A NEW SIPHON SET IN MOTION BY INSUFFLATION SUITABLE FOR DECANTING ANY KIND OF LIQUID
Year: 1873

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Antoine Ray at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 12th July
1873. A communication from abroad by Victor Rousson, a Tinman,
at Bas-en-Basset (Haute-Loire, France).
I, ANTOINE RAY, 109, Denmark Road, Camberwell, S. E., do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW SIPHON SET IN MOTION
BY INSUFFLATION SUITABLE FOR DECANTING ANY KIND OF LIQUID," to be as
follows:
This new siphon has the advantage of working by insufflation instead
of suction, as in the usual siphons, that is, in order to decant from one
vessel into another it is sufficient to blow a few breaths into the
apparatus of my Invention to decant the whole or part of the liquid as
may be required.
In the plan, Fig. 1 represents my small apparatus in a vertical
section, scale half-size, ang Fig. 11 the manner in which the apparatus
is placed in a cask from which the liquid is to be decanted into another
vessel. One can see at once the advantage of such a system,
particularly for dangerous liquids, such as petroleum, aquafortis, &c.
With the employment of this siphon it is no longer possible, as it is
with the ordinary siphon to bring into one's mouth a draught of those

page_text: poisons. On the other hand for spirituous or fermented liquids, the use
of the same apparatus offers a great advantage, namely, that of not
inhaling the alcoholic emanations which they contain.
My apparatus is represented in A (Fig. 11) set up on the tube E,
which is placed in such a manner as to allow the decanting of the liquid
from the cask C into the vessel D. As may be seen, it is so placed in
the bung hole as to seal the cask hermetically. The tube E of the
siphon, dipping nearly to the bottom of the cask, has at its curved
extremity K. the india-rubber tube F, the end of which opens in the
vessel D. In blowing for a few seconds only through the little tube. g
some air is introduced into the cask and the decanting goes on as in
ordinary cases, completely or partially, as is required; the extremity h of
the india-rubber tube being capable of being furnished with a stopping
tap, the air introduced in the upper part of the cask in the direction of
the line a, b, presses on the liquid, and obliges it to go through the tube
E of the siphon, the opening of which is in i, until the cask C is
completely emptied, unless prevented by means of the tap in h.
The apparatus itself is composed of a hollow cone G, of copper or any
other metal, surrounded with india-rubber H, which affords the necessary
elasticity to close hermetically the opening of the cask containing the
liquid. In the aperture made on the lid I of the cone G, is placed
another little hollow cone J, also surrounded with india-rubber H¹; this
little cone is used as a cork to the upper part of the great cone G;
through the hole of this little cone is introduced the tube E of the
siphon, which goes all along the great cone, and is maintained there by
the pressure of the india-rubber H', which presses on it at m, m, and also
by little shoulders made in the metal at the lower part of the great cone
in n, n; shoulders which have intervals between them to allow the air
blown in through the tube g to pass in the direction of the line a, b.
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When one wants to decant a liquid from a vessel without a lid, my
apparatus may still be used by introducing the tube of the siphon in a
hollow cylinder hermetically closed by my apparatus at its upper part,
and at its lower part going to the bottom of the vessel by means of a
valve capable of being opened at will when the siphon works.