An Improved Stopper for Bottles, Jars, or other suitable Vessels.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Loft, 7th May 1802 Accented 11th June 1809
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Stopper for Bottles, Jars, or other suitable Vessels.
I, GEORGE HOUGHTON of 91 Peasley Cross Lane, Innkeeper, Saint Helens in
the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
I provide a capsule or stopper which fits on the outside of a bottle neck, jar, or
other suitable vessel, to which is attached inside the capsule or stopper a plug or
cone made of glass or other suitable material with or without a groove.
On the plug or cone is placed a ring of rubber, cork or other suitable material.
This plug or cone on which is the ring of rubber, cork, or other suitable material on
being pressed inside the bottle neck, jar or other suitable vessel causes the ring to
tighten itself inside the neck of the bottle jar or other suitable vessel, thus keeping
the contents of the bottle jar or other suitable vessel airtight.
The bottle neck, jar, or other suitable vessel has on the outside a shoulder, or
collar and the capsule, or stopper, has one or more clips, which, on being pressed
tight under the shoulder, or collar of the neck of the bottle, jar, or other suitable
vessel, prevents the pressure of the contents of the bottle, jar, or other suitable
vessel to displace the capsule, or stopper. This clip or clips can be unfastened
from the shoulder or collar, by inserting a tool in the form of a pencil, between the
clip and shoulder or collar.
The capsule or stopper can be made with or without the clip or clips, and
the capsule or stopper may be lacquered, or otherwise at the option of the
inventor.
Dated this 24th day of September 1891.
GEORGE HOUGHTON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Stopper for Bottles, Jars, or other suitable Vessels.
I, GEORGE HOUGHTON of 91 Peasley Cross Lane, St. Helens in the County
of Lancaster, 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 :-
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This invention bas for its object an improved stopper for bottles, jars and other
suitable vessels.
The invention will be understood from the following description, reference being
had to the accompanying drawings, in which :-
Figure 1 shows, in vertical section and front elevation, the invention as applied
to pickle jars ;
Figure 2 depicts the invention as applied to an aërated water bottle or the
like; and
Figure 3 is an elevation of the stopper.
A, is the capsule fitting closely on to the outside of the neck of the jar, bottle, or
other vessel. To the inside of this capsule is attached the plug or stopper B
(preferably tapered) made of metal, earthenware, glass, wood, or any other suitable
material, and round this plug or stopper is placed a ring C of rubber, cork or the
like. When the plug or stopper B is forced into the bottle neck, the ring C is
compressed or tightened in the neck, while the capsule fits closely on the outside
thereof, whereby the contents of the vessel are kept airtight.
In Figure 2, the neck of the vessel has on the outside a shoulder or collar, and

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the capsule A has one or more lips which, on being bent under the shoulder, clip
the same, and, as they have a certain resistance to bending, they prevent the
pressure of the contents of the vessel from forcing the stopper out.
stopper may be further secured (if desired) by binding the lips to the neck of
the bottle by means of a wire, the said wire being passed round the neck
immediately under the shoulder. The lips can be unfastened from the shoulder by
means of any suitable tool or even by hand. For pickle or other jars, where there
is little or no pressure inside the vessel, the capsule may be formed without lips, as
shown in Figure 1.
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 :-
The improvement in bottle stoppers which consists in supplying them with a
capsule fitting on to the outside of the neck of the jar, bottle, or other vessel
substantially as described, said capsule being formed with (or without) lips at
each side capable of clipping the neck, but having a certain resistance to
bending, whereby the pressure of the contents of the vessel cannot force the
stopper out.
Dated this 6th day of M... 1000
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and London, Patent Agents.