IMPROVEMENTS IN SYPHON TAPS FOR AERATED LIQUID BOTTLES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry James Cole, of 76, Wandsworth Road, in the County
of Surrey, Mechanical Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
SYPHON TAPS FOR AERATED LIQUID BOTTLES."
Sealed the 23rd June 1876, and dated the 1st April 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry James Cole at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st April 1876.
HENRY JAMES COLE, of 76, Wandsworth Road, in the County of Surrey,
Mechanical Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN SYPHON TAPS FOR AERATED LIQUID
BOTTLES."
This Invention relates to improvements in syphon taps for aerated liquid bottles,
and consists in fitting to the upper part of a stem tube, to be arranged within a
bottle, a connection having at the upper part an aperture against which a plug or
valve is caused to impinge by a screw stem provided with a button head projecting
froin the outside of the casing in which the valve is enclosed.
The seating for the valve is of rubber, leather, or other body fitted in some cases
in a recess of a branch piece terminating in a kind of spout for leading the contents
of the bottle when the valve is opened into a glass or other receiver.
The upper portion of the first mentioned tube inay have any appliance upon it for
fitting tightly the neck of the bottle, but I prefer to screw-thread the upper portion
and fit a screw closer valve or stopper upon it, such as is described in a previous
Patent granted to ine on the Fifth day of June, in the year 1875, No. 2079.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Henry James Cole in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th July
1876.
HENRY JAMES COLE, of 76, Wandsworth Road, in the County of Surrey,
Mechanical Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN SYPHON TAPS FOR AERATED LIQUID
BOTTLES."
This Invention relates to a combined syphon tap and stopper for aerated liquid
bottles, and consists of a tube attached to another tube which passes through the
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page_text: bottle neck, the latter tube being surrounded by a short length of rubber tube,
which can be expanded by impinging against a cone at one end and by abutting
against a cap which carries it at the other. The cap is capable of being forced
down by a screw button or plate which rests upon the cap, and the rubber tube
which is expanded acts as a stopper and hermetically closes the neck of the bottle
against escape of the liquid or the gas with which the liquid is charged.
The second tube referred to is surmounted by a head in which is a valve capable
of being removed from its seating by turning a button on the outside of the head,
either from above or from the side, in order that the liquid can pass out through a
nozzle into any vessel placed to receive it. The chamber in the head is sufficiently
large to cause a remixing of the escaping gas and liquid from the body of the bottle
before they arrive at the outlet of the nozzle.
My Invention is clearly shown in the accompanying Drawings. u is the first
mentioned tube and b the one above, forming an extension thereof; c is the rubber
tube which, when in the neck of the bottle d, as in Figure 2, impinges against the
cone e and the bottle neck when the cap g is forced down by the screw button or
plate h, whereby the rubber tube c is expanded and caused to act as a stopper and
hermetically close up the neck of the bottle... Lfit a rubber ring i in the button or
plate to prevent any escape of gas should there by any chance be an imperfection
in the rubber tubo. is the head surmounting the tube b, and is fitted with a valve
seating against or upon which the valve is caused to impinge to close the
passage through the tubes a, b, which lead to the nozzle or outlet m when the
outside button n is screwed home.
The tube a can be screwed into a metallic, cork, or other suitable packing p placed
in the tube b, as in Figure 1, or it may be screwed direct into the tube b, and the
valve may be flat on the face, as in Figure 1, or of rounded form, as in Figures 2
and 3, so long as the passage through from the bottle to the outlet be effectually
closed by it.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the combined siphon tap and
stopper shown in the accompanying Drawings, and especially the chamber in the
head thereof, whereby a remixture of the gas and liquid takes place, as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry James Cole, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of July, One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-six.
HENRY JAMES COLE. (L.S.)