An Improved Spirit, Wine, Liqueur, or Scent Cabinet.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 29th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 28th Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Spirit, Wine, Liqueur, or Scent Cabinet.
We JAMES MC HARDY of Zoffany House Chiswick Middlesex, Scientific
Expert and ARTHUR THOMAS TYER of Broadway Ealing Middlesex Stationer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention, which relates to an improved spirit, wine, liqueur or scent
When applied to
cabinet is carried into practice to suit required modifications.
spirits, wines, & liqueurs, the compartments may be air-tight or otherwise; but
when applied to scents they nee.l not be air-tight. In all cases we may apply our
invention or parts of it, to any kind of frame or cabinet. We may use any kind
of nozzles or pumps, but the construction preferably proposed is such that by
winding up a spring the actuation will enable the operator to draw off any of the
liquids contained in the cabinet. As a matter of course any ordinary pump or
inflator may be made to serve the purpose our main object being to produce a
cabinet which will be capable of containing several kinds of liquid to be separately
drawn off at suitable nozzles. Any nozzles, valves and other accessories already
existing may be combined appropriately with our said cabinet.
If we use the spring, either to pump the liquids directly or to force them out by
air-pressure, we may introduce any necessary gear, or any suitable pump or inflator,
as well as any ornamental or fanciful device found convenient for our purpose.
We may have separate nozzles for the various liquids, or we may have a single
nozzle communicating with branching tubes-furnished with stop-cocks-so that
any one, or any combination, of the liquids may be drawn off at pleasure. We
may add a means of locking out of gear either tight or free compartments in spirit
wine and liqueur cabinets and the free compartments of scent cabinets. It will be
readily understood that our main object is to produce such cabinets as shall enable
the operator to draw the various liquids contained therein, without taking out
bottles. In all cases in which air is to be admitted to allow pressure to pass into
the bottle, or air for filling up vacuum, we prefer to use a stopper having a small
tube passing through it, curving downwards at the outside, and terminating in a
minute valve automatically closing by gravitation.
Dated this 18th day of January 1894.
JAMES M'HARDY.
ARTHUR THOMAS TYER.
An Improved Spirit, Wine, Liqueur, or Scent Cabinet.
We JAMES MC HARDY, of Zoffany House Chiswick Middlesex, Scientific
Expert and ARTHUR THOMAS TYER of Broadway Ealing Middlesex, Stationer,
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, which relates to an improved spirit wine, liqueur or scent
| cabinet, is carried into practice to suit required modifications.

page_text: A chamber or chambers either air tight or otherwise in combination with a
special pump-action and air valve hereinafter particularly described, enable us to
produce such a cabinet as shall completely meet the proposed requirements; i.e.
The liquid may be drawn at pleasure: if bottles be used they may be concealed:
and various kinds of liquid may be drawn from the same cabinet. It is clear
that we may apply any of our said improvements to any kind of cabinet, but
preferably, we apply them as follows; in the case of spirits wines, and liqueurs, we
may use tight or loose compartments, but in connexion with scent cabinets, we
claim only the application to loose compartments, our rights for other compartments
being secured by a former Patent.
Having provided a suitable cabinet, we erect upon, or in it, a spring-gear capable
of working a pump or inflator of any convenient kind. When the said spring-gear
is wound up and released the action may be made to produce the following
effects; riz.; air will be forced in through valves, so as to put a pressure upon
the liquids. The pump will stop working when the pressure balances the
power. On releasing any portion of the liquid by means of suitable nozzles,
the pump will again work up the pressure to equilibrium, and so on, till the
spring shall be completely unwound.
N.B. It will be advisable to use a fuzee to equalize the working power of the
spring, and, as a matter of course, any ordinary mechanical appliances may be used
for carrying out the working and transmission of the power.
We may use any ordinary valve or valves in the construction of the said pump
or inflator; but the valve for admitting the pressure to each individual bottle or
compartment shall consist of a gravitation valve in the end of a curved tubular
air-passage. As a matter of course we may cause the pump or inflator to
communicate directly with one or any number of bottles or compartments, in which
case the cabinet need not contain a tight chamber, and the gravitation valve may
be dispensed with. Any convenient arrangement may be made for locking the
parts out of working gear.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. I is a possible arrangement of a bottle inside a tight chamber showing the
necessary parts in connexion with the gravitation valve.
A B shows one side (in section) of an air tight chamber capable of containing one
or several bottles or their equivalents.
C is a nozzle from which the liquid may be drawn.
D is a suitable junction for the tube E through which the liquid has to pass.
E is a tube passing through the stopper (F) and extending (see dotted lines)-
almost to the bottom of the bottle.
Fis a stopper carrying E and 1.
G G is the bottle.
H is a gravitation valve which yields to air pressure surrounding the inclosed
bottle and admits air into G G by the air passage I.
Fig. I represents a possible method of application of the spring pump or
inflator.
A. B. is the body of the cabinet.
2 is a common clock-spring or its equivalent, suitably mounted.
3 is a chain or its equivalent.
4 is a drum or axle upon which the chain may be wound.
5 is a crank wheel or its equivalent revolving with 4 in the working direction
but admitting of the winding of 4 after the manner of a clock.
6 is a crank-pin in 5.
7 is a connecting rod hinged upon 6 and 8.
8 is a bearing upon 9 whereby the connecting rod is made to actuate the
bellows.
9 is an inflator or pump, in this instance constructed upon the plan of organ
bellows.

page_text: The action of the parts is as follows;-
If 4 be wound up, the chain 3 will be gathered around it and at the same time
the said chain being drawn from (say) a fuzee upon the spindle of the spring, the
spring will be contracted in the usual way. When the key is withdrawn and the
mechanism released, the spring 2 will tend to draw in the chain 3, and 4 will
revolve but 4 will carry 5 with it; consequently the crank pin will carry the
connecting rod in the manner required to give a pull and thrust to the bellows 9.
As soon as the bellows shall have pumped the pressure inside A B to such a degree
that the power of the spring is thereby counterbalanced, the pumping will
naturally be arrested. Whenever the liquid is drawn off the pressure will be
reduced and the pump will again come into action so long as the spring is on
tension.
As before mentioned the air may either be forced into a tight compartment
containing bottles or compartiments as shown at Fig. I, or it may be forced directly
into the bottles or compartments for containing the different kinds of liquid.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is;
1. The application of a spring pump action to any kind of scent or spirit
cabinet or its equivalent.
2. The application of a gravitation valve to bottles or compartments, in any kind
of scent or spirit cabinet or its equivalent.
3. The combination of a pump or inflator with any kind of spirit or liqueur
cabinet.
4. The application of our said spring pump action, to scent cabinets that are not
air-tight, and to liqueur cabinets whether air tight or loose.
Dated this 27th day of December 1894.
JAMES M HARDY.
ARTHUR T. TYER.