Improved Guards for Use when Opening Bottles Containing Aerated Liquids.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct.. 1895
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Dec., 1895-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Guards for Use when Opening Bottles Containing Aerated
Liquids.
I JAMES WINTERBOTTOM of 42 Williams Court, Williams Street, Ashton-
under-Lyne in the County of Lancaster, Greengrocer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is designed to protect the hand of any person opening bottles
containing aerated liquids, and is especially useful in the case of such bottles as
are stoppered by balls or similar valves held in place by the pressure of the gases
in the bottles.
The invention consists of a cage or case of wicker-work, wire, sheet metal, or
other suitable material, open at both ends and made to fit easily around a bottle,
but so as to enable the bottle to be lifted in and by the said cage or case, and in
some cases I use springs or equivalent means to hold the bottle in the cage or case
in such a way that it may be readily removed therefrom when desired.
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The said cage or case is contracted at one end, so as to cover the shoulder of the
bottle and yet allow the upper part of the neck to pass through.
The invention is or may be used as follows:
The guard is slipped over the bottle to be opened and rested upon a table,
counter, or other suitable surface, thus covering the bottle, the neck of which will
project a suitable distance through the contracted end of the said guard, which can
be grasped with perfect safety in the left hand, while with the right hand the ball
or other valve is pushed into the neck of the bottle by any appropriate instrument
usually employed for opening bottles of the above description.
The contents are or may be poured from the bottle by lifting the cage and the
bottle together.
In the case of the bottle bursting, the left hand will be completely protected by
the wicker or other guard and the right hand will be prevented from descending
further than the contracted end of the said guard, and from being injured by
broken glass.
This invention will therefore be most useful in refreshment rooms, hotels, and
other places where large quantities of aerated beverages are consumed.
Dated this 15th day of October 1895.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
Improved Guards for Use when Opening Bottles Containing Aerated
Liquids.
1 JAMES WINTERBOTTOM of 42 Williams Court, William Street, Ashton-
under-Lyne, in the County of Lancaster, Greengrocer, 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 is designed to protect the hand of any person opening bottles
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page_text: containing aerated liquids, and is especially useful in the case of such bottles as are
stoppered by balls or similar valves held in place by the pressure of the gases in
the bottles.
The invention consists of a cage or case of wicker-work wire, or sheet metal (as
shown on the annexed drawings), or other suitable material, open at both ends and
made to fit easily around a bottle (see Fig. 1) but so as to enable the bottle to be
lifted in and by the said cage or case a, and in some cases I use springs a or
equivalent means to hold the bottle in the eage or case a in such a way that it
be readily removed therefrom when desired.
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propose to notch the bottom of the ease or cap a to facilitato the removal of
the bottle therefrom.
The said cage or case a is contracted at one end, so as to cover the shoulder of
the bottle and yet allow the upper part of the neek to pass through, as seen at
Fig. 1.
When the case a is of sheet metal as illustrated I prefer to make a row or rows
of perforations around the upper part thereof so that in the case of the bottle
bursting, the contents can escape more freely.
The invention is or may be used as follows:
The guard a is slipped over the bottle to be opened and rested upon a table,
counter, or other suitable surface thus covering the hottle, the neck of which will
project a suitable distance through the contracted end of the said guard, which can
be grasped with perfect safety in the left hand, while with the right hand the ball
or other valve is pushed into the neck of the bottle by any appropriate instrument
(such as shewn at d Fig. 1) usually employed for opening bottles of the above
description.
The contents are or may be poured from the battle by lifting the cage a and the
bottle together.
In the case of the bottle bursting, the left hand will be completely protected by
the wicker or other guard, and the right hand will be prevented from descending
further than the contracted end of the said guard, and from being injured by
broken glass.
This invention will therefore be most useful in refreshment rooms, hotels, and
other places where large quantities of aerated beverages are consumed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invon-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
A cage, case or guard open at both ends and so made as to enclose and retain a
bottle substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described.
Dated this 30th day of November 1895.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.