Year: 1886

page_text: I, CHARLES CHESWRIGHT of Leith Villa Parkhurst Road in the County of
Middlesex, Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
For stoppering bottles particularly such as are used for holding delicate or
sparkling wines, it is necessary to use the best and most expensive corks, and even
these are objectionable on account of their being more or less porous, and on
account of certain reaction that takes place between the cork and the liquor. My
invention relates to means of stoppering whereby I can secure a tight .impervious
closure of the bottle, employing corks which may themselves be of inferior quality
or may be artificially made up, as I will describe, of inferior cork or which may be
stoppers of caoutchouc or other yielding material which should not come in direct
contact with the liquor. For this purpose, I prepare from sheet tin or metal such
as is used for making external capsules for bottles, capsules that I use internally,
taking care to present towards the interior of the bottle that face of the metal
which consists of pure tin. I enclose the cork, which may be of inferior quality or
a solid or hollowed plug of caoutchouc or other yielding material within the capsule,
and introduce the plug thus capsuled into the bottle mouth, the metal of the
capsule forming a lining which at the bottom of the plug separates it from the
liquor, and around its periphery is interposed between the plug and the glass.
When a bottling machine is employed, I make the capsule with a projecting flange
or lip that extends over the top edge of the bottle mouth, I introduce the capsule
by itself and hold it firmly by pressure on its flange while the cork or plug is
being introduced into it. I make plugs of inferior cork or of other plastic
materials which, when capsuled as described, can take the place of good cork by
rolling up thin cork veneer, paper, parchment, sheet-cellulose, caoutchouc and the
like into rolls of the diameter required, each such roll being made of the length
required for a cork, or being long enough to be cut into pieces each of the required
length. When cork veneer is thus rolled up, the convolutions may be cemented
with a solution of cork in acid.
Deted this 17th das ne TL 1000

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Stoppering of Bottles.
I, CHARLES CHESWRIGHT, of Leith Villa, Parkhurst Road, in the County of
Middlesex, 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:-
For stoppering bottles, particularly such as are used for holding delicate or
sparkling wines, it is necessary to use the best and most expensive corks, and even
these are objectionable on account of their being more or less porous, and on.
account of certain reaction that takes place between the cork and the liquor. My
invention relates to means of stoppering whereby I can secure a tight impervious
closure of the bottle, employing corks which may themselves be of inferior quality
or may be artificially made up, as I will describe, of inferior cork or which may be
stoppers of caoutchouc or other yielding material, which should not come in direct
contact with the liquor. For this purpose, I prepare from sheet tin or metal such
as is used for making external capsules for bottles, capsules that I use internally,
taking care to prevent towards the interior of the bottle that face of the metal
which consists of pure tin. This face, whether of tin or of other metal, may be
gilt or enamelled to protect it against chemical action of the liquor. I enclose the
cork, which may be of inferior quality or a solid or hollowed plug of caoutchouc or
other yielding material within a capsule of the kind described and I introduce the
plug thus capsuled into the bottle mouth, the metal of the capsule forming a lining
which, at the bottom of the plug, separates it from the liquor, and around its
periphery is interposed between the plug and the glass. When a bottling machine
is employed, I make the capsule with a projecting flange or lip that extends over
the top edge of the bottle mouth, I introduce the capsule first by itself and hold it
firmly by pressure on its flange while the cork or plug is being introduced into it.
I make plugs of inferior cork or of other plastic materials which, when capsuled as
described, can take the place of good cork, by rolling up thin cork veneer, paper,
parchment, sheet cellulose, caoutchouc and the like into rolls of the diameter
required, each such roll being made of the length required for a cork, or being long
enough to be cut into pieces each of the required length. When cork veneer is
thus rolled up, the convolutions may be cemented with a solution of cork in acid.
When corks, which may be of inferior quality, or such as are made up in the form
of rolls, are used in conjunction with internal capsules as I have described, I prefer
to have them desiccated and impregnated with paraffin so as to fill up the pores
and prevent the corks from shrinking in the bottles. In case of an internally
capsuled cork shrinking or being somewhat too small for the bottle mouth, it may
be swelled out by inserting in it a central taper plug of wood or other suitable
material.

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
1. In combination with a cork, which may be of inferior quality, or artificially
made up, an internal capsule covering the end and periphery of the cork, sub-
stantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
2. In combination with a cork, an internal capsule flanged to adapt it to the
action of the corking machine, substantially as herein described.
Dated this 5th day of November 1886.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant,
28, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.