Improvements in Closing or Stoppering Bottles, Jars, and other Vessels.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 19th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 8th Feb., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Closing or Stoppering Bottles, Jars, and other
Vessels.
I, WILLIAM BOWERS FITCH, of New Cross Glass Works, Deptford, in the County of
Kent, Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the closing or stoppering of bottles, jars and other vessels,
but is chiefly applicable for closing wide mouthed vessels such as jam jars or bottles.
for which parchment or parchment paper is usually employed.
In carrying out my invention, I forin the neck of the jar or bottle with an external
screw-thread preferably undercut and adapted to receive a screw cover or cap
of parchment or parchment-paper.
In practice I find it advantageous to manufacture my screw caps by placing a disc
of parchment or parchment-paper of the required size and properly softened, over the
mouth of the jar and over the screw-thread. I then bind the parchment round and into
the screw-thread by means of a string thus causing the parchment to take into and
assume the form of the said thread. When dry the parchment will form a screw-cap
and on the string being cut, the cap can be screwed off and on the bottle as required.
Or the parchment cap may be formed and applied in any other suitable manner
such as by means of a capsuling machine.
Dated the 19th day of February 1889.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Closing or Stoppering Bottles, Jars, and other
Vessels.
I, WILLIAM BOWERS FITOH, of New Cross Glass Works, Deptford, in the County
of Kent, Chemist, 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 :-
This invention relates to the closing or stoppering of bottles, jars and other vessels,
but is chiefly applicable for closing wide mouthed vessels such as jam jars or bottles
for which parchment or parchment-paper is usually employed.
In carrying out my invention, I form the neck of the jar or bottle with an external
screw-thread preferably undercut or of ratchet form and adapted to receive a screw
cover or cap of parchment or parchment-paper.
In practice I find it advantageons to manufacture my screw caps by placing a disc
of parchment or parchment-paper of the required size and properly softened, over the
mouth of the jar and over the screw-thread. I then bind the parchment round and
into the screw-thread by means of a string thus causing the parchment to take into
and assume the form of the said thread.
When dry the parchment will form a screw-cap and on the string being cut, the cap
can be screwed off and on the bottle as required.
Or the parchment cap may be formed and applied in any other suitable manner
such as by means of a capsuling machine.

page_text: 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 improvements in closing or stoppering bottles, jars and other vessels hereinbefore
described.
Dated the 19th day of December 1889.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.