with the most different kinds of stoppers. Figures 3 to 5 inclusive show, as
examples, a few constructions.
Referring to Figure 3-
The plug A. is provided with two flange-projections a over which hooks are
laid, these hooks being formed on arms B, which may be swung upon a wire C
laid around the bottle-neck; a wire e secures the hooks in their locking
position.
According to Figure 4, the arms B are replaced by two swinging screw bolts B
with nuts 6, the flanges on the plug being provided with slots a for the bolts to
pass into.
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Figure 5 shows an arrangement in which the siphon pipe is simply put through
à cork, the tightening being secured by means of a collar d on the pipe (having a
concave underside) the edge of which is pressed down into the cork and secured in
the usual way by means of a wire. More examples might be mentioned, but it will
be easily understood that the arrangements may be varied in the most different
ways without necessitating any substantial alteration of the siphon attachment.
It will also be understood that all kinds of materials may be used for the manu-
facture of the same, such as metals of suitable qualities, glass, porcelain, rubber,
celluloid, either alone or combined, and that the form and construction of the details
will have to be varied according thereto.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In a siphon attachment for bottles, the combination substantially as described
with the siphon pipe of a valve stem having a button or knob at the top, and at
its lower end, a valve which closes under the action of the pressure within the
bottle, but which is opened by depressing the button aforesaid on the top of
the stem.
2. In a siphon attachment for bottles, the combination substantially as described,
with the valve stem and the siphon pipe, of a spiral spring laid around the stem
and between the knob of the valve stem and the packing or tightening plug of the
siphon pipe.
3. In a siphon-bottle, the several arrangements of attaching the siphou pipe to
the bottle substantially as described with reference to Figures 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of
the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 25th day of February 1895
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.