Improvements relating to Bottles, Jugs, and similar Receptacles for Keeping their Contents Cool.
Year: 1891

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Bottles, Jugs, and similar Receptacles for
Keeping their Contents Cool.
A communication from abroad by Messrs. BÖHRINGER & Co., Zuffenhousen, in
Wurtemberg, Glass Manufacturers.
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, and 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:-
The object of this invention is to provide means for keeping cool the various liquid
contents of bottles, jars and similar receptacles employed for storing and serving
the same without the need of having to place such receptacles in ice buckets, water
holders etc.
The improved means consist in arranging or providing a space inside the vessel,
accessible from the outside, for receiving ice or other suitable refrigerating or
cooling mixture, whilst the outer shape of the vessel is not thereby affected in the
least, so that such bottles or vessels are especially suitable for vessels or receptacles
for holding beer, wine, medicine etc. and also for table use.
The annexed drawing shows a decanter and a jug formed according to this
invention.
Figure 1. shows a decanter a, in the interior of which a suitably shaped receptacle
such as a cylinder 6 closed at top, is situated. This is formed in one piece with the
bottom of the decanter and is provided with a screw thread'd in its lower open
end which end is closed by means of a glass or metal screw plug e.
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A ring of indiarubber or similar material inserted between the stopper and the
bottom produces an absolutely tight closing of the cylinder. This latter is filled
with pieces of ice or a suitable cooling or freezing mixture, and is surrounded by
the liquid contained in the decanter a, for instance beer, wine, water, liqueur etc.,
which latter is thereby kept quite cool. As the cylinder is practically
hermetically closed when there is ice in the cylinder such will not melt so soon.
In Figure 2, which shows a jug, the cylinder bis made movable or separate from
the body a. The bottom c of the jug, is for this purpose perforated and provided
with an internal screw thread d; the cylinder b, which has an internal and external
thread and rim f, is screwed into this threaded bottom dc and is closed by
means of a screw stopper e in the same way as in Figure 1. The tightness of the
joint between the jug bottom and the cylinder is likewise secured by means of an
elastic ring.
By the use of a movable or separate cylinder, the vessel a and the cylinder b
may be made of different materials, for instance, the vessel may be of glass, or
porcelain, and the cylinder of metal, or vice versa, also cylinders freshly filled with
ice etc., can be kept ready prepared for quickly replacing used up ones.
The above described cooling device is applicable to vessels of any size, shape,
or material.
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.
The improvements relating to bottles, jugs, and similar receptacles for keeping
their contents cool consisting in arranging or providing a hollow suitably shaped
receptacle (b) in the interior of the bottle, jug, etc. in one piece with the bottom of

page_text: the same or movable or separate therefrom, closed at the top and open below, and
which receptacle is to be filled with ice or other suitable refrigerating or cooling
mixture, and is. hermetically closed by means of a screw plug or in any other
suitable way.
Datod i 2011 1 Tune 1901
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.