IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES AND OTHER VESSELS TO HOLD LIQUIDS, AND IN MEANS APPLIED THERETO TO FACILITATE THE DISCHARGE OF LIQUIDS THEREFROM " PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Brooks, the younger, of the Firm of
H. Brooks & Company, of Cumberland Market, Regent's Park, the
Hampstead Road, and Lyme Street, Camden Town, all in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES
AND OTHER VESSELS TO HOLD LIQUIDS, AND IN MEANS APPLIED THERETO TO
FACILITATE THE DISCHARGE OF LIQUIDS THEREFROM
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Brooks at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
30th April 1875.
I, HENRY BROOKS, the younger, of the Firm of H. Brooks &
5 Company, of Cumberland Market, Regent's Park, the Hampstead Road,
and Lyme Street, Camden Town, all in the County of Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
BOTTLES AND OTHER VESSELS TO HOLD LIQUIDS, AND IN MEANS APPLIED THERETO
TO FACILITATE THE DISCHARGE OF LIQUIDS THEREFROM," to be as follows:-
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page_text: The object of the Invention is to facilitate the flow of liquid in the
pouring out of the same from bottles and other vessels.
Considerable inconvenience is often experienced in the pouring of
liquids from bottles and other vessels arising from the difficulty in the
passage of the air into the bottle or vessel to replace the liquid poured
from it, and many attempts have been made by the use of various
mechanical constructions to remedy this evil, but to the best of my
belief hitherto only with partial success and by the use of complicated
mechanical arrangements involving considerable additional cost.
The object of my Invention is to remedy this evil at a very trifling
outlay. For this purpose the outlet or passage from the bottle or vessel
is divided into two in the direction of its length, or it is formed with
two parallel passages through it. These divisions may be produced in
the stopper, which may be formed of metal, glass, porcelain, or other
suitable material with a packing of cork or other suitable packing
around it, and a screw, and packed, or other cover to such passage, so
that the passage through such stopper may be closed when desired; or
these passages may be formed in a stopper or cover externally, or other-
wise applied, and I find a ready means of effecting this object is by the
application of a partition passed in so as to fit tightly from end to end
of the passage.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Brooks in the Great Scal Patent Office
on the 30th October 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY 2
BROOKS, the younger, of the Firm of H. Brooks & Company, of '
Cumberland Market, Regent's Park, the Hampstead Road, and Lyme
Street, Camden Town, all in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of April, in the year of 3
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,

page_text: give and grant unto me, the said Henry Brooks, the younger, Ḥer
special license that I, the said Henry Brooks, the younger, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Brooks,
the younger, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLES AND OTHER VESSELS TO HOLD LIQUIDS,
AND IN MEANS APPLIED THERETO TO FACILITATE THE DISCHARGE OF LIQUIDS
THEREFROM," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Henry Brooks, the younger, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
.Patent.
.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Brooks, the younger, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
The object of the Invention is to facilitate the flow of liquid in tho
pouring out of the same from bottles and other vessels.
Considerable inconvenience is often experienced in the pouring of
liquids from bottles and other vessels arising from the difficulty in the
passage of the air into the bottle or vessel to replace the liquid poured
from it, and many attempts have been made by the use of various
mechanical constructions to remedy this evil, but to the best of my
belief, hitherto only with partial success, and by the use of complicated
mechanical arrangements involving considerable additional cost.
The object of my Invention is to remedy this evil at a very trifling
outlay. For this purpose the outlet or passage from the bottle or vessel
is divided into two in the direction of its length, or it is formed with two
parallel passages through it. A ready means of effecting this object is

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differing from each other, arranged with means for carrying my Inven-
tion into effect; and Figures 3 and 4 are corresponding external views.
In each of the Figures the same letters indicate corresponding parts.
It will be seen that in each case the outlet or passage in the neck a
of the bottle or vessel is divided into two passages a¹, a², by means. of a
separating partition b, so that the liquid passing out from the bottle or
vessel may be the better separated from the air passing therein to
supply its place. This partition may be placed centrally, as in Figures 1
and 3, or so as to leave one of the passages larger than the other, as
indicated by Figures 2 and 4.
Figures 5 and 6 and 7 and 8 shew upper and under side views
respectively of the arrangements indicated by Figures 1 and 2. In
all these Figures the passages a¹, a³, are formed in the stopper, and such
stoppers are shown formed of metal with a lining of cork c between
them and the neck of the bottle, and they have screw and packed caps d
so that the passage through such stopper may be closed when desired,
but they may be otherwise formed of metal, glass, porcelain, or other
suitable material; or these passages may be formed in a stopper or cover
externally or otherwise applied, or they may be formed in the neck of
the bottle or vessel.
. Having thus described my Invention, and means which I adopt in
carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise arrangements of parts, as shown and
described, as the same may be varied without departing from the
peculiar character of my Invention; but what I claim is, the improve-
ments in bottles and other vessels to hold liquids, and in the means
applied thereto, whereby the passage from such bottles or vessels is

page_text: divided to facilitate the discharge of liquid therefrom, substantially as
described.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Brooks, the younger, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of October,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.