Improvements in Stoppering Bottles with Ordinary Corks.
Year: 1888

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stoppering Bottles with Ordinary Corks.
We, JOSEPH JONES, Oldham Road Bardsley, in the Parish of Ashton-under-Lyne,
Lancashire, Bookkeeper, and JOHN HENRY JONES, Oldham Road Bardsley in the
Parish of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, Grocer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
We have a bottle made with a ledge or shelf running round the inside of the
neck to allow the cork to rest on. We also have two indents of a semicirculai
shape on each side of the bottle to allow a bonnet shaped clip to keep the cork in
its position. The clip is of steel or any other suitable substance and is made to
work eccentrically in securing the cork, it is also made with a stopping and a
relieving neb. The clip is also furnished underneath with a curved spring so as
to fit on the top of the cork.
Dated this 30th day of April 1888.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stoppering Bottles with Ordinary Corks.
We JOSEPH JONES of Oldham Road Bardsley in the Parish of Ashton-under-Lyne,
Lancashire Bookkeeper and JOHN HENRY JONES of the same place Grocer 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:
Our invention relates to an improved method of stoppering bottles by means of
ordinary corks in such a manner that the corks are perfectly secure and liquid and air
tight but they can at any time be readily removed without the use of a cork screw or
other instrument.
The nature of our said invention and the manner in which the same is to be
performed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference to
the annexed sheet of drawings and the following explanation thereof.
We make the bottle with an internal ledge or shoulder on the inside of the neck
about half an inch (more or less below the top) as shown in section at a Fig. 1. on
the drawing to allow the lower end of the cork to rest upon.
Upon the outside of the neck also we have two indents of a semicircular or other
suitable form (one upon each side) beneath the external rim b of the bottle as shown
in elevation at c Fig. 2 and sectional plan at Fig. 3, in which we insert the projecting
pins d of a bonnet-shaped clip or bale e shown in elevation at Fig. 4. vertical section
at Fig. 5 and plan view at Fig. 6 which passes over the cork and holds it in
position. It will be seen on reference to Fig. 5 that the pins or projections d are
made of an excentric or cam shape and that as the clip or baile is turned up over
the cork they act beneath the external rim bin such a way as to force the clip
or baile downwards and thus exert pressure upon the cork. Fig. 7 is a front
elevation, and Fig. 8 a side view showing our invention applied to a bottle, f being
the cork. The dotted lines on the latter view show the position of the clip or bail
when removed from the cork.
It will be observed that the clip or baile is provided with a stopping neb
g to
prevent it from being forced too far over the cork and with a relieving neb h for
forcing the same back to release the cork.
It may also be furnished underneath with a curved spring to press upon the top of
the cork but we prefer to indent the top of the clip in a concave form as shown at
Figs. 5 and 6 so as to produce a convex projection on the underside.
Our invention will effect a saving in the cost of the corks as they will only require
to be about half the usual length. Also they need only to fit so tightly as to require
hand pressure for forcing them in and removing them as the action of the excentric
pins or projections & will cause the clip or bail to force them down onto the ledge or
shoulder a so as to make a perfectly liquid and air tight joint.
It will be evident that our improved clip or bail with its excentric or cam like pins
or projections can also be used with cylindrical stoppers made of india rubber or with
other like substitutes for ordinary corks.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
First. The combination with a ledge or shoulder inside the mouth of the bottle,
and two recesses under the external rim, of a metallic clip or bail provided with two
excentric or cam shaped pins or projections working inside the said recesses and so
formed that as the clip or bail is turned up over the cork the action of the pins or
projections under the external rim of the bottle shall draw down the clip, and so force
down the cork against the internal ledge or shoulder in the bottle neck.
Secondly. We claim the construction and use of the excentric or cam like pro-
jections on the pivots as applied to similar clips or bails used in combination with
other forms of stoppers for closing the mouths of bottles.
Dated this 31st day of January 1889.
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester,
Agent for the Applicants.