A Decanting or Separating Funnel.
Year: 1898

page_text: A Decanting or Separating Funnel.
WILLIAM HENRY COCKS, Baker Street, Weybridge, Turner, and ARTHUR JAMES
NEWTON, Clifton Villa, Portmore Park, Weybridge, Builder, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in decanting or separating funnels, and
is designed for disuniting the sediment from wines and other liquids after sub-
sidence or precipitation, and is more especially intended for separating the fat
or other oily substance from soups, gravies, jellies and the like for domestic
purposes.
According to our invention a glass or other suitable transparent material recep-
tacle or container is made provided with a lip and handle when necessary on its
upper outer portion, the said receptacle or container tapering or diminishing to-
wards its lower orifice or neck in the shape of a funnel the said orifice or neck
will be provided with a metal or other suitable material bush or collar, or the said
orifice or neck may be in itself internally or externally screw threaded for the
insertion or screwing on of a suitable draw-off cock or plug wherewith to discharge
or intercept the contents of the aforesaid receptacle or container.
Suitable provision is also made for a stand designed to support the aforesaid
receptacle if desired.
Dated this Sixth day of April 1898.
WILLIAM HENRY COCKS.
ARTHUR JAMES NEWTON.
A Decanting or Separating Funnel.
WILLIAM HENRY COCKS, Baker Street, Weybridge, Turner, ARTHUR JAMES
NEWTON, Clifton Villa, Portmore Park, Weybridge, Builder, 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:
Our invention relates to improvements in decanting or separating funnels and
is designed for disuniting the sediment from wines and other liquids after sub-
sidence or precipitation and is more especially intended for separating the fat
or other oily substances from soups, gravies, jellies and the like for domestic
purposes.
According to our invention a glass or other suitable transparent material recep-
tacle is made through which the treatment of the liquids can be observed & is pro-
vided with a lip and handle when necessary on its upper outer portion, the said

page_text: receptacle or container tapering or diminishing towards its lower orifice or neck
in the shape of a funnel, the said orifice or neck will be provided with a metal or
other suitable material bush or collar, or the said orifice or neck may be in itself
internally or externally screw threaded for the insertion or screwing on of a suit-
able draw-off cock or plug wherewith to discharge or intercept the contents of the
aforesaid receptacle or container.
Suitable provision is also made for a stand designed to support the aforesaid
receptacle if desired.
In order to make clear the nature of our invention and in what manner it is to
be performed we will now describe the same by reference to the accompanying
drawings in which :-
:-
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of our improved separating funnel according to our
invention.
Fig. 2 is a vertical section of a stand designed for supporting the aforesaid funnel.
Referring to Fig. 1 it will be observed that a glass or other suitable transparent
material receptacle A is provided with a lip and handle C, or a second handle
to give the utensil uniformity of appearance may be substituted for the lip B, or
we may dispense with the handle or handles C and employ two or more lips B
if desired. We may also allow our receptacle to be devoid of either lips Bor
handles C so that the said receptacle may terminate on its upper portion in a
circular, square, or other suitable shaped opening D which may if desired be
spanned by a wire, glass, or other suitable bucket handle, the lower portion of the
receptacle A is constructed so as to terminate in a neck E which may be provided
with a metal or other suitable material bush or collar in or on which to screw,
cement, or otherwise affix the cock or plug F, or the neck E may be in itself inter-
nally or externally screw threaded as at G so that the threaded nipple or collar end
of the cock F may when screwed home on a cork or rubber washer serve to make
the desired connection.
Fig. 2 is a stand constructed of metal, glass earthenware or other suitable
material, having a socket I shaped so as to engage with the conical end H of the
cock F, thus serving to support and hold the receptacle A in a perpendicular
position, we wish it to be clearly understood that we do not limit ourselves to a
stand of any one particular design.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is: -
1 A separating funnel for disuniting the sediment or fatty substances from
liquids, the presence and subsequent treatment of which may be discerned through
the transparent material composing the said funnel, the cock F serving to inter-
cept one part of the liquid from the other thus effecting the desired separation.
2 A suitable stand for supporting the receptacle A as herein described.
Dated this 27th day of April 1898.
WILLIAM HENRY COCKS.
ARTHUR JAMES NEWTON.