AN IMPROVED BOTTLE STOPPER AND DRINKING VESSEL COMBINED
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Pochet, of Rue Jean Jacques Rousseau,
No. 66, at Paris, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
BOTTLE STOPPER AND DRINKING VESSEL COMBINED."
Sealed the 17th April 1874, and dated the 13th February 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Pochet at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
13th February 1874.
I, HENRY POCHET, of Rue Jean Jacques Rousseau, No. 66, at Paris,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED BOTTLE STOPPER AND DRINKING VESSEL COMBINED," to be as
follows:-
Several methods have already been attempted by which to form the
stopper for closing flasks and bottles in the same piece with a tasting

page_text: or drinking glass. For this purpose, for instance, the necks of flasks
have been formed with screw threads which screw into a corresponding
threading made in the inside of a metal cup or cap, and a cap or
cup has been fitted on the exterior of the flask at the outside. But
all these methods while more or less advantageous are opposed to the
employment of glass as the material of which the cap or cup is
formed.
My new kind of glass cap and stopper. suitable for closing flasks,
bottles, cans, and similar receptacles, is on the contrary intended to
be generally made of glass, although I may occasionally make use of
wood, metal, or other materials. The glass or cap is provided at its
bottom with a slightly conical nipple or projection which, when the
the glass is placed over the neck of the bottle, becomes the stopper,
and presses against a ring or washer of cork or rubber squeezed into
the entrance of the neck. This very simple arrangement enables flasks
fitted with stoppers, which at the same time can be used as tasting or
drinking glasses, to be constructed very cheaply.
The flask is formed by moulding or otherwise with a shoulder just
inside its neck in order to receive a ring or washer of cork or india-
rubber which is squeezed into it.
The stopper consists of a nipple or projection formed by moulding or
otherwise in the bottom of a tasting or drinking glass or cup.
I can form the "
cup stopper" of wood, metal, or similar material as
well as of glass, and I may form its nipple or projection which forms
the stopper either in the same piece with its cup, or I may form them
of two distinct pieces and afterwards unite them.
The "cup stopper" may be covered with wickerwork, leather, felt,
or other material to match the flask or bottle with which it is to be
used.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Pochet in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 8th August 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
POCHET, of Rue Jean Jacques Rousseau, 66, at Paris, Manufacturer;
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Henry Pochet, Her special
licence that I, the said Henry Pochet, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Pochet, 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 "AN IMPROVED
BOTTLE STOPPER AND DRINKING VESSEL COMBINED," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Henry Pochet, my executors or
administrators, 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 within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Pochet, 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 thereof, reference being had to the Drawings here-
unto annexed, that is to say :-
Several methods have already been attempted by which to form the
stopper or cork for closing flasks, goblets, and bottles in the same piece
with a tasting or drinking glass. For this purpose, for instance, the
necks of flasks have been formed with screw threads which screw into
corresponding threadings made in the inside of a metal cup or cap, and

page_text: manufacture and employment of a stopper for closing bottles, flasks,
and other vessels, in combination with a tasting or drinking cup,
as herein-before described and shown in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Pochet, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of June One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-four.
Witness,
CH. ARMENGAud, Jr.,
Civil Engineer,
Bd. de Strasbourg, 23,
à Paris.
HENRY POCHET. (L.S.)