AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF VESSELS FOR CONTAINING LIQUIDS
Year: 1884

page_text: HENRY HATCH 45 Corn Market Oxford Dealer in Art Pottery do hereby
declare the nature of my Invention for AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION
OF VESSELS FOR CONTAINING LIQUIDS to be as follows:-
The Invention is designed for the retention of any sediment deposited from
liquids contained in the said vessels. Its chief feature consists in a constriction
in the interior of the vessel by which a reservoir is formed; the constriction
serving to retain the sediment in the said reservoir when the vessel is tilted from
an upright position-as in the act of decantation.
A section of a vessel made according to this Invention is shewn in an
accompanying illustration.
The Invention is applicable to the construction of any vessel designed to contain
liquids and may be made in iron, glass, earthenware or any other suitable
material.
This Invention is one by which any vessel to contain a liquid, may be con-
structed, to retain, during the act of pouring, any sediment or deposit, which may
have settled from the contained liquid, in a reservoir situated at the base of the
vessel.
The chief feature of this Invention consists in a constriction in the interior of
the vessel, by which the said reservoir is formed. The constriction serves to
retain the sediment when the vessel is tilted from an upright position-as during
decantation.
A sectional diagram of such a vessel is shewn in the accompanying illustration.
This Invention is applicable to the construction of all vessels designed to
contain any liquid-which vessels may be made of metal, glass, earthenware, or
any other suitable material.

page_text: I, HENRY HATCH 45 Corn Market Oxford Dealer in Art Pottery do hereby
declare the nature of my Invention for AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION
OF VESSELS FOR CONTAINING LIQUIDS and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained. in and by the following
statement :-
The chief feature of my Invention consists in the formation of a reservoir at
the bottom of any vessel designed to contain a liquid, by means of a constriction
or septum, formed or fitted upon the interior of any such vessel.
Matters deposited or precipitated from liquids introduced into a vessel of such a
construction, naturally tend to fall or subside into the said reservoir, while the
vessel remains in its ordinary vertical position.
When desired, the supernatant liquid, more or less cleared by the process of
subsidence, can be decanted from the vessel, as usual: but the sedimentary, or
deposited matters are prevented from escaping from the reservoir and are retained
therein, when the vessel is tilted from its upright position, by the septum
or constriction mentioned. The deposit may afterwards be readily and easily
removed.
The principle of my Invention is shewn in the sectional Drawings accompanying
my Provisional Specification in which two jugs are represented, as formed with
the necessary constrictions upon their interior surfaces. In A. the sediment is
shewn deposited in the reservoir by the process of subsidence. In B, which
represents a section of the arrangement during the decanting of a liquid from its
deposit, the sediment is shewn retained by the constriction.
The said constriction may be either immovable, and formed of the same
substance as the rest of the vessel, or it may be movable and capable of being
fixed in any desirable position upon the inside of the vessel by any convenient
means.
In certain cases, should it be necessary, the constriction may be punctured with
one or more holes in order to facilitate the more ready and complete separation of
liquor from the retained sediment.
I do not limit the application of my Invention to any particular form or kind
of vessel nor to the materials of which such vessels may be constructed; thus it
may be applied to the manufacture of jugs, bottles, glasses, utensils of all kinds,
for domestic, cooking, chemical, or other purposes and such may be constructed
of metal, earthenware, glass, or any other suitable material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is The furnishing of vessels for containing liquids with a septum or
constriction in such a manner, that sedimentary and deposited matter is separated
from the contained liquids, and retained, on decantation in the reservoir forme I
thereby.
Dated this 15th day of T.1 1001.