IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CONTAINING AND DRAWING OFF AERATED WATERS OR LIQUIDS, PARTS OF WHICH APPARATUS ARE APPLICABLE FOR UNSTOPPING BOTTLES OR VASES CONTAINING AERATED WATERS OR LIQUIDS
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Baylis at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd September 1876.
CHARLES BAYLIS, of Kew, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman
" IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR CONTAINING AND DRAWING OFF AERATED WATERS OR LIQUIDS,
PARTS OF WHICH APPARATUS ARE APPLICABLE FOR UNSTOPPING BOTTLES OR VASES
CONTAINING AERATED WATERS OR LIQUIDS."
Soda water and other aerated waters or liquids are usually contained in small
bottles holding about half a pint, and these bottles are generally closed by a cork
which is secured by means of wire and string.
The first part of my Invention consists in making the containing vessel of large
dimensions, that is, capable of holding the contents of from half a dozen to two
dozen of the ordinary bottles, and securing the mouth of such vessel by means of a
stopper which is kept in its place by the pressure of the gas in the ted water.
This vessel is placed mouth downwards in a frame on which is mounted a spring
lever so arranged that its inner end (which carries a vertical stud and button)
comes immediately under the mouth of the inverted vessel. In order to draw off a
portion of liquid from this vessel the stopper must be thrust back by depressing the
outer end of the spring lever. The mouth of the vessel will be thereby unstopped
and the liquid will flow out into any vessel placed below.
The second part of my Invention consists of a novel mode of and apparatus for
unstopping that class of bottles (for containing aerated waters) in which an elastic
or other stopper for closing the neck of the bottle is held in its place (so as to
prevent the liquid from escaping) by the elastic force or pressure of the gas contained
in the water. The only way of discharging the liquid from this kind of bottle is to
press back the stopper into the bottle so that the liquid may pass by the stopper
and run out into any vessel placed beneath. This has hitherto been done by the
pressure of the hand or finger, but it is a very inconvenient and disagreeable
operation as the liquid in its escape from the vessel is liable to run over the hand of
the operator. The object of the present Invention is to unstop the bottle without
the hand or finger of the operator touching the stopper. The apparatus whereby
this may be effected may be constructed in various ways. The simplest form of
apparatus consists of a frame or stand on which the glass or other vessel to receive
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page_text: the liquid is placed under a shelf or table in which is made a hole to receive the
nock of the bottle when it is placed mouth downwards immediately over the glass.
In this hole is fixed a stud or pin so arranged that when the neck or mouth of the
bottle is placed in the hole and is pushed or forced down this pin or stud will force
back the stopper and allow the liquid to flow out of the bottle into the glass below.
Instead of the stud or pin being fixed in the hole in the table it may be attached to
a small spring lever which may be mounted on the under side of the table, and so
arranged that when the outer end of the lever is depressed the stud at the inner
end will force up the stopper in the neck of the bottle.
Another form of apparatus is constructed of a pair of levers jointed together like
the arms of a pair of plyers or scissors The end of one of these levers is provided
with a fork which fits the neck of the bottle so as to hold the apparatus steady
when in use, and the end of the other lever is provided with a small concave cup,
or a pin, or stud, which when brought against the projecting end of the stopper will
force the same back and allow the liquid to flow out of the bottle into a glass or
other receiver.