Strange Bottle Pump Patent Photo?

[Greeneman215]

I found this at an antique store for a few bucks.
Anyone have any idea what it is?
It's a picture of some kind of pump in a photo folder thing that has the Navy and Government seal on it.
Could it be a picture for some kind of patent?
Sorry for sideways pictures, couldn't get them to rotate.
Thanks!

 

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[Icewing]

Does it say anything on the back of the picture?

 

[DizzyDigger]

The cover tends to make me consider a military connection, but
aside from that I can only guess it's part of some type of scientific
measurement equipment.

Fixed your pics:

 

[cj74]

Whatever they are they're cool to look at. I'm curious of the bottle and what is inside of it. Looks like it get's pressurized from the outside but the mechanism is hard to see. Maybe a blood transfusion mechanism of some kind?

 

[NOLA_Ken]

The machine in the bottle looks like some kind of small steam engine to me... whatever it is, it's not going to be original to that picture frame. That frame should hold a sailors photo. I would think from looking at it that the frame is possibly Spanish American War era, but that's just a hunch based on others I've seen of that era. Is there a makers stamp on the frame anywhere?

 

[cj74]

The machine in the bottle looks like some kind of small steam engine to me... whatever it is, it's not going to be original to that picture frame. That frame should hold a sailors photo. I would think from looking at it that the frame is possibly Spanish American War era, but that's just a hunch based on others I've seen of that era. Is there a makers stamp on the frame anywhere?

Great observation! I looked at it again and saw the arm and the shaft so maybe it pumped something out then. Blood, steam for sterilization or who knows what. I did a google search for old glass bottles used for blood transfusions and some looked almost similar, none had that mechanism in them though.

 

[Old Pueblo]

Agree, c.1900 with someone's weird c.1900 invention on the inside.

 

[4x4x4]

....Ether vapor delivery ?

 

[Nitric]

I'm fascinated with what ever it is....I wonder how they got it in the bottle?

I can't figure it out. It does look like some kind of pump or engine. But with a sealed bottle? Where does the air come from if it's a pump? There needs to be an intake and exhaust. There is only the volume(?) of the bottle. If it's an engine? Where does the exhaust go? Same thing, only enough for the inside of the bottle? Since it's corked.

Cool picture and piece of machinery or whatever it is..

I wonder if it isn't a real early pressure or vacuum gauge?Or someones improved or very accurate version. What we are seeing in the picture is the back side. The other side would have the needle on the top pulley pointing down towards the bottom of the jar. The numbers below also on the bottom plate as an example? That is the only thing that makes sense to me. I've taken some old gauges apart and the same type of mechanical idea is the same.They had a flat tube instead of a piston.

That in the picture might just be a real early one or a real accurate gauge? And after looking again I would guess some kind of pressure gauge from the way everything is sitting. The piston has more room to go forward than it does to be sucked in from vacuum. No clue! Thats my guess for now..

 

[Tony in SC]

Maybe it's not actually in the bottle

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I'm fascinated with what ever it is....I wonder how they got it in the bottle?

I think that's why it is notable. Like a ship in a bottle. Pretty impressive (though I'm not sure how the flywheel fit unless it is multiple segments).

Maybe a ship's machinist did it and that's why the binder is military style?

 

[Icewing]

I see several pieces that wouldnt fit, such as the base plate.
The bottle would have to have an open bottom, or removable neck.

 

[cudamark]

No guarantee it's even a real item. Maybe just a figment of the artist's imagination.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

Looking at the picture a little closer, I think it's actually a pneumatic engine. and would have run on compressed air.... What it's doing in a bottle is beyond me though.

 

[Old Pueblo]

I wonder if there is another photo underneath. Maybe a sailor?

 

[4x4x4]

....worked on atmospheric pressure changes ? AND there MIGHT be another hole in the cork !

 

[HuntinDog]

The picture is not in the frame.
It appears to be glued to the frame.
Only the top part is cut to fit the frame.
Like said before... maybe there is another picture under it??

 

[mojjax]

Quack medical devise . Hot now . Even if it's just a photo . Nice !

 

[sutphin]

ENEMA CLEANSER PUMP. COOL , NEET PHOTO

 

[Greeneman215]

Thanks all for your responses. There is no photo underneath that one. You can see where it was glued but as peeled up on the one side and it looks like the frame part was cut or trimmed to make it wider towards the bottom.