Apparatus to be Applied to Casks or other Vessels to Preserve the Liquid Contents of same.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 24th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 25th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus to be Applied to Casks or other Vessels to Preserve the
Liquid Contents of same.
I, MARCELIN BERDIER TALEBOT of 130 Rue d'Ornano, Bordeaux, France,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be follows:-
as
My invention consists of an apparatus the object of which is the absolute
preservation of the quality and quantity of the liquids contained in casks or other
vessels whether such liquids be fermented or not, alcoholic or not. They are
protected against the action of the ambient air and against all secondary
fermentations. Wines, fermented liquors in general and alcohols thus preserved
under these conditions can only improve in ageing.
The apparatus comprises a chamber adapted to screw either upon an appropriate
hollow bung or upon any suitable part of the vessel. This chamber is fitted
with a tube or syphon to communicate with the interior of the cask and is filled
with sterilized cotton, hemp, charcoal or other suitable material.
The chamber is preferably of tinned copper in one piece and in the form of a
truncated cone.
Near the large end which is closed is fitted a tube in the form
of a syphon which passes out at the under side and has a screw threaded part.
The tube is in one with a washer which is fixed to the chamber by means of
rivets and by solder to prevent leakage. The chamber is closed at the small end
by a movable cap or cover which is preferably attached to it by a bayonet joint and
is formed with small holes which give access to the outer air when necessary. As
a complementary part of the apparatus I combine with this chamber and syphon
a special bung preferably of bronze, tinned or plated with nickel or silver.
has a square part to allow of its being turned by a key for screwing it into or
unscrewing it from the bung hole. The bung is hollow internally to receive the
liquid when it expands and has a screw threaded aperture into which the syphon
tube is screwed. When the apparatus is removed from the cask for transport or
otherwise the aperture in the bung can be closed by means of a screw plug.
It
The syphon tube has, a little below its screw thread, four or other suitable
number of holes which facilitate the passage of air in case the lower orifice of the
tube should be stopped by a body floating on the liquid.
Owing to the syphon form of the tube it can only be the excess gas in the vessel
which reaches the top of the syphon bend. Carbonic acid when not in excess does
not injure the liquor; on the contrary it serves to protect it against any.
communication with air currents that may pass through the bung. If the carbonic
acid is in excess it rises in the tube drawing with it liquid molecules composed of
water and essential oils; but these liquid molecules cannot pass over the top of the
syphon curve and they fall back into the vessel. The gas alone escapes from the
syphon ; it passes into the chamber and finally passes out through the small holes
at the end. Owing to the arrangement of the chamber relatively to the syphon
tube there is constant equilibrium of pressures which renders currents of air in the
liquid impossible. If any disturbance of this equilibrium is produced by an escape
or leakage of liquid the air which enters the vessel to re-establish the equilibrium
becomes deprived of all impurities, spores and the like in passing through the
packing of sterilized cotton, hemp, charcoal or other sterilized material.
This apparatus ensures the preservation of the liquors as regards brightness,
bouquet, aroma and sapidity; it also allows of the fermentation of musts out of
contact with the atmospheric air.
Dated this 24th day of January 1893.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus to be Applied to Casks or other Vessels to Preserve "the
Liquid Contents of same.
I, MARCELIN BERDIER TALEBOT of 130 Rue d'Ornano, Bordeaux, France,.
Manufacturer, 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:-
My invention consists of an apparatus the object of which is the absolute
preservation of the quality and quantity of the liquids contained in casks or other
vessels whether such liquids be fermented or not, alcoholic or not. They are by my
apparatus protected against the action of the ambient air and against all secondary
fermentations. Wines, fermented liquors in general and alcohols preserved under
these conditions can only improve in ageing.
The apparatus comprises a chamber adapted to screw either upon an appropriate
hollow bung or upon any suitable part of the vessel. This chamber is fitted with a
tube or syphon to communicate with the interior of the cask, and is filled with
sterilized cotton, hemp, charcoal or other suitable material.
The construction of the apparatus, its operation and the advantages derived
from it will be fully understood by the following description and the annexed
drawings therein referred to.
Figures 1 and 2 show in side view and plan respectively the apparatus applied to
the bung of a cask. The other figures of the drawings represent on a larger scale
the several parts of the apparatus.
C
The apparatus consists (see the section, Figure 3 and the plan Figure 4) of a
chamber A of tinned copper in one piece and in the form of a truncated cone.
Near the large end a which is closed is fitted a tube B in the form of a syphon
which passes out at the under side and has a screw threaded part b. The tube B
is in one with a washer c which is fixed to the chamber A by means of two rivets d d
and by solder to prevent leakage. The chamber A is closed at the small end by a
movable cap or cover e which is preferably attached to it by a bayonet joint. As
seen in Figure 5 which is a face view of the cap e it is formed with small holes f
which give access to the outer air when necessary. As a complementary part of
the apparatus I combine with this chamber and syphon a special bung C represented
in section in Figure 6 and in plan in Figure 7. This bung is preferably of bronze,
tinned, or plated with nickel or silver, and has a square part h to allow of the bung
being turned by a key for screwing it into or unscrewing it from the bung hole.
The bung is hollow internally to receive the liquid when it expands. It has a
screw threaded aperture k into which the syphon tube (Figure 3) is screwed, the
part 6 screwing into the part k. When the apparatus is removed from the cask for
transport or otherwise the aperture k can be closed by means of a screw plug
(Figure 8).
The syphon tube B has, a little below the screw thread b, four or other suitable
number of holes o which facilitate the passage of air in case the lower orifice & of
the tube should be stopped by a body floating on the liquid.
As the apparatus screws into the plug as shown there can be no passage of the
ambient air between these parts.
Owing to the syphon form of the tube B it can only be the excess gas in the
vessel which reaches the top of the syphou bend. Carbonic acid when not in
excess does not injure the liquor; on the contrary it serves to protect it against any
communication with air currents that may pass through the bung. If the carbonic
acid is in excess it rises in the tube drawing with it liquid molecules composed of
water and essential oils; but these liquid molecules cannot pass over the top of the
syphon curve, and they fall back into the vessel. The gas alone escapes from the
syphon; it passes into the chamber A and finally passes out through the small

page_text: holes at the end. Owing to the arrangement of the chamber A relatively to the
syphon tube B there is constant equilibrium of pressures, which renders currents of
air in the liquid impossible. If any disturbance of this equilibrium should be
produced by an escape or leakage of liquid the air which enters the vessel to
re-establish the equilibrium becomes deprived of all impurities, spores and the like
in passing through the packing of sterilized cotton, hemp, charcoal or other
sterilized material.
This apparatus ensures the preservation of the liquors as regards brightness,
bouquet, aroma and sapidity, and it also allows of the fermentation of musts out of
contact with the atmospheric air.
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 :-
An apparatus to be applied to casks or other vessels to preserve the liquid
contents of same, the said apparatus consisting of a horizontal chamber in the form
of a truncated cone filled with a sterilized packing or filtering material, the said
chamber-having orifices at its smaller end and being closed at its larger end and
receiving near this end a tube of syphon form which passes out of the chamber and
is screw threaded for the purpose of enabling it to be screwed into a metallic bung
made for the purpose or into an ordinary bung in the cask or other vessel or into
any other suitable part of the vessel substantially as and for the purpose
hereinbefore described.
Dated this 24th day of October 1893.
J. C. MEWBURN,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent.

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 24th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 25th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus to be Applied to Casks or other Vessels to Preserve the
Liquid Contents of same.
I, MARCELIN BERDIER TALEBOT of 130 Rue d'Ornano, Bordeaux, France,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of an apparatus the object of which is the absolute
preservation of the quality and quantity of the liquids contained in casks or other
vessels whether such liquids be fermented or not, alcoholic or not. They are
protected against the action of the ambient air and against all secondary
fermentations. Wines, fermented liquors in general and alcohols thus preserved
under these conditions can only improve in ageing.
.
The apparatus comprises a chamber adapted to screw either upon an appropriate
hollow bung or upon any suitable part of the vessel. This chamber is fitted
with a tube or syphon to communicate with the interior of the cask and is filled
with sterilized cotton, hemp, charcoal or other suitable material.
As
The chamber is preferably of tinned copper in one piece and in the form of a
truncated cone. Near the large end which is closed is fitted a tube in the form
of a syphon which passes out at the under side and has a screw threaded part.
The tube is in one with a washer which is fixed to the chamber by means of
rivets and by solder to prevent leakage. The chamber is closed at the small end
by a movable cap or cover which is preferably attached to it by a bayonet joint and
is formed with small holes which give access to the outer air when necessary.
a complementary part of the apparatus I combine with this chamber and syphon
a special bung preferably of bronze, tinned or plated with nickel or silver. It
has a square part to allow of its being turned by a key for screwing it into or
unscrewing it from the bung hole. The bung is hollow internally to receive the
liquid when it expands and has a screw threaded aperture into which the syphon
tube is screwed. When the apparatus is removed from the cask for transport or
otherwise the aperture in the bung can be closed by means of a screw plug.
The syphon tube has, a little below its screw thread, four or other suitable
number of holes which facilitate the passage of air in case the lower orifice of the
tube should be stopped by a body floating on the liquid.
Owing to the syphon form of the tube it can only be the excess gas in the vessel
which reaches the top of the syphon bend. Carbonic acid when not in excess does
not injure the liquor; on the contrary it serves to protect it against any
communication with air currents that may pass through the bung. If the carbonic
acid is in excess it rises in the tube drawing with it liquid molecules composed of
water and essential oils; but these liquid molecules cannot pass over the top of the
syphon curve and they fall back into the vessel. The gas alone escapes from the
syphon; it passes into the chamber and finally passes out through the small holes
at the end. Owing to the arrangement of the chamber relatively to the syphon
tube there is constant equilibrium of pressures which renders currents of air in the
liquid impossible. If any disturbance of this equilibrium is produced by an escape
or leakage of liquid the air which enters the vessel to re-establish the equilibrium
becomes deprived of all impurities, spores and the like in passing through the
packing of sterilized cotton, hemp, charcoal or other sterilized material.
This apparatus ensures the preservation of the liquors as regards brightness,
bouquet, aroma and sapidity; it also allows of the fermentation of musts out of
contact with the atmospheric air.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus to be Applied to Casks or other Vessels to Preserve the
Liquid Contents of same.
I, MARCELIN BERDIER TALEBOT of 130 Rue d'Ornano, Bordeaux, France,
Manufacturer, 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 :-
My invention consists of an apparatus the object of which is the absolute
preservation of the quality and quantity of the liquids contained in casks or other
vessels whether such liquids be fermented or not, alcoholic or not. They are by my
apparatus protected against the action of the ambient air and against all secondary
fermentations. Wines, fermented liquors in general and alcohols preserved under
these conditions can only improve in ageing.
The apparatus comprises a chamber adapted to screw either upon an appropriate
hollow bung or upon any suitable part of the vessel. This chamber is fitted with a
tube or syphon to communicate with the interior of the cask, and is filled with
sterilized cotton, hemp, charcoal or other suitable material.
The construction of the apparatus, its operation and the advantages derived
from it will be fully understood by the following description and the annexed
drawings therein referred to.
Figures 1 and 2 show in side view and plan respectively the apparatus applied to
the bung of a cask. The other figures of the drawings represent on a larger scale
the several parts of the apparatus.
The apparatus consists (see the section, Figure and the plan Figure 4) of a
chamber A of tinned copper in one piece and in the form of a truncated cone.
Near the large end a which is closed is fitted a tube B in the form of a syphon
which passes out at the under side and has a screw threaded part b. The tube B
is in one with a washer c which is fixed to the chamber A by means of two rivets dd
and by solder to prevent leakage. The chamber A is closed at the small end by a
movable cap or cover e which is preferably attached to it by a bayonet joint. As
seen in Figure 5 which is a face view of the cap e it is formed with small holes f
which give access to the outer air when necessary. As a complementary part of
the apparatus I combine with this chamber and syphon a special bung C represented
in section in Figure 6 and in plan in Figure 7. This bung is preferably of bronze,
tinned, or plated with nickel or silver, and has a square part h to allow of the bung
being turned by a key for screwing it into or unscrewing it from the bung hole.
The bung is hollow internally to receive the liquid when it expands. It has a
screw threaded aperture k into which the syphon tube (Figure 3) is screwed, the
part 6 screwing into the part k. When the apparatus is removed from the cask for
transport or otherwise the aperture k can be closed by means of a screw plug
(Figure 8).
of
The syphon tube B has, a little below the screw thread 6, four or other suitable
number of holes o which facilitate the passage of air in case the lower orifice
the tube should be stopped by a body floating on the liquid.
As the apparatus screws into the plug as shown there can be no passage of the
ambient air between these parts.
Owing to the syphon form of the tube B it can only be the excess gas in the
vessel which reaches the top of the syphou bend. Carbonic acid when not in
excess does not injure the liquor; on the contrary it serves to protect it against any
communication with air currents that may pass through the bung. If the carbonic
acid is in excess it rises in the tube drawing with it liquid molecules composed of
water and essential oils; but these liquid molecules cannot pass over the top of the
syphon curve, and they fall back into the vessel. The gas alone escapes from the
syphon; it passes into the chamber A and finally passes out through the small

page_text: holes at the end. Owing to the arrangement of the chamber A relatively to the
syphon tube B there is constant equilibrium of pressures, which renders currents of
air in the liquid impossible. If any disturbance of this equilibrium should be
produced by an escape or leakage of liquid the air which enters the vessel to
re-establish the equilibrium becomes deprived of all impurities, spores and the like
in passing through the packing of sterilized cotton, hemp, charcoal or other
sterilized material.
This apparatus ensures the preservation of the liquors as regards brightness,
bouquet, aroma and sapidity, and it also allows of the fermentation of musts out of
contact with the atmospheric air.
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 :-
An apparatus to be applied to casks or other vessels to preserve the liquid
contents of same, the said apparatus consisting of a horizontal chamber in the form
of a truncated cone filled with a sterilized packing or filtering material, the said
chamber having orifices at its smaller end and being closed at its larger end and
receiving near this end a tube of syphon form which passes out of the chamber and
is screw threaded for the purpose of enabling it to be screwed into a metallic bung
made for the purpose or into an ordinary bung in the cask or other vessel or into
any other suitable part of the vessel substantially as and for the purpose
herein before described.
Dated this 24th day of October 1893.
J. C. MEWBURN,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent.