Improvements in Stoppers for Bottles, Jars, and other Vessels.
Year: 1888

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
.Improvements in Stoppers for Bottles, Jars, and other Vessels.
I, THOMAS TAYLOR of Havelock Place Hanley, in the County of Stafford, Manu-
facturer, 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 :-
This invention relates to stoppers, for the stoppering or enclosing of bottles, jars
and other vessels, and consists essentially in making the said stopper or enclosing lid,
chambered or hollow, and within which hollow or chambered part, a cork or other
yielding plug is fitted, either with the plug extending beyond the bottom of the stem
of the stopper, (when externally screwed) or with the bottom of the cork or plug lying
some distance up the said hollow middle, when screwed internally.
The plug or stopper in one case, comes upon a shoulder formed within the neck of
the bottle, whilst in the other case, it comes upon the lip of the mouth of a bottle, and
with the cork or plug only in both cases coming in contact with the liquid or other
matter placed within the bottle or jar.
Figure 1 represents in elevation, a bottle provided with a solid headed stopper,
constructed according to this invention.
Figure 2 represents in vertical section, the upper part of the neck of a bottle,
with the stopper shown in elevation, and in the position which it assumes when
in use.
Figure 3 is a complete vertical section of the said neck and stopper, of which the
latter alone, is constructed according to my invention.
Figure 4 is a transverse vertical section of the neck of the stopper, on the dotted
lines A B figure 3, thus exhibiting the underside of the cork or yielding plug, which
alone only comes in contact with the contents of the bottle.
Figure 5 is a vertical section of the stopper, separately, before use, and figure 6
shows the same, with the cork or plug removed, which is shown in elevation.
Figure 7 is a top side plan of the neck of a bottle of the kind as represented in
figures 1, 2, 3 and 4, while figures 8, 9 and 10 represent modifications of my new or
improved stopper.

page_text: In figure 8, the stopper is inside wormed, and takes upon an outside screw, at the
mouth end of the neck of a bottle.
Figure 9 is a part elevation and part section of the same, and figure 10 is a
complete vertical section of the stopper and neck.
a is an outside screw stopper, chambered or made hollow, to some distance up
its middle, and wherein a cork or yielding plug c is fitted, and with its lower
underside, extending beyond the bottom of the stem, and seating or taking its bearing
upon the bottom or annular shoulder or rim 2, of an internally screwed chamber h³,
formed or sunken within the mouth of the neck b of a bottle.
In figures 1, 2 and 3, it will be seen that the stopper is screwed home, and with the
underside of the cork plug, spread out, upon its abutting surface.
In figures 8, 9 and 10, a is a hollow stemmed or chambered stopper, with a cork or
yielding plug c, fitted within its said hollow part a², and with its mouth internally
screwed at a³, which takes upon a like externally wormed neck b² of a bottle
neck b.
I wish it to be observed, that the more the stopper is used, the more secure will the
cork or plug be driven into its chambered interior.
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.
A stopper, or an inside or outside screwed stopper or lid, fitted or provided with a
cork or other yielding plug, up its middle or stem, or up both stem and body part,
whether the bottom or underside of the cork or plug, extends beyond the bottom of
the stem, as in figures 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6, or lies a distance up the hollow of the
stem, as in figures 8, 9 and 10, whereby the contents of a bottle, or other vessel, come
only into contact with the cork or plug as aforesaid, substantially as described and set
forth.
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