IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPING OR COVERING BOTTLES, DECANTERS, POTS, AND OTHER RECEPTACLES OF GLASS, PORCELAIN, AND EARTHENWARE, AND IN THE MACHINERY CONNECTED THEREWITH
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Nicolas Malinau, of Bordeaux, but temporarily
of 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, France, Manufacturer, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPING OR COVERING BOTTLES,
DECANTERS, POTS, AND OTHER RECEPTACLES OF GLASS, PORCELAIN,
AND EARTHENWARE, AND IN THE MACHINERY CONNECTED THEREWITH."
Sealed the 20th April 1853, and dated the 23rd December 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Nicolas Malinau at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 23rd December 1852.
I, NICOLAS MALINAU, of Bordeaux, but temporary of 39, Rue de
l'Echiquier, Paris, France, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPING OR COVERING
BOTTLES, DECANTERS, POTS, AND OTHER RECEPTACLES OF GLASS, PORCELAIN,
AND EARTHENWARE, AND IN THE MACHINERY CONNECTED THEREWITH," to
be as follows:-
The Invention consists in covering, stopping, or corking all
kinds of bottles, decanters, jars, and other similar vessels, by
making, either externally or internally, on the circumference or
along the necks of the said vessels, ridges or recesses, so that the

page_text: concave or convex portions so made shall be filled by the opposite
convex or concave parts cut on or in the said corks or stoppers.
The machinery for effecting the said purposes is shewn in Figures
1. to 7.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said Nicolas Malinau in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 23rd June 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
NICOLAS MALINAU, of Bordeaux, but temporary of 39, Rue de
l'Echiquier, Paris, France, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of December,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the sixteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Nicolas Malinau, Her special licence that
I, the said Nicolas Malinau, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Nicolas Malinau, my exccutors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might muke, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN STOPPING OR COVERING BOTTLES, DECANTERS, POTS,
OTHER RECEPTACLES OF GLASS, PORCELAIN, AND EARTHENWARE,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Nicolas
Malinau, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I the said Nicolas Malinau, do hereby

page_text: declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
My Invention consists in machinery for moulding the necks and
stoppers of vessels with alternate wedges or prolongations.
Secondly, for making the vessel with an internal rim, and
fixing the stopper by pressure suitably applied, by which I cause
the stopper to be placed in very close contact with the vessel, and
I effect a more complete stopping thereof than hitherto.
The vessels may be made of any desired form and dimensions of
the materials usually employed for their construction, and are
applicable to the preservation of solid and liquid aliments and
other substances from decay.
Figures 1, 2, 1, and 2ª, Drawing 2, corks or stoppers scen in
elevation. Figures 3, 4, 3", and 4", sections, and 5, 6, 5ª, and 6ª,
plans of the recks of the bottles; 9, 10, 9ª, and 10ª, elevations of the
bottles; and 11, 12, 11ª, and 12ª, sections of the same.
The projections are made in the interior or exterior of the neck
of the bottle and stopper. Figures 1, 3, and 5, show the projections
in the interior of the stoppers; and Figures 2, 4, and 7, shew them
externally. When the projections are in the internal sides of the
neck, the stopper has them outside; but if the neck has the pro-
jections externally, the stopper is made to lap over, and has them
in the internal. There may be one or several series of projections
of any required form and dimensions according to circumstances,
and they may be made upon a level or inclined plane in the neck of
the bottle, either on the circumference or in the length. They are
equal in number on the cork and neck and alternate, so that for
every projection in the stopper there is a corresponding interval in
the neck, and vice versa. The projections in the neck are made by
an apparatus represented in Figures 1, and 2, of Drawing I., and in
the stoppers by the apparatus shewn in Figures 3, 4, and 5, of the
same Drawing. Figures 7, 9, and 11, Drawing II., shew the neck with
internal projections; and Figures 8, 10, and 12, shew them externally.
To produce a more perfect closing between the surfaces of the stopper

page_text: and bottle, I apply a washer of india rubber, gutta percha, leather,
or other suitable substances, on the part of the stopper that fits
against the bottle, and presses on the top of the cork. I move the
cork from right to left, which causes the projections of the cork to
adjust underneath the wedges of the bottles, and the elastic washer
being tightly pressed against the ridges, closes the vessel her-
metically. When several series of wedges are employed, they
produce the form of a screw with an interrupted thread. I can
make the wedges in the form of a continuous thread if required.
Instead of the mode herein-before described for covering bottles,
I can employ the following, shewn in Figures 1ª, to 12", of Drawing II.
Figures 11ª, and 12ª, of Drawing Il., shew a rim made in the interior
of the bottle, which is closed by means of a cover fixed by a
metallic cross piece T, and screw N. I apply between the cork,
which is of a dovetailed form, a washer of elastic material as before
mentioned. The two ends of the cross piece are introduced into
holes of a dovetailed form in the sides of the neck, and a screw is
set in the middle to press down the cork on the elastic washer, and
produce a perfect stopping. Similar arrangements may also be
employed for closing jars, pots, decanters, and other similar vessels

page_text: groove K, under the plate D. This bolt in its motion causes a small,
lever L, to fall or rise, and move at its extremity a piston M, upon,
which are fixed two cones N, and O. The cone N, shuts the small,
drivers P, and the cone O, opens them to allow of the withdrawal
of the neck, by causing them to enter the space R, after pivoting:
on a crank.
the
,
The form of the wedges or prolongations is cut in the small,
drivers which produce them on the neck of the bottle.
The
machinery is put in motion by giving the large lever A, a movement,
from left to right; then the large and small drivers open to allow
passage of the neck of the bottle to be moulded, and when it is.
set in its proper position by an inverse motion, the large and small.
drivers shut, and cause the internal and external moulds of the
large and small drivers to close upon the neck, and mould the
wedges upon it.
I make different forms of stoppings by modifying the construction
of the large and small drivers.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PUNCH AND MATRICE FOR MOULDING THE
CORKS, OR STOPPERS WITH PROLONGATIONS.
:
Figure 3. The matrice is in cast iron or copper, and is com-
posed of two segments 1, provided with two handles 2, and fastened
together by means of a screw 3; they are put in motion by an iron
rod 4, working in a groove 5. At the extremity of the matrice is
set a hinge 6, uniting the segments, and permitting them to open
and shut by means of an iron pin 7, which reunites them. Thus
when I wish to mould a cork or stopper, I introduce the material
into the orifice 8, and shut the matrice. I press the material with
the punch 9, Figure 4, which is prepared for the kind of moulding
required. I can engrave the kinds of moulding that I wish to
obtain either on the matrice or upon the punch. I open the
matrice by drawing down the handle 10 when the material is
moulded.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, I would have it
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page_text: understood that I do not confine myself to the precise mode of
construction or of operating herein described, so long as the peculiar
character of the Invention be retained; but what I claim is,
Firstly, the construction of machinery for moulding covers or
.stoppers of bottles, and necks or tops of jars, decanters, pots, and
other similar receptacles, with one or more series of alternate or
continuous projecting parts or wedges, for producing a more
perfectly air tight closing of the same, as herein-before described
and referred to in Figures 1, to 4, of Drawing I.
Secondly, in stopping bottles, jars, pots, and other similar
vessels by applying stoppers upon a ridge in the interior of the
same, and fixing the stoppers by a bar and pressure screw as
herein-before described and referred to in Figures 1, to 12, and 1*,
to 12, of Drawing II.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this
Fourteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.