Improvements relating to the Securing of certain Bottle Stoppers.
Year: 1891

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Securing of certain Bottle Stoppers.
I, PAUL MENZ, of Thiergartenstrasse 22, Breslau, in the Empire of Germany,
Factory Owner, 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 :-
This invention relates to that class of bottle stoppers in which a cap of porcelain,
glass, metal or other material is connected to a wire bow or bows adapted to swing
on or about the neck of the bottle and to press and secure the stopper on the mouth
of the bottle when in a certain definite position with regard to the bottle.
The object
of the improvements is to provide such a fastener with a device for securing it in
this position against accidental displacement.
In the annexed drawings
Fig. is a front elevation and Fig. 2 a side elevation of the neck of a bottle
provided with a stopper of the nature described having the improved safety fastener.
Fig. 3 is a cross section thereof on line A B Fig. 1.
Figs. 4 and 5 illustrate a modified construction of safety fastener.
The stopper is secured in place by the bow e in combination with the lever bow b
in the known manner.
According to this invention a spring c preferably of wire of suitable strength is
bent at one end to form the eye a by which it is hinged to the lever bow b as shown
so that the spring c may lie across the neck of the bottle as in Figs. 1 and 3 when
the opposite end is sprung in behind the bow e.
This end of the spring c is likewise curved to form a spring loop m and into the
latter is forced a plug d of suitable material such as porcelain or cement of a conical
or double conical form and having the groove l in which the loop m springs to hold
the plug in place so that until it is removed by suitable force or broken the spring c
cannot be withdrawn from behind the bowe and the stopper unfastened.
In place of making the spring c of wire it may be made of flat spring plate as in
Figs. 4 and 5, the eyelet a being formed at one end and a hole m¹ corresponding to
the spring loop m at the other. The hole m' is made in the form of a star or cross
so that the tongues & left around the hole by this shape may be pressed aside for
passage of the plug d and may spring into the groove of the plug.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. The combination with a stopper having a bow or bows as described, of the
spring wire c or spring plate f having an eyelet a at one end by which it is con-
nected to the bow so that it may be sprung into connection with the bow so as to
prevent the stopper from becoming accidentally unfastened substantially as set
forth.
2. The combination with a stopper having a bow or bows as described, of the
spring-wire c or spring-plate f having an eyelet a at one end and a spring loop m
or hole m' with tongues k at the other end, and the destructible or removable plug d
having the groove substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Date: calf sl 1001
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.