Improved Decanter, Bottle, or like Vessel.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 21st Jan.,
1899
[Communicated from abroad by GASTON BONNEFONT, of Nos. 7 and 9, Rue des
Immeubles Industriels, Paris, in the Republic of France, Manufacturer.]
Improved Decanter, Bottle, or like Vessel.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 322, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, 6, Lord Street,
Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster,
and Lower Temple Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Civil Engineer,
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 follow-
ing statement:-
This invention relates to a novel decanter or water bottle for either cooling or
heating the liquid which it contains.
In the accompanying drawing this apparatus is represented in vertical section
along its axis.
The decanter consists of a bottle 1, resembling those in ordinary use, but which
has fixed at its bottom a metallic tube 2 to serve as the container of the heating
or cooling material. The said tube 2 is closed at its upper end, and possesses at
its lower end a screw threaded ring 3, which ring is fixed immovably by cement
or other appropriate means into a corresponding aperture in the bottom of the bottle.
The tube 2 consequently forms a container, which is closed by a plug 4, preferably
screwed into the ring 3 with an interposed rubber or other elastic washer, to
secure perfect tightness. The projection 5 is provided upon the outside of the
plug 4 for the purpose of holding the same, and turning it as may be desired.
This projection is preferably in the form of a bar or ridge, but might also be formed
as a ring, handle, or jointed projection, attached to the bottom of the plug, and
it might be arranged to fold up under the influence of a spring, which would
But any suitably
keep it in the closed position whilst the bottle was in use.
closed device may be employed in place of the plug above described.
The improved bottle thus constructed consequently possesses in addition to the
shape of an ordinary bottle an internal metallic reservoir, into which can be
inserted previously, warm or boiling water, according as it is desired to heat or
to keep warm the liquid contained in the bottle; or else ice or a freezing mixture
if it is desired on the other hand to cool the contents of the bottle.
For the purpose of using ice I provide in the interior of the tube 2 an insulating
plate formed of a perforated disc 6, beneath which is fixed the spiral spring 7,
which spring when the receptacle is closed presses with its other end against the
plug 4. Lumps of ice having been placed between the bottom of the tube 2,
and the insulating disc 6 the ice remains separated from the water which results
from its melting, and rises in proportion as this water forms.
The tube 2 may be constructed of zinc, nickel plate, or of pure nickel, or of
aluminium, or of silver or the like innocuous material. The ring 3 and the plug 4
are preferably formed of an aluminium alloy (aluminium, regulus metal, and

page_text: melchior). The bottle may be of glass, or of crystal, and of any suitable form
and capacity.
Further, the essential portion of my invention which consists in the addi-
tion of an internal reservoir, constructed substantially as described, may be
applied to other vessels than bottles or decanters, and I do not limit my invention
to this application thereof. Thus for instance, I may construct pots, jugs, or jars,
having an internal reservoir, and this may be placed in the opposite direction to
that illustrated in connection with the bottle, and be fixed to the lid.
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:-
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1. A heating or cooling bottle or vessel characterized by having in its interior
a reservoir easily opened, and capable of being hermetically closed, and arranged
to contain either a cooling or a heating substance.
:
2. The improved bottle or decanter, constructed and operating substantially s
described with reference to the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 15th day of December 1898
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
322, High Holborn, London, W.C., Patent Agents for the Applicant.