Improved Device for Retaining Corks in Bottles and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Aug., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 9th May, 1899-Accepted, 10th June, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Device for Retaining Corks in Bottles and the like.
We, PHILIPPE UZURAU and CHARLES AUGEREAU-NOMBALLAIS, both of Chollet,
Maine-et-Loire, in the Republic of France, Merchants, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention for an improved device for retaining corks in bottles and the
like has for its object to provide a retaining device that shall effectually prevent
the cork from being forced out of the bottle or the like by internal pressure,
but which is easily manipulated to release the cork when it is desired to open
the bottle.
According to this invention a metallic tie is fitted round the upper part of the
bottle neck and furnished with two wire loops or cars hooked thereon and adapted
to be turned up against the neck and to receive the ends of a zinc band or strip
which is passed over the top of the cork, the two ends of the zinc band being
passed through the ears or loops and then bent or folded thereon to secure the
cork in position as will be readily understood. To open the bottle it is only
necessary to unfold or straighten the zinc band at one end when the gas from the
liquid will immediately force out the cork.
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WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
Improved Device for Retaining Corks in Bottles and the like.
We, PHILIPPE UZURAU and CILARLES AUGEREAU-NOMBALLAIS, both of Chollet,
Maine-et-Loire, in the Republic of France, Merchants, 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 for an improved device for retaining corks in bottles and the
like has for its object to provide a retaining device that shall effectually prevent
the cork from being forced out of the bottle or the like by internal pressure,
but which is easily manipulated to release the cork when it is desired to open
the bottle.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation
of the upper part of a bottle fitted with a retaining device according to this
invention. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan of a straightened out
zinc strip forming part of the retaining device. Fig. 4 is a plan of the neck of
a bottle showing the position of part of the retaining device when the cork is

page_text: removed; and Figs. 5 and 6 show the manner of bending the strip shown in
Fig. 3 for securing and releasing the cork.
According to this invention a metallic tie or wire ring a is fitted round the
upper part of the bottle neck and furnished with two wire ears or loops bhooked
thereon and adapted to be turned up against the neck and to receive the ends
of a zinc or other metallic band or strip c which is passed over the top of the cork d,
the two ends of the metal band c being passed through the ears or loops b and then
bent or folded thereon to secure the cork in position as will be readily understood.
To open the bottle it is only necessary to unfold or straighten the metal band c
at one end as shown in Fig. 6 when the gas from the liquid will immediately force
out the cork.
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:
The improved device for retaining corks in bottles and the like, characterised
by a wire ring a fitted around the neck of the bottle or other receptacle and
furnished with two loops or ears b, and a metal band c with two turned up ends
fastened to the loops or cars for securing the cork in position.
Dated this 9th day of May 1899
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.