Year: 1885

page_text: The following clerical errors in the original Specification having heen amended
by the Patentee with the consent of the Comptroller, the printed Specification will
now read as shown below
Page 5, lines 22 and 24, for "flange i," read flange i¹.
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5, lines 23 and 24, for "ring i¹,” read ring i.
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6, line 28, for flange i," read flange i¹.

page_text: Improvements in Stoppers or Covers for Bottles, Jars, and other
Hollow Articles of the like Kind.
I, HENRY LOUIS PHILLIPS, of South Hornsey in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
STOPPERS OR COVERS FOR BOTTLES, JARS, AND OTHER HOLLOW ARTICLES OF THE
LIKE KIND" to be as follows:-
:-
My present invention relates to stoppers or covers for bottles, jars, and other
hollow articles of the like kind, and more especially to the stoppers or covers
described and shewn in the Specification and drawings of Letters Patent granted
to Nathan Thompson, for "Improvements in stoppers or covers for bottles, jars,
and other hollow articles," dated April 17th A.D. 1883, No 1942, and to other
covers or stoppers in which a cap or cover is used containing a packing of cork or
other sufliciently soft and elastic material.
In the said Specification and drawings of the said Letters Patent of Nathan
Thompson a cap or stopper is described and shewn made of sheet metal and having
placed in the interior thereof a compression plate and then a disc of cork or other
suitable packing material.
A clip or strap is also described and shewn extending across the cap or stopper
and provided with downwardly projecting legs formed with inwardly turned
projections acting as lugs to come under a flange on the neck of the bottle or other
article, and the top of the cap is provided with circulur inclines so that when the
cap or stopper is placed in position on the neck of the bottle or other article, and
the clip or strap is rotated, the latter is caused to mount the inclines and thereby
force the cap or stopper firmly down on the bottle neck.
In this form of stopper and in others of a like or analogous kind, it has been
usual to use adhesive cement for the purpose of securing the cork or other packing
to the compression plate or to the interior of the cap or cover, but such use of
adhesive ceinent is objectionable for many reasons.
For instance the cement is liable to be dissolved by liquids contained in the
bottle or other vessel to which the stopper or cap is applied, or it may spread and
find its way through the cork or other packing, or it may run between the cork
or other packing and the edge of the bottle or vessel and cause them to adhere so
that the cap or stopper cannot readily be removed from the bottle or vessel when
desired.

page_text: Moreover the cork or other packing is liable to be torn and injured, especially at
its edge, in removing the cap or stopper from the bottle.
The care with which the cement has to be applied as well as the time required
for it to dry are also objectionable features, and further it is not reliable in its
action as the cork or other packing is liable to become rubbed off and separated
from the cap or stopper when the latter is not actually in use upon a bottle, jar, or
other similar article.
My invention has for its object an improved method of fitting and fixing the
cork or other packing in the cap, stopper, or cover, by which these objections are
remedied.
For this purpose, assuming that my invention is to be applied to a cap or stopper
of the kind described and shewn in the specification and drawings of Nathan
Thompson already referred to, in which a compression plate is used between the
sheet metal cap or stopper and the cork or other packing, I form by stamping or
otherwise from tinned plate or from other suitable metal or material a disc or plate
with a cylindrical flange projecting at right angles or nearly so to the disc or plate.
The cork or other packing is fitted into the recess so formed, the edge of the
projecting flange being either plain, or serrated or otherwise shaped so that it can
be bent over the edge of the cork or other packing and thus retain the latter more
firmly in its place.
The external diameter of the projecting flange is of such size that it fits tightly
into the hollow cap or stopper, the flat disc being inward. The back or edges of
the disc may be then cemented or soldered to the compression plate, or, if a
compression plate is not used, to the cap or stopper, or it may be retained in its
position by fitting tightly into the cap or stopper as already described.
The disc may have a central opening through it of any required size, the device
in such case forming an annular angled ring, having a cylindrical flange within
which the outer edge of the cork or other packing fits (which flange fits into the
cap or stopper), and a flat ring at right angles to the cylindrical fange. This flat
ring I prefer to arrange upon the outer side of the cork or other packing, the
diameter of its central opening being suflicient to allow the cork or other packing
to come in contact with the mouth of the bottle or other vessel which is to be
closed.
In this way the use of adhesive cement is obviated, the edge of the cork or other
packing is protected and concealed by a neat circular frame, and a highly finished
appearance is given to the stopper, whilst the cork or other packing is prevented
from spreading or turning up, or becoming dirty at the edges, from being torn or
from altering in shape, and from becoming loose.
It will be seen that as the annular flange described is not necessarily fastened to
the cap or stopper, into which it fits sufficiently tightly to be held firmly in its
place, it can be readily removed when desired and the position of the cork or other
packing reversed, or fresh cork or other packing substituted, the flange being then
replaced in position in the cap or stopper.
As a packing for caps, stoppers, or covers when of large size and when large
size discs of cork or of other material for packing would be either unnecessary or
be too expensive I sometimes employ annular strips of cork or other sufficiently
soft and elastic material. These strips are held in place around the inner circum-
ference of the cap, stopper, or cover by being inserted in a seat which (when it
does not form a part of the inside of the cap, stopper, or cover by being recessed
thereupon) is separately formed by being stamped out of metal or other plate, and
preferably out of tinned iron or steel plate. I stamp out this seat from a disc of
suitable diameter round the outer part of which an annular recess is formed below
the surface of the remainder of the disc, the sides of the recess being at right
angles to the disc or nearly so, so that the recess forms a seat in which the cork
or other packing lies, and the outer edge of the recess may be turned over the
edge of the cork so as to hold the latter in its place if necessary. The vertical flange

page_text: at the outer circumference of this plate should fit tightly into the interior of the
cap or cover and be placed over the compression plate with the packing outward.
Sometimes, I simply form the plate whereon the seat is placed, by stamping or
otherwise, without the outer vertical flange or side to the seat, the outer circum-
ference of the plate or disc being depressed to such depth and of such width as
may be required to take the cork or other packing, and the outer edge being made
to fit tightly into the interior of the cap or cover and upon the compression plate.
The inside vertical or nearly vertical edge of the cap or cover will then form in
combination with the depressed part of this disc a recess or seat in which the
annular strips of cork or other packing may be secured.
My invention may be applied to covers or stoppers of any kind in which a
packing of cork or other suitable material is fitted into a hollow cap or cover.
Cork or other soft or elastic packing of any suitable kind may be used. I some-
times use a disc of cork or other material of suitable thickness and having fitted
tpon one or both sides one or more corresponding discs of paper saturated with
paraffin wax. Or two or more discs of cork and corresponding discs of paraffin
wax paper may be used. Or, the paraffin wax paper may be used in combination
with other sufficiently soft or clastic material, or it may be used alone.
Dated this 0th don of Annil 100-
EDWARDS & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Stoppers Of Covers 101 DOOD, WALD, and
Hollow Articles of the like Kind.
I, HENRY LOUIS PHILLIPS, of South Hornsey, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, 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 and accompanying drawing, (that is to say):
'
My present invention relates to stoppers or covers for bottles, jars, and other
hollow articles of the like kind, and more especially to the stoppers or covers
described and shewn in the Specification and drawings of Letters Patent granted
to Nathan Thompson, for "Improvements in stoppers or covers; for bottles, jars,
and other hollow articles," dated April 17th A.D. 1883 No 1942, and to other
covers or stoppers in which a cap or cover is used containing a packing of cork or
other sufficiently soft and elastic material.
In the said Specification and drawings of the said Letters Patent of Nathan
Thompson a cap or stopper is described and shewn made of sheet metal and having
placed in the interior thereof a compression plate and then a disc of cork or other
suitable packing material.
A clip or strap is also described and shewn extending across the cap or stopper
and provided, with downwardly projecting legs formed with inwardly turned
projections acting as lugs to come under a flange on the neck of the bottle or
other article, and the top of the cap is provided with circular inclines, so that
when the cap or stopper is placed in position on the neck of the bottle or other
article and the clip or strap is rotated, the latter is caused to mount the inclines
and thereby force the cap or stopper firmly down on the bottle neck.
In this form of stopper and in others of a like or analogous kind, it has been
usual to use adhesive cement for the purpose of securing the cork or other packing
to the compression plate or to the interior of the cap or cover, but such use of
adhesive cement is objectionable for many reasons.
For instance the cement is liable to be dissolved by liquids contained in the
bottle or other vessel to which the stopper or cap is applied, or it may spread and
find its way through the cork or other packing, or it may run between the cork or
other packing and the edge of the bottle or vessel and cause them to adhere so
that the cap or stopper cannot readily be removed from the bottle or vessel when
desired.
Moreover the cork or other packing is liable to be torn and injured, especially at
its edge in removing the cap or stopper from the bottle.
The care with which the cement has to be applied as well as the time required
for it to dry are also objectionable features, and further it is not reliable in its
action as the cork or other packing is liable to become rubbed off and separated
from the cap or stopper when the latter is not actually in use upon a bottle, jar, or
other similar article.
My invention has for its object an improved method of fitting and fixing the
cork or other packing in the cap, stopper, or cover, by which these objections are
remedied.

page_text: In the accompanying drawing which is in illustration of my invention, figure 1
is a vertical section, figure 2 a side view, and figure 3 a plan, shewing my invention
applied to a cap or stopper of the kind described and shewn in the specification
and drawings of Nathan Thompson already referred to, in which a compression
plate b is used between the sheet metal cap or stopper a and the cork or other
packing c. I form by stamping or otherwise from tinned plate or from other
suitable metal or material a disc or plate shewn at i in figure 12 which is a
vertical section through part of a stopper the disc having a cylindrical flange i¹
projecting at right angles or nearly so to it. The cork or other packing c is fitted
into the recess so formed, the edge of the projecting flange i¹ being either plain, or
serrated or otherwise shaped so that it can be bent over the edge of the cork or
other packing c and thus retain the latter more firmly in its place, as shown in
figures 12 and 13.
The external diameter of the turned up disc of metal or projecting flange il is
of such size that it fits tightly into the hollow cap or stopper a, the flat disc i being
inward. The back or edges of the disc i (figure 12) may be then cemented or
soldered to the compression plate b or, if a compression plate is not used, to the
cap or stopper, or it may be retained in its position by fitting tightly into the cap
or stopper as already described.
The disc i may have a central opening through it of any required size as shewn
in figures 1, 6, 7, 14, and 15, the device in such case forming an annular angled
ring, having a cylindrical flange i within which the outer edge of the cork or other
packing c fits (which flange fits into the cap or stopper a), and a flat ring i¹ at right
angles to the cylindrical flange i. This flat ring i¹ I prefer to arrange upon the
outer side of the cork or other packing, the diameter of its central opening being
sufficient to allow the cork or other packing to come in contact with the mouth of
the bottle or other vessel which is to be closed as shewn in figure 1. Figure 4 is a
separate section of the cap a; figure 5 of the compression plate b; figure 6 of the
annular ring; figure 7 of the annular ring with the packing c inserted; and
figure 14 a plan from below of the annular ring.
In this way the use of adhesive cernent is obviated the edge of the cork or other
packing c is protected and concealed by a neat circular frame i i¹, and a highly
finished appearance is given to the stopper, whilst the cork or other packing c is
prevented from spreading or turning up, or becoming dirty at the edges, from being
torn, or from altering in shape, and from becoming loose.
It will be seen that as the annular flange ¹ described is not necessarily fastened
to the cap or stopper a into which it fits sufficiently tightly to be held firmly in its
place, it can be readily removed when desired and the position of the cork or other
packing c reversed, or fresh cork or other packing substituted, the flange being then
replaced in position in the cap or stopper.
As a packing for caps, stoppers, or covers when of large size and when large size
discs of cork or of other material for packing would be either unnecessary or be too
expensive I sometimes employ annular strips of cork or other sufficiently soft and
elastic material. This method of arrangement is shewn in figure 8 in section,
figure 9 being a plan from below. These strips are shewn at g and are held in
place around the inner circumference of the cap stopper or cover by being inserted
in a seat which (when it does not form a part of the inside of the cap stopper or
cover by being recessed thereupon) is separately formed as shewn by being stamped
out of metal or other plate, and preferably out of tinned iron or steel plate.
I stamp out this seat from a disc i of suitable diameter round the outer part of
which an annular recess is formed below the surface of the remainder of the disc,
the sides and 3 of the recess being at right angles to the disc i or nearly so, so
that the recess forms a seat in which the cork or other packing g lies, and the
outer edge of the recess may be turned over the edge of the cork so as to hold
the latter in its place (in the same manner as is shewn in figure 13) if necessary.
The vertical flange at the outer circumference of this plate should fit tightly into

page_text: the interior of the cap or cover a as shewn in figure 8, and, be placed over the.
compression plate b with the packing outward.
Sometimes, I simply form the plate whereon the seat is placed, by stamping or
otherwise, in the form shewn in figures 10 and 11 without the outer vertical,
flange or side to the seat, the outer circumference of the plate or disc i being
depressed to such depth and of such width as may be required to take the cork or
other packing g and the outer edge being made to fit tightly into the interior of
the cap or cover a and upon the compression plate b. The inside vertical or nearly.
vertical edge of the cap or cover a will then form in combination with the depressed
part of this discí a recess or seat in which the annular strips of cork or other
packing may be secured.
My invention may be applied to covers or stoppers of any kind (as illustrated in
figure 16), in which a packing of cork or other suitable material is fitted into a
hollow cap or cover. Cork or other soft or elastic packing of any suitable kind
may be used.
I sometimes use a disc of cork or other material of suitable thickness and having
fitted upon one or both sides one or more corresponding discs of paper saturated
with paraffin wax, as shewn in section in figure 15, in which c is the cork or other
packing and a disc of paraffin wax paper. Or two or more dises of cork and
corresponding discs of paraffin wax paper may be used. Or, the paraffin wax
paper may be used in combination with other sufficiently soft or elastic material,
or it may be used alone.
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. In stoppers or covers for closing bottles, jars, or other hollow articles of the
like kind, the disc or ring i having a projecting flange ¹, forming a recess within
which is fitted cork or other packing, the edge of the projecting flange i being
either plain, or serrated or otherwise shaped so that it can be bent over the edge
of the packing, substantially as described and shewn in the drawing.
2. In such stoppers or covers, the plate i, having a recess to contain a ring of
cork or other packing, such recess being formed either by two concentric flanges i¹
and formed upon the plate i as shewn in figures and 9, or by a flange i³ upon
the plate and the edge of the outer cap or cover a as shewn in figures 10 and 11,
the part of the plate forming the bottom of the recess being depressed, substantially
as described and shewn in the figures.
3. In stoppers or covers for the purposes described, the use of paper saturated
with paraffin wax, substantially as and for the purposes described.
Dated this 11th day of January 1886.