Improved Means of Securing the Corks or Stoppers of Bottles Containing Effervescing or other Liquids.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 7th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 13th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means of Securing the Corks or Stoppers of Bottles
Containing Effervescing or other Liquids.
I, AUGUSTE LAUSSEDAT of 23 Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris, France,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-.
My invention has reference to securing the corks or stoppers of bottles particularly
those containing effervescing liquids and it consists of a muzzle like contrivance
composed mainly of an upper ring bearing upon the cork, a collar or lower ring
below the usual protuberance around the bottle neck, bars connecting these rings,
and means of fastening these parts in position, and of unfastening them when
required.
In carrying out my invention I form in one piece by stamping or otherwise a
ring having three bars projecting therefrom at approximately equal distances;
two of these bars have each at their outer or lower end a half collar. At one end
of each half collar is an eye to receive a wire as hereinafter described and at the
other end is a projection or lip which is passed into a hole formed for the purpose
in the lower part of the third bar and then pressed down so as to engage therewith.
For distinction I will call the third bar the middle bar.
In order to secure the cork in the bottle, the upper ring above described with
the three bars and the two half collars secured to the middle bar as above explained
is placed upon the top of the cork, a capsule being preferably interposed. A wire
which has been passed through the eyes in the half collars is then used to tighten
up the half collars around the bottle neck and the cork is thus secured.
The middle bar below the hole through which the projections of the half collars
are passed has an eye to which a wire is attached; this wire has a disc at its lower
end. In order to unfasten the 'securing contrivance it is only necessary to pull the
last named wire into an oblique position; this draws the middle bar away from the
half collars whose lips become straightened and slip through the hole in the bar.
The disc above described is composed of an inner and an outer disc; the inner
disc has two slits the metal between these being punched inwardly so as to form a
vertical channel to receive the wire the lower end of which is bent into a hook.
The inner disc with the wire and hook at the inner face is placed against the outer
disc the edges of which are then bent over it so as to secure the two together.
Dated this 25th day of March 1893.
J. C. MEWBURN,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent.
Improved Means of Securing the Corks or Stoppers of Bottles
Containing Effervescing or other Liquids.
I, AUGUSTE LAUSSEDAT of 23 Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris, France,
Manufacturer, 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 :-
My invention has reference to securing the corks or stoppers of bottles,

page_text: particularly those containing effervescing liquids, and it consists of a muzzle-like
contrivance composed mainly of an upper ring bearing upon the cork, a collar or
lower ring below the usual protuberance around the bottle neck, bars connecting
these rings and means of fastening these parts in position, and of unfastening them
when required.
The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention. In carrying it out I form
in one piece, by stamping or otherwise, a ring A Figure 1 having three bars BB B¹
projecting therefrom at approximately equal distances; two of these bars BB
have each at their outer or lower end a half collar C. At one end of each half
collar C is an eye a to receive a wire as hereinafter described, and at the other end
is a projection or lip 6 which is to be passed into a hole c formed for the purpose
in the lower part of the third bar B1 and then pressed down so as to engage
therewith. For distinction I will call the third bar B₁ the middle bar. Figure 2
is a plan showing the muzzle-like contrivance when the arms B B B¹ have been
bent at approximately right angles to the ring A. Figure 3 is a side view
representing the contrivance ready to be placed on a corked bottle; the middle
arm B is shown as drawn up and the lips b as brought together for their insertion
into the hole c in this bar. Figures 4 and 5 are respectively a side view and a
vertical section of one of the half collars C at the part where it carries the lip b.
Figure 6 illustrates the way of attaching the half collars C to the arm B', the
lips 6 being pressed down and a wire d being passed through the eyes a a; this
wire is for tightening the half collars on the bottle neck. Figure 7 is a side
elevation of the contrivance as shown in Figure 6.
In order to secure the cork in the bottle, the upper ring A with the three
bars B B B and the two half collars CC secured to the middle bar, as seen in
Figures 6 and 7, is placed upon the top of the cork, (see Figure 8), a capsule g
being preferably interposed. The wire d which has been passed through the
eyes a a in the half collars is then twisted so as to tighten up the half collars
around the bottle neck below the shoulder D and the cork is thus secured.
The middle bar B' below the hole c through which the lips bb of the half collars
are passed has an eye e to which a wire k is attached as seen in Figures 9, 10
and 11 which are respectively two elevations and a plan; this wire k has a disc H
at its lower end. In order to unfasten the securing contrivance it is only necessary
to pull the wire k into the position seen in Figure 12 by means of the disc H, this
draws the middle bar B' away from the half collars CC whose lips bb thereby
become straightened and slip through the hole c in the bar. Instead of the lips bb
being pressed downwards to engage with the hole c they may be pressed to the
right or left and in this case the wire k will have to be pulled sideways when it is
required to unfasten the lips.
The disc H is composed of an inner and an outer disc; the inner disc / which is
represented in Figures 13 and 14 has two slits ii the metal between these being
punched inwardly so as to form a vertical channel to receive the wire k, the lower
end of which is bent into a hook. The inner disc h with the wire & and hook at the
inner face is placed against the outer disc H (see Figures 15 and 16) the edges of
which are then bent over it so as to secure the two together.
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 :-
The means hereinbefore described of securing the corks or stoppers of bottles,
that is to say a muzzle-like contrivance composed mainly of an upper ring to bear
upon the cork, and vertical arms connecting this ring to half collars forming a ring
to engage under the shoulder on the bottle neck, these half collars being connected
together at back by a twisted wire and having lips or projections at front which
engage with a hole in another vertical arm attached to the upper ring, all
substantially as set forth, in combination, or not, with means substantially as

page_text: described, for releasing the said lips or projections from the last named vertical
arm and thereby enabling the muzzle-like contrivance to be removed from the
bottle.
Dated this 7th day of December 1893.
J. C. MEWBURN,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent.