Improvements in Water Bottles, Toilet Jugs, and other similar Receptacles.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Sept.. 1888
Complete Specification Left, 12th June, 1889-Accepted, 27th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Water Bottles, Toilet Jugs, and other similar
Receptacles.
I JOHN JAMES ROYLE of 27 and 29 King-Street West, Manchester, Mechanical.
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
These improvements refer to an invention for which Letters Patent No. 6327 were
granted to me and dated May 11th 1886 and consist in applying the same principle in
withdrawing the contents of water bottles, toilet jugs and other similar receptacles
without the trouble of lifting and tilting the same as heretofore. In performing my
present invention I form the bottle or jug with a suitable socket or hopper as herein
described or enclose the bottle or jug with a suitable air-tight cover or stopper and
provide such vessel with a spout or draw-off pipe carried down so as to draw from the
bottom of the vessel. And in order to exercise the necessary pressure upon the
surface of the liquid to cause such liquid to rise in and overflow from the spout, I
employ a socket by preference affixed to the cover or stopper (unless forming part of
the vessel itself) and which socket communicates through a central passage with the
interior of the vessel. This socket is fitted with an india-rubber ball suspended therein
in such a manner that immediately upon pressure being exercised upon such ball by
the hand of the user the bottom of the ball bulges outwards and by closing around
the mouth of the central passage so acts as a valve and causes such pressure to be
communicated to the air in the interior of the vessel whilst immediately the ball is
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again it resumes its original form by drawing in air from the outer
atmosphere through suitable orifices or passages formed in the socket. This socket
when the ball is removed may conveniently form the hopper by means of 'which the
filling of the bottle or jug is effected.
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JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Water Bottles, Toilet Jugs, and other similar
Receptacles.
1 JOHN JAMES ROYLE of 27 and 29 King Street West, Manchester, Mechanical
Engineer, 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:-.
These improvements refer to an invention for which Lettors Patent No. 6327 were
granted to me and dated May 11th 1886 and consist in applying the same principle
in withdrawing the contents of water bottles, toilet jugs and other similar receptacles
without the trouble of lifting and tilting the same as heretofore.
On the accompanying drawings.-Sheet 1. Fig. 1 is a sectional view of my
improved Water bottle or jug constructed in earthenware, & Figs. 2 and 3 are
sectional and plan views respectively of the hopper part of Fig. 1, and on sheet 2.
Fig. 4 is an exterior view and Fig. 5a sectional view of a modification of my improved
Water bottle constructed of transparent glass.
In Fig. 1. I shew the bottle or jug A with its hopper a and spout 6 constructed
all in one piece. The spout 6 communicates with a draw off pipe or passage c carried
down so as to draw from the bottom of the vessel A. The interior of the hopper a is
corrugated or grooved as illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3 and is formed with a central
passage d leading to the inside of the vessel A. This hopper a is fitted with an india-
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page_text: rubber ball e resting upon the ridges of the corrugations in such a manner that its
bottom surface is normally held away from the mouth of the central passage d as seen
in Fig. 1. As so suspended free access is afforded from the outer atmosphere to the
interior of the balle through the hole but immediately upon pressure being exercised
upon such ball by the hand of the user the bottom of the ball bulges outwards and
by closing around the mouth of the central passage d so acts as a valve and causes
such pressure to be communicated through the hole fin the ball to the air in the interior
of the vessel and which acting upon the surface of the water causes the same to rise in
-and overflow through the spout b.
Immediately the ball is "let go" again it resumes its original form by drawing in
air from the outer atmosphere as indicated by the arrows through the corrugations
formed in the hopper. This hopper may conveniently form the means by which the
filling of the bottle or jug is effected.
In figs. 4 and 5 the improved glass water bottle only differs from that herein
described in the spout being constructed separately of metal and affixed to the vessel
as illustrated, and in the hopper / being also formed separately of metal (as a screwed
socket) and with holes i instead of corrugations,--The action of this modification is
precisely the same as that of Fig. 1. except that the incoming air for reinflating the
india rubber ball; enters (as indicated by the arrows in Fig. 5) through the
holes i.
Although I have only described and illustrated my improvements as applied to a
Water bottle or jug, constructed of earthenware and glass it will be obvious that they
are equally applicable to such apparatus constructed of metal or other suitable material
and also to Toilet Jugs and other similar receptacles.
Having thus 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 :-
1st. In water jugs or other similar receptacles formed with a spout as aforesaid
the employment of an india rubber ball suspended in the hopper and capable of closing
around a central passage so as to exercise pressure upon the air contained within the
receptacle substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described.
Dated this 11th day of Lune 1000
JOHN G. WILSON,
55, Market Street, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.