AN IMPROVED MODE OF AND APPARATUS FOR STOPPING' BOTTLES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of No. 11, Wellington
Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for tho
Invention of " AN IMPROVED MODE OF AND APPARATUS FOR STOPPING'
BOTTLES." A communication from abroad by Alfred Baymé, of
No. 64, Faubourg St. Martin, Paris, France.
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Sealed the 21st August 1874, and dated the 5th March 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said. William Edward'
Gedge at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 5th March 1874.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED MODE OF AND APPARATUS FOR:
STOPPING BOTTLES,” a communication to me from abroad by Alfred Baymé,
of No. 64, Faubourg St. Martin, Paris, France, to be as follows:-
The novelty of this stopping consists in the mode of acting upon the
cork or stopper, and in the application of the cork or stopper on the
circular or ring surface at the top of the neck of the bottle.
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page_text: Figure 1 of the accompanying Sheet of Drawing is a section, and
Figure 2, an elevation of an apparatus embodying this Invention, and
Figures 3 and 4 are modifications thereof.
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A indicates a nut kept at a fixed distance from the edge of the
neck of the bottle by means of two supports x, x, of one piece with
the nut, and a ring c, c', surrounding the neck beneath the swelling
or collar
y of the bottle. The ring is necessarily formed of two parts
joined together on the one side by a hinge at n (Fig. 2), and on the
other by a tenon t which passes through the two parts of the ring
brought together by overlapping in half their thickness at K. The
tenon is fixed upon a spring plate R having a small stud or knob g;
at the other end the plate is fixed on the part c of the ring by means
of a screw; it is by pulling the stud 9 downward that the tenon t
descending into the lower half thickness of the ring permits the
opening of this latter, and the placing of the apparatus upon the
bottle or its removal therefrom. A conical stopper L of cork, india-
rubber, or other material is placed in the nut, its broadest part resting
on the opening of the neck or mouth of the bottle upon which it is
pressed when the screw V is screwed into its nut A. The supports 1, 1,
(Fig. 4) made of elastic metal might replace those x, x, the projection 8, 8,
would pass under the swelling of the neck whatever the diameter of this
latter, and a string or wire passing into the recesses or grooves u, u,
would keep them beneath the swelling or collar of the neck.
To manufacture a cheaper apparatus the spring stud 7 which closes
the collar might be replaced by the arrangement shown, Fig. 3. A
notch or recess a is made at the end of one of the parts of the collar,
and when the collar. is closed there enters into this notch a projection
at the end of the other part. The tightening of of the nut gives to this
arrangement as complete a fixity as the first.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
5 give and grant unto me, the said William Edward Gedge, Her special
License that I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Edward
Gedge, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "AN IMPROVED MODE OF AND APPARATUS FOR STOPPING BOTTLES," a
munication to me from abroad by Alfred Baymé, of No. 64, Faubourg
St. Martin, Paris, France, upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
scals, 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.
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com.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Gedge, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement, reference being had to the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawing, upon which Figure 1 represents a section,
and Figure 2, an elevation of an apparatus embodying this Invention,
and Figures 3 and 4, modifications thereof.
The novelty of this stopping consists in the mode of acting upon the
cork or stopper, and. in the application of the cork or stopper on tho
circular surface or ring at the top of the neck of the bottle.
This apparatus is composed of a nut A kept at a fixed distance
from the edge of the neck of the bottle by means of two supports
x, x, of one piece with the nut, and a ring c, c¹, surrounding the
neck beneath the swelling or collar y of the bottle. The ring is
necessarily formed of two parts joined together on the one side by

page_text: a hinge at n (Figure 2), and on the other by a tenon t which passes
through the two parts of the ring brought together by overlapping
in half their thickness at K. The tenon is fixed upon a spring plate R
having a small stud or knob g, at the other end the plate is fixed
on the part c of the ring by means of a screw; it is by pulling
the stud downward that the tenon descending into the lower
half thickness of the ring permits the opening of this latter, and the
placing of the apparatus upon the bottle or its removal therefrom.
A conical stopper L of cork, india-rubber, or other material is placed
in the nut, its broadest part resting on the opening of the neck or
mouth of the bottle upon which it is pressed when the screw V is
screwed into its nut A. The supports 1, 1, (Figure 4) made of clastic
metal might replace those x, x, the projections 8, 8, would pass under
the swelling of the neck whatever the diameter of this latter, and a
string or wire passing into the recesses or grooves u, u, would keep them
beneath the swelling or collar of the neck.
To manufacture a cheaper apparatus the spring stud 9 which closos
the collar might be replaced by the arrangement shown, Figure 3. A
notch or recess a is made at the end of one of the parts of the collar,
and when the collar is closed there enters into this notch a projection
at the end of the other part. The tightening of the nut gives to this
arrangement as complete security as the first.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of August,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.