Improvements in or relating to Stoppering or Corking Bottles.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Stoppering or Corking Bottles.
We, WILLIAM SHARPLES, and JOHN BAMBER SHARPLES, both of 31 and 33,
Scholes, Wigan, Lancashire, Builders and Contractors, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in or relating to stoppering or corking
bottles. In carrying out our invention we provide a bottle having an outer casing
or jacket. The object of this outer casing or jacket is to prevent the extraction
of the contents of the bottle by boring, which is often done, as the cavity can be
filled with a liquid of a pungent nature if desired, and if boring was attempted the
escape of this liquid would indicate that such had taken place and the presence
of the outer casing or jacket would render sealing or closing of the bottle after
boring extremely difficult if not impossible.
A glass ball is employed which is maintained in position against the outlet by
means of a wire or cord which passes through the cork and also passes a stopper
which is sealed in position by any suitable form of cement in the neck of the
bottle. The bottle may be opened by breaking off the top of the neck or with-
drawing the sealing cork.
Dated this 3rd day of September 1897
Improvements in or relating to Stoppering or Corking Bottles.
We, WILLIAM SHARPLES, and JOHN BAMBER SHARPLES, both of 31 and 33,
Scholes, Wigan, Lancashire, Builders and Contractors, 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:-
This invention relates to improvements in or relating to stoppering or corking
bottles. In carrying out our invention we provide a bottle having an outer casing
or jacket. The object of this outer casing or jacket is to prevent the extraction
of the contents of the bottle by boring, which is often done, as the cavity can be
filled with a liquid of a pungent nature if desired, and if boring was attempted the
escape of this liquid would indicate that such had taken place and the presence
of the outer casing or jacket would render sealing or closing of the bottle after
boring extremely difficult if not impossible.
A glass ball is employed which is maintained in position against the outlet by
means of a wire or cord which passes through the cork and also passes a stopper
.

page_text: which is sealed in position by any suitable form of cement in the neck of the
bottle.
Referring to the annexed drawings,
Figure 1 is a vertical section of a bottle arranged according to our invention.
Figure 2 cross section through line -y in Figure 1.
The bottle a is provided with the outer casing or jacket 6. This casing or jacket
may be formed in any suitable manner and attached to the bottle or may form an
integral factor, thus allowing the space c, if desired, to carry a pungent or other
suitable liquid and which may be filled through the aperture d which may then
be sealed in any convenient manner. This it will be seen will greatly tend
towards detection if the bottle is tampered with, such as by boring, as this is some-
times done in order to extract the contents of the bottle and then refill same with
an article of inferior value. The ball e, which may be of glass or other suitable
material, is carried in the bottle and has a wire or cord attached to it which
passes through the cork g, thence up the side of the neck of the bottle. h is a
stopper which after the cork g has been placed in position and the ball e drawn up
as shewn by means of the wire or cord is sealed in the neck of the bottle. When
it is desired to withdraw the contents the neck of the bottle may be broken off at
the part of the neck j and the cork then withdrawn, but in doing so the stopper
will remain in the bottle, as the strength of the wire or cord is regulated so as
to readily break when the cork is withdrawn, and thus giving an indication that
the bottle has been opened. In the event of the neck not being broken off but the
sealed stopper removed, indication would again be given, as the cork must either
be cut and so break the thread and leave the ball in the bottle, or if pushed into
the bottle would still indicate that the bottle had been opened. The projections k
in the interior of the bottle are for the purpose of preventing the ball closing the
aperture when the contents are being withdrawn, these projections being of any
well-known construction for this purpose.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. A bottle substantially as herein described and illustrated.
2. In bottles of the class herein described: an outer casing or jacket attached to
or formed integrally with the bottle for the purpose of containing pungent or other
liquid if desired: a ball of glass or other material attached to a wire or cord pass-
ing through the cork for closing the bottle; a stopper which is sealed in the neck
of the bottle after it has been closed, substantially as described and illustrated
and for the purpose set forth.
1000
Dated this 3rd day of Tuna 1000