Improvements in Devices for Stopping Bottles or other Vessels.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 7th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 9th Aug., 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices for Stopping Bottles or other Vessels.
We WILLIAM FLATAU of Lusan House Highbury Quadrant in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman and ALFRED DAVID TURNER of 16 Blinko Road, Clapton Park
in the same County, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
The object of our invention is to construct a simple and cheap device or appliance
by means of which a bottle or other vessel can be hermetically closed and readily
opened, the bottle or vessel requiring no alteration or special construction to enable
the device or appliance to be fitted to it and the device or appliance being itself
permanently attached to the bottle so that it is not liable to be lost or mislaid either
entirely or in part.
Our device or appliance is constructed as follows :-Around the neck of the bottle
below the usual shoulder we fix a metal ring; this ring is formed of a metal strip
having a tongue at one end which when the strip has been bent round the bottle neck
is passed through a slot near the other end and then turned back. To the ring at
diametrically opposite points we attach by eyelets or otherwise the lower ends of two
legs which can move on the ring as a centre; the upper ends of these legs carry a ring
formed with an internal screw thread so as to act as a nut. In this nut works a
flanged disc correspondingly threaded and faced on its under side with indiarubber,
cork or other material which is calculated to make a hermetic joint with the bottle
mouth. The upper side of the disc is formed with a finger piece to enable it to be
rotated.
The action will be readily understood. In order to stop or close the bottle the legs
are moved up so as to bring the threaded ring or nut and the disc above the bottle
mouth and the disc is then rotated by means of the finger piece until the india rubber
or other facing is forced down upon the bottle mouth. In order to open the bottle
the reverse movements take place.

page_text: The whole of the device except the indiarubber or other facing of the disc is made
made and fitted round
of tin, or other cheap metal. The ring around the bottle neck
the neck, as before described. The two legs and the threaded ring are made from one
blank which is first stamped in the middle to form a plain ring, then with suitable
tools the thread is formed therein and finally the legs are rolled up. The disc and
finger piece are made from another blank which is first stamped to form the finger
piece and the flange of the disc and then the thread is formed in the flange. The
thread in the flange of the disc and the thread in the ring should however be made
simultaneously by the same tools, the flanged disc being first inserted into the ring it
will thus not be capable of being entirely unscrewed from the ring.
Datod this 7th day of October 1886.

page_text: Improvements in Devices for Stopping Bottles or other Vessels.
We WILLIAM FLATAU, of Lusan House, Highbury Quadrant, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, and ALFRED DAVID TURNER, of 16 Blinko Road, Clapton
Park, in the same County, Engineer 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 our invention is to construct a simple and cheap device or appliance
by means of which a bottle or other vessel can be hermetically closed and readily
opened, the bottle or vessel requiring no alteration or special construction to enable
the device or appliance to be fitted to it and the device or appliance being itself
permanently attached to the bottle so that it is not liable to be lost or mislaid either
entirely or in part.
Our device or appliance is constructed as follows:-Around the neck of the bottle
below the usual shoulder we permanently fix a metal ring; this ring is formed of a
metal strip having a tongue at one end which, when the strip has been bent round the
bottle neck, is passed through a slot near the other end and then turned back or the
ends may be secured together by a wire passed through holes therein. To the ring at
diametrically opposite points we attach by eyelets or otherwise the lower ends of two
legs which can move on the ring as a centre; the upper ends of these legs carry a
ring formed with an internal screw thread so as to act as a nut. In this nut works a
flanged disc correspondingly threaded and faced on its under side with india rubber,
cork or other material which is calculated to make a hermetic joint with the bottle
mouth. The upper side of the disc is formed with a finger piece to enable it to be
rotated.
The action will be readily understood. In order to stop or close the bottle the legs
are moved up so as to bring the threaded ring or nut and the disc above the bottle
mouth and the disc is then rotated by means of the finger piece until the india rubber
or other facing is forced down upon the bottle mouth. In order to open the bottle
the reverse movements take place.
The whole of the device except the india rubber or other facing of the disc is made
of tin or other cheap metal. The ring around the bottle neck is made and fitted round
the neck as before described. The two legs and the threaded ring are made from one
blank which is first stamped in the middle to form a plain ring, then with suitable
tools the thread is formed therein and finally the legs are rolled up. The disc and
finger piece are made from another blank which is first stamped to form the finger
piece and the flange of the disc and then the thread is formed in the flange. The
thread in the flange of the disc and the thread in the ring should however be made
simultaneously by the same tools the flanged disc being first inserted into the ring;
it will thus not be capable of being entirely unscrewed from the ring.

page_text: The accompanying drawings will serve to illustrate our invention. Figure 1
represents one of our improved devices fixed to a bottle neck. Figures 2 to 11 show
the process of manufacture.
c, c are the
In Figure 1 a is the metal ring formed of a metal strip bent round the bottle neck
below the usual shoulder aud permanently secured in place as shewn by a wire b
passed through holes near the ends of the strip a, or other suitable ineans may be
adopted for permanently affixing the ring or strip a to the bottle neck.
two legs attached to the ring a at diametrically opposite points and in such manner
that they can move on the ring as a centre. d is the ring carried at the top of the
legs c, c and formed with an internal screw thread so as to act as a nut. e is the disc
with threaded flange fitting the ring or nut d. g is the finger piece on the disc by
which it can be rotated and h is the facing of india rubber or other material for making
a hermetic joint with the bottle mouth.
Referring now to Figures 2 to 11 Figure 2 represents the blank of tin or other
sheet metal from which the threaded ring d and the legs c, c are made; this blank is
first stamped or formed by suitable tools into the form shown in Figure 3; then by
other tools into the form shown in Figure 4; next into the form shown in Figure 5 ;
then the thread is formed in the ring which now assumes the form seen in Figure 6,
but before this is done the flanged disc is inserted therein so that the threads in the
ring and those in the disc may be made simultaneously by the same tools with the
result seen in Figure 7. Finally by another tool the legs are rolled up as shown in
Figure 8, the device being then complete except the india rubber facing hand the
ring a, Figure 1, for going round the bottle neck. Figure 9 represents a circular
blank of tin or other sheet metal from which the flanged disc is formed; this blank is
first stamped or formed by suitable tools into the form shown in Figure 10, it is then
inserted into the ring (Figure 5) and has the thread formed therein as already
described. Figure 11 shows the finished flanged disc separate from the ring d.
Instead of making the flanged disc of tin or other sheet metal as above described it
may be found more economical to make it of wood or of glass moulded to the proper
form and with a thread to fit the ring or nut d.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :-
1. The device constructed substantially as hereinbefore described and permanently
attached to a bottle or other vessel for the purpose of stopping the same as set forth."
2. In a device of the kind herein described for stopping bottles or other vessels, an
internally screw threaded ring and two legs depending therefrom the said ring and
legs being all stamped or formed from one blank of tin or other cheap metal in the
manner set forth.
Dated this fith day of July 1887