A NOVEL APPLICATION OF A KEY TO ACT AS A COCK AT THE UPPER PART OF BOTTLES, DEMIJOHNS, AND ANALOGOUS VESSELS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edouard Onezime Catrin, of No. 37, Boulevard
Bonne-Nouvelle, Paris, in the Empire of France, for the Invention
of "A NOVEL APPLICATION OF A KEY TO ACT AS A COCK AT THE UPPER PART
OF BOTTLES, DEMIJOHNS, AND ANALOGOUS VESSELS."
Sealed the 19th October 1869, and dated the 21st April 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edouard Onezime Catrin
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 21st April 1869.
I, EDOUARD ONEZIME CATRIN, of No. 37, Boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle,
Paris, in the Empire of France, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "A NOVEL APPLICATION OF A KEY TO ACT AS A COCK AT
THE UPPER PART OF BOTTLES, DEMIJOHNS, AND ANALOGOUS VESSELS," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in the application to bottles and other vessels
for containing liquids of a key acting as a cock.

page_text: The diagram on the accompanying Sheet of Drawing, forming part
of this my Provisional Specification, illustrates the application of my
Invention to a bottle. The opening in the neck of the bottle is intended
for the reception of the key, the lines drawn around the said opening
indicating the cork, which is pierced to give passage to the key. The
swelling on the neck at R serves to strengthen the glass at the point
where the cock is placed. This cock is applicable to every kind of bottle,
demijohn, cask, or pitcher of whatever material, and, in casks, replaces
the faucet, giving the same facility for filling the cask.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edouard Onezime Catrin in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 19th October 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDOUARD
ONEZIME CATRIN, of No. 37, Boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle, Paris, in the
Empire of France, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Edouard Onezime Catrin, Her special
licence that I, the said Edouard Onezime Catrin, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edouard Onezime
Catrin, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"A NOVEL APPLICATION OF A KEY TO ACT AS A COCK AT THE UPPER PART OF
BOTTLES, DEMIJOHNS, AND ANALOGOUS VESSELS," upon the condition, amongst
others, that I, the said Edouard Onezime Catrin, my executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office

page_text: within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edouard Onezime Catrin, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying
Sheet of Drawing forming part of this my Specification, and to the
figures and letters of reference marked thereon.
My Invention does not consist in the shape of the bottle (or other
vessel) but in the application of a key A acting as a cock at the upper
part of the bottle, the neck of which is traversed by an opening B which
receives the said key. The lines traced around the keyhole indicate the
position of the cork, which is pierced for the passage of the key. The
protuberance C on the neck serves to strengthen the glass at the point
where the cock is placed. This cock is applicable to all kinds of bottles,
demijohns, cans, pitchers, and analogous vessels of whatever material
they may be made, and will, in cans, replace the faucet, giving the same
facility for filling.
The advantages resulting from my method consist in simplifying the
corking or stopping of bottles and analogous vessels, inasmuch that it is
limited to simply turning the key, consequently corking machines or
corkscrews will no longer be required, no corks will fall into bottles or
be exposed to the nibbling of insects or animals in cellars, there will be
no more breakage of bottles or flasks from too completely filling them,
and the bottling of liquids in fermentation is greatly facilitated. I
sometimes add an air tube to my improved cock to prevent the gurgling
which disturds liquids when poured out of large cans or bottles.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edouard Onezime Catrin, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of October,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine.