Improved Method of and Means for Collecting and Retaining Sediment from Bottled Fluids.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 17th Oct., 1891
DUMI LIE
DIBUITICATION.
Improved Method of and Means for Collecting and Retaining Sediment
from Bottled Fluids.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM LEVIERGE of 7 Clayton Terrace, Archway Road
Holloway, in the County of Middlesex, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved method of and means for collecting and
retaining sediment from bottled fluids, and has for its object the provision of a
simple and effective adjunct to a bottle or stopper whereby the liquid contents are
immediately ready for use, free from sediment or deposit without wasting any of
said liquid.
In order that my invention may be the better understood, I have appended the
accompanying sheet of drawings, the figures of which represent sectional views
of modifications of the collecting and retaining device, and Figure 3 is a view
shewing the method of use.
In carrying my invention into effect, I form upon, or attach to, the stopper of
a bottle, a chamber or receptacle A Figure 1, an orifice a communicating with the
interior of the bottle through the stopper B. When the bottle to which the
stopper B is adapted, is filled with liquid in the usual manner, it is inverted as
shewn by Figure 3, when the sediment falls by gravity into the chamber A, where, it
is retained even when the position of the bottle is reversed. The stopper B being
removed, the clear liquid remains in the bottle, and the sediment or deposit in the
chamber A, being trapped or retained therein, by reason of the valve c closing
the orifice a when the bottle is placed in an upright position. Said valve c may be
spherical, as shewn by Figure 2, or of other suitable shape to correspond to the
inner edge of the orifice a.
I do not confine myself to any particular shape or conformation of the chamber A,
nor to the method of and means for attaching it to the stopper B. Also I do
not limit the adaptation of said chamber A to any kind of stopper, whether
internal without a screw or the like, internal with a screw as Figure 1, or an
external stopper as Figure 2, and although in practice prefer to form said
chamber A and stopper B in one piece, I wish it to be understood that it is also
applicable to an ordinary cork or other plug.
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 ;-
First. In a device for collecting and retaining sediment from bottled liquids the
employment of a chamber A. in combination with a plug or stopper substantially
as described and shewn by the appended drawings, Fig. 1. and 2.
Second. The combination with a chamber A as referred to in the first claim, of a

page_text: spherical or other suitably shaped valve substantially as herein described with
reference to Figures 1 and 2 of the appended drawings.
Dated this 27th day of July 1891.
-FREDK. WALKER,
11, Furnival Street, Holborn, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.