Improvements in Means for Emptying Bottles and similar Vessels Containing Liquids.
Year: 1893

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Emptying Bottles and similar Vessels
Containing Liquids.
I JONATHAN LEWIS YOUNG, of 69, Fore Street, Moorgate Street, London, E.C.
Electrical 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 following statement :-
My invention relates to a novel pneumatic appliance for attachment to the
mouth of bottles and similar bollow vessels, for the purpose of drawing off the
whole or any portion of the liquid contents thereof, without inverting the said
vessel for that purpose, and is particularly adaptable for use in connection with
such vessels containing liquids having a sediment, when it is desirable that the
clear portion only should be withdrawn, and which could not be done without more
or less waste, if the vessel was inverted for that purpose.
In order to render my invention, and the manner of its application perfectly
clear, I have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings in which :-
Fig. 1 is a section of the rubber ball as it would be arranged for use with the
remainder of my invention.
Fig. 2 is a vertical section of an appliance the upper portion of which receives
and holds Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 illustrates the application of Figs. 1 and 2 when united, to the mouth of
an ordinary wine or similar bottle.
In carrying my invention into effect I procure a hollow india rubber or other
elastic ball A in which a hole is provided for the insertion of a wood, vulcanite, or
other plug B, having a narrow air passage C, and diametrically opposite to this
another hole is provided for the reception of an externally threaded plug D, which
may be of any suitable hard material but preferably of metal, and through which
extends a bore or air passage E. The said ball A is arranged to fit into a metallic,
vulcanite, bone, wood, or other cup F, in such a manner, that the threaded plug D
screws into an internally threaded passage G therein the lower end of which may
or may not be provided with a suitable spring or other valve H, and communicates
with a chamber I, from the bottom surface of which extends in a downward direc-
tion a hollow nosing or tube K which may or may not be threaded externally, and
surrounding this is tightly fitted a tapered rubber, cork, celluloid, wood, or vulcanite
collor L, which may vary in size to suit the mouth of the vessel with which it is to
be used.
A hole is formed in the wall of I and through this is passed a metallic tube M,
which curves in a downward direction, passing through, and extending a suitable
distance below the lower end of K. The said tube would be soldered or otherwise
rendered air tight at its point of connection with I, and extending outwardly there-
from would be bent and formed after the manner of an ordinary tap, and may or
may not be provided with a turn off cock M as at Fig. 3. The cross sectional
external diameter of M would be less than the internal diameter of the nosing or
tube K, so that when M is soldered or otherwise fixed to one side of K, an air
passage N exists between M and K as shewn at Fig. 2. A rubber tube P connects
the lower end of M with a suitable length of glass or other tubing R.
The apparatus thus formed would be fitted to the bottle or other vessel O as at
Fig. 3, so that the rubber or other collar L would fit airtight within the mouth
thereof, and according to the depth from which it is intended the liquor S shall be
withdrawn, the tube R would be permitted to dip thereinto, this being adjusted by
the rubber tube P. The action of the apparatus is as follows:-
When a portion of the liquor S is to be withdrawn a glass or other vessel would

page_text: be held under the nose of the tap M, and by placing a finger over the hole C and
imparting a downward pressure to B, so as to compress and deflect the ball A, the
air therein would be forced passed the valve H and through the aperture N into
the bottle or other vessel O, in the direction of the arrow T in Fig. 3, and the
pressure of air upon the surface of the liquor S, would cause this to flow up the
glass tube R, in the direction of the arrow T' and out through the tap M with a
force equal to the pressure imparted to B, upon the removal of which the liquor
would cease to flow, and the valve H return to its normal position, thus closing the
contents of O from atmospheric influence and evaporation, which would be more
perfectly attained by turning off the cock M' if this was provided.
It is obvious that a ball A may be employed of such shape and dimensions that
its air capacity may be sufficient to entirely empty the bottle or other vessel O by
its deflation, but when of such dimensions as that shewn in the drawings this may
require to be inflated several times to attain this, according to the size of the
vessel O, and I wish it understood that I may construct the entire apparatus of
such dimensions generally as to be applicable for use for operating in the manner
described, in connection with any size vessel O which may be other than bottles.
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
First. In an improved pneumatic appliance for emptying bottles and other hollow
vessels containing fluid without inverting the same, the construction and use of the
herein described apparatus, of any desired dimensions, and the combination of the
several parts constituting the same, connected and operating substantially as herein
stated and shewn by the accompanying drawings.
Second. The herein described appliance consisting of a hollow elastic ball A,
provided with a hollow plug B, and an externally threaded hollow plug D, screwed
into an internally threaded aperture G, of a metallic of other cup F, with or with-
out a suitable valve H, and having a chamber I with externally threaded nose or
tube K, carrying a resilient tapered collar L. The tap like tube M (with or
without a cock piece M¹) passing through I and K, leaving an air passage N and
connected by an elastic tube P to a glass or other tube R fitted to, and operating
in combination with a hollow vessel Ŏ, substantially as and for the purposes herein
set forth and shewn by the appended drawings.
Dated this 30th day of Mar 1893.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
4, Moorfields, Fore Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.