Improvements in Bottles and in the Stoppers of Bottles.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 9th Sept., 1889-Accepted, 26th Oct., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottles and in the Stoppers of Bottles.
I GEORGE WHITMORE CHRISTIE of 25 Milton Street in the City of London Wine
and Spirit Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
That it has long been a custom to use cork for stopping bottles and in later years to
use glass rubber or other material made up in a screw shaped form for a similar
purpose. I am aware that a stopper of glass or wood or other suitable material in
screw shaped form has also been made in which a rubber or other liquid tight collar
has been placed at the upper part of the screw just under the head of the stopper and
so far as the construction of such articles herein before mentioned have progressed
claim no protection in this my application I do claim however the adaptation of a
screwed stopper and the use of cork in the manner hereinafter described. 1 also claim
the shape of the interior of the neck of a bottle which shape I will for convenience
explain.
I construct the neck of a bottle which for example can be illustrated by an
ordinary Wine Bottle so that at a convenient distance from its opening there is a
shoulder formed in the neck.
I then take a screw shaped stopper (the neck of the bottle being suitably screwed
for the purpose) and to the bottom of the stopper is fixed a piece of cork and when
pressure is applied to the screwed stopper the cork stopper is caused to expand and
also pressing against the collar fills the neck.
I claim protection for the application of a screw stopper and the use of cork as
herein before explained to cases where the screwed stopper is external to the neck, and
any other adaptations of my said Invention.
Dated this 7th day of Dancinhas 1000
HART & Co.,
Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bottles and in the Stoppers of Bottles.
I, GEORGE WHITMORE CHRISTIE of 25 Milton Street, in the City of London,
Wine & Spirit 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 :-
That it has long been a custom to use cork for stopping bottles, & in later years to
use glass, rubber, or any other material made up in a screw shaped form for a similar
purpose. I am aware that a stopper of glass or wood or other suitable material in
screw shaped form has also been made, upon which a rubber or other liquid tight collar
has been placed at the other part of the screw, just under the head of the stopper, and
so far as to the construction of such articles herein before mentioned have progressed,
I claim no protection in this my action. I claim however the adaptation of a
screwed stopper, & the use of cork in a manner hereinafter described. I also
claim a novelty in the shape of the interior of the neck of the bottle, which novelty of
shape is hereinafter for convenience firstly described: viz. :-
I construct the neck of a bottle, which for example can be illustrated by an ordinary
wine bottle, so that at a convenient distance from its opening there is a shoulder formed
in & going completely round the neck.
In one application of my said Invention, I take any screw shaped stopper (the neck
of the bottle being also suitably screwed to receive the same) & to the bottom of the

page_text: stopper I fix by suitable means a piece of cork, the diameter of which is such that it
can enter the neck of the bottle freely, & when pressure is applied to the screwed
stopper, the cork stopper is caused to expand, & pressing against the shoulder in the
neck which acts as a seat, makes a liquid tight joint.
I also claim protection for the application of a screw stopper, & the use of cork as
hereinafter explained to cases where the screw stopper is external to the neck, & any
other adaptation of my said invention.
Another application of my said invention is to make the cork distinct from the
stopper. In this case the cork stopper is first put into or outside of the neck, & upon
the screwed stopper being applied, the cork stopper is forced upon the shoulder already
explained, & the bottle thus made liquid tight.
Fig. 1. shows the method of use of a screw stopper without my said invention.
Fig. 2. shows my said Invention: vis:-a piece of cork applied to a screw stopper,
& also a bottle formed with a shoulder in the neck of same.
Fig. 3. shows my said invention when the cork end is made distinct from the
screwed stopper.
Fig. 4. shows the application of my said invention to a bottle where the stopper is
external to the neck of the bottle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained my said invention, & in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:-
1. The adaptation at the end of a screw stopper of a piece or pieces of cork, whether
such stopper be internal or external to the neck of the bottle.
2. The construction of a shoulder in the neck of a bottle against which the before
mentioned piece of cork presses, in forming a liquid tight joint.
3. All such variations of my said invention as properly comes within the scope of
the same.
Dated this 6th day of September.
GEORGE WHITMORE CHRISTIE,