An Improved Capsule or Closing Device for Bottles, Jars, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 31st Mar., 1896-Accepted, 4th July, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Capsule or Closing Device for Bottles, Jars, and
the like.
ELIZABETH CUMMING Hazeldene Epsom Road Guildford Surrey Lady do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A capsule made of india-rubber for covering over the tops of buttles jars & the
like. It can be made if required with a cork fixed inside at the closed end.
Dated this 30th day of January 1896.
TE SP
ION.
An Improved Capsule or Closing Device for Bottles, Jars, and
the like.
I, ELIZABETH CUMMING, formerly of Hazeldenc, Guildford, in the County of
Surrey, but at present residing at Hill Crest 177 Brixton Hill London S.W.
Lady 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 :-
This invention relates to a capsule made of india rubber adapted to fit over the
top of a bottle, jar, or the like, and provided with a stopper or plug of any suitable
material fixed or formed inside of it at its closed end, and adapted to be inserted
into the neck of the bottle, jar or the like while the lower part of the capsule can
be rolled down over the outside of the top or neck in order to close the bottle, jar,
or the like air tight and securely.
Figure 1 of the annexed sheet of drawings is an elevation of an indiarubber
capsule and plug or stopper made in accordance with my invention,
Figure 2 is a view of same as seen from the open end,
Figure 3 is a vertical section of same,
Figure 4 is a sectional elevation showing the same prepared ready for application
to a bottle,
Figure 5 is a sectional elevation showing the same applied to a bottle, and
Figure 6 shows a similar capsule and plug or stopper applied to the mouth of
a jar.
The capsule may be of any suitable shape to suit the form of the neck of the
bottle, jar or the like, to which it is to be applied; in the examples shown in the
drawings it consists of a cylindrical body A with its upper end B closed, and
the lower and open end surrounded with a bead C of the same flexible and elastic
material as the body aud upper end. D is a stopper or plug which may be made
of the same material as the capsule itself, and be formed integral therewith, or be
secured by cementing or otherwise to the inside of the closed upper end thereof.
Or the stopper or plug D may be made of cork, or any other suitable material,
similarly attached to the said closed upper end of the capsule.
Figure 5 is a sectional elevation showing the capsule illustrated in Figures 1 to 4

page_text: applied to the neck of an ordinary wine bottle E. In order to put the capsule and
stopper in place the lower part of the capsule body A may be rolled up on the
bead C as shown in Figure 4, then, when the stopper or plug D is inserted into the
neck of the bottle E, the lower part of the capsule can be unrolled downwards so
as to surround and enclose the neck as shown clearly in Figure 5, whereby all
chance of leakage is entirely prevented.
In order to retain the capsule body A in the rolled-up position, while the plug
or stopper P is being placed in, or removed from the neck of the bottle, the said
plug or stopper is preferably provided with a circumferential groove G into which
the rolled-up part springs, and in which it is held until it is required to unroll the
capsule after the plug or stopper is put in place in the bottle.
Figure 5 shows one of my capsule and stoppers applied to close the opening E¹
of a jar.
Similar letters of reference to like parts in all the figures of the drawing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
The improved capsule or closing device for bottles, jars, and the like, which
consists of an indiarubber capsule A, B, adapted to take over the outside of the
neck of the bottle, jar, or the like, and having formed therewith, or attached
thereto, a stopper or plug D adapted to fit into the interior of the neck of the
bottle, jar, or the like, substantially as described.
Dated this 20th day of March 1806
E. CUMMING,
Per W. H. Beck,
115 Cannon Street, London, E.C., Agent.