Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 30th July, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 15th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 1st June, 1889
HERBERT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.

page_text: 1 PAUL OTTMAR WALOH of Munich in the Empire of Germany, 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:-
With all wire fasteners for bottles etc. known heretofore, the neck band of the
fastener is tightly drawn around the bottle, by joining the ends of the wire and
securing the same by a loop or by twisting them, it may be at the neck of the bottle
or on the cork or at some other suitable place on the bottle or other wired up articles,
such fasteners never being intended to be opened again at this point. These fastenings
were made in such a manner that they could not be opened by hand without using a
tool to forcibly break or cut the wire fastening at some place.
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This-invention-liowever consists in a novel manner of fastening said wire whereby
it may be opened by hand without cutting the wire and without any special tool.
To this end the improvements principally consist in fastening the wire over the
cork etc. with or by means of a wire collar placed around the neck and having
a loop bent up therein and twisted so as to twist up part of the wire, the collar being
fixed tightly on the neck. By seizing the loop between the fingers and untwisting the
same, the wire inay be readily removed without cutting or breaking. To assist in
giving a hold to the fingers a small tag of metal may be threaded or otherwise fastened
in the loop aforesaid. A single wire may be twisted and looped in a convenient
manner to form the parts passing over the cork and also the collar aforesaid..
The improved device should serve as a key unseparable from the wire fastener
principally for the speedy loosening of the fastener, but also in certain cases for shutting
saune, when desired.
the
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I prefer to perform the invention by twisting up the spiral to end in a circular
handle or loop e as more clearly shown in Figures 1, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, of the
accompanying drawings.
This spiral issues from the fastoner close to the object to be fastened, and is quite
distinct from the twisted fastening point, which is formed by the two wire ends and
remains closed. The new spiral consists only of 3 to 4 half twists after which comes
the widened handle c which not only serves as a handle for the fingers but gives
also a longth of wire for the enlargement of the neck-binding or the wire fastening in
general, that the binding can be removed from the object when unfastened (see
Figs. I II III and 23 and 27).
C
The mere winding up of a spiral without a-handle c would not suffice in most cases
and in any case would require very long spirals to provide for the necessary
enlargement of the neck tastener see Figs. 24 and 25. The improved key consisting
of a short spiral with handle serves also to a certain extent as a guarantee against
unauthorized opening, because the same spirals, once wound up, cannot be untwisted
and twisted as neatly as they were before and because a label made of some substance

page_text: and 4. Undamaged shape of the spiral and undamaged covering would therefore
guarantee that the bottle or object has not been opened before. Several methods by
which the improved device can be arranged on the wire fastening are shown in the
drawings in which,
Fig. I represents a stopper closed with the wire fastener and provided with the
new key
Fig. II position of the hand with the intention of untwisting the spiral.
Fig. III is the wire fastener with unwound spiral. and spread handle ready for
removing the binding.
Fig. 1 single wire with arrangement of the key.
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The part is placed against the bottle and then both ends & are passed round the
neck and twisted tightly one or both having been passed through the loop at the end
of the twisted part above the cork.
Fig. 2 the same with attached tug.
Fig. 3 the same with label which serves as a guarantee against unauthorized
opening.
Fig. 4 the same with another label for the same purpose.
Fig. 5 a variation in the shape of the key and its handle into the circle of which
the label is bent see Figs. 30. and 31.
Fig. 6 a single wire fastoner, the 3 clasps of which are wound and connected over
the cork whilst the new key c is arranged on the neck band.
Fig 7, a single wire fastener closed over the cork with arrangement of the
new key.
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Fig. 8, a wire fastener with 4 clasps, which are closed in pairs over the cork.
Fig. 9, a single loop mainly intended for closing capsuled bottles. The spiral and
the handle are hore only formed when placed on the bottle with the assistance of
a special tool. The two wire ends are hidden here underneath the label or seal.
Fig. 10 shows the manner of making the spiral and handle by means of a special
tool.
Fig. 11 the loop mentioned above completed and closed and provided with a label.
Fig. 12 a single loop where spiral and handle are made in the same manner as
in Fig. 10.
Fig. 13 shows the method of fastening the above.
In the previous Figs. 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13, the formation of the new spiral serves
for closing the neck band.
Fig. 14 is a single piece basket shaped wire fastener for bottles with arrangement
of the new device on the neck band between the two clasps.
Fig. 15 the same with closed neck band.
Fig. 16 a light wire fastener for bottles for beer lemonade etc. where the key is
arranged at the neck band and the label on one clasp over the cork.
Fig. 17 a similar light wire fastener where the label is arranged on the neck band
and the new spiral on the clasps over the cork.
Figs. 18 and 19 a basket shaped wire fastener with spiral and handle.
Figs. 20, 21, 22, 23 represent a novel method of using a closing spiral to form
thereof the improved key by forming the two wire ends of the fastening in the shape
of a horse shoo in order to be able to fasten a seal thereto. Fig. 22 which closes the
handle in the shape of a triangle and replaces the circular handle.
This new manner and way to use a closing point and to transform it into a key with
handle is somewhat more expensive.
Figs. 24 and 25 illustrate another novel method of utilizing the closing point by
attaching to the closing spiral a firm body serving as a handle, in this case the spiral
has to be longer to obtain the necessary amount of enlargement upon the untwisting
of the same as shown in Figs. 24 and 25. Thus one is enabled to untwist by the hand
the closing spiral which has always been shut and not easily opened heretofore.
Figs. 26 and 27 show the result of the widening of the fastener after undoing the
spiral and the handle whereby a closed ellipse is formed.

page_text: Fig. 28 shows the new spiral as it extends from the fastener. b. spiral,.e handle,.
d small spiral with a small loop d' which only serves for fastening the labels..
Fig. 29 a suitable label with illustration and text.
Fig. 30 shows the label fastened and bent into the ringshaped handle principally,
intended for bottles and fancy articles.
Fig. 31 shows back of the label so fixed.
Fig. 82 side view of the new spiral with handle and label socketted in the loop d'.
Fig. 33 is a front view of the label so fixed.
Fig. 34 shows the said label.
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. A wire fastening for bottles and the like having at the neckbinding or elsewhere
a twisted portion-b, with a handle c at the end thereof whereby said. twisted: portion
may be untwisted by hand to enlarge a part of the fastener sufficiently to enable the
same to be removed or displaced substantially as set forth.
2. A wire fastening for bottles and the like having at the neck binding or elsewhere
a looped portion twisted or to be twisted together to form a twisted portion 6 with a
loop c to form a handle thereto substantially as and for. the purpose: set forth..
Daten so may pin LOO
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, WC,
Agents to Applicant..