IMPROVED Apparatus FOR FACILITATING THE WITHDRAWAL OF LIQUIDS FROM FLASKS, BOTTLES, JARS, AND OTHER VESSELS.
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry William Dee, of the Firm of H. W..and
L. Dee, of Sherwood Street, Golden Square, in the County of
Middlesex, Manufacturers, for the Invention of "IMPROVED Apparatus
FOR FACILITATING THE WITHDRAWAL OF LIQUIDS FROM FLASKS, BOTTLES, JARS,
AND OTHER VESSELS.".
Sealed the 15th November 1870, and dated the 18th August 1870.
·PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry William Dee at
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the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 18th August 1870.
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I, HENRY WILLIAM DEE, of the Firm of H. W. and L. Dee, of
Sherwood Street, Golden Square, in the County of Middlesex, Manufac-
turers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING THE WITHDRAWAL OF LIQUIDS FROM FLASKS, BOTTLES,
JARS, AND OTHER VESSELS," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to certain improved apparatus. which can be
fitted to flasks, bottles, jars, and other vessels, whereby the liquid
contents can readily be withdrawn. The apparatus can also act as a

page_text: stopper to prevent escape of the liquid when the contents are not
required to be drawn off.
The Invention consists in fitting two tubes one within the other in
the neck or body of a flask, bottle, jar, or other vessel or pipe in which
liquids are placed. The outer tube is perforated at its lower end and the
inner tube (packed or not) is free to be drawn up and down in the
outer one to uncover or cover the perforations. The inner tube is open
at both ends, while the outer tube is closed as its lower end with the
exception of the perforations before spoken of. When the inner tube is
pushed down the perforations are covered and escape of the liquid is 1
prevented.
The apparatus is applicable to bottles or vessels containing effervescing
or other drinks, and can be fitted in the side, body, or the neck, or in the
stopper as found most convenient.
When the apparatus is used with scent bottles the inner tube need 1
only be drawn out to uncover some of the holes, and the bottle shaken
ill the liquid
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry William Dee in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 18th February 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY..
WILLIAM DEE, of the Firm of H. W. and L. Dee, of Sherwood Street,
Golden Square, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturers, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Henry William Dee, Her special licence
that I, the said Henry William Dee, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry William Dee, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel

page_text: Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
FACILITATING THE WITHDRAWAL OF LIQUIDS FORM FLASKS, BOTTLES, JARS, AND
OTHER VESSELS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Henry William Dee, my executors on administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry William Dee, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, that is to say :—
My Invention relates to certain improved apparatus which can be
fitted to flasks, bottles, jars, and other vessels, whereby the liquid.con--
tents can readily be withdrawn. The apparatus can also act as a stopper:
to prevent escape of the liquid when the contents are not required. to be:
drawn off.
The Invention consists in fitting two tubes one within the other in
the neck or body of a flask, bottle, jar, or other vessel or pipe in which
liquids are placed. The outer tube is perforated at its lower end, and
the inner tube packed or not is free to be drawn up and down in the
outer one to uncover or cover the perforations.. The inner tube is open.
at both ends, while the outer tube is closed at its lower end. with.the.
exception of the perforations before spoken of. When the inner tube
is pushed down the perforations are covered and escape of the liquid is
prevented.
The apparatus is applicable to bottles or vessels containing effervescing.
or other drinks, and can be fitted in the side, body, or neck, or in the
stopper as found most convenient.
When the apparatus is used with scent bottles the inner tube need
only be drawn out to uncover some of the holes and the bottle shaken to
sprinkle the liquid.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a view of a drinking
flask a, with my improved apparatus fitted in the ordinary screw.cap or
stopper; it consists as before stated of two tubes b and c, one 6 being
b.

page_text: free to slide within the other to uncover openings formed in the lower end
of the outer one c. Figures 2 and 3 are views of the inner tube b, which
is open at both ends, the upper part of it is formed with a bulb d to serve
as a mouth piece or outlet for the liquid when it is necessary to withdraw
the contents from the flask; Figure 4 is a detached view of the outer
tube c, with the perforations before mentioned, the cap g is threaded
on the interior and takes over the neck or mouth of the flask, as will
be understood by referring to Figure 5, which represents a sectional view
of the flask shown at Figure 1.
It is not at all essential that the apparatus should be connected with
the stopper as it can be arranged and soldered or otherwise secured to
the side wall of the flask as shown at Figure 6, here the lower end of the
outer tube is curved and forms a communication with the interior of the
flask, by this means the liquid can be inserted through the ordinary.
neck h, and then securely stoppered by screwing the cap g on.
Figure 7 shows the apparatus applied to the inside of the narrowed
wall of a flask, in contradistinction to the outside arrangement shown in
the previous Figure, these examples are sufficient to show that I am not
confined to fitting the apparatus to the cap or stopper.
1
In some cases I groove, reduce in diameter, or form channels i in the 2
outside of the inner tube as shown in Figure 8 to act as air passages to
the inside of the flask through the slits j, j, these being made at suitable
distances apart to suit the height of liquid therein.
In the foregoing views I have shown square flasks with the corners
rounded, and such as are made in silver or other metal, but the apparatus 2
is applicable for glass and other flasks and bottles.
In Figure 9 I have shewn a glass dram bottle or pocket pistol with
an additional opening on the shoulder k, through which the apparatus
is passed and held secure by a cork or other stopper, the ordinary cork
being employed for the central opening or neck h.
3
The Invention before shown will be found of service for huntsmen
and other persons on horseback as the inner tube can be easily raised by
the fingers to uncover the perforations, when by raising the flask by the
same hand the contents can be withdrawn with facility, thus leaving the
other hand free for holding the reins to guide the horse in any direction 3.
while the rider is drinking, and without interfering with the ordinary.
cork or stopper.

page_text: The Invention is applicable to all vessels from which water or other
liquid has to be drawn, and in order to show how I propose to arrange
it to water supply pipes for domestic purposes I have in Figure 10 shown
one of them. The inner end of the outer tube, which is perforated, has
an outer cap or shield to form a water space between them and leading
from the main supply pipe to which it is to be connected by screws
passing through the flange l. The outer end of the inner tube is bent
and forms a nozzle which not only directs the water in a downward
direction for filling a bucket or other vessel, but it serves for a grip for
the fingers to pull it out by to uncover the perforations and permit the
water to flow. In order to prevent the inner tube being pulled out too
far I have fitted it with a pin m to ride in the slot n, the length of the
slot being made to correspond with the space occupied by the perforations;
this plan also prevents the tube being turned when desirable. In order
to prevent leakage between the tubes under the pressure of the head
of liquid I sometimes use a packing of some kind, and this may be
arranged in a ring groove in the outer tube in a similar manner as the
cupped ring of a hydraulic ram cylinder, or the inner tube may have a
packing ring on it as shown at p in Figure 3.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my
Invention the construction and employment of apparatus consisting of
one tube moving within the other for establishing a passage from the
inside to the outside of a vessel in order that liquids can be withdrawn,
the outer tube being perforated substantially as described and
shown.
I also claim the employment of the apparatus before described to
pipes or other outlets from which liquid has to be drawn substantially as
shown.
In witness whercof, I, the said Henry William Dee, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Seventeenth day of February One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.