Year: 1887

page_text: I, PAREN ENGLAND of Aspen, Pitkin County, Colorado, United States of America,
Lawyer, 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 :-
My Invention relates to certain improvements in bottles, designed mainly to hold
the cork in more securely against the expulsive force of gases within, without the
employment of wires, caps, bails, or other fastenings. It consists in the peculiar
construction of the neck of the bottle, whereby the expulsive force of the gases in the
bottle is made to act upon the cork in a direction in which it has little or no tendency
to force the cork out.
I will now proceed to describe my Invention with reference to the accompanying
drawings; in which figure 1 is a side view of the bottle neck, and Figure 2 a central
longitudinal section of the same.
In forming the bottle, its neck is constructed with an outward bend or swell don
one side, and just opposite this bend or swell on the other side is formed a sharp
inward bend g and below this bend a bulge c, which bulge increases the transverse
dimensions of the neck to a greater width than is filled by the cork C which is of the
usual construction, but preferably rendered tough and elastic by soaking or otherwise,
so as to enable it to easily follow the curves of the throat in which it is seated. This
cork when inserted passes throughout its entire length in contact with the side of the
bottle neck on the one side while on the other side the said cork is in contact with the
bottle neck only from the point g to the mouth of the bottle, so that below the point g
the side of the cork is exposed to the pressure of gases within the bottle for nearly half
its length.
The merit of my Invention is as follows-When the cork is inserted the pressure
of gases in the bottle acting upon the end a of the cork, tends to force the cork out in
the direction of line a b. The pressure on the exposed side of the cork tends to force
it in the direction of the line c d and these two directions of pressure give the resultant
line of pressure efwhich it will be seen bears such a relation to the curved side of the

page_text: bent neck at fas to have little or no effect in forcing the cork out on account of
friction and the change in the direction of pressure. In a bottle having this form of
neck and using the ordinary form of cork, fermentable or malt liquors may be bottled
and retained without special forms of stopper fastenings. The bottle neck is easily
blown of this shape, and as the mouth is in alignment with the neck no difficulty is
experienced in cleaning the bottles or in packing the same. That crooked portion of
the bottle neck which receives the cork, I call the cork seat, and when the cork is
inserted it is deflected or distorted from a true axial line in conforming to its seat.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is ;-
1. A bottle, having a bend or swell in its neck on one side, and upon the other an
inward projection g with a bulge or enlarged chamber beneath it, substantially as and
for the purpose described.
2. The combination of a bottle having a crooked cork seat and a cork inserted
therein and bent or distorted out of its straight axial line to conform to said seat,
substantially as shewn and described.
F. ENGLAND.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.