US33105A - Canteen-filler - Google Patents

Description

UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

STEPHEN H. RUSSELL, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GANTEEN-FILLER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 33,105, dated August 20, 1861.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN H. RUSSELL, of Boston, in the county of Suifolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a Soldiers Canteen Filler and Drinking- Tube Combined, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1. is a longitudinal section through the tube, applied to a canteen-F ig. 2. a section of the tube full size, detached from the canteen and in condition to be used as a drinking tube*Fig. 3 represents a soldier in thev act of filling his canteen.

A simple but very useful article has been devised for the convenience of soldiers and travelers, consisting of a small iexible tube of vulcanized india rubber, to one end of which is attached a mouth piece a Fig. l. and to the other end a filter b of hard rubber or other suitable material, the filter contains a sponge c and has a perforated disk i; with this tube a person may drink with safety and comfort from the shallowest spring or brook, in positions where the water could not be dipped up in a vessel without stirring up the mud and spoiling the water.

The object of my present invention is to enable the soldier or traveler not only to drink but to fill his canteen or other bottle where the water is shallow, and my invention consists in attaching to the drinking tube at or near the middle of its length a short tube of metal or other suitable material dividedby a partition and surrounded by a disk of rubber, which when placed on the mouth of the vessel to be filled and pressed tightly to exclude the air-will fill the vessel by exhausting the air from it through the mouthpiece of the tube.

That others skilled in the art may understand and use my invention I will proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried out the same.

In the said drawings A. is the flexible tube, a the mouthpiece, Z9 the filter, B. the canteen. A short metal tube C. having a partition c extending lengthwise through it is connected with the rubber tube near the middle of the length of it, by a short section of tube f, which extends at right angles from each side of the tube C, and enters the rubber tube. The top end of the tube C is closed by a disk g, While the other end is i open except when covered by a cap h, Fig. 2,

which screws on over the end of the tube. A metal ring m surrounds and is attached to the tube C. immediately below where it joins the rubber tube, and to the underside of this ring is attached a ring of india rubber Z, which is intended to cover and close the mouth of the vessel to be lilled. The tube C. is cut away on one side at its lower end at o 4so that the passage 3 on one side of the partition e is longer than the passage 4. on the other side. This I find in practice makes the flow of water into the vessel more regular, and the stream running from the passage 3 is not broken by the air which is being exhausted through the passage 4.

The following is the method of using my improved canteen filler: The screw cap L being removed, the end of the tube C is placed in the mouth of the canteen, the rubber ring Z. being pressed down tightly onto it by applying the thumb to the top of the tube C. as shown in Fig. 3.; the filter now being held in the brook or spring from which the wateris to be drawn, the air is exhausted from the canteen through the passage l in the tube C and through the mouthpiece a, when the water flows up through the tube A. and down the passage 3 into the canteen.

The apparatus may be used simply as a drinking tube by screwing on the cap 7L, when the water will pass up the tube A. down the passage 3 and up the passage il to the mouth.

It will be perceived that the cap h does not close the end of the passage 3., but to make the connection more sure the lower part of `the partition e is partly cut away to give a freer passage to the water.

Instead of the tube C with its division e, two separate tubes of a smaller size may replace the passages 3 and 4 and be soldered together, and be surrounded by the ring or washer m or its equivalent.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The above described canteen filler, consisting of the tube A. and short tube O with its partition c forming the passages 3 and 4L substantially as specified.

STEPHEN H. RUSSELL.

Vitnesses:

Trios. R. RoAcH, I. E. TEsoHEMAoHER.

Images