A New or Improved Portable Device for Storing Small Quantities of Liquid, with Drinking Cup Attachment.
Year: 1890

page_text: Da e of Application, 30th July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 27th Apr., 1891-Accepted, 30th May, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Portable Device for Storing Small Quantities
of Liquid, with Drinking Cup Attachment.
I, WILLIAM HAZLITT of 6 Lawrence Lane Cheapside London Gentleman do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a new or improved portable device for storing small
quantities of liquid for use, and consists in utilizing the frame of an opera glass
for storing therein small quantities of wine, spirit, and the like for drinking
purposes.
According to my invention, I place in each one of the two tubular vertical
branches of an opera glass frame, a small bottle of suitable shape, the upper part
of which is furnished with a lid screwed, hinged or otherwise fixed to the upper
end of the said branches. The lower end of this bottle is provided with a ring
projecting beyond the lower part of the bottle, and furnished inside such pro-
jecting part with a screw thread wherein is screwed the upper rim of a drinking
cup forming the lower part of the tubular branches of the opera glass frame.
This cup may be likewise screwed to the bottom part of the bottle itself, provided
for that purpose with a screw thread.
The bottles may likewise be covered with leather, or other similar material,
and form a part of the branches, the other part however being unaltered.
One of the branches may contain one kind of liquid such as brandy for instance,
to suit different taste.
Dated this 30th day of July 1890.
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Portable Device for Storing Small Quantities
of Liquid, with Drinking Cup Attachment.
I, WILLIAM HAZLITT of 6 Lawrence Lane Cheapside London E.C. Gentleman
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 a new or improved portable device for storing small
quantities of liquid, and consists in utilizing the frame of an opera glass for storing
therein small quantities of wine spirits and the like for drinking purposes. According
to my invention, 1 place or form in each of the two tubular vertical branches of an
opera glass frame a small bottle of suitable shape, the upper or smaller end of
which is furnished with a lid screwed hinged, or otherwise attached to the same,
and forming the upper end of the branch. This said bottle may consist of any
suitable substance and be properly cemented within the tubular frame, or it may
form a portion of the frame itself, and be covered with leather on the outside or
any other suitable material. The lower or thicker part of the branch forms a
drinking cup, having a screw thread formed on the outside of the upper portion
thereof, which screw thread engages with a corresponding female thread formed on
a portion of the periphery of the bottle part of the branch extending a little below
the bottom of the bottle.
In order that my invention may be more easily understood I append hereunto
the accompanying drawing in which A A' indicate the tubular branches, B shews

page_text: the bottle inserted in the branch C is the lid of bottle, and D is the prolongation
of its periphery below the bottom of the bottle having formed thereon the female
screw thread above mentioned E E' represents the lower portion of the branches
forming the drinking cups with the screw thread F provided for the purpose of
engaging with thread on D of the bottle.
In some cases I may cause the tubular branch itself to be the bottle as
hereinbefore described and shewn in the drawing by A'. In this case I furnish the
lower portion of the periphery thereof with a screw thread H, which is designed to
engage with a female screw thread formed in the upper portion G, of the drinking
cup E
The drinking cups are also covered with leather or other suitable material,
similar to the rest of the tubular branch, so that the whole when closed presents
the appearance of an ordinary opera glass. In the two forms of my invention
described herein, the bottle is permanently secured in position within the branch,
or it forms a portion of the branch itself. I may however vary the parts internally
'so as to enable me to employ a removable bottle, which can be placed in and
out at will, and, furnished with a suitable check, which can be screwed up against
the bottom of the bottle to keep it in position, the drinking cup being attached
to the frame as before. I may also use instead of a simple cup, a telescopic cup
of two or three sections each of which can fall down in to the one below, the
bottom one corresponding in other respects to the single cup described above for
attachment to the tubular frame.
As my invention is capable of some modification without departing from the
principle thereof 1 do not restrict myself to materials or dimensions or to the
precise form or placement of the several parts thereof.
Having now fully 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 :-
A new or improved portable device for storing small quantities of liquid, which
consists in utilizing the frame of an opera glass and forming therein a bottle or
container and drinking cup substantially as described in the foregoing Specification,
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 24th day of April 1891.
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, W.C.,, Agents for the Applicant.