IMPROVEMENTS IN FLASKS AS REGARDS THE STOPPERING AND STOPPERS FOR SAME
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Bertie Charles Scott, of Parklands, Hassock's Gate, in the
County of Sussex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FLASKS AS REGARDS
THE STOPPERING AND STOPPERS FOR SAME."
"
Sealed the 8th December 1876, and dated the 18th August 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Bertie Charles Scott at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th August 1876.
BERTIE CHARLES SCOTT, of Parklands, Hassock's Gate, in the County of Sussex.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FLASKS AS REGARDS THE STOPPERING AND STOPPERS FOR
SAME."
My Invention mainly consists in the adoption of the following arrangements :-
I use a stopper cut on a bevil like an ordinary steam tap, and ground into the
stopper case to prevent leakage in the same manner as an ordinary tap is inade. A
mouth-piece opens to slits or openings (one, two, or more or less, as necessary) so as
to form a sort of gridiron valve.
A groove is cut in the stopper, in which a screw fits to prevent its working out
of the socket.
The head of the screw also acts as a stop when arms secured to the mouth-piece
are turned round to open the valves to permit the fluid to run out.
A screw goes through the bottom of the stopper case into the stopper, so as to
draw it down to the necessary tightness to prevent leakage.
The screw top of the flask surrounds the stopper case, and fits into the mouth-
piece.
The slits, grooves, or gridiron valve allow the liquor to pass on being opened by
the valve being turned round.
At the side of the flask is a small spring bar, with a hole in the flask top to
correspond; when screwed down the spring locks the top on so that the arms may
be moved without unscrewing the top in the action.
By pressing the spring down the top may be unscrewed so as to refill or clean
the flask.
The flask top may be also made with a spring of the same sort as used in a
powder flask, the stopper and stopper case being made in the same manner as
before described, with the exception that one arm shall be straight, meeting spring, a
thüinb lever being used to press to open the valves. A spring on the flask locks the

page_text: top when screwed down.
notch so arranged that it
screwed right down.
The bottom of top of flask on the inner edge has a small
shall fit exactly where the spring is when the stopper is
A little ridge on the top side of the flask forms a spring bolt, the catch coming up
as high as the first thread on the bottom.
The flask may be also made double with one cup, or double with two cups joined
together, the cups taking apart, the cups being ordinarily fastened together like an
entreé dish handle to the dish, with the exception of a small bolt to hold them in
their places.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Bertie Charles Scott in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th
February 1877.
BERTIE CHARLES SCOTT, of Parklands, Hassock's Gate, in the County of Sussex.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FLASKS AS REGARDS THE STOPPERING AND STOPPERS FOR
SAME.
"
My Invention mainly consists in the adoption of the following arrangements,
'which however admit of modification, as herein described with reference to the
Drawings:-
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I use a stopper cut on a bevil like an ordinary steam tap, and ground into the
stopper case to prevent leakage in the same manner as an ordinary tap is made.
A mouth-piece opens to slits or openings (one, two, or more or less, as necessary) so
as to form a sort of gridiron valve.
A groove is cut in the stopper, in which a screw fits, to prevent its working out
of the socket.
.
The head of the screw also acts as a stop when arms secured to the mouth-piece
are turned round to open the valves to permit the fluid to run out.
A screw goes through the bottom of the stopper case into the stopper so as to
draw it down to the necessary tightness to prevent leakage.
The screw top of the flask surrounds the stopper case, and fits into the mouth-
piece.
The slits, grooves, or gridiron valve allows the liquor to pass on being opened
by the valve being turned round.
At the side of the flask is a small spring bar, with a hole in the flask top to
correspond; when screwed down the spring locks the top on, so that the arms may
be moved without unscrewing the top in the action.
By pressing the spring down the top may be unscrewed so as to refill or clean the
flask.
The flask top may be also made with a spring of the same sort as used in a
powder flask, the stopper and stopper case being made in the same manner as
before described, with the exception that one arm shall be straight, meeting the
spring, a thumb lever being used to press to open the valves. A spring on the flask
locks the top when screwed down. The bottom of the flask top on the inner edge
has a small notch so arranged that it shall fit exactly where the spring is when the
stopper is screwed right down.
A little ridge on the top side of the flask forms a spring bolt, the catch coming
up as high as the first thread on the bottom.
The flask may be also made double with one cup, or double with two cups joined
together, the cups taking apart, the cups being ordinarily fastened together like an
entreé dish handle to the dish, with the exception of a small bolt to hold them in
their places.
Having thus far described and ascertained the nature and object of the said
Invention, and incidentally intimated in what manner the same is to be performed,

page_text: I will now proceed (aided by the accompanying Drawings) to further and particularly
describe and ascertain in what manner the same is to be performed or carried out in
practice, that is to say :-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is elevation and vertical section of the stopper (cut on a bevil like an
ordinary steam tap), and ground into the stopper case (Fig. 2) to prevent leakage
in the same manner as an ordinary tap is made. 1 (Fig. 1) is the open mouth-piece
open to the slits or openings 3 (which may be one, two, or more or less, as necessary)
so as to form a sort of gridiron valve; 2 is a groove cut in the stopper, in which a
screw a (see Fig. 3) fits, to prevent its working out of the socket (Fig. 2). The
head of the screw also acts as a stop when the arms 4 (Fig. 1) are turned round to
open the valves to permit the fluid to run.
Instead of a groove a slot may be cut in the stopper, with a pin working therein.
5 (Figs. 1 and 3) is a screw which goes through the bottom of the stopper case
(Fig. 2) into the stopper (Fig. 1) so as to draw it down to the necessary tightness
to prevent leakage; 6 (Fig. 2) is the screw top of the flask surrounding the stopper
case; the stopper (Fig. 1) fits into the stopper case (Fig. 2), as shewn in Fig. 3,
3, 3, (Figs. 1 and 2) being the slits, grooves, or gridiron valve, which allow the
liquor to pass on being opened by the valve being turned round.
At the side of the flask (as shewn in Fig. 3) is a small spring bar 3, with a hole
in the flask top to correspond; when screwed down the spring locks the top on, so
that the arms may be moved without unscrewing the top in the action. By pressing
the spring down the top may be unscrewed so as to refill or clean the flask.
The flask top may be also made with a spring of the same sort as used in a powder
flask (see Fig. 4), the stopper and stopper case being made in the same manner as
described, with the exception that one arm 4 (Fig. 4) shall be straight, meeting
spring 3b, 1 being the thumb lever to press to open the valves. The spring on the
flask to lock the top when screwed down is similar, as in Fig. 3.
Instead of the arrangement herein-before described of having on the bottom of
the flask top on the inner edge a small notch and a little ridge forming a spring
bolt, with a catch coming up as high as the first thread on the flask, I use the
modification, shewn by Fig. 5, where the spring bolt is dispensed with, and a drop
bolt substituted.
It will be obvious to the practical man that such an arrangement as just described
could be applied to the arrangements shewn in the other Figs., but in said
Fig. 5 the drop bolt is applied to a cap fitting on the flask.
The bolt b is inserted, as shewn, in the cap a of the stopper, so that when the cap
is screwed to the neck of the flask it falls into corresponding hole c in the rim & of
the flask, and same when turned into position drops into the said opening. To open
the flask same is turned upside down, which causes the bolt b to fall into the recep-
tacle in the cap, and the same is unscrewed, thereby opening the flask.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and object of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed or carried out in
practice, I hereby declare that I claim, the improvements in flasks as regards the
stoppering and stoppers for same, substantially as the same are herein-before set
forth and described and illustrated by the accompanying Drawings, especially with
regard to the locking and unlocking theroof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Bertie Charles Scott, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.