IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERS AND BOTTLES LJAHIDE TADE ANT STMTTAD ARTICLES 33 FOR ABRATED AND OTHER LIQUIDS, JADS, AND SIMTI AD ARTICLES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Walter Peter Cherry and Charles Edwin Cherry,
of Number Ninety-eight, Porter Street, Hull, in the County of
York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERS AND BOTTLES
LJAHIDE TADE ANT STMTTAD ARTICLES
33
FOR ABRATED AND OTHER LIQUIDS, JADS,
AND SIMTI AD ARTICLES
33
Sealed the 5th March 1875, and dated the 21st September 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Walter Peter Cherry
and Charles Edwin Cherry at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 21st September 1874.
We, WALTER PETER CHERRY and CHARLES EDWIN CHERRY, of
Number Ninety-eight, Porter Street, Hull, in the County of York, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
STOPPERS AND BOTTLES FOR AERATED AND OTHER LIQUIDS, JARS, AND SIMILAR
ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
First. The stoppers are made with a flat top; at the under side of the
stoppers is a groove round the outer edge so as to fit a sheet india-
rubber ring, or cork, or any elastic substance; at each side of the

page_text: stoppers there is a crutch clasp which turns inwardly at the bottam
so as to fit in a groove at the outside of the bottle neck, which the said
stopper swings on an axle; they can be made of glass, stone, metal, or
any hard material.
Second. The bottles can be made of glass, or stone, or any other such
material; they can be made any shape. At each side of the top of the
bottle neck is a groove in the shape of the letter L, so as when the
stopper is fixed on they are fast together, and when turned the crutch
clasp of the stopper slide up the groove and turn over the bottle neck,
and allows the liquor to flow; when closed they slide down the groove;
and pressed on the top, and turned to the extent of the horizontal groove
secures them tight.
filed by the said Walter Peter Cherry and Charles Edwin Cherry
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th March 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WALTER
PETER CHERRY and CHARLES EDWIN CHERRY, of 98, Porter Street, Hull,
in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four,
in the thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto us, the said Walter Peter Cherry and
Charles Edwin Cherry, Her special licence, that we, the said Walter
Peter Cherry and Charles Edwin Cherry, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Walter Peter Cherry and
Charles Edwin Cherry, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERS AND BOTTLES FOR
AERATED AND OTHER LIQUIDS, JARS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES," upon the con-

page_text: dition (amongst others) that we, the said Walter Peter Cherry and
Charles Edwin Cherry, our executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Walter Peter Cherry and Charles
Edwin Cherry, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Firstly. The bottles are made of glass, stone, or any suitable material;
on the mouth of the bottle is formed a small rim; the necks can be
made any length, and the bottles any shape.
Secondly. We make and fit a collar of metal or any suitable material
on the neck in two halves; on each half of the collar is formed an
aperture in the shape of the letter L; the bottom outer edge of the
collar is rounded off; the top of the collar is a square edge; the top
inner edge of the horizontal aperture is bevelled.
Thirdly. We make and fit a stopper of metal or any suitable material ;
the top of the stopper is flat, and the under side is grooved out; on two
sides of the stopper is formed a crutch clasp; in a line with each other
at the bottom of each clasp there is a projection inwardly; the top edge
of the projection is bevelled so as to fit in the bevelled aperture on the
collar herein-before mentioned; the stopper is fitted on with the collar
in two halves, and secured on the bottle neck.
Fourthly. We fit a circular piece of india-rubber, elastic, cork,
or any soft suitable material in the groove at the under side of the
stopper.
And in order that our said Invention may be more readily understood
we will now proceed to describe the manner in which the same is to be
performed by reference to the annexed Sheet of Drawings.

page_text: charging its contents; Fig. 5 shews collar in two pieces; and Fig. 6,
the stopper top. The same letters of reference indicate similar parts in
all the Figures.
The way in which the Invention is carried out is by turning the
stopper a out of the horizontal aperture 6, which slides up the per-
pendicular aperture c and turns over the mouth of the bottle, and the
collar d slides down the neck e with the stopper a; when discharging
the liquids out of the bottle the stopper a falls to the rim f of the mouth
of the bottle, and thus prevents obstruction in closing them. The collar d
slides up to the rim f of the mouth of the bottle and allows the stopper a
to swivel over, and the stopper pressed on the mouth of the bottle and
turned in the horizontal aperture 6 of the collar d and perfectly secures
the liquids.
Having thus described the nature and object of our said Invention,
we declare that what we claim and desire to be secured to us by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the improvements in
stoppers and bottles for aerated and other liquids, jars, and similar
articles, substantially as herein-before described and illustrated on the
Drawings, or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, we, the said Walter Peter Cherry and Charles
Edwin Cherry, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Thirteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-five.