Improvements in or relating to Stoppering Bottles or the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 30'h May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Feb., 1896-Accepted, 2nd May, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Stoppering Bottles or the like.
I, LUCIEN MAUSSION, Druggist, of Nantes, 19 Rue Crébillon, (Loire
Inférieure) in the Republic of France, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of a combination of a ball-stopper with another movable
stopper at the upper part of the neck of a bottle or any other like receiver.
The external arrangement of my bottle remains unaltered for all modes of
application; its orifice is arranged to receive an indiarubber ring as a seat for the
ball, for the purpose of constituting a tight joint after the injection into the
interior of the bottle of a jet of carbonic acid at the desired pressure.
The movable stopper may be of cork; or may be composed of a cap or knob
provided with an indiarubber ring, an orifice extending transversely through it and
a rounded conical point adapted to effect the opening of the bottle by pushing down
the ball. During the stoppage of the neck the indiarubber ring is strongly
compressed by a wire-yoke operated by an eccentric or by pivoted wire frames.
These stoppering devices are suitable for liquids bottled at low pressure, such as
beer, wine, milk, etc. These products, being subject only to a low pressure,
insufficient to keep the ball in place, I avoid by the second cork or stopper, the
influence of the external air, generally injurious to their preservation.
For liquids which are bottled under a high pressure, such as seltzer-water, for.
instance, the stoppering device comprises the ball, tube of any suitable material,
fitted with an outside india-rubber ring. Inside the tube, I introduce two india-
rubber tubes, concentric but of different diameters, an interior one on a level with
the outer edge or rim, and another longer one turned up at its inner end towards
the bottle neck, and there firmly secured; the ball may seat itself against the
turned-up end of the said tube.
For the purpose of uncorking the bottle, without losing too much gas or pressure,
I use apparatus, in the form of a siphon-head. With the stem of this I push down
the ball from its seat, the stem being closely confined in the inside of the inner
rubber tube; then, if the bottle be turned upside down a slight pressure on the
lever of the siphon causes a strong jet of fluid to issue from the inverted bottle.
In this way I dispense with the use of the ordinary "siphon."
In a modification of my invention adapted for bottling at high pressure and the
employment of the siphon-apparatus in opening the bottle the rubber tubes are
suppressed, and in substitution therefor a perforated rubber cylinder is provided
located in a suitable cavity in the neck.
I bottle table-waters at high or low pressure with the aid of the ordinary bottling
machines used for seltzer-water and ball-stoppers. According to circumstances,
the bottling head of the machine is altered to suit the bottles to be filled.
din 20th day of May 1805
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in
I, LUCIEN MAUSSION, Druggist, of Nantes 19 Rue Crébillon (Loire Inférieure)
in the Republic of France, 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 consists of the combination of a ball-stopper with another
movable stopper at the upper part of the neck of a bottle or any other like
receiver adapted to contain fluid under high or low pressure.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 is a vertical central section of the neck of a bottle adapted to receive,
according to this invention, a ball stopper and also a cork or similar plug;
Fig. 2 is a similar section and
Fig. 3 an elevation of an equivalent device in which an upper stopper is combined
with a displacer or pusher for the ball and is retained on the bottle by wire
toggles ;
Fig. 4 is a vertical central section of another construction of bottle-stoppering
device adapted to make a tight joint with the stem of a syphon or cock, and
Fig. 5 is a similar view showing the syphon or cock in place in such a stoppering
device,
Fig. 6 being another similar view of a further construction of stoppering device
adapted to receive such stem.
The external arrangement of my bottle remains unaltered for all modes of
application of the stoppering device. In the modification illustrated in Fig. 1 the
orifice a of the neck is arranged to receive an indiarubber ring as a seat for the
ball b, for the purpose of constituting a right joint after the injection into
the interior a¹ of the bottle of a jet of carbonic acid at the desired pressure.
The other movable stopper may be of cork inserted in the part a 2 of the neck;
or may be as in Fig. 2 composed of a cap or knob e provided with an indiarubber
ring d, an orifice e extending transversely through it, and a rounded conical point f
adapted to effect the opening of the bottle by pushing down the ball b as shown in
Fig. 3. During the stoppage of the neck as in Fig. 2 the indiarubber ring d is
strongly compressed by a wire yoke g operated by pivotted wire frames h.
These stoppering devices are suitable for liquids bottled at low pressure, such as
beer, wine, milk, etc. and when the ball-stopper drops, as it will do when part of
the contents is withdrawn from a bottle in which the original pressure is low
I avoid by the second cork or stopper, the influence of the external air generally
injurious to their preservation.
For liquids which are bottled under a high pressure such as seltzer-water, for
instance, a stoppering device such as is shown in Figs. 4 and 3 is suitable; it
comprises the ball 6 a tube i of any suitable metal or composition, fitted with an
outside indiarubber ring j. Inside the tube i, I introduce two indiarubber tubes,
concentric but of different diameters, an interior one k on a level with the outer
edge, or rim of the tube i, and another longer one turned up at its inner end m
towards the bottle neck, and there firmly secured by a winding of wire or other
wise; the ball may seat itself against the turned-up end of the said tube a bridle r
attached to the bottle-neck retains the tube i in place.
For the purpose of uncorking the bottle, without losing too much gas o
pressure, I use the apparatus o, Fig. 5, in the form of a syphon-head. With the
stem of this I push down the ball from its seat, the stem being closely clasped
by the inside of the inner rubber tube k; then, if the bottle be turned upside down
a slight pressure on the lever p of the syphon causes a strong jet of fluid to issu

page_text: from the inverted bottle. In this way I dispense with the use of the ordinary
“syphon.”
In Fig. 6 I represent a modification of my invention adapted for bottling at high
pressure and the employment of the syphon-apparatus o (shown in Fig. 5) in
opening the bottle; the rubber-tubes k l of Figs. 4 and 5 are suppressed and in
substitution therefor a perforated rubber cylinder 9 is provided located in a suitable
cavity in the neck.
I bottle table-waters at high or low pressure with the aid of the ordinary
bottling machines used for seltzer-water and ball-stoppers. According to
circumstances, the bottling head of the machine is altered to suit the bottles
to be filled.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is ;-
1. In devices for stoppering bottles the combination with a ball stopper and a
seat therefor of another stopper or plug with or without a retaining device for the
latter substantially as and for the purpose described.
2. The combination with a bottle neck adapted to receive an ordinary cork
or stopper of a ball stopper and seating substantially as and for the purpose
described.
3. In devices for stoppering bottles the combination with a ball and a seat
therefor of devices such as k l or q adapted to make a tight joint with the stem of
a syphon or cock such as o substantially as and for the purpose described.
4. In a bottle-stoppering device a syphon or cock such as o with a stem adapted
to serve as a pusher or displacer of a ball-stopper substantially as described.
5. A stopper such as e in combination with a displacer or pusher such as f and
with or without a retaining device such as g h substantially as and for the purpose
described.
described
6. The bottle-stoppering devices substantially as and for the purpose
and illustrated in Figure 1 or Figures 2 and 3 or Figures 4 and 5 or Figure 6 of
the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 21st day of February 1896.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.