A Combination Stopper, Automatic Actioned Valve, and Pouring Lip for Drawing Liquids from Bottles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 30th July, 1891-Accepted, 5th Sept., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Combination Stopper, Automatic Actioned Valve, and Pouring
Lip for Drawing Liquids from Bottles.
I FRANCIS GWYN GRIFFITH of Llansannor House, Cowbridge, Glamorgan,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object the manufacture of a combined bottle stopper, a
valve with a tip weight and a pouring lip, to enable the contents to be drawn off as
desired by simply tilting the bottle, the valve automatically acting to close the
passage when the bottle is set upright.
For the purpose of my invention I form a tapered barrel and fit a cork or other
cylinder over the lower part. Above the top of the cork or its equivalent the
barrel is of greater diameter and one part of it is notched for a pivot pin to be
fitted, said pivot pin supports a two legged lever one of which has a weight or
"bob" and the other a valve rod passing down within the barrel and provided
with a valve for pressing against the bottom edge of the barrel as a seating.
The upper part of the barrel is also provided with a pouring lip.
The combined article is applicable to all kinds of bottles, it can be inserted into
the neck like an ordinary cork, and by means of the weighted end of the lever the
passage is opened by a simple tilting operation and closed by setting the bottle
upright without the article being touched, so supposing the bottle to be tilted by
the right hand the degree of tilt can be determined by the rapidity at which the
contents of the bottle have to be drawn off into a cup or other vessel held in the
left hand or placed upon a table or bench.
Dated this 2011
Ը TL,
1001
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said F. G. Griffith.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Combination Stopper, Automatic Actioned_Valve, and Pouring
Lip for Drawing Liquids from Bottles.
I, FRANCIS GWYN GRIFFITH, of Llansannor House, Cowbridge, Glamorgan,
Gentleman, 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:-
This invention has for object, the manufacture of a combined bottle stopper, a
valve with a tip weight and a pouring lip, to enable the contents to be drawn off as
desired by simply tilting the bottle, the valve automatically acting to close the
passage when the bottle is set upright.
My invention is clearly shown in the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 is a perspective elevation of a complete appliance.
Figure 2 represents in section, the portion of the valve when a decanter or other
bottle is upright, and Figure 3 a similar section with the valve displaced and the
bottle tilted to permit of the contents being drawn off, as desired.
The valve automatically closes the passage through the stopper when set
upright.
For the purpose of my invention, I form a barrel A and fit a cork or other
cylinder B over the lower part. Above the top of the cork, or its equivalent, the
barrel is of greater diameter and provided with a flange C. One part of the barrel

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has a pivot pin D for supporting a two legged lever E, F, one E of which has a
weight or "bob G, and, the other a valve rod H passing down within the barrel A,
and provided with a valve I for pressing against the bottom edge of the barrel as a
seating.
The upper part of the barrel is also provided with a pouring lip J.
The combined article is applicable to all kinds of bottles, it can be inserted into
the neck like an ordinary cork, and by means of the weighted end of the lever, the
passage is opened by a simple tilting operation, and closed by setting the bottle
upright without the appliance being touched, so supposing the bottle to be tilted
by the right hand, the degree of tilt can be determined by the rapidity at which the
contents of the bottle has to be drawn off into a drinking glass, a cup or other
vessel held in the left hand, or placed upon a table, or bench.
.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The apparatus shown at Figure 1 of the annexed drawings, as a combined
stopper and draw off, affixable to a bottle neck and operatable automatically to
open the passage by a tilting of a bottle, and automatically closeable on the bottle
being set upright, as described.
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H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Francis Gwyn Griffith.
H.
GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Francis Gwyn Griffith.