Improvements in or connected with Opening Aërated Water Bottles.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 21st June, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Mar., 1891-Accepted, 25th Apr., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Opening Aërated Water
Bottles.
We, ALFRED THOMPSON, of No. 71, Richard's Terrace. Cardiff, in the County
of Glamorgan, Timber Measurer, and WILLIAM DAVIES, No. 47. Richard's
Terrace, Cardiff, in the County of Glamorgan, Coal Inspector, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to effect improvements for more effectually
opening such bottles as contain aerated waters. It is well known that when bottles
are opened in the usual way, the liquid is forced out through the neck of the
bottle by the sudden escape of the imprisoned gases, thus causing not only a
considerable amount of waste, but spilling the contents in a mest undesirable way.
It is also a well known fact that the same bottles if held at certain angles and the
stopper then pushed in, or the cork withdrawn, the gases escape easily, and the
liquid may be drawn freely without a particle of it being spilled. Our invention
consists in making a suitable cradle for holding the bottles at the necessary angle,
and attaching these to a pusher or lever-arrangement, as may be found most conve-
nient for forcing the stopper inward, or the apparatus may be complete in itself,
with such an appliance, thus enabling any one to use the ordinary pusher as held
in the hand for forcing inward the plug or glass marble, or such stopper as may be
in use.
For the purpose of extracting corks, instead of the pusher-arrangement before
described, any corkscrew or other extracting device may be used. The whole appliance
we prefer to make entirely of metal, but do not confine ourselves thereto as it can
be made in the form of a basket, or it may be made of wood, or any suitable
material.
Dated this 21st day of June 1890.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Opening Aërated Water
Bottles.
We, ALFRED THOMPSON, of No. 71, Richard's Terrace, Cardiff, in the County
of Glamorgan, Timber Measurer, and WILLIAM DAVIES, of No. 47, Richard's
Terrace, Cardiff, in the County of Glamorgan, Coal Inspector, 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:
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The object of this invention is to effect improvements for more effectually opening
such bottles as contain aërated waters. It is well known that when bottles are
opened in the usual way, the liquid is forced out through the neck by the sudden
escape, of the imprisoned gases, thus causing not only a considerable amount of
waste, but spilling the contents in a most undesirable way. It is also a well known
fact that when the same bottles are held at certain angles and the stopper then
pushed in, or the cork withdrawn, the gases escape easily, and the liquid may be
drawn freely without a particle of it being spilled.
In order that our invention, and the means by which the same is to be carried
into practical effect, may be thoroughly understood, we will describe them in detail,
referring in so doing to the accompanying drawings which are to be taken as part
of this Specification and read therewith.

page_text: Figure 2 a sectional side elevation.
Figure 3 is an end elevation.
A is the bottle of aerated waters, shewn as fitted with an internal stopper a. B is
a cradle in which the bottle lies, supported at a proper angle by a rest b. C is a
pusher worked in suitable guides e, e in the front end of the cradle, and which are
aligned with the axis of the stopper a. D is a returning spring.
Our invention does not confine us to the special construction of push-piece illus-
trated, inasmuch as it may be of a lever-type inside of a push-piece driven in a
single straight line; or the push piece or lever may be adapted to be used with the
ordinary separate opening cap.
For the purpose of extracting corks, instead of the pusher arrangement before
described, any cork-screw or other extracting devices may be used. The whole
appliance we prefer to make entirely of metal, but we do not confine ourselves
thereto as it can be made in the form of a basket, or it may be made of wood, or any
suitable material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. The combination of cradle adapted to hold a bottle at a certain angle with
the horizontal and a device for removing the stopper or cork, as set forth.
2. The combination of cradle, internal stopper held therein at a certain angle
with the horizontal, and a push-piece aligned axially with the stopper, as set
forth.
3. The combination of a cradle, internal stopper held therein at a certain
angle with the horizontal, and a lever device for pushing in the stopper, as
set forth.
4. The combination of cradle and extracting device adapted for use on corked
bottles, as set forth.
Dated this 23rd day of March 1801
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
22, Southampton Buildings, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.