CERTAIN NEW AND USEFUL IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINERY FOR CORKING BOTTLES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and
Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris,
France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Patent
Agent, for the Invention of "CERTAIN NEW AND USEFUL IMPROVEMENT
IN MACHINERY FOR CORKING BOTTLES."-A communication from Jean
Adrien de Mestre, residing at Bordeaux, France, Merchant.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 20th March 1873.
I, HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent
5 Offices, 18, Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 6, Piccadilly,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "CERTAIN NEW AND USEFUL IMPROVEMENT IN
MACHINERY FOR CORKING BOTTLES," communicated to me by Jean Adrien de

page_text: Mestre, a person resident at Bordeaux, France, Merchant, to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to improved means of closing the bottles more
hermetically when metal or wire caps are used for stoppering them, and
consists, as shewn in the Drawing annexed, forming part of this my
Provisional Specification, of, when corking the bottle, in leaving out
from its neck a more or less part of the cork, which then will be com-
pressed by the metal or wire cap against the edges and top of the neck
of the bottle. For this purpose the conical tube of the ordinary corking
machine will be elongated by fitting round its lower end by means of
screw threads an hollow cylinder or socket. The said socket or hollow
cylinder is nearly its centre cut horizontally and vertically, and the cut
part is hinged, so that it can be opened or closed and the projecting part
of the cork removed without injury from the hollow cylinder, in which
it has been mightly compressed. The hinging part is provided with a
flattened spring, which catches on a pin in the immoveable part of the
hollow cylinder, and serves to open the said hinging part; and in some
cases a small elbowed lever fulcrummed on the said immoveable part is
used to open more easily the hinging part by lowering the longer
arm of the said lever, and forcing by means of the shorter arm on the
loose end of the flat spring. The shorter arm, when loosening the
longer arm, is drawn back by the action of a spiral spring surrounding
the lever bracket, the end of which is fastened on the said shorter arm,
while the other end is attached on the immoveable part of the hollow
cylinder.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Henri
Adrien Bonneville in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th
October 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI 30
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue
de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the County
of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of March, in the year of 36

page_text: our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, Her special
licence, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my executors, ad-
ministrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henri Adrien
Bonneville, my 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 Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "CERTAIN NEW AND USEFUL IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CORKING
BOTTLES,"
,"communicated to me by Jean Adrien de Mestre, a person
resident at Bordeaux, France, Merchant, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, 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 on or before the Fourteenth of October 1873.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby
declare the nature of the said 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 improved means of closing more hermetically
the bottles when metal or wire caps are used for stoppering them, and is
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, in which Fig. 1 represents a
vertical front view at half a working size of the upper part of ordinary
corking machine, to which the improvement shown closed is applied;
Fig. 2 is a plan view at working size of the improved part when opened;
and Fig. 3 and 4 are vertical and plan views at working size of the
same modified, shown opened and closed. In these Figures similar
letters indicate corresponding parts.
The Invention consists, when corking the bottle, in leaving out from
its neck a more or less part of the cork, which then will be compressed
by the metal or wire cap against the edges and top of the neck of the
bottle. For this purpose the conical tube a of the ordinary corking
machine will be elongated by fitting round its lower end by means of
screw threads a hollow cylinder or socket 6. The said socket or hollow

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cylinder is nearly the centre cut horizontally and vertically, and the out
part c is hinged, so that it can be opened or closed and the projecting
part of the cork removed without injury from the hollow cylinder b, in
which it has been mightly compressed by means of the piston d.
hinged part c is provided with a flattened spring e, which catches on a
pin fin the immoveable part of the hollow cylinder b, and serves to open
the said hinged part c; and in some cases a small elboved lever g, ful-
crumed on the said immoveable part, is used to open more easily the
hinged part by lowering the longer arm 9 of the said lever 9 by
pressing down the handle h, and forcing by means of the shorter arm g¹¹
on the loose end of the flat spring e. The shorter arm 91, when
loosening the longer arm g, is drawn back by the action of a spiral
spring i surrounding the lever bracket j, the end of which is fastened
on the said shorter arm 91, while the other end is attached on the
immoveable part of the hollow cylinder 6.
Having thus described the nature of the said improvement, and the
manner of carrying it into effect, I would have it understood that I do
not confine myself to the precise details above enumerated, as these may
obviously be modified without departing from the the principle of the
Invention; but what I claim and desire to secure by the said Royal
Letters Patent is, a corking machine constructed with the socknet or
hollow cylinder, in which works the piston acting on the cork, cut in
such a manner that the cut part, being hinged, may be opened to with-
draw the cork without injurying it, substantially as above described and
shown in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have hereto
set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.