IMPROVED APPLIANCES FOR CLOSING AERATED LIQUID BOTTLES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Augustus Smith, of Marsh Gate Lane, Stratford,
in the County of Essex, for the Invention of "IMPROVED APPLIANCES
FOR CLOSING AERATED LIQUID BOTTLES."
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Sealed the 14th September 1875, and dated the 16th March 1875..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Augustus Smith at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th March 1875.
I, AUGUSTUS SMITH, of Marsh Gate Lane, Stratford, in the County of
Essex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED
APPLIANCES FOR CLOSING AERATED LIQUID BOTTLES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improved appliances for closing acrated
liquid bottles, such appliances being applicable to ordinary aerated water
bottles and others, and inserted into the neck from the outside like an
ordinary cork.
The Invention consists in forming a ferrule in wood or other equivalent
material with an inner projecting lip or flange at the upper part, against

page_text: the under side of which a rubber or other packing piece is inserted, and
against which a sphere can be caused to come into contact and be
retained by the inward pressure of gas.
The ferrule when inserted into the neck of the bottle can be secured
by wire or other material. In the case of using wire I purpose soldering 5
or otherwiso securing it in place. The ferrule may however be so made
that it can be removed for cleaning the bottle or otherwise.
The sphere, which may be of glass or other material, is within the
bottle, and when the bottle neck is downwards the sphere runs into the
hollow of the ferrule and closes the passage, the opening being effected 1
by passing the opening in the outer end of the ferrule over a pointed or
shaped tool, which may be of glass, and within the vessel into which
the contents are intended to be run. Otherwise, I provide an instru-
ment to push the sphere up, such instrument having a passage through
it for the liquid to flow through into a vessel.
A tube may in some cases be put in connection with the outlet of the
ferrule.
The ferrule is covered or enclosed in a cork, a rubber, or other jacket.
The top of the ferrule can be arranged to lie flush or be slightly below
the level of the edge of the nook
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Augustus Smith in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 16th September 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AUGUSTUS
SMITH, of Marsh Gate Lane, Stratford, in the County of Essex, send 2
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc- 3
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Augustus Smith, Ier special
licence that I, the said Augustus Smith, my executors, administrators'

page_text: the hollow of the ferrule and closes the passage by impinging against
the packing c, the opening of the passage being effected by passing the
opening in the outer end of the closer over a pointed or shaped tool g,
which may be of glass, and within a vessel ½, into which the contents are
intended to be run, as in Figure 3. Otherwise, 1 provide an instrument
to push the sphere d up, such instrument having a passage through it
for the liquid to flow through into a vessel.
the hollow of the ferrule and closes the passage by impinging against
the packing c, the opening of the passage being effected by passing the
opening in the outer end of the closer over a pointed or shaped tool ŋ,
which may be of glass, and within a vessel 7, into which the contents are
intended to be run, as in Figure 3. Otherwise, 1 provide an instrument
to push the sphere d up, such instrument having a passage through it
for the liquid to flow through into a vessel.
A tube i, as in Figure 4, may in some cases be put in connection with
the outlet of the closer.
The ferrule is covered or enclosed in a cork, a rubber, or other jacket j,
to fit the neck of the bottle tightly.
The top of the closer can be arranged to lie flush with the top or
mouth of the bottle, as in Figure 5, or be slightly below the level of the
edge of the neck as in Figure 4.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood
that I make no claim to the employment of a sphero within a bottle to
impinge against a packing in the neck thereof, nor do I claim the
employment of a hollow closer or stopper, but what I do claim is, the
combination of a sphero with a hollow stopper or closer that can, as a
separate article be inserted and retained in the neck of a bottle like an
ordinary cork, as and for the purposes set forth and as shown in the
accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Augustus Smith, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of September, One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-five.
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Witness,
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street,
London.
A. SMITH. (L.S.)