MENTS IN STOPPERING BOTTLES
Year: 1885

page_text: FRANK MASON, 1 Cottage Road Paddington London, W. Preserved Fresh
Provision Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention for IMPROVE-
MENTS IN STOPPERING BOTTLES, to be as follows:-
For Preserving Essence's, Soups, Fruits, &°.
:-
The Drawings show, Figure a. The, Bottle when closed the line down side
showing when the. Stopper can be removed.
Fig. b. The Section of the Interior of the neck of the Bottle with the slot and
fastening.
Fig. c. The Stopper with the fastening that locks in the slot.
Fig. d. Section of India, Rubber or Cork Band as shown in, fig. b, fixed in
groove of stopper causing the Bottle to be thoroughly airtight.
The Slots to be two or more according to the size of the Bottle.

page_text: I FRANK MASON of 1 Cottage Road, Paddington, in the county of Middlesex,
Fresh Provision Merchant 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 :—
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This invention relates to improvements in stoppering bottles.
In carrying out my invention I form the interior of the neck of the bottle with
a projecting rim or collar provided with two or more vertical slots, the stopper to
be used with this bottle being provided with projections corresponding with the
Baid vertical slots.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will proceed to describe
the same by reference to the accompanying drawing in which figure 1 is a
perspective view of the neck of a bottle shewing a stopper applied thereto
according to my invention. Figure 2 is a perspective view of a stopper and
figure 8 a perspective view of the neck of the bottle. Figure 4 is a horizontal
section through the neck of the bottle on the line A, B, of figure 3 and figures 5
and 6 are vertical sections of figures 2 and 3 respectively. Similar letters in all
the figures represent similar parts.
a, is the neck of the bottle, b, the rim or collar in the interior of the said neck.
c, c, are the vertical slota in the rim or collar b. d, is the stopper which is made of
any suitable material such as glass, stone ware, porcelain or metal; e, e, are the
projections on the lower part of the said stopper the said projections being adapted
to pass through the slots c, c; f, is a washer or packing of suitable material such
as india rubber placed as shewn under the head of the stopper and g, is a washer
or ring of cork placed under the packing f; h and i, represent vertical lines with
which I find it advantageous to provide the rim of the stopper and the neck of
the bottle respectively so as to show when the stopper is in its unlocked position
ready to be withdrawn.
:
By this arrangement it will be readily understood that if my improved stopper
be passed into the neck of the bottle the projections e, e, of the stopper will pass
down the slots c, c, in the rim b, of the neck of the bottle and if the stopper be
then partly turned the upper surfaces of the projections e, will be brought under
the rim b, the under surface of which (or the upper surface of the projections) is
slightly inclined so that the cork washer g, will be tightly compressed against the
upper surface of the rim b, thereby ensuring a tight joint, further protection against
leakage being obtained by the rubber packing f, being also compressed between the
head of the stopper and the top of the neck of the bottle, the contents of the bottle
by this arrangement only coming in contact with the cork packing g, thus avoiding
the objection to the use of external stoppers having a packing of india rubber only.
To open the bottle it is merely necessary to turn the stopper until the lines h, i,
correspond when the stopper can be withdrawn.
In the drawing I have shewn the rim b, and stopper d, as being provided with
two slots and projections respectively but it is obvious that this number may be
increased

page_text: 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 use in combination with a bottle having an internal rim with vertical
slots of a stopper provided with a number of projections corresponding with the
said slots the stopper being also provided with a combined packing of cork and
other suitable elastic material substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawing.
2. The improved bottle and stopper hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawing.