Improvements in Means or Apparatus for the Withdrawal of Liquids from Bottles and other Vessels.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Aug., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 1st May, 1890-Accepted, 5th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for the Withdrawal of Liquids
from Bottles and other Vessels.
I HENRY GOFFE of the firm of J. Goffe and Sons of Digbeth in the City of
Birmingham do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object primarily, the withdrawal of small quantities of
liquids (principally aerated and effervescent) from stoppered and other bottles and
vessels, so that in the event of the whole of the contents of a bottle not requiring to
be consumed at one time, it can then be kept until required.
The appliance consists essentially of a swivelly mounted frame, with a stoppering
means at one end, and a tap and bottle-mouth seat at the other end.
In carrying out my said invention, 1 take a rectangular shaped frame, of more than
the length of a bottle, and provide the same with trunnion centres, removed from its
centre, so that normally the frame shall hang in an assigned position. These said
trunnion centres are supported by vertical uprights, carried by a base.
The upper end of the frame has a screw box directed vertically through it, where
through a quick-threaded screw, with a hand-wheel at one end, and a swivelling cup
at the other end, passes.
This said cup, which is directed inwardly, takes into a recess in the bottom of
the bottle, whilst the hand wheel is for the purpose of advancing the bottle, through
the intervention of the screw, and thereby unseating the stopper.
The lower part or inside bottom of the frame, carries a rubber seated cup, with a
centrally disposed hollow nozzle passing up its middle, and with a bent or curved tube
terminated by a cap, directed from the nozzle.
The tap is of the suphon-aerated water-bottle type, consisting of a lever, which on
being depressed opens a valve, and when released, the said valve automatically closes
again, by the action of a spring.
OPERATION.
I invert a turn round the frame and place a full bottle between the cup which is
advanced by the screw, and the cup connected with the tap; then rotate the hand wheel,
when the bottle is advanced and its mouth forcibly pressed against the seating as
aforesaid and with the nozzle impinging itself against the stopper, which on the screw
being further advanced, unseats the said stopper, and allows liquid to pass to the tap,
which is drawn off as may be required by inverting the position of the frame and
bottle (upside down) and depressing the lever connected with the tap.
By inverting the bottle (mouth downwards) the whole of the liquid contained within
it, can be withdrawn without resorting to gaseous pressure to empty it, although the
said emptying may be assisted by means as aforesaid.
The swivelling of the frame can be made stiff, by extending one of the trunnion
arms through its bearing, and fitting the screwed end of the same, with a fly-nut.
may employ a fixed frame instead of a swivelling one.
inverted before it is placed and secured within the frame.
In this case, the bottle is
The hollow nozzle which forms a stop, and leads to the tap may be furnished with a
pressure guage, to indicate the pressure within the inside of a bottle.
By appliances as set forth, liquids, the contents or part contents of bottles, can be
withdrawn, as they require to be consumed.
Datel 1:11
1000

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for the Withdrawal of Liquids
from Bottles and other Vessels.
I, HENRY GOFFE of the firm of J. Goffe and Sons of Digbeth in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer 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 relates to apparatus for the combined unstoppering and withdrawing
of liquids from bottles and other vessels.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings, represents partly in elevation, and partly
in vertical section, an apparatus for the opening and drawing-off, of aerated, effer-
vescent, and other liquids from bottles, and other receptacles; and which said
apparatus, is constructed and arranged, according to my invention. In this said view,
an inverted bottle is shown in position ready for the withdrawal of liquid from it, as
the same may be required to be consumed.
Thus, it will be seen that an ordinary bottle, is by my invention, converted into a
syphon one, without employing separate and independent syphon arrangements, for
each bottle, as is now commonly done.
Figure 2 represents a front elevation of the same, whilst figure 3 represents a
transverse vertical and horizontal section on the dotted lines A B figure 1, with the
bottle removed.
a is an upright framing, supported upon a base a², terininated at its upper end, by
a head or arm a³, with a screw box a', directed vertically through it, wherein a screw b,
surmounted by a hand-wheel 63, for its rotation, takes.
The lower end of the screw b, is provided with a swivelly connected pressure block
or bead
which is adapted to fit within the hollowed bottom or recess d², of a bottle d,
whose mouth d³, comes upon the bottom of a rubber seated cup e, supported upon a
bracket or table a, directed from the inside lower portion of the frame a.
Disposed centrally up the middle of the said cup, and through the bracket or
table a, is a hollow nozzle f, with its stem or lower part, directed into a bent tube g,
surmounted by a syphon tap 1, consisting of a valve i, lever 2, hollow body part i³,
and bib or spout *.
The pressing of the jointed lever 12, raises the valve from its seat, and allows liquid,
which is scaled, by the mouth of the bottle taking against the seating of the cup, to
pass outwardly, either by the exerted inward gaseous pressure, or by gravitation.
The inside of the mouth of the neck of the bottle, is provided with a ball stopper j
and the inside of the mouth itself, with a rubber seating k, against which the ball
comes, and hermetically seals the bottle, as is usual.
The placing of the mouth of the bottle over the. nose 3, of the nozzle, and then
applying vertical pressure to the said bottle, causes the stopper j to be unseated, and
the mouth sealed, by the said mouth coming in intimate contact with the rubber
facing e².
The liquid within the bottle, passes, or is now forced, into the syphon arrangement.
OPERATION.
Invert the bottle from which the liquid is to be withdrawn, then place the same
within, the rubber seated cup e, with the nose of the nozzle, extending up the mouth,
and with the stopper resting upon it. Rotate. the hand-wheel 2, when the head or
block d³, is advanced, through the intervention of the screw, and by such advancing
movement, the bottle is forced vertically, downwards, and the stopper j, unseated
thereby, and further the mouth of the bottle is also sealed to the escaping of liquid,
other than, through the hollow nozzle, to the syphon tap; the pressing of the lever
opens the said tap, and allows liquid to flow, or be withdrawn from the bottle.
As a modification, I may make the bracket rest or table a³, slide vertically within

page_text: the upright framing a², in manner that the nozzle and syphon tap, with its accessory
parts, are carried and moved, instead of being fixed.
By thus making the said rest or table move, the pressure device, with hand-wheel 6³,
as in the first arrangement, is dispensed with, so that the withdrawal of the liquid, is
performed by placing the bottle in position, and then giving a turn to a hand wheel,
or moving a lover, when the nozzle is forced up the mouth of the bottle, and coming
against the stopper, unseats it.
The sealing of the mouth of the bottle, is performed by covering the same with
rubber or cork.
I do not confine myself to whether the mouth of the bottle is closed inside or out-
side, as it is immaterial whether the shank of the nozzle is made to close the mouth,
or whether the mouth is brought upon a seating.
In case of a movable or sliding rest bracket, I propose that the same should bo
operated by a screw, or a rack and pinion, or by a cam action.
If necessary the bottle may be unstoppered with the mouth upwards instead of with
the mouth downwards. In this case I carry the upper and lower supports and parts
by a frame, pivoted about its middle to the main framing, so that on the bottle being
unstoppered, the same is inverted so as to admit of the liquid being withdrawn.
Figure of the accompanying drawings, represents partly in vertical section, and
partly in elevation, another form of my invention, for the opening, drawing-off,
(intermittently or otherwise) of aerated, effervescent, and other liquids, from bottles
or vessels. In this arrangement, the unstoppering may be performed partly by hand,
and partly by means of a spring, through the intervention of a plunger head, of a
holding means; or the unstoppering may be performed entirely by hand, whilst the
plunger head, fulfills the office of keeping the bottle mouth up to the facing of the
nozzle, and the bottle itself in position, and further the unstoppering and placing in
position, may be effected by forcing the bottom of the bottle under the plunger head,
when the mouth of the said bottle is upon the nozzle.
Figure 5 represents a front elevation of figure 4.
a is an upright framing, supported upon a base a', and with the upper end a³,
terminated by a box enclosure a', wherein a coiled spring 1, is enclosed, and made to
surround a stalk m, of a plunger head m². The stalk m, which is guided through the
ends of the box a, has a collar m³, between which, and the stoppered end a°, the said
coiled spring is disposed.
d is the bottle, d² its concaved or hollowed out bottom, wherein the crown m¹, of the
head m², fits, and is the mouth of the bottle. the stopper, and the rubber
seating the hollow nozzle, g the pipe leading to the syphon tap h, with lever i.
The nozzle is carried by the rest bracket a, which is adjustable by means of the
screw n, taking through a screw box a', of the said rest, and lying within a recess a³,
of the upright framing a; so that it will be seen, that on rotation being given to the
said screw, by its milled head, the rest bracket is raised and lowored, to suit the
apparatus to varying sized bottles.
The nozzle instead of being made in the form of a conical plug, to fit tightly within
the inside of the mouth of the bottle, so as to seal the same from the escape of liquid
the same may be made in the form as represented in the first arrangement.
Place the bottle when inverted, in an inclined position, as represented in dotted lines
figure 5, with the mouth upon the nozzle, then force the bottom of the said bottle,
under the plunger head m², and when the said bottle is in a vertical position, the ball
becomes unseated, and the bottle held, and forced downwards, as represented at
figure 4.
Although I have described my invention in connection with apparatuses for the un-
stoppering and withdrawing of liquids from stoppered bottles of the ball type, yet my
invention is applicable to other internally stoppered bottles.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
First. A combined apparatus for the unstoppering and withdrawing of liquids
from bottles and other vessels, consisting of a syphon tap arrangement, with cupped
seat and nozzle, at one end or at one part of the apparatus, and a clamping and
advancing device at the other end or part of the apparatus, substantially as described
and set forth in figures 1, 2, 3.
Secondly. The combination with an apparatus for the opening and withdrawing of
liquids from bottles, of a syphon arrangement, consisting of a syphon tap,
bent tube g, nozzle ff" and scat e, e², as in figures 1, 2, and 3 and the like arrange-
ment without the cupped seat e, e², as in figures 4 and 5.
Thirdly. An apparatus for the withdrawing of aerated and other liquids from
bottles, as described and set forth in figures 1, 2, and 3.
Fouthly. A combined apparatus for the unstoppering and withdrawing of liquids
from bottles and other vessels, consisting of a syphon tap arrangement, with nozzle at
the one end or of the one part of the apparatus, and a spring forcing and holding
device, at the other end, or part of the apparatus as set forth in figures 4 and 5.
Fifthly. In the forcing part of apparatus for the unstoppering of bottles, consisting
of a plunger head m², with stalk m m³, coiled spring 1, hollow head a', and frame a³,
as set forth in figures 4 and 5.
Sixthly. A combined apparatus for the automatic unstoppering and withdrawing
of liquids from bottles and other vessels, with or without the adjusting means, in
respect of the rest bracket, as set forth in figures 4 and 5.
Dated this 28th day of April 1890.
S 28th day of April 1890.
HENRY GOFFE.
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.