IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERS FOR BOTTLES CONTAINING SODA WATER AND ARDED AND TW RAMBLES COYVELER
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Philip James Luntley, of Scarborough, in the
County of York, Soda Water Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERS FOR BOTTLES CONTAINING SODA WATER AND
ARDED
AND TW RAMBLES COYVELER
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Philip James Luntley
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 17th October 1874.
I, PHILIP JAMES LUNTLEY, of Scarborough, in the County of York,
5 Soda Water Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPERS FOR BOTTLES CONTAINING SODA
WATER AND OTHER SUCH FLUIDS, AND IN BOTTLES CONNECTED THEREWITH," to be as
follows:-
My Invention refers to arrangements in which the stopper is per-
manently connected to the bottle, and allowing (if desired) a portion
only of the liquid to be drawn off. For this purpose I employ a stopper

page_text: which is self-adjusting by the pressure of the gas, but which when the
bottle is opened does not remain therein but is moved outward therefrom,
and I provide the shaft of the stopper with passages through which the
bottle may be charged.
In the arrangement I propose there is a stopper of india-rubber or
other such material provided with a central aperture, through which
there passes the spindle of a valve, the said spindle having grooves
formed therein, and when the whole is adapted to the bottle and the
liquid introduced by any ordinary means the said valve is forced by the
gas to the india-rubber seat. The stopper composed as above is
mounted upon a hinge carried by the bottle, and may be turned over
bodily when a portion of the fluid is required, and being replaced may
be confined by a catch.
In order to effect a more secure closing I propose to make the neck of
the bottle with a part projecting inward constituting a seat against which
the valve may press.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Philip James Luntley in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 17th April 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PHILIP
JAMES LUNTLEY, of Scarborough, in the County of York, Soda Water
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Philip James Luntley, Her
special license that I, the said Philip James Luntley, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Philip James
Luntley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain

page_text: with a flange g which abuts against the top of the bottle. The part e,
which I have called the foundation of the stopper, is formed hollow, and
within it is a spindle formed with wings i, as seen particularly in the
plan view 3, and at the bottom of the spindle h is a valve k, which, when
the bottle has been filled and gas has arisen from the fluid, is pressed
thereby against the bottom of the ring f, thereby closing the aperture
air tight, the neck of the bottle itself being tightly closed by the exterior
surface of the said ring and flange g. To the wire or band d is jointed
a strap of metal 2, which at its lower end is formed with a slot capable
of passing on to a catch m, which is jointed to the wire or band 6; Fig. 1 1
shews it in that position, and the whole of the parts are then in the
positions they assume when the bottle is to be filled and perfectly
closed.
In order to perform the operation of filling the top of the part e is to
be placed in connection with any of the ordinary apparatus used for the 1
purpose. The fluid then passes through the spaces between the wings i
of the spindle h and its pressure forces downward the valve k from its
seat f, thereby effecting a passage into the bottle, and this having been
filled and the outward pressure removed the internal pressure causes the
valve / to rise to its seat, to which it is securely pressed.
2
When it is desired to use a portion of the fluid the strap is removed
from the catch m, and the stopper is bodily turned over by means of the
hinge o into the position shewn at Fig. 2, and thus the bottle is opened
without leaving a stopper therein, the valve k being turned over with
the part e and ring f. In order that this may take place, and to prevent 2
the valve k from being forced too far inward while the bottle is being
filled, a pin p is passed through the part e, and is situate beneath the
wings i. The bottle may be thus opened for a portion of the fluid to be
poured out, and then closed to preserve the remainder.
The parts above described may be constructed of any suitable 8
materials, but I prefer to form the valve k of glass as being most clean.
In order to provide a firmer hold for the stopper a recessed neck may
be formed upon the bottle, as shewn at Fig. 5.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be 3
understood that I do not limit myself to the exact construction of parts
shewn and described, but claim as secured to me under the above in

page_text: part recited Letters Patent, and for the purposes above set forth, the use
of a stopper closed by internal pressure, and capable of being turned
over upon a hinge carried by the bottle.
In witness whereof, I, the said Philip James Luntley, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of April, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.