Facilitate the Opening of the same.
Year: 1885

page_text: Facilitate the Opening of the same.
I, 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:-
The object of this invention is to facilitate the opening of bottles in which
internal stoppers are employed.
For this purpose I provide a longitudinal passage in the neck of the bottle by
the side of the mouth.
Within this passage a screw thread is formed and a metal pin is inserted into
the passage
In opening the bottle the pin is screwed down until abuts on the internal
stopper or valve; it presses upon the edge of the stopper or valve outside, the seat
and thrusting it away from the seat at this part it relieves the pressure within the
bottle and then the valve or stopper falls away. The screw passage in which the
pin works may be formed through the glass or material of which the bottle is
formed or in the case of bottles in which the mouth is bushed with metal the
passage may he formed in the metal bush.

page_text: I HIRAM CODD of 41 Gracechurch Street in the City of London Bottle
Manufacturer 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:---
The object of this Invention is to facilitate the opening of bottles in which
internal stoppers are employed.
For this purpose I provide a longitudinal passage in the neck of the bottle by
the side of the mouth.
A metal pin is inserted into the passage and to open the bottle the pin is forced
down until it presses down one side of the stopper or valve and the seat against
which it rests and thereby relieves the pressure within the bottle and then the
valve or stopper falls away. The longitudinal passage in which the pin works
may be formed through the glass or material of which the bottle is formed or in
the case of bottles in which the mouth is bushed with metal the passage may be
formed in the metal bush.
Figure 1 shews a longitudinal section of the head of a bottle which is closed
with an internal ball stopper and which is formed with a longitudinal passage
at one side of the mouth for a metal pin to be passed into as above described.
A is the ball or it might be other form of internal stopper. B the elastic seat
against which it rests in the ordinary manner and C the metal pin which in this
figure is shewn to be a screw pin to screw into the passage formed for it at the side
of the mouth.
To open the bottle the pin is turned by its head and its inner end thereby made
to press against the top of the elastic ring and to press down one side of the ball
stopper thereby permitting a slight escape of gas from the bottle and relieving the
pressure until the stopper drops away.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of a similar bottle except that the longitudinal
passage at one side of the mouth of the bottle is not screw threaded and the pin C
is a pin split at one end and with the split parts tending to spring outwards as
shewn in the separate views of the pin at Figures 3 so that the pin may fit
sufficiently tightly within the longitudinal passage not to drop out from it. To
open the bottle the pin is pressed inwards to depress the stopper-instead of being
screwed in wards as in the former case.
Figures 4 and 5 are longitudinal sections of the heads of bottles similar to those
shewn at Figures 1 and 2 except that the elastic ring B is in each held in place by
a metal bushing D as has before been proposed and that the longitudinal passage
for the pin C is formed in the metal bushing.

page_text: 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 construction of bottles for containing aerated liquids with a pin lying in
a longitudinal passage at one side of the mouth to be forced inwards to open the
bottle substantially as described..
2. The construction of bottles for containing aerated liquids with a bushing at
the mouth to retain the elastic ring seating against which the internal stopper
rests and with a pin lying in a longitudinal passage in the bushing to be forced
inwards to open the bottle substantially as described.
Dated thin Oth 2 of To 7008
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.