MENTS IN BOTTLES FOR CONTAINING AERATED LIQUORS
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hiram Codd at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th March 1881.
HIRAM CODD, of 58, King William Street, in the City of London.
MENTS IN BOTTLES FOR CONTAINING AERATED LIQUORS."
"IMPROVE-
This Invention has for its object improvements in bottles for containing aerated
liquors.
I have for some time employed globular stoppers of glass in bottles for containing
aerated liquors, and in the Specification of a Patent granted to me, No. 2621, in
the year 1872, I have described a method of forming the bottles with internal
projections, so that the ball stoppers when displaced from their seats may not fall
down to the lower part of the bottle but be retained in the neck, whereby the ball
is kept out of contact with the contents of the bottle and the liability to breakage
there would be if it were allowed to fall to the bottom is avoided. Since the date
of this Patent glass stoppers of a disc like form have been introduced and these
are very liable to chip if allowed to fall to the bottom of the bottle, besides which
the disc stoppers are very uncertain in coming to their seats when the bottles are
filled. According to my present Invention I provide inclines in the neck of the
bottle to receive the disc stopper as it falls, and these inclines are so formed that
the diac cannot turn over or escape from its place, but when the bottle is refilled
and inverted the disc is guided back to its place and falls to its seat without fail.
For this purpose I indent the opposite sides of the neck of the bottle so as to
form two inclined shelves, upon which the opposite edges of the disc immediately
it falls away from its seat come to rest. These inclines are continued diagonally
or in inclined directions across the neck of the bottle, so that the disc first comes
onto the inclines on one side of the neck and slides down to the other side, passing
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page_text: as it does so to a part of the bottle which is of sufficient diameter to permit the
liquid to pass the disc freely as it is poured out.
The inclines also do not allow room for the disc in any position to turn over or
to set itself on edge, but all the movement which the disc is free to make is to
slide and pass along the inclines to and from its seat.
Also in some cases I contract the neck of the bottle a short distance below the
disc and give to it a corrugated form, so that the disc cannot fall past the
contraction but will lodge with its edges in the corrugations and allow the liquor
to pass freely. I can also make bottles with double passages in the neck, in one
of which the stopper will lodge whilst the other remains free for the passage of the
liquor.
In order to produce the double passage I nip the bottle, the glass being soft,
between two conical fingers. The fingers indent the glass and force it inwards
upon the two opposite sides of the bottle. In this way two opposing projections
are made within the bottle at the root of the neck. The projections meet and
coalesce in the middle of the bottle forming a complete partition.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Hiram Codd in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th September
1881.
HIRAM CODD, of 58, King William Street, in the City of London. “IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BOTTLES FOR CONTAINING AERATED LIQUORS."
This Invention has for its object improvements in bottles for containing aerated
liquors.
I have for some time employed globular stoppers of glass in bottles for containing
aerated liquors, and in the Specification of a Patent granted to me, No. 2621, in
the year 1872, I have described a method of forming the bottles with internal
projections, so that the ball stoppers, when displaced from their seats, may not fall
down to the lower part of the bottle but be retained in the neck, whereby the ball
is kept out of contact with the contents of the bottle and the liability to breakage
there would be if it were allowed to fall to the bottom is avoided. Since the date
of this Patent glass stoppers of a disc like form have been introduced, and these
are very liable to chip if allowed to fall to the bottom of the bottle, besides which
the disc stoppers are very uncertain in coming to their seats when the bottles are
filled. According to my present Invention I provide inclines in the neck of the
bottle to receive the disc stopper as it falls, and these inclines are so formed that
the disc cannot turn over or escape from its place, but when the bottle is refilled
and inverted the disc is guided back to its place and falls to its seat without fail.
For this purpose I indent the opposite sides of the neck of the bottle so as to form
two inclined shelves upon which the opposite edges of the disc immediately it falls.
away from its seat come to rest. These inclines are continued diagonally or in
inclined directions across the neck of the bottle, so that the disc first comes on to
the inclines on one side of the neck and slides down to the other side, passing as it
does so to a part of the bottle, which is of sufficient diameter to permit the liquid
to pass the disc freely as it is poured out.
The inclines also do not allow room for the disc in any position to turn over or
to set itself on edge, but all the movement which the disc is free to make is to
slide and pass along the inclines to and from its seat.
Also in some cases I contract the neck of the bottle a short distance below the
disc and give to it a corrugated form, so that the disc cannot fall past the
contraction but will lodge with its edges in the corrugations and allow the liquor
to pass freely. I can also make bottles with double passages in the neck, in one
of which the stopper will lodge whilst the other remains free for the passage of the
liquor.
In order to produce the double passage I nip the bottle, the glass being soft,
between two conical fingers. The fingers indent the glass and force it inwards
upon the two opposite sides of the bottle. In this way two opposing projections
are made within the bottle at the root of the neck. The projections meet and
coalesce in the middle of the bottle forming a complete partition.
Figure 1 of the Drawings hereunto annexed shews a vertical section of the
upper part of a bottle fitted with a disc stopper and with the sides of the neck
indented on two opposite sides with indentations forming inclined shelves sloping
downwards along the neck of the bottle for the purpose mentioned; Figure 2 is a
cross section of the same taken on the line a, a, Figure 1.
A is the disc stopper of glass or other suitable material, which closes against an
elastic seating B secured in the mouth of the bottle; C, C, are the indentations
formed in the side of the neck. These sides of the neck I prefer to make
approximately parallel with one another from top to bottom, but the other sides I

page_text: make sloping away from one another, so that the stopper, when dislodged from its
seat shall not be able to obstruct the pouring out of liquid from the bottle, but so
that there shall be ample area for the flow of liquid past the stopper.
When the stopper A is dislodged from its seat it drops onto the top of the
inclined shelves Cand slides downwards along these shelves until it is stopped by
coming against the side of the neck near to where it joins with the body of the
bottle. The contents of the bottle may then be poured out with the bottle held
in such a position that the liquid flows out below the stopper, or it might be held
so that the liquid shall flow out over the stopper, as the stopper being of a disc
form will not readily be carried back to the mouth of the bottle by the flow of 1
liquid over it.
The inclined shelves at all times keep the disc stopper so closely to one side of
the neck that the disc cannot turn edgewise so as to be able to drop through the
space between the inclined shelves on the two opposite sides of the neck; the disc
stopper is therefore retained within the neck. The inclined shelves also serve to 1
guide the stopper back to its seat, as above described.
"
Figures 3, 4, and 5 shew how that the oval shaped base of the neck may have
indentations A formed in its two longer sides so as to divide the passage between
them into two or it might be more passages, each of which is too small for the
disc or other stopper to drop down through them.
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Figure 3 is a side view of a bottle so formed; Figure 4, a vertical section of the
upper part of the same, and Figure 5 a cross section taken through the lower part
of the neck; B, B, are sloping indentations made in two opposite sides of the neck,
so that the stopper, after it has been dislodged from its seat at the mouth of the
bottle and has dropped down to the base of the neck may whilst the liquid is 2
being poured out from the bottle lodge below these indentations and be so retained
from passing back to the mouth of the bottle.
The disc stoppers are introduced into the necks of the bottles before the elastic
rings or seatings are put into place around the interior of the mouth; they are
dropped in edgewise through grooves or slots C formed on two opposite sides of the 3
interior of the head, as described in the Specification of a Patent, No. 3935, in the
year 1879.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of performing
the same, I would have it understood that I claim,-
First. The construction of bottles for containing aerated liquids, substantially as 3
herein described with reference to Figures 1 and 2 of the Drawings annexed.
Second. The construction of bottles for containing aerated liquids, substantially
as herein described with reference to Figures 3, 4, and 5 of the Drawings
annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Hiram Codd, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Twelfth day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty one.