IMPROVEMENT IN BOTTLES FOR CONTAINING RATED LIQUIDS
Year: 1884

page_text: TRUYASIONAL DEVICATION,
I JOSEPH MICHAEL DAY of N° 52 Merrion Square in the City of Dublin
Barrister do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for AN IMPROVEMENT
IN BOTTLES FOR CONTAINING RATED LIQUIDS to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to bottles which are used for æerated or gaseous liquids
and which are closed at the mouth by a glass marble, disc, or other stopper being
pressed by the action of the gas against a ring of India-rubbor or other suitable
material at the mouth of the bottle and is especially designed to permit such bottles
being opened by releasing the gas, when the stopper will drop back into the bottle
of its own weight.
According to my said Invention in the manufacture of the bottle a small hole is
punched in the neck of the bottle, or for bottles already made, it may be produced
by a sand blast, any place being suitable but for preference immediately under the
lower rim of the lip, In this aperture a small glass or metal tube is inserted
which is threaded on the exterior with a screw, this tube may be so fixed that no
portion of it shall project on the inside of the bottle, or it may project slightly on
the inside so as to permit of a small bevelled button of glass, metal or other
suitable substance being screwed on in the inside of the neck and between which
and the insido surface of the neck of the bottle a small washer of India-rubber or
other suitable material may be inserted, On the outside of the nock, the tube will
project far enough to permit of a small button of glass, metal or other suitable
material being screwed on so as to firmly fix the tube, when screwed up against
the neck of the bottle; it will also project far enough to permit of a small cap of
glass, metal, or other suitable material, provided with an internal screw, being
screwed on to it, This cap although it will move freely on the thread of the screw
upon the tube, can be made so that it cannot easily be removed.
In the top of the cap a small washer of India rubber or other suitable material
is placed, so that when the cap is screwed on no gas can escape through the tube.
For the purpose of allowing the gas to escapo, I puncture a small hole in the
side of the cap, so that when the cap is unscrewed the hole is moved beyond the
end of the tube; or an inverted "V" shaped slot or other aperture may be used.
My said invention is worked in the following manner; before filling the bottle
the should be firmly screwed on to the tube fixed in the neck of the bottle, the
bottle is then filled, and when it is desired to open it, the cap is screwed round
until the hole or aperture in its side is brought beyond the end of the tube, the gas
then escapes and the ball falls of its own weight.
cap
JOSEPH MICHAEL DAY,
Applicant in Person,
52, Merrion Square, Dublin.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I JOSEPH MICHAEL DAY of Number 52 Merrion Square in the city of Dublin
Barrister at law do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN IMPROVE-
MENT IN BOTTLES FOR CONTAINING AERATED LIQUIDS 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 bottles for containing crated liquids which are closed
at the mouth by a glass marble or disc being pressed by the action of the gas
against a ring of india rubber or other suitable material fixed in their mouth; and
the object of my said invention is to permit of such bottles being opened by
allowing the gas, which keeps the glass marble in its place, to escape, when the
marble will drop back into the bottle of its own weight and the contents can be
readily poured out.
In the process of manufacturo I use a mould which forms the bottle with an
indoutation in the side of its neck, the said indentation being sufficiently deep to
protect that portion of the tube and cap (hereinafter described) which is on the
exterior surface of the bottle; Through the centre of this indentation I form a
small circular hole.
A tube made of glass or metal, the exterior surface of which is threaded with a
screw and one end of which is provided with a flange is then inserted in the hole
in the centre of the indentation in such a manner that the flange shall be on the
inside of the neck of the bottle, This flange forms a seat for a washer of india
rubber. A portion of the tube will then project on the outside of the bottle and
on this I thread another washer of india rubber; a flange or washer made of glass
or metal, an aperture in the centre of which is threaded so as to screw on to the
tube, is then screwed on until the india rubber washer on the inside of the bottle
and the india rubber washer on the outside are both compressed so as to form an
airtight joint around the tube. and so as to prevent the escape of gas except through
the aperture in the tube itself.
In order to prevent the escape of gas through this aperture in the tube when the
bottle is fully charged, I uso a small cap of glass or metal, threaded on the inside
to allow of its being screwed on to the end of the tube and in the top of which
I place a small disc or washer of india rubber which when tho cap is screwed on,
effectually closes the aporturo in the tube. In the side of this cap I puncture a
small hole or mako a "V" shaped slot, or make the screw on the insido of the cap,
to fit loosely on the end of the tube so that, when, I partially unscrew the cap, the
gas finds ready vent through the small hole in its side or "V" shaped slot or
through the loose fit of the screw.
As a modification of my said invention and as an obvious equivalent for the
threaded tube and flange and moveable flange. I make the mould so as to form
on the outside of the bottle and in the centre of the indentation a small button of
glass threaded on the outside with a scrow; and through the centre of this button
I puncture the small circular hole, Upon this button, as on the end of the tube,
the cap hereinbefore described is screwed on for the purpose of preventing the gas
escaping when the bottle is charged. The action of my said invention may be

page_text: briefly described thus ;-Before the bottle is filled the cap is firmly screwed on, to
the threaded tube or button as the case may be, and when it is desired to open the
bottle the cap is screwed round until a vent is provided for the gas either through
the holo in the side of the cap or through the "V" shaped slot or through the
loose fit of the screws.
Figure I, shews the threaded and flanged tubo "a," the moveable flange "6" and
the screw cap "c."
Figure 2. shows the parts "a" & "6" together with the india rubber washers "d"
and "e" fitted into the aperture in the neck of a bottle.
Figure 3 shews a bottle made according to the modification of my said invention
heroinbefore described, with the small button "f" formed in the mould and
threaded on the outside which is the obvious equivalent for parts "a," "b,” “d”
& "e" in figure 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. The combination consisting of a bottle closed at its mouth by a glass marble
and indiarubber ring, with an aperture in the side of its neck, together with the
threaded and flanged tube and moveable flange, and screw cap and india rubber
washers substantially as described whereby by the partial unscrewing of the cap
the gas is released and the bottle opened.
2. The combination consisting of a bottle closed as aforesaid, with a button,
threaded on its exterior surface formed in the indentation on the side of the neck
and having an aperture through it into the the bottle; together with the screw cap
and india rubber washers substantially as described whereby by the partial
unscrewing of the cap off the button the gas is released and the bottle opened.
3. The construction of bottles for containing aörated liquids substantially as
hereinbefore described.
JOSEPH MICHAEL DAY,
Applicant.