Bottles for Holding Spirits or other Liquids and Aerated Waters separated until the Bottle is opened.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Aug., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 8th Mar., 1898-Accepted, 9th Apr.,
1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Bottles for Holding Spirits or other Liquids and Aerated Waters
separated until the Bottle is opened.
I, CHARLES SEBASTIAN-SMITII, of Shipley, Derby, in the County of Derby, Land
Agent and Colliery Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
My invention relates to the construction of bottles for containing spirits, wine, or
other flavouring liquid, and also soda or other aerated water, arranged so as to keep
the spirit &c., separate from the water until the bottle is opened when the spirit
and water mix together as they are poured out of the bottle."
I construct such bottles as follows:
At a convenient distance from the bottom of the bottle I contract the inside of
the bottle so as to form a separate lower chamber, or if preferred a chamber of
smaller diameter may be formed inside the bottle projecting up from the bottom;
with either arrangement I provide a hole in the bottom for filling the lower
chamber with liquid.
At the upper side of the opening of the contracted part or at an opening at the
top of the inside chamber I provide a valve opening upwards. For this purpose I
prefer to use a ball valve with a seating of rubber or cork or other clastic material
or a hinged or other known form of valve may be used. When a ball valve is
used I prefer to employ any known arrangement whereby the ball is prevented
from obstructing the neck of the bottle when pouring out the contents, or I provide
the ball with a wire attachment passing through the valve opening so as to limit
its action.
For enabling the bottle to be filled with aerated liquid in an inverted position,
I first seat the said ball valve on its valve opening, and I then apply a suction
device to the lower chamber so as to hold the ball on its seat when the bottle is
inverted.
Such suction device may consist of a hole, caoutchouc ball with suction tube
which is passed through the valve opening to the surface of the ball valve and
then made to hold it by suction.
The larger and upper chamber of the bottle is charged with soda or other
aerated water in the usual way, the pressure of the gas keeping the valve between
the two chambers tightly closed.
At any convenient time the lower or inner chamber may be filled with spirit &c.,
and an ordinary cork or plug inserted in the bottom hole.
When the cork or stopper confining the soda water &c., is removed, the pressure
is released from the valve which then opens as the bottle is turned on one side,
and the spirit and soda-water mix together.
Dated this 19th day of August 1897.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Bottles for Holding Spirits or other Liquids and Aerated Waters
separated until the Bottle is opened.
I, CHARLES SEBASTIAN SMITH, of Shipley, Derby, in the County of Derby, Land
Agent and Colliery Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to the construction of bottles for containing spirits, wine,
or other flavouring liquid, and also soda, or other aerated water, arranged so as
to keep the spirit, etc., separate from the water, until the bottle is opened, when
the spirit and water mix together as they are poured out of the bottle.
I construct such bottles as follows:-
At a convenient distance from the bottom of the bottle I contract the inside of
the bottle so as to form a separate lower chamber, and I provide a hole in the
bottom for filling the lower chamber with liquid.
At the upper side of the opening of the contracted part I provide a valve opening
upwards. For this purpose I prefer to use a combined glass and caoutchouc valve
or a ball valve with a seating of rubber or cork or other elastic material.
When a glass and caoutchouc valve, or a ball valve, is used, I employ any known
arrangement whereby the valve is prevented from obstructing the neck of the
bottle when pouring out the contents, but I prefer to provide a pinch or recess in
or near the neck of the bottle, for that purpose, or 1 provide the valve with a wire
attachment passing through the valve opening so as to limit its action.
For enabling the bottle to be filled with aerated liquid in an inverted position,
1 first seat the said glass and caoutchouc valve or other valve on its valve opening,
and I then apply a suction device to the lower chamber so as to hold the ball on its
seat when the bottle is inverted, or I provide a loop or hook on the under side of
the valve to enable it to be held on its seat when the bottle is inverted.
The larger and upper chamber of the bottle is charged with soda or other aerated
water in the usual way, the pressure of the gas keeping the valve between the two
chambers tightly closed.
At any convenient time the lower or inner chamber may be filled with spirit etc.,
and an ordinary cork or plug inserted in the bottom hole.
When the cork or stopper confining the soda water etc is removed, the pressure
is released from the valve which then opens as the bottle is turned on one side, and
the spirit and soda-water mix together.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings shews a vertical section of a bottle con-
structed according to my above described invention. The bottle may be produced
by blowing in a divided mould in the usual way, the mould being so formed as to
produce a restriction at A thereby dividing the interior of the bottle into an upper
chamber B and smaller lower chamber C, communicating with each other through
the opening D.
A suitable valve such as a grooved glass valve F on which is fitted a caoutchouc
washer G, for closing the opening D, is introduced through the open neck of the
bottle.
The bottle is then charged by first filling the chamber B with soda-water or other
aerated liquid, and then closing it with a cork or glass stopper in the usual
manner, the valve F being kept on its seat by the pressure, after which the bottle
is inverted and the chamber C is filled with whisky or other spirituous liquid, and
the opening E is closed by a cork or stopper.

page_text: On opening the chamber B of the bottle, the contents of both chambers will be
discharged.
Figure 2 shews a modification in which the spherical valve F, which may be
of glass, cork, or other suitable material seats upon a caoutchouc seat I previously
fitted in the opening D of the bottle, and is provided with a T headed stem J,
which serves both to prevent the valve from moving beyond a certain distance from
the opening D, and also to enable the valve to be held on its seat by means of a
hook introduced through the opening E, when the bottle requires to be charged
with aerated liquid in an inverted position.
The head of the stem is first bent together as indicated in dotted lines so as
to allow it to pass through the opening 1), after which it is straightened out by
a pair of pliers inserted through the opening E. Or, if the valve is of cork, it may
be introduced into chamber B, without the stem J, and this being formed with
a screw threaded end may be then introduced by a pair of pliers through E and
screwed into the valve 1, which would for this purpose be held on its seat by
means of a rod inserted through chamber B.
It will be obvious that the above described construction of bottle can be
employed generally for containing two different liquids separate from each other
in such manner that they shall both flow out together when the bottle is opened.
I prefer to make the above described bottles in the following manner.
The operator having taken a lump of glass upon his blowing tube he inserts the
same into a divided mould K K such as is shewn in section at Figure 3 side view
at Figure 4 and open position at Figure 5 and while blowing the glass therein he
continually rotates it in the mould and at the same time gradually closes the latter
by means of a treadle action which at the same time gradually raises up a plug L
through a hole in the bottom, thereby pushing up the glass at the bottom to form
the opening E Figures 1 and 2.
As the mould closes and while the formed glass bottle is still being rotated
therein, the two opposite slides M M are advanced into the interior of the mould
as indicated by the dotted lines, thereby completing the restriction of the bottle
at the point A to the full extent required for forming the seat for the valve F.
The bottle having been thus formed in the mould, it is removed from the latter,
and the thin glass still closing the top of the inward bulge at E is broken through
by a punch so as to form the opening.
The moulding apparatus as here shewn consists of the two parts K K hinged
at each having arms fixed respectively to their upper and lower parts,
through the arms pass rods r connected by links t to the treadle T, the arms
carry pivotted bell cranks m connected to the rods r and to the slides M which are
provided with adjustable springs. Upon one of the supports s is pivotted the
spring lever which actuates the plug L, which lever is connected by a slotted
link to the treadle T.
The normal position of the parts being as at Figure 5 with the treadle T raised
and the moulds K K apart, upon pressing down the treadle T the moulds will come
together and the parts are as shewn in Figure 3, on now further depressing the
treadle T thereby drawing the rods through the brackets k¹, bell cranks will be
turned pushing in the slides M M, the lever at the same time raising the plug L
as shewn by dotted lines in Figure 3.
Upon releasing the treadle the parts again take the position Figure 5.
Having now particularly 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:-
1. A bottle for containing two different liquids separate from each other con-
sisting of an upper chamber with open neck for containing the one liquid which
is aerated and a lower chamber for containing the other liquid the partition
dividing the two chambers being provided with an opening closed by a valve which

page_text: opens in the direction of the upper chamber, so as to be held closed by the gaseous
pressure therein, while the bottom of the lower chamber has an opening for filling
it that is closed by a cork or stopper, substantially as described.
2. In a bottle for containing two different liquids separate from each other such
as is referred to in the first claim, forming the partition separating the two
chambers by contracting the sides of the bottle so as to leave only a small central
opening adapted to be closed by a valve substantially as described.
3. In a bottle for containing two different liquids such as is referred to in the
first and second claims, constructing the valve that closes the communication
between the two chambers with a stem so formed as both to prevent the valve
from moving away from its seat beyond a certain distance, and to allow the valve
to be held on its seat during the filling of the upper chamber.
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ديم
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1000
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.