IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CLOSING OR STOPPERING OF BOTTLES CONTAINING GASEOUS OR RATED LIQUIDS
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Lewis, of George Town, Merthyr Tydfil, in the
County of Glamorgan, Chemist, Druggist, and Erated Water Manufacturer,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CLOSING OR
STOPPERING OF BOTTLES CONTAINING GASEOUS OR RATED LIQUIDS."
Sealed the 26th May 1876, and dated the 26th January 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Lewis at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th January 1876.
JAMES LEWIS, of George Town, Merthyr Tydfil, in the County of Glamorgan,
Chemist, Druggist, and rated Water Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR CLOSING OR STOPPERING OF BOTTLES CONTAINING GASEOUS OR RATED
LIQUIDS."
This Invention for the stoppering of bottles containing gaseous or ærated liquids
consists of a stopper, the long section of which is of an elongated oval or egg shape,
both ends being of the same shape and the short section circular, as shewn in the
Drawing, with the references thereon, forming part of my Specification. This stopper
is to be of hard white vulcanite, wood, glass, or any other hard substance; in the
middle of the length of this stopper there is to be a groove, in which is inserted an
elastic ring of india-rubber, or of vulcanised india-rubber, or other elastic material
larger than the neck of the bottle, which stopper with the ring on it when inserted
into the bottle falls to the bottom of such bottle, and then enable the bottle to be
filled by crated liquids, the gas in which is sufficient to force the stopper and ring
to the neck of the bottle, and hold them there, thus effectually securing the liquids
and gases. By depressing the stopper by the finger, the contents of the bottle can
be drawn.
0 SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said James Lewis in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 25th July 1876.
JAMES LEWIS, of George Town, Merthyr Tydfil, in the County of Glamorgan,
Chemist, Druggist, and Aerated Water Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR CLOSING OR STOPPERING OF BOTTLES CONTAINING GASEOUS OR AERATED
5 LIQUIDS."

page_text: My Invention has for its object the stoppering of bottles containing gaseous or
aerated liquids such as soda water, seltzer water, lemonade, ginger beer, &c., and
consists of a stopper, the long section of which is of an elongated oval or egg shape,
or the long section may be of the form of two truncated cones joined at their broader
bases, both ends being of the same shape and length, and the short section of which
stopper is circular. This stopper is to be made of hard vulcanite, wood, or any other
like substance, which is not liable to injure the glass bottle when the same is empty
and shaken, so as to cause the stopper to strike violently against the side of the
bottle. In the middle of the length of this stopper there is to be formed a deep
groove, in which is inserted an elastic ring of india-rubber or of vulcanized india-
rubber or other clastic material larger than the neck of the bottle, which stopper
when inserted in the bottle, and after the elastic ring has been put upon.it in the
usual way, falls to the bottom of such bottle, and when the bottle has been filled
with aerated liquids the stopper drops into the narrow part of the neck of the bottle
the gas in which is sufficient to force the stopper and with it the elastic ring into
the said narrow part of the neck of the bottle, the ring thus forming an elastic
packing and so effectually securing the liquid and gas within the bottle.
When it is desired to draw the liquid from the bottle, the stopper may be depressed
either by pressing it back by the thumb or finger by an opener or by any other
convenient means.
The nature of my said Invention and the manner in which the same is to be
performed or carried into effect, will be readily understood by an inspection of the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings, which I will now describe:-
Fig. 1 represents a bottle after my improved stopper has been inserted and the
elastic ring has been put on. Fig. 2 represents the same bottle with the stopper
after the bottle has been filled with liquid.
Fig. 3 represents the stopper before the elastic ring has been put on.
Fig. 4 represents the elastic ring by itself, and before it has been put on to the
groove in the stopper.
Fig. 5 represents the stopper with the elastic ring in its groove.
Fig. 6 is a section of the stopper through the line A, B, on Fig. 5.
Fig. 7 is a stopper of the form of two truncated cones, joined at their broader
bases, and Fig. 8 represents the same stopper without the elastic ring.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same may be performed or carried into effect, I
wish it to be understood that I am aware that stoppers with india-rubber or other
elastic rings on them have been used before the date of my Patent for closing bottles
containing aerated liquids, and I therefore make no claim generally to such stopper,
but what I do claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part
recited Letters Patent is, the stopper of the material and shape having both ends
alike, as herein-before described, and represented in the Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Lewis, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Twenty-second day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
Witness,
JOHN JONES,
Solicitor,
Cardiff.
JAMES LEWIS. (L.S.)