Improved Means of Stoppering Bottles or other Hollow Ware.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 19th Oct., 1891-Accepted. 21st Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means of Stoppering Bottles or other Hollow Ware.
I, DAN RYLANDS of Shepcote Stairfoot near Barnsley in the County of
York Glass Bottle Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My present invention has for its object the securing of such a combination of
glass top and metal cap for mouths of bottles as will, whilst allowing of the metal
screw cap working loose around the glass top, still so retain the glass top in the
metal screw cap so as to avoid the danger of the breakage of the glass top.
According to my invention I make or form a glass top of any suitable size and
shape but I form the outer rim of this glass top of such shape or shapes that it will
work or twist round quite easily in an annular groove formed in the top of the cap.
This cap is a sort of hollow disc made of tin or other suitable metal or material
and it has a flange turned over inwards at its top which bears upon the outside rim
of the glass stopper thus holding said stopper in its place. The annular groove
formed in the top of this cap serves to retain the glass stopper when once it has
been forced into it. The metal cap has formed on it below this groove a suitable
number of screw threads or a suitable number of inclined indentations. These
screw threads or inclined indentations are suitably formed for screwing on
the male screw thread formed on outside of bottle mouth or of working under
inclined projections formed thereon. A washer of india rubber or of other suitable
material may be placed either on or in the bottle mouth or on or around the lower
portion of the glass top or glass stopper. Where so desired a sinall venthole may
be left through the middle of the glass top for use when contents of bottle are
required to be cooked and such hole can when such cooking operations have been
In some
completed be closed by means of sealing wax or other suitable material.
cases I use a split metal cap which has a hole punched in at the one end and has
the other end bent up to fasten through this hole. This split cap is rounded so as
to clip over a circular or other suitably shaped rim formed on the outside of the
bottle mouth near the top. The top portion of this split cap has an annular groove
formed in for receiving the glass cap and in this case all that is necessary to do is
to press the glass down in air-tight position and then force the split cap over the
mouth bringing the bent end into the hole and so bending over this bent end as to
secure the split cap on the bottle mouth.
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DAN RYLANDS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means of Stoppering Bottles or other Hollow Ware.
I, DAN RYLANDS, of Shepcote, Stairfoot, near Barnsley, in the County of
York, Glass Bottle Manufacturer 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 :--
My present invention has for its object the securing of such a combination of
glass top and metal cap for mouths of bottles as, whilst allowing of the metal cap
working loose around the glass top, will still so retain the glass top in the metal
cap so as to avoid the danger of the breakage of the glass top.

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Fig. 1 in the accompanying sheet of drawings is a sectional elevation of a screw-
mouthed bottle stoppered after the manner of my invention, Fig. 2 being an elevation
thereof.
Figs. 3 and 4 show the application of the stopper to a common-mouthed bottle.
In Fig. 1a is a screw-mouthed bottle, the glass top, c a washer of rubber or
similar elastic material, dan annular threaded cap or rim flanged inwardly at its
upper end and formed with an indentation or annular groove at e of such internal
diameter that the outer edge of the glass top may be readily sprung into position
within the groove in such a manner that though the glass top and metal cap are
secured together, the metal cap is free to revolve around the glass top. After the
glass top and metal cap are attached together, and the elastic washer c placed in
position around the raised annular projection f formed on the mouth of the bottle,
the bottle can now be stoppered by screwing the metal cap on to the mouth of the
bottle, the metal cap and glass top revolving together until the lower V formed
edge of the glass top rests on the upper surface of the rubber washer, when the
rotating movement of the glass top will cease and the compression of the rubber
washer will be effected by the rotation of the metal cap alone.
It will be seen that the above-described method of stoppering is applicable to
the stoppering of bottles formed with interrupted screw threads, inclined raised
planes, or inclined indentations.
Figs. 3 and 4 show a glass top and metal cap adapted for the stoppering of
common-mouthed bottles, 6 being the glass top, the elastic washer, and d a split
annular garter cap of metal having a hole punched in at the one end and having
the other end reduced in size so as to pass as a tongue through the hole, enabling
the split ring to be formed into a continuous ring having the sectional formation
shown by Fig. 3. The upper portion of the cap is formed with an annular groove
for the reception of the glass top as previously described. In stoppering a
bottle it is only requisite to press the glass top down on the rubber washer in
airtight position, and then force the split cap over the projection formed on the
mouth portion of the bottle, passing the tongue end of the cap through the punched
hole and bending the end of the tongue over, thus forming a rigid and continuous
ring cap as shown by Fig. 4.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The combination with a glass top of the annular threaded cap or rim d
having an annular groove e as and for the purpose herein described and illustrated
at Figs. 1 and 2.
2. The combination of a glass top b, elastic washer c, and split annular garter
cap d as described and illustrated at Figs. 3 and 4.
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DAN RYLANDS.