Improvements relating to the Stoppering of Bottles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements relating to the Stoppering of Bottles.
I, SIMEON E. KINNAN, of Middleburg, in the County of Clay and State of
Florida, U.S.A., Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
This invention has for its object the provision of certain improvements in
means for readily sealing bottles in such manner that the cork or other stopper
cannot be withdrawn and the contents tampered with without destroying either
the protecting device or the bottle neck.
The invention comprises an outwardly screw-threaded collar made in two
halves, or severed so that it can be sprung around the bottle neck beneath the
annular flange commonly formed thereon.
An inwardly screw-threaded cap is adapted to be adjusted over the collar,
which is held by a tag thereon whilst the cap is being screwed into place. One
edge of the severed collar is bent outwardly so that it will force itself outwards
and engage a slot or groove in the inner surface of the cap when in place. When
the lower edge of the cap reaches the tag it cuts it off, so that if it be attempted to
unscrew the cap, the cap and collar will simply revolve around the bottle neck.
The screw-threads are square, so that the cap cannot be forced off, as it is liable to
be when V-threads are employed.
In an alternative form of the invention, the severed collar is formed with one
thread only; a tongue being formed and bent upwardly from the upper surface of
the thread in such manner that when the cap is being turned in one direction to
adjust it in place, the tongue will pass a slot or slots formed with a cap, but when
turned in the opposite direction it will lock therein.
The collar is held by the insertion of a thin piece of metal, placed between its
two halves whilst the cap is being adjusted
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Improvements relating to the Stoppering of Bottles.
I, SIMEON E. KINNAN, of Middleburg, in the County of Clay and State of
Florida, U.S.A., Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
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page_text: what manner, the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention has for its object the provision of certain means for readily
sealing bottles in such manner that the cork or other stopper cannot be with-
drawn and the contents of the bottle tampered with without destroying either
the protecting device or the bottle neck.
Reference being had to the drawings hereunto attached, Fig. 1 is a vertical
section of a bottle and my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an elevation of
part of a bottle and my device with the cap removed. Fig. 3 is a sectional view
of the cap. Fig. 4 is a cross section through the neck of a bottle and my device
thereon. Fig. 5 illustrates an alternative form of the invention, and Fig. 6 details
of another modification thereof.
This invention is applicable to bottles having the usual shoulder 1 around
the neck 2; and it comprises the metal collar 3 having exterior square screw-
threads 4. The collar is severed as shewn at 5 to enable it to be sprung around
the bottle neck. One of the edges is bent outwardly to form a spring tongue 6.
A tag of string or thin metal 7 projects from the lower end of the collar as shewn.
The interiorally screw-threaded cap 8 has vertical grooves 9 as shewn.
The bottle having been filled and corked, the collar is sprung around the neck
of the bottle. The tag is firmly held between the thumb and bottle, and the cap
screwed over the collar; the tongue thereof bending into and out of and riding
over the grooves in the cap until the latter is screwed home, when the tongue
remains in one of the grooves. The tag can then be readily broken or cut off
. Further rotation of the cap in either direction, will not remove it but cause the
.collar to revolve around the neck of the bottle. The screw-threads, being square
instead of V-shaped prevent the collar from being forced inwards by forcibly
raising the cap against the inclined surfaces of a V-thread.
In Fig. 5 the collar is shewn with two threads only; the lower one serving to
close the space between the bottom of the cap and the bottle neck as well as to
retain the former in place. In this form the collar is slit on the opposite side to
the severance of it at 5 in such manner as to form the tongue 10 which is bent
outwardly for the same purpose as that described with reference to Figs. 1 to 4.
In Fig. 6 I have shewn details of another modified form comprising the collar
formed with one thread only, and severed either on one side as before described,
or on two sides to make two halves. The thread is severed, either as shewn at 11
to form an upwardly bent tongue 12 to engage radial slots 13 in the top of the
cap 14, or on its edge to form tongues extending horizontally outwards to engage
vertical grooves in the cap.
When adjusting this form of the device the operator holds the two parts
together around the bottle-neck until the threads of the cap commence to engage
that of the collar. The parts are then prevented from rotation by means of any
suitable implement such as that, shewn at 15, having projections 16 adapted
to be entered between the edges of the respective halves of the collar. When the
cap is firmly in place the implement is removed.
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) The herein described improvements relating to the stoppering of bottles,
consisting of a collar adapted to be sprung around a bottle-neck beneath a
shoulder thereon, exterior square screw-threads on said collar, a spring tongue
projecting from the circumference of said collar, a tag projecting from said
collar, an internally screw-threaded, cap adapted to engage the screw-threads of
the collar and having vertical grooves to engage the spring tongue, all substantially
as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth and shewn in the drawings hereunto
aunexed.

page_text: (2) The hereindescribed improvements relating to the stoppering of bottles,
consisting of a collar adapted to be sprung around a bottle neck beneath a shoulder
thereon, two exterior square screw-threads on said collar, a spring tongue project-
ing from the circumference on the opposite side to the severed part thereof, a tag
projecting from said collar an internally screw-threaded cap, adapted to engage
the screw-threads of the collar and having vertical grooves to engage the spring
tongue, all substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth and illus.
trated in the drawings hereunto annexed.
(3) The hereindescribed improvements relating to the stoppering of bottles,
consisting of a collar severed longitudinally to form two halves, and having an
exterior square screw-thread severed in such manuer as to form either an
upwardly or horizontally projecting spring tongue adapted to engage radial
or vertical grooves, respectively, in an internally screw-threaded cap, all sub-
stantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth and shewn in the drawings
hereunto annexed.