for Containing Mineral Waters and other Gaseous Liquids.
Year: 1885

page_text: for Containing Mineral Waters and other Gaseous Liquids.
I LÉON VALLET of 49 Everton Road, Liverpool in the County of Lancaster,
Patent Bottle Stopper and Glass Bottle Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH INTERNALLY
STOPPERED BOTTLES FOR CONTAINING MINERAL WATERS AND OTHER GASEOUS
LIQUIDS to be as follows :-
My Invention relates to that type of bottles which are stoppered with internal
stoppers and which bottles have bulbous necks, or are so formed to contain the
stopper in the upper portion of the bottle, say just below the neck thereof.
My Invention consists in forming a complete article of manufacture by combining
with a bottle of the type herein set forth of a stopper of the type, which has
rubber rings, or washers to form a seat with an internal annular ledge in the neck
of such bottles and which can be inserted from the outside at once, namely with
their rubber washers in position in contra distinction to those which have to have
their rubber washers applied to the stein after they are inserted into the bottle, or
those which have internal stoppers inserted in the bottle during the process of
manufacture. The two latter products of manufacture, namely the bulbous bottle
and the stopper fitted complete are more expensive ceteris paribus as a complete
article of manufacture than the complete article of manufacture according to my
Invention. Stoppers which may be employed according to my Invention are
provided with a hollow into which hollow the rubber which is employed on the
stopper folds and thus permits the stopper complete to be inserted from the outside
This type of stopper was set forth in the Specification of Letters Patent which
were granted to me and numbered 490 A.D. 1875. The stopper as set forth in the
Specification of my application for Letters Patent No 13157 A.D. 1885 is of
equivalent type to those above mentioned and can be employed with equal success,
Dated this thirtieth day of October 1885.

page_text: Figure 1 is an elevation partly in section of a bottle having a bulbous neck and
a stopper consisting of a glass ball, having its seat on an india rubber ring placed
in an annular groove near the bottle mouth. In this case the stopper is inserted
into the bottle during the manufacture of the bottle.
Figure 2 shows a sectional elevation of a bottle having a bulbous neck and
a stopper consisting of a ball of glass, or other material covered with india rubber,
the said india rubber covered ball having its seat on a ledge near the bottle mouth.
The types of bottle and stopper shown at Figures 1 and 2 were known to the
trade before my present invention and are here shown merely to distinguish same.
Figure 3 is an elevation partly in section of a combined internal stopper and
bottle according to my present invention.
Figure 4 illustrates another example of my invention.
Figure 5 is a section taken at X. X. Figure 4.
My invention consists in forming a complete article of manufacture by combining
with a bottle having a bulbous neck, such as the bottle shown in the drawings, of
an internal stopper of the type which has an india rubber ring, or washer to form
a seat with an internal annular ledge in the neck of the bottle, and which can be
inserted from the outside as a complete stopper, namely with the rubber washer in
position. This complete article of manufacture is shown at Figures 3 and 4 in
which A is the bottle, A¹ the bulbous neck, a the annular ledge, b the stopper, c the
washer, and is contradistinct to the types known previous to my invention as
shown at Figure 1, in which the stopper b is a glass ball, and the washer ring c
is inserted in the annular groove a, or as shown at Figure 2 in which the stopper b
consists of a rubber covered ball having its seat on the annular ledge a and is also
contradistinct to that type of stopper which has to have its rubber washer applied
after the stopper has been inserted into the bottle.
The type of stopper shown at Figure 1 is expensive in manufacture and the
use of the glass ball is apt to star the bottle and chip the ball in the process of

page_text: washing the bottle and thus the bottle becomes useless and dangerous to the bottlers
who fill them.
The type of stopper shown at Figure 2 is objectionable by reason of exposing
too large a surface of india rubber to the contents of the bottle and both the
internal glass ball stopper and that type of stoppers which have their rubber
washers applied to the stem after insertion into the bottle are more expensive
certeris paribus as a complete article of manufacture with the bulbous neck bottle
than the complete article of manufacture according to my invention shown at
Figure 3, which consists of a bulbous neck bottle in combination with the stopper
claimed in the Specification of my Application for Letters Patent No 13157
A.D. 1885, or the combined bottle and stopper shown at Figure 4.
In the example of my invention shown at Figure 4, the stopper 6 is similar to
that set forth in the specification of Letters Patent No 490 granted to me in 1875,
but when using this type of stopper care must be taken that the throat of the
bulbous neck of the bottle is sufficiently wide to prevent the stopper jamming
therein as shown at Figure 5; or this danger can be prevented by making the
head of the stopper sufficiently large to prevent it from jamming in the throat as
shown in Figure 5.
Having 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 is
The combination with a bottle having a bulbous neck of an internal stopper
having a rubber washer and which is inserted complete from the outside, as
described, thereby constituting a complete article of manufacture substantially as
and for the purposes set forth.