CERTAIN NEW AND USEFUL IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CORKING BOTTLES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British &
Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris,
France, & 6, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, .
for the Invention of "CERTAIN NEW AND USEFUL IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR CORKING BOTTLES."-A communication from Jean
Adrien de Mestre, residing at Bordeaux, France, Merchant.
Sealed the 16th March 1875, and dated the 24th September 1874.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 24th September 1874, pursuant to the 9th
Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, 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, send greeting.
Tution for "6 ANDY Now

page_text: the movable part B or cast in the same piece; E, opening in the frame
supporting the mechanism of the apparatus, & through which passes.
the tipper; F, handle fixed upon the movable part to shut. the tube,
which opens by itself under the pressure of the compressed cork at the
unclenching of the tipper; G, bolt catching the tipper when it is pushed
as shown Fig. VI. in the opening of the frame, which serves it as a
support or guide, and against which it is brought to rest by means
of a projection at each side of the back part on a level with the
shoulder I, forming a part of the said bolt, and against which the
wedge N works; J, slide fixed to the frame on which slides the bolt;
II, flat spiral spring acting on the back part of the bolt to keep it
always drawn out and closed; K, shoulder forming a part of the frame,
and against which slides the wedge N; L, lover fulcrumed at M, and
provided with a boss O acting on the free wedge N, which rests on the
back part of the frame and works on the shoulder I of the bolt.
The bottom part of the wedge is held on the boss of the lever L, by
means of which it is forced from bottom to top to give the backward
movement to the bolt, and to free the tipper D. The wedge is brought
down to its first point by its own weight, together with the pressure of
the spring H upon the bolt G.
To open the movable part of the conical tube A. the lever L is drawn
from back to front; it turns upon its axis M and its boss O when
rotating presses against the lower part of the wedge N, which it pushes
from bottom to top, and whose incline presses against the corresponding
incline of the shoulder I to thrust back the bolt G, freeing thus the
tipper D. The movable part of the tube A is then pushed back and
opened by the pressure of the compressed cork, and the bottle with the
cork projecting can then be easily taken away from the machine. The
hinged tube is closed by pushing the handle F of the movable part.
The pressure exercised by the rounded part of the tipper D against the
corresponding rounded part of the front end of the bolt G is sufficient
to push back the said bolt, which returns automatically to be caught in
the notch of the tipper under the action of the spring H to cause a solid
catching of the two hinged parts of the conical tube A.
This new mode of improved catching allows gaseous or fermented
liquids like sparkling wines to be corked, that is to say, while employing
large corks that a strong pressure must be exercised to introduce them

page_text: into the mouth of the bottle, while leaving outside a certain length of
the cork, the conical tube thus constructed, having much more strength
and this catching mechanism being much more reliable.
Having thus described the said Invention and the manner of carrying
it into effect, I would have it understood that what I claim and desire to
secure by the said Royal Letters Patent is, "in constructing the bottlo
corking machines, provided with a tube formed of two hinged parts, a
catch consisting of a tipper caught by a free movable bolt worked under
the action of an inclined free wedge, which is moved by a lever, and
under the pressure of a spring, as substantially described and repre-
sented in the annexed Drawings.
In witness whercof, I, Henri Adrien Bonneville, have hereto set
my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.