Improvements in Stoppering Bottles and other like Receptacles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Oct, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 24th July, 1896-Accepted, 29th Aug.,
1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stoppering Bottles and other like Receptacles.
I, DENNIS WOOD the younger of High Street, Mexboro' in the County of
York, Glass Worker, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has for its object to provide a ready means for corking or stoppering
bottles, jars and such like receptacles, slimple ih action both hs regards corking and
also uncorking, and by which the cork can be used repeatedly bras a permanent
cork.
The invention refers to the bottle as well as to the stoppering appliance.
In carrying out my invention as applied to a bottle for example, I make the
head of the bottle with an enlarged ring of glass as 'bsuhl, and with tools I form the
inside or lip with an annular recess of larger diameter that the hole down the neck,
thereby leaving a shoulder say for example of one eighth of an inch in width, ahd
the same distance from the lip. A true shoulder is also made by the tools at the
Juiction of the head and the neck outside the bottle.
The inside shoulder is to icceive tlie cork and prevent its further entrance, and
the outside shoulder is to engage with the stopper.
The cork is a disc of that material of about otle quarter of an inch in thickness,
and may be used separate from the stopper, or periiihnchtly attached to it.
I propose to make the stopper in the form of a metallic cap to fit very
loosely over the head of the bottle, kind to pass beyond the outer lioulder above
described.
It is made of an elastic metal such as thin sheet steel, and is provided upon its
interior surface with two or more projections or teeth constructed and arranged to
engage with the outer shoulder beforementioned when pressed over it.
Inside the stopper at 'the top end I secune a compressible spring 'carrying & disc,
apon the face of which the cork may be secured, if desired
The tubular part of the stopper at its open end is made oval or of other analogous
shape, and the catches or teeth, are upon the sides nearest to each other, so that
when the stopper is pressed over the head of the bottle to its limit, the teeth will
close upon the shoulder add retain the stoppet in position, the spring will be
compressed by the 'cork upon the disc coming in 'tohtact with 'the 'interior shoulder,
and will effectually close the bottle.
To uncork the bottle all that is necessary 'is 'to 'press 'upon the opposite sides of
the tubular part which expands the sides upon which the teeth are fixed and frees
them from the shoulder.
Dated the 21st day of October 1895.
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Agent for Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Stoppering Bottles and other like Receptacles
I, DENNIS WOOD the younger of High Street, Mexboro' in the County of
Yoih, Glass Worker do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same has to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
My invention has for its object to provide a ready means for corking or stoppering
bottles, jais and such like receptacles, which shall be simple in its action both as
regards corking and also uncorking and so that the cork can be used repeatedly, or
act as a permanent cork or stopper.
The carrying out of the invention has reference to the neck of the bottle as
well as to the stoppering appliance.
Fig. 1, on the annexed sheet of drawings shows the neck of a bottle made to
receive the cork disc and to engage with the stopper.
Fig. 2, section of the metallic cap or stopper
Fig. 3, neck of a bottle, modified to suit the cap shown in Fig. 4.
Fig. 5, the cork disc.
Fig. 6, plan of the bottle neck shown in Fig 3.
In carrying out my invention as applied to au ale bottle for example, and
according to the arrangement illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, I make upon the neck of
the bottle an enlarged ring of glass A, as usual, and with suitable tools I form the
inside of the lip of a large diameter than the interior B, of the neck C, thus
producing a shoulder D, or annulat seating at the junction of the two diameters,
against which the under face of the cork rests when in position
This shoulder or seat I prefer to be about one eighth of an inch in width, and
about the same distance from the edge of the lip.
A shoulder E, is also formed at the same time upon the outside of the neck to
retain the stopper or cap when the bottle is stoppered.
The cork I propose to use is in the form of a disc, about one quarter of an inch
in thickness, it is shown in Fig. 5, marked F..
The cap or stopper G, Fig. 2, is made of some resilient metal, such as thin sheet
steel or biass, and so as to pass readily over the enlarged portion of the neck of
bottle, the interior is provided with teeth or projections H, preferably two,
arranged on opposite sides and so that when the cap or stopper is pressed down to
its full extent they will pass over the ring A, and catch against the underside of
the ring.
The lower part of the cap or stopper at its open end is extended or opened into
an approximately oval form, the teeth H, being upon the two sides which approach
nearest each other, so that when pressed down to its limit, the resilient metal
permits the teeth to pass over the ring A, and clasp the shoulder D To release
the cap from the bottle, the extended sides I, must be compressed, which causes
the opposite sides to expand and withdiaw the teeth from the underside of
shoulder.
At the top of the interior of the cap or stopper I fix a compressible spring,
preferably of coiled wire marked J, the free end of which carries a plato K, to
which the cork disc may be secured permanently if thought desirable, but I prefer
to use loose corks.
When a cork is placed in position as shown in Fig. 3, and the cap or stopper is
forced down until its teeth engage with the shoulder E, the plate K, is pressed
upon the cork, and the spring is compressed and holds down the cork.
In the modification shown in Figs. 3, 4 and 6, I use the shoulder or seating D,
for the cork disc to rest upon, and a shoulder E, to retain the stopper when in
position, but instead of using a compressible cap as before described, I make two

page_text: slots L, through the ring A, to allow the passage of the projections M, the cap
being then turned round so as to bring the projections under the shoulder of the
ring A.
One or more stops may be used to limit the rotary movement of the cap
The spring may be a coiled wire, or it may be a flat disc of spring steel N, with
two or more elastic arms or stips O formed from it as shown, and the projectious
or catches may be formed by indenting the outside, see Fig. 4.
I am aware that slots L, have been made in bottle necks in connection with
outside sciew stoppers and I therefore make no general claim for such.
Ilaving 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 18:
1. In stoppering bottles, forming a shoulder or seating D, inside the lip of the
bottle, and an outside shoulder E, upon the neck of the bottle, and the use of a
cap (with the said shoulders) constructed as herein before described and shown 10
Fig. 2 of the drawings.
2. In stoppering bottles, forming the bottle neck with an internal shoulder for a
disc of cork to rest upon, and with an external shoulder for a metallic cap to clasp
upon, the said cap having an internal spring to bold down the cork dise, and teeth
or projections to clasp under the exterior shoulder, as herein before described and
set forth.
3. A stopper for bottles, jars and the like constructed to clasp upon the neck of
the receptacle, and having a spring secured inside the metallic cap to press upon the
cork disc so as to hold it in position upon its seating substantially as herein before
described
Dated the 0-1 ... Ր T1
1000
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Shetfield, Agent for Applicant.