Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Jan., 1888
Complete Left, 26th Mar., 1888
Complete Accepted, 4th May 1888
I, WILLIAM HENRY SINNATT, of 43 Sidney Street, Manchester, Manager, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The improvements relate to stoppers for bottles and other vessels, and have for
object the securely stoppering of the same in such manner as to enable them to be -
opened and closed with facility.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I form a stopper composed of a
head and shank to form a kind of valve to the opening in the bottle neck or mouth,
which stopper is made capable of forming an air-tight joint by means of an india-
rubber washer, or other packing, placed on the shank thereof. This shank may be
either conical or taper, by preference, or it may be cylindrical. The stopper may be
composed of glass, metal, or other suitable substance, and the head is provided with a
slot passing therethrough, and cui in the direction of the length of the stopper. At
right angles or thereabouts to this slot a recess is cut in the head, part way through
the same, and sufficient to allow of the insertion of a lever-cam. Or in lieu thereof
the lever-cam may be forked or recessed, and the head, or a portion thereof, pass
between the forked lever-cam.
A bent strap or band of metal, or loop of metal wire, or other suitable substance,
passes through the slot in the head, and also through the lever-cam in the recess, or
spanning the head, and is swivelled or takes into the sides of the bottle neck or
mouth, or any attachment thereto.
By this means the stopper is held loosely in position, and, on pressing down the
lever of the cam, which lever projects from the recess in the head or otherwise for the
purpose, the stopper is tightly secured in its place, and may be unstoppered by
the simple process of again raising the lever of the cam, which latter is so formed as
to give it no tendency to release by the pressure of any gases within the bottle or
other vessel.
Dated this 4th dw of Tan 1000

page_text: I, WILLIAM HENRY. SINNATT of 43. Sidney Street, Manchester, Manager, do hereby
declaro the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
The improvements relate to stoppers for bottles and other vessels, and have for
object the securely stoppering of the same in such manner as to enable them to be
opened and closed with facility.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I form a stopper composed of a
bead and shank to form á kind of valve to the opening in the bottle or other vessel
neck or mouth, which stopper is made capable of forming an air-tight joint by means
of an india-rubber washer, or other packing, placed on the shank thereof. This shank
may be either conical or taper, by preference, or it may be cylindrical. The stopper
may be composed of glass, metal, or other suitable substances, and the head is
provided with a slot passing therethrough, and cut in the direction of the length of
the stopper.
At right angles or thereabouts to this slot, a recess is cut in the head, part-way
through the same, and sufficient to allow of the insertion of a lever-cam, or in lieu
thereof, the lever-cam may be forked or recessed, and the head or a portion thereof,
may pass between the forked lever-cam. A bent strap or band or bridle of metal, or
loop of metal wire, or other suitable substance passes through the slot in the head,
and also through the lever-cam in the recess or spanning the head, and is swivellod
or takes in the sides of the bottle or other vessel, neck, or mouth, or attachment
thereto.
By this means the stopper is held loosely in position, and, on pressing down the
lever of the cam, which lever projects from the recess in the head or otherwise for
the purpose, the stopper is tightly secured in its place, and may be unstoppered by
the simple process of again raising the lover of the cam, which latter is so formed as to
give it no tendency to release by the pressure of any gases within the bottle or other
vessel.
But that the improvements may be better understood, I will, by the aid of the
accompanying drawings proceed to describe more fully means employed by me.
Fig 1 shews an elevation of a stopper arranged in accordance with my invention
upon a bottle neck or mouth; and Fig. 2 shews another elevation of the same arrange-
ment, but from a point of view at a right angle to the first; while Fig. 3 shews a plan
view of the same.
Fig. 4 shews an elevation of the arrangement fitted with the forked lover-cam, and
Fig. 5 shews another elevation of the same arrangement, but from a point of view at
a right angle to the first; while Fig. 6 shews a plan view of the same.
The same letters indicate corresponding parts wherever they occur.

page_text: a, a, are the heads of the stoppers; and b, 61, the shanks thereof, which may be
taper, with an elastic washer c, c, thereon as shewn, or cylindrical, with an elastic
washer projecting therefrom.
d, d, are the lever-cams, which in the drawings are shewn pressed down, and to so
close the stoppers; but which have to be raised, as will be readily understood, when
it is desired to release the same. e, e, is the loop, band, or bridle of metal wire, and
round by preference, but which may be of any convenient substance and form in cross
section, and per se forms no part of this my present invention.
Although for the purpose of illustration the arrangement is shewn applied to bottles,
I would have it understood that by enlarging the same the apparatus may in liko
manner be applied to other vessels, and that on such larger apparatus more than one
lever-cam may be applied to one cover, and other variations may be made without
departing from the peculiar character of the invention.
Having now particularly described and explained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is :-
1. The combination of the partially recessed head a, in a stopper for bottles or other
vessels, with the lever cam d, taking into such recess, and in connection with the wire
or other bridle, band, or loop, attached to the bottle or vessel neck, for the purpose
and in manner substantially as shewn and described.
2. The combination of a projecting head a¹ in a stopper for bottles or other vessels,
with the forked lever cam di spanning over such head, and in connection with the wire
or other bridle, band, or loop, attached to the bottle or vessel neck, for the purpose and
in manner substantially as shewn and described.
Dated this 23rd day of March 1888.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester,
Agent.