IMPROVEMENTS IN AND APPERTAINING TO DRINKING VESSELS, AND VESSELS FOR STORING DRINKABLES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Suckling and William Eimpson, both of Bir-
mingham, in the County of Warwick, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN AND APPERTAINING TO DRINKING VESSELS, AND VESSELS FOR STORING
DRINKABLES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Suckling and
William Empson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th
August 1878.
WILLIAM SUCKLING and WILLIAM EMPSON, both of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick. "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND APPERTAINING TO DRINKING VESSELS, AND
VESSELS FOR STORING DRINKABLES."
The first part of this our said Invention consists in arranging in the interior of
drinking vessels, and vessels for storing drinkables, a receptacle for containing ice
for the purpose of refrigerating or cooling the liquids they contain as applied to
drinking vessels. We construct at the mouth or aperture a check or seat, upon
which the refrigerator is suspended, the same being hermetically covered. We
adopt a form of refrigerator most suitable to the formation of the vessel, preference
being given to cylindrical.
The second part of our Invention applies to the self-raising and falling of the
lid or cover of drinking vessels. For this purposes we construct in the interior of
the handle at its base a lever working upon a joint carried through an aperture or
slot at the upper portion of the said handle, and to this is affixed a chain, and this
to the ornament usually connected to the lid; the object gained is that by applying
the hand to the interior of the handle the lever is compressed, the chain contracted,
and the lid or cover raised; upon releasing the pressure it will regain its normal
position.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Suckling and William Empson in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 20th February 1879.
WILLIAM SUCKLING and WILLIAM EMPSON, both of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick. "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND APPERTAINING TO DRINKING VESSELS, AND
VESSELS FOR STORING DRINKABLES."
The first part of this our said Invention consists in arranging in the interior of
drinking vessels, and vessels for storing drinkables, a receptacle for containing ice
for the purpose of refrigerating or cooling the liquids they contain as applied to
drinking vessels. We construct at the mouth or aperture a check or seat, upon
which the refrigerator is suspended, the same being hermetically covered. We
adopt a form of refrigerator most suitable to the formation of the vessel, preference
being given to cylindrical.
The second part of our Invention applies to the self raising and falling of the
lid or cover of drinking vessels. For this purpose we construct in the interior of
the handle at its base a lever working upon a joint carried through and aperture or
slot at the upper portion of the said handle, and to this is affixed a chain, and this
to the ornament usually connected to the lid; the object gained is that by applying
the hand to the interior of the handle the lever is compressed, the chain contracted,
and the lid or cover raised; upon releasing the pressure it will regain its normal
position.
And in order that this our said Invention may be fully understood, we shall
now proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose shall refer
to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, which illustrates our Invention as applied
to a jug, and to the letters of reference indicated thereon.
Fig. 1 is a view in section; Fig. 2, saine in elevation.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts.
"a" is the body of the jug or vessel, to the upper portion of which is the metallic
mount "b." Continuous with the same is a circular check or seat c, the same being
screwed interiorally at d. e is the receptacle for containing the ice or other refri-
gerating compound suspended by the mount "f" which is screwed exteriorally, and
corresponding to c, to which it is connected and held in position. The mouth or
aperture of e is fitted with a plug or valve hermetically affixed. The body of the
vessel is supplied with liquid by the unscrewing and temporarily removing the
receptacle e.
For the self raising of the lid or cover g the upper part of the handle h is per-
manently secured to the mount b. In the interior of the said handle is arranged
the looped lever i working upon a pin or joint, shewn at j, while the loop is fed
upon and traverses the handle h a required distance. Thus, if the hand is placed
in the space between the lever i and the outline of the jug or vessel a, as if in the
act of raising to pour out its contents, the said lever i will approach nearer to the
handle h, compressing the chain k (the one end of which is connected to the loop
of i, while the other is connected to the upright attached to the lid g), thus raising
the lid sufficiently so for the liquid to pass from the spout of the vessel; this is
clearly shewn by referring to Fig. 1. Upon releasing the pressure upon i it will
regain its normal position, as shewn by reference to Fig. 2.
The applications of this our Invention are manifold, but we may mention for
dairy purposes, rail and delivery cans, water filters and jugs, barrels, jugs, cups,
&c., for containing liquors.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of this our said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is or may be performed, we would observe in con-
clusion that we do not limit ourselves to the precise details herein given and shewn
on the accompanying Drawings, as various modifications may be made therein
while retaining the essential features of our said Invention; but what we claim as

page_text: new and desire to be secured to us by the herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent is, the "Improvements in and Appertaining to Drinking Vessels, and Vessels
for Storing Drinkables," substantially as herein-before described, and shewn on
Drawings, or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Suckling and William Empson,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eighteenth day of February,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.
0 Witness,
THOMAS KENDRICK.
WILLIAM SUCKLING,
WILLIAM EMPSON.
TL.S.)
(L..S.)