Improvements in Methods for Stopping Bottles or the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Mar., 1898-Accepted, 2nd Apr., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Methods for Stopping Bottles or the like.
I, REGINALD HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co., of 18, Buckingham
Street, Strand, W.C., London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention a communication from abroad by Jaime Rotllan, of San Feliu de Guixols,
in the Kingdom of Spain, and in what manner the same is to be performed
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The closing of bottles containing beer, champagne or aërated water with ordinary
corks requires always two workmen, one of whom inserts the cork and the other
attaches the wire for securing it.
With regard to bottles which have porcelain stoppers or which are closed by a glass
ball which is held in and closes the passage of the neck of the bottle by means of
the inner pressure, it is found that the rubber washer which renders the closure tight,
communicates to the contained liquid a disagreeable flavour.
When wine is bottled in cellars, it often happens that the fermentation of the
liquid, especially when the wine is young, drives a large number of the corks or
stoppers out of the bottles, as these corks being smooth there is nothing to hold them
in place.
In order to prevent these inconveniences I use a conical or cylindrical cork stopper,
the exterior surface of which is in the form of a screw, with angular or rounded or
other threads and which is screwed into the neck of a bottle which is internally
threaded to suit the stopper.
In order that the closure may be air tight, the diameter of the helics of the stopper
must be larger than that of the helics of the neck of the bottle, by this means the
stopper will enter into the neck in a more or less forced manner at pleasure according
to the nature of the liquids which are contained in the bottles.
In the annexed drawing
Figs. 1 and 2 show two conical cork stoppers with helicoidal surfaces, that is to say
having the form of a screw the first with angular threads and the second with rounded
threads.
Figs. 3 and 4 are vertical sections of the neck of bottles respectively able to receive
the stoppers shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
The height of the stopper and its diameter as well as the form and the number of
threads can be varied at pleasure.
For the application of this system of closure to any other kind of receivers or
receptacles in glass, earthenware, metal, wood, or the like, these receivers must have
appropriate internal screw threads analogous to those in the bottles as described
herein and as shown in Figs. 3 and 4.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
An improved method for stopping vessels or receivers of any kind, characterized by
the use of conical or cylindrical cork stoppers, the exterior surface of which has the

page_text: form of a screw with angular or rounded or any other kind of threads, which enter
into the bottles, vessels, or receivers, the inner surface of the neck of which
is threaded in order to be able to receive the stopper substantially as described.