Improvements in Bottles and Stoppers to same for Removal of Sediment of Ales and other Liquids.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Oct., 1≥90
Complete Specification Left, 25th July, 1891-Accepted, 5th Sept. 1851
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Improvements in Bottles and Stoppers to same for Removal of
Sediment of Ales and other Liquids. .
THOMAS MARCUS HOUGHTON Quantity Surveyor 58 Wimpole Street
Cavendish Square W. do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention is for the purpose of collection retention and removal of the
sediment in ales beers and other liquors in which a sediment is precipitated and. it is
effected in the following manner-
I take an ordinary bottle with a screw or other stopper the rim of the same
being increased in diameter and made of a suitable shape to support the bottle
when standing on this (the neck) end instead of on its base as has hitherto invariably
been the practice.
The end of the stopper within the neck will be sunk out cone shape sloping in
continuation of shoulder and neck of bottle and will have a hole at its apex so that
the sediment in settling will be gradually contracted and will pass through same
into a hollow plug of wood or other suitable material which will be fixed in the
base of the stopper or into a chamber formed in the stopper.
When the liquid is
required for use the bottle is placed on its base proper and the stopper removed in
the usual manner and with it the sediment contained in the plug or chamber of the
said stopper.
The shape of the stopper will be altered together with the mouth of the bottle
so that a ring of cork or other material can be used instead of indiarubber.
The internal surface of the neck of the bottle will be formed to overhang or
project beyond the base of the inverted conc formed in the stopper to prevent the
lodgement of the sediment.
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THOMAS MARCUS HOUGHTON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottles and Stoppers to same for Removal of
Sediment of Ales and other Liquids.
THOMAS MARCUS HOUGHTON, Quantity Surveyor of 58, Wimpole Street,
Cavendish Square W. 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 thereof that is to say :-
My invention relates to improvements in stoppers for bottles, jars and other
vessels and is more particularly applicable to bottles in which sedimentary liquids
such as ale, beer and the like is stored, the object of my invention being to collect
in my improved stopper the lees or drugs which are gradually deposited from such
liquids so that after the stopper is removed the ale may be poured out to the last
drop in a perfectly clear state.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of the upper part of a bottle furnished with my
improved stopper,
Fig. 2 being an outside view thereof.
Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on line of Fig. 1 and
Fig. 4 a vertical section of a modification.
In applying my invention to the stoppering of bottles containing sedementary

page_text: liquids it is preferable to use bottles having sloping shoulders and slightly kinked
in the neck as shown in Fig. 1.
My improved stopper represents as far as outward appearance is concerned an
ordinary screw stopper a being its head the screw threaded shank, and ca
detachable funnel shaped piece hereinafter more fully described. Inwardly the
shank is hollow and receives the reduced and centrally perforated end of the
piece c which is open and has sloping sides as clearly shown in Fig. 1. B is the upper
part of an ordinary ale or beer bottle having sloping shoulders and kinked at k,
and d is the ordinary india rubber ring which I may however replace by a ring of
cork or other suitable material. The piece c is fitted in the hollow stopper as
shown and as the bottles are according to my invention stored upside down, the
sediments, lees or dregs will gradually run through the funnel shaped part of the
piece c being guided therein by the kinks & and will finally pass through the central
passage e into the hollow part of the stopper wherein they will be collected and
prevented from contaminating the liquid contained in the bottle B. In the modifi-
cation shown in Fig. 4 the appendage c is dispensed with, the lower end of the
stopper being arranged in the same manner as the piece e which merely reduces
the capacity of the collecting receptacle, the stopper operating otherwise like
that shown in Fig. 1.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is.
The improved stopper for collecting the lees, or dregs contained in sedimentary
liquids, arranged and constructed substantially as herein described and shown.
Dated this 28th day of July 1891.
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant..