Improvements in Seals and Cork Binders for Bottles or similar Containers.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Aug., 1897 --Accepted, 27th Nov., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Seals and Cork Binders for Bottles or similar
Containers.
I, RUDOLPH CHARLES HOYER of Memphis, County of Shelby, State of Tennessee,
U.S.A, Draughtsman, 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 this invention is to provide a hood or cap of glass or kindred
material to be locked over the mouth of a bottle or like container in such a manner
that it must be partly broken to get at the contents of the container thereby pre-
venting the fraudulent use of the same as an original package or for refilling with
spurious goods.
In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional view of a bottle
neck with the sealing hood applied. Fig. 2 a top view. Fig. 3 a section on
line A-B of Fig. 1.
1 is the hood or cap having the form of a hollow cylinder one end of which
terminates in two or more ribs 8 joined to a disc shaped centre 7, or more par-
ticularly described, the disc is an inverted frustum of a cone, its base forming
the outer face and its top extending slightly into the cylinder. The radial ribs 8
extending from the disc, are gradually reduced in thickness to where they join
the edges of the cylinder, making these junctions the thinnest part of the hood.
If desired the top part of the hood may be entirely closed, of bulb shape, flattened
at the top, and made thinner in section where it joins the cylindrical part.
Within the hood is provided at a predetermined distance below the inner face
of the disc 7, an annular groove 6 for engaging a coil or open ring retaining
spring seated in a similar groove 5 in the outer surface of the neck of the bottle
and at a distance below the mouth of the bottle equal to or a little less than the
distance of the groove 6 below the inner surface of the disc 7.
The upper part of the neck of the bottle is made smooth, of cylindrical shape,
so that the hood will fit well over it.
any suit-
The retaining spring 4 (Fig. 3) may be made of galvanised steel or of
able hard and flexible material. Its outer edge is rounded off so as to impede
as little as possible the sliding of the hood.
After the bottle is filled and corked the hood 1 is placed over the mouth and
pushed down over the neck 2 of the bottle until the inner face of the disc 7 which
is slightly smaller in diameter than the top of the cork 3, presses or bears on the
Tatter, the thickness of the disc not allowing the ribs 8 to come in contact with the
upper edge of the mouth of the bottle. In this position the grooves 5 and 6
respectively in the neck of the bottle and in the hood, register, and are both
engaged by the retaining spring 4 previously placed in the groove 5, thereby lock-
ing the hood permanently and so that it cannot be removed without destroying the
bottle. To open the bottle the top of the hood is removed by breaking the ribs 8
by tapping them with any hard instrument at their weak points where they join
the cylindrical part of the hood after which the cork can be withdrawn in the

page_text: usual way. In this last condition the identity of the bottle is absolutely destroyed
and the fraudulent use of the same effectually prevented.
In addition to its use as a seal, the device serves to bind and hold the cork
securely in place.
At
In cases where the pressure on the cork is very excessive from gases evolved
within the bottle, means are provided for binding the cork with wire. Two
vertical depressions are made in the inner surface of the hood opposite each other,
and extending from near its upper edge to just above the annular groove 6.
the lower end of each of the depressions two small holes are made through the
hood. The two ends of a wire 9 are passed through the two small holes on one
side, thence over the cork and through the holes on the other side, drawing tight
and fastening by twisting the ends of the wire 9 as shewn in Figs. 1 and 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
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1. In a seal and cork binder for bottles and similar containers which are closed
by the insertion of a cork in a neck, a bottle or similar container having the upper.
portion of its neck increased in thickness, the outer surface of this part of the neck
smooth and cylindrical, an annular horizontal groove in this surface, to
a seat for a coil or open ring retaining spring, a hood or cap in one piece, consist-
ing of a hollow cylinder terminated at one end in two or more ribs joined to'a
central disc, shaped like an inverted frustum of a cone, these ribs thinnest at their
junction with the cylindrical part, two vertical depressions opposite each other in
the, inner surface of the cylindrical hood and extending from near its top edge to
a short distance below this edge, at the lower end of each of these depressions two
small holes through the hood, these depressions and holes to serve as guides for
and to fasten a wire which binds the cork and in the inner surface of the hood an
annular horizontal groove to engage the retaining spring, substantially as
described and shewn.
2. The general arrangement and combination of parts constituting the seal and
cork binder for bottles and similar containers, substantially as described and
shewn.
Dated thi. 1441 1
THOMAS R.'SHILLITO,
89 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.