AN IMPROVED FUNNEL
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of the Firm of John
Gedge and Son, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent. Agent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED FUNNEL."
-A communication from abroad by Emile de Fages de Latour, of 39,
Faubourg St Martin Paris France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Gedge
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th October 1866.
I WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of
No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
FUNNEL," a communication to me from abroad by Emile de Fages de Latour,
of 89, Faubourg St. Martin, Paris, France, to be as follows:-
This funnel, made of any sort of metal or of wood according to its destined.
use, is furnished with a conical metal socket encased in a sheath of caoutchouc
or hide in order to fit closely to the sides of the orifice of the vase or vessel
to bo filled; within this socket is fitted a pipe for the escapo of the air driven
out by the introduction of the liquid. This tube is provided with a whistle
placed at the top of the socket, which whistle gives notice that the vessel is
full by ceasing its noise when the liquid closes the air escape. On the opposite

page_text: side is a second moveable pipe rising towards the top of the funnel which fills
the office of a cock, as by turning it upside down the surplus liquid may be
carried away without the loss of a single drop.
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawing, forming part of this Provisional
Specification, A indicates the receiver, the shape of which is variable; B, the
socket; C, pipe for escape of air; D, D, sheath of caoutchouc or hide; E,
whistle; F, shifting pipe in the position it occupies during the filling; f,
shifting pipe in the position it occupies at the end of the operation in order to
run the excess of liquid into another vase.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Edward Gedge in the Great Seal Patent - Office
on the 8th April 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of No. 11, Wel-
lington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Edward Gedge, Her special licence that I, the said William Edward
Gedge, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said William Edward Gedge, 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
"AN IMPROVED FUNNEL," a communication to me from abroad by Emile de
Fages de Latour, of 39, Faubourg St. Martin, Paris, France, upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Edward Gedge, 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 Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Gedge, 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:-
This funnel, made of any sort of metal or of wood according to its destined
use, is furnished with a conical metal socket encased in a sheath of india-rubber
or bide in order that it may closely fit to the sides of the orifice of the vase
or vessel to be filled; within this socket is fitted a pipe for the escape of the
air driven out by the introduction of the liquid; this pipe is provided with a
whistle placed at the top of the socket, which whistle gives notice that the
vessel is full by ceasing its noise when the liquid closes the air escape; on
the opposite side is a second moveable pipe (rising towards the top of the
funnel) which fills the office of a cock, as by turning it upside down the
surplus liquid may be carried away without the loss of a single drop.
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawing, forming part of this Specification,
Fig. 1 is an elevation, and Fig. 2 a section across the diameter of this
improved funnel, slightly modified from the preceding.
A, receiver, the shape of which may vary; B, socket; D; india-rubber ring
enveloping the socket B; C, air escape pipe. The lower end of this pipe is
open outside the socket B, which modified arrangement is adopted because it
offers the advantage of not intercepting the air by the passage of the liquid.
At the upper end of this pipe C is fitted another india-rubber pipe E, and it
is on this latter that the whistle is placed. The functions of the slightly
modified funnel illustrated on the annexed Drawing are in every point the
same, and are executed in the same manner as by the funnel first herein
described and illustrated in my Provisional Specification. The air in escaping
passes into the pipe C, and is conducted into that F, where in escaping it
produces the whistling signal or warning. When all noise has ceased the
whistle is removed, the pipe F is lowered, and the excess of liquid escapes by
this opening.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have hereunto
set my hand and seal this Eighth day of April, in the year of our