Improvements in Stoppering Bottles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 5th May, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 20th Jan., 1897-Accepted, 5th May, 187
Improvements in Stoppering Bottles.
WILFRED SHERWOOD Regent Works Regent Street Birmingham Clerk in the
employ of John Sherwood & Sons Birmingham do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
Stopper to spirit or liquor bottle to lock when pressed down, by its own spring
action; and to unlock with a key and lift off from bottle.
To prevent anyone taking anything out of a bottle unless with a key to fit.
The lock may be either in the stopper or in the neck of bottle and the same action
will result when one is unlocked the other will come away or when one is pressed to
the other they will lock.
Deted this 10th don of June 1805
Improvements in Stoppering Bottles.
WILFRED SHERWOOD c/o John Sherwood & Sons Regent Works Regent Street
Birmingham, Clerk, 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 :-
The stopper is in the form of a cap or cover containing a lock thus; 1st a spring
2nd a bolt 3rd rubber pad. When the cover is pressed down, the bolt is forced by
the spring under a ledge 4th on the neck of the bottle, and securely holds down the
cover to the bottle, the rubber pad is pressed into the neck and the flat metal of cover
fits well onto the neck 4th making the bottle air tight. The rubber pad also acts as
a spring to lift the cover up as soon as the bolt is released from under the ledge of the
bottle neck, by means of a key; the bolt is circular in form viz.: a flat wire ring
with a peg on each side, sliding in tubes A and B, fixed to the inside of the cover, the
spring continually forcing against the bolt, causes the bolt pegs to protrude outside
the cover and under the ledge of the bottle neck and it is then locked up. To take
off the cover the key will slide the bolt pegs backwards in tubes A and B, releasing
the bolt peg from under the ledge on the bottle neck, when the cover can then be
taken off.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1st. An improved stoppered bottle consists of a cover combined with a lock inside,
so when the cover is pressed down onto the bottle, it will catch, or will be held down
fast to the bottle, by a bolt No. 2. in the cover, catching under a ledge No. 4. on the
bottle, the bolt being forced by a spring No. 1 placed inside the cover acting against
the said bolt, and only to be released by means of a key.

page_text: 2nd. An improved stoppered bottle consists of the above described lock. The bolt
of this lock is made in a circular form, so that when the cover is pressed on to the
bottle the bolt will encircle the neck of the bottle and thus the bottle top will pass
through the line of action of the bolt No. 2. and will reach up to the inside top of the
cover, which junction or meeting will effectually stopper the bottle, the said bolt will
catch under a ledge No. 4. on the bottle neck and be kept there by a spring placed
between the wall of the cover and the bolt, thus forcing the bolt continually. The
bolt has two sliding pegs No. A and No. B. which slide in tubes and keep the whole
bolt in position to work or slide backwards or forwards otherwise to lock or unlock,
thus the cover is held down onto the bottle.
3rd. An improved stoppered bottle consisting of a cover with a bolt and spring as
described above and a bottle neck with a rim No. 4. This rim is made continuously
running round the top of the bottle neck, so that the bolt may catch under any part
or the cover may be pressed onto any part of the rim and will be held down.
4th. An improved stoppered bottle consisting of the above described bolt and
spring inside the cover and a bottle neck with a rim to securely hold the cover down,
which securely stoppers the bottle, and an indiarubber pad or ring, placed and
attached inside the cover so that when the neck of the bottle meets the top of the
cover, the indiarubber ring or pad No. 3rd will be pressed between the two, to break
the sharp or violent meeting of the two metals, and will cause a softer sound, and
will spring the cover off when the bolt is released.
Dated April 27th 1807
WILFRED SHERWOOD.