Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Aug., 1886.
Complete Left, 28th May, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 1st July, 1887.
are to be so by Borow stopped.
We, WILLIAM WILSON MACVAY, RICHARD SYKES both of the Albion Glass Works
Castleford in the County of York, Glass Manufacturers, and HIRAM CODD of
41 Gracechurch Street in the City of London Bottle Manufacturer do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In a former application for a patent No. 2882-1886 we described fixing a metallic
or other ferrule having an internal screw within the interior of the bottle head for a
screw stopper to screw into. In a subsequent application No. 947788 we described
forming around the interior of the head of the bottle a small groove for the upper
edge of the ferrule to be bent into to retain the ferrule in place.
To mould the interior of the head of a bottle not only with a screw thread within it
for the ferrule to screw into but also with a shallow groove around the interior above
the top of the screw thread we mount upon the centre core or plug of the tool which
enters and shapes the mouth of the bottle a loose collar with the screw thread moulded
on its exterior. When the tongs are closed the collar can turn freely around the
plug or core but when the tongs open the collar is locked and prevented from turning.
When also the tongs are closed a tooth or teeth are made to project from the central
plug or core between the collar and the swiller plate or disc which is at the base
of the core to mould the groove around the interior of the head just above the screw
thread.
To effect this we joint to the stem which carries the central plug or core and the
swiller plate two levers. The longer arms extend outwards one to one limb of the
tongs and the other to the other limb, these arms are slotted and pins on the two
limbs of the tongs enter the slots and turn the levers as the tongs are closed or

page_text: allowed to open. The other arms of the two levers, lie in a recess in the central plug
or core. They are each formed with a short nib or projection which when the tongs
are closed is made to protrude from the plug or core but which is drawn within the
plug or core when the tongs open. One of the lever arms within the central plug or
core is also shaped so that the opposite side of its end to that on which the small nib
or projection is carried projects from the plug or core when the tongs open and then
enters one or other of a number of notches formed in the inner circumference of the
loose collar and so locks this collar and prevents it from turning whenever the tongs
are opened so that when the head of a bottle has been moulded by the tongs the collar
with the screw thread on its exterior can be held firm and unscrewed from the screw
thread which has been moulded in the interior of the head of the bottle.
Dated this 30th day of August 1886.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in Tools Used in the Manufacture of Bottles which
are to be Closed by Screw Stoppers.
We, WILLIAM WILSON MACVAY, and RICHARD SYKES both of the Albion Glass
Works, Castleford in the County of York, Glass Manufacturers and HERBERT HENRY
DINES of Princes Road Richmond and Mrs. ELIZABETH CODD of Suffolk Lodge
162 Brixton Road both in the County of Surrey Executors of the late Hiram Codd:-
In a former application for a Patent No. 9477 in the year 1886 we described fixing
a metallic or other ferrule having an internal screw within the interior of the bottle
head for a screw stopper to screw into and we also described forming around the
interior of the head of the bottle a small groove for the upper or it might be lower
edge of the ferrule to be bent into to retain the ferrule in place.
To mould the interior of the head of a bottle not only with a screw thread within it
for the ferrule to screw into but also with a shallow groove around the interior above
the top of the screw thread we mount upon the centre core or plug of the tool which
enters and shapes the mouth of the bottle a loose collar with the screw thread moulded
on its exterior. When the tongs are closed the collar can turn freely around the plug
or core but when the tongs open the collar is locked and prevented from turning.
When also the tongs are closed a tooth or teeth are made to project from the central
plug or core between the collar and the swiller plate or disc which is at the base of
the core to mould the groove around the interior of the head just above the screw
thread.
To effect this we joint to the stem which carries the central plug or core and the
swiller plate two levers. The longer arms extend outwards one to one limb of the
tongs and the other to the other limb, these arms are slotted and pins on the two
limbs of the tongs enter the slots and turn the levers as the tongs are closed or allowed
to open. The other arms of the two levers lie in a recess in the central plug or core.
They are each formed with a short nib or projection which when the tongs are closed
is made to protrude from the plug or core but which is drawn within the plug or core
when the tongs open. One of the lever arms within the central plug or core is also
shaped so that the opposite side of its end to that on which the small nib or projection
is carried projects from the plug or core when the tongs open and then enters one or
other of a number of notches formed in the inner circumference of the loose collar and
so locks this collar and prevents it from turning whenever the tongs are opened so
that when the head of a bottle has been moulded by the tongs the collar with the
screw thread on its exterior can be held firm and unscrewed from the screw thread
which has been moulded in the interior of the head of the bottle.
The drawings hereunto annexed show a tool formed as above described.
Figure 1 shows a side view of the tool and Figure 2 a side view partly in section
and Figure 3 an end view.

page_text: A A are the dies carried as usual at the extremity of the two arms of the tongs for
moulding the exterior of the head of the bottle. B is the centre core or plug which
enters and shapes the mouth of the bottle. C the loose collar capable of turning
around this core and having a screw thread moulded on its exterior. The body of
the core B and the swiller plate D at its base are divided longitudinally into two
parts one part being as shown at Figure 2 carried by bent arms E¹ from the central
stem E and the other part screwed to it by screws F as shewn at Figure 1.
The extremities of the two parts of the core are also held together by a tube B¹
placed over them and secured by a pin B². The tube B¹ also keeps the collar C from.
moving endwise along the core.
In the one part which is carried by the arms E¹ is a recess within which the ends
of two levers G are received-the other ends of the levers are as shown bent outwards
and in each is a slot into which pins H carried by the arms of the tongs are made to
enter I is a pin which forms a fulcrum for the levers G.
The extremity of the arm of each of the levers G which lies within the core B has
a nib K projecting from it. When the tongs are open these nibs lie within the core
as shown and the collar C is locked and prevented from turning around the core by
the end of one of the levers entering a recess in its interior but when the tongs are
closed the pins H turn the levers & on their fulcrum and set the collar free and at
the same time cause the nibs K to project from the core in close proximity to the end
of the collar.
The tongs shown in the drawing are adapted for forming a groove around the
interior of the neck just above the screw thread which is moulded in it by the collar C
--but it will be seen that the nibs or projections K which form this groove might
instead of being made to work close to the end of the collar which is towards the
swiller plate be made to work close to the opposite end of the collar so as to form the
groove at the bottom of the screw thread which is moulded in the bottle instead of at
the top.
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. The construction of tongs or tools used in the manufacture of bottles not only
with a collar having a screw thread cut on its exterior free to turn around the central
plug or core when the tongs are closed and locked when the tongs are open; but also
with moveable nibs which are drawn into the core when the tongs are open and thrust
out from it close up to one or other end of the collar when the tonges are closed
substantially as described.
2. The construction of tongs or tools used in the manufacture of bottles substantially
as herein before described and illustrated in the drawing annexed.
Dated this 28th day of May 1887.