IMPROVE- MENTS EN APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED TO DECANTERS AND OTHER BOTTLES, TO FACILITATE THE RUNNING OFF LIQUIDS THEREFROM
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Challinor, of Bolt Court, Fleet
Street, in the City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS EN APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED TO DECANTERS AND OTHER BOTTLES,
TO FACILITATE THE RUNNING OFF LIQUIDS THEREFROM."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Tliomas Challinor
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 7th December 1852.
I, THOMAS CHALLINOR, of Bolt Court, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED TO DECANTERS AND OTHER
BOTTLES, TO FACILITATE THE RUNNING OFF LIQUIDS THEREFROM," to be as
follows:
This Invention consists of an apparatus temporarily or permanently
fixed to a decanter or other bottle, by which, when it is desired to
run off liquid, the act of inclining the decanter or other bottle causes
the valve or stopper to be withdrawn, to allow of the liquid to flow
out. A tubular portion of the apparatus enters into the neck of the

page_text: vessel; the upper part projecting from the tube rests on and closes
the opening into the neck of the vessel. The valve may be a ground
one, or of other suitable structure to close the opening into the neck.
On the upper part of the apparatus there is a tubular spout, the
end of which nearest the neck is enlarged so as to offer a partially
covered passage, into which the liquid flows from the neck of the
vessel, and thence to the spout. From an ascending bracket a lever
is supported, to one end of which is applied a weight, the other end
being in communication with the valve or stopper by a connecting
rod or link, and it is by this means that the valve or stopper is
opened on inclining the vessel. The apparatus is fixed to the upper
part of the neck of the bottle by the tube entering the mouth, and
by the action of a binding screw and lever; or it may be perma-
nently fixed. The apparatus is capable of being made in very
ornamental forms.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said Thomas Challinor in the Great Scal
Patent Office on the 7th June 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
THOMAS CHALLINOR, of Bolt Court, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Challinor, Her
special licence that I, the said Thomas Challinor, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas
Challinor, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
tine agree with, and no others, froin 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,

page_text: an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE APPLIED TO DECANTERS
AND OTHER BOTTLES, TO FACILITATE THE RUNNING OFF LIQUIDS THEREFROM,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas
Challinor, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Challinor, 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):
This Invention consists of an apparatus temporarily or perma-
nently fixed to a decanter or other bottle, by which, when it is desired
to run off liquid, the act of inclining the decanter or other bottle
causes the valve or stopper to be withdrawn, to allow the liquid to
flow out. A tubular portion of the apparatus enters into the neck
of the vessel, the upper part projecting from the tube rests on and
closes the opening into the neck of the vessel. The valve may be a
ground one, or of other suitable structure to close the opening into
the neck. On the upper part of the apparatus there is a tubular
spout, the end of which nearest the neck is enlarged so as to offer
a partially covered passage, into which the liquid flows from the
neck of the vessel; and thence to the spout. From an ascending
bracket a lever is supported, to one end of which is applied a weight,
the other end being in communication with the valve or stopper by
a connecting rod or link, and it is by this means that the valve or
stopper is opened on inclining the vessel. The apparatus is fixed
to the upper part of the neck of the bottle by the tube entering the
mouth, and by the action of a binding screw and lever; or it may be
permanently fixed. The apparatus is capable of being made in very
ornamental forms.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
a, is the neck of a decanter or other bottle; b, is the stopper,
which is hinged or moves on an axis at c, and it fits correctly the
opening or mouth d, into the vessel; e, is a connecting rod, which
connects the lever end of the valve or stopper with the lever f,
suspended from the bracket g. On the other end of the lever f, is a
weight h, which, when, the vessel is upright, keeps the valve closed,
but causes the valve to open on the neck of the vessel being inclined
forward. i, is the spout, which is fixed by the clip j, and set screw
and lever k, l, or by other convenient means. m, is a washer to keep
the parts fluid-tight where the apparatus comes in contact with the
neck of the bottle or vessel.
☐ In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Challoner, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Witness,
FRED HARRIS.
THOS. CHALLINOR. (L..S.)