IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SECURING CORKS AND STOPPERS IN. BOTTLES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Baker Philips; of Kingsland Road,
in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SECURING CORKS AND STOPPERS IN.
BOTTLES.""
Sealed the 11th April 1871, and dated the 13th October 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Baker Philips
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,.
on the 13th October 1870.
I, JOSEPH BAKER PHILIPS, of Kingsland Road, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of my said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SECURING CORKS AND STOPPERS.
IN BOTTLES," to be as follows:-
The Invention relates to a cheap and simple construction of fastener
for securing corks and stoppers in bottles, and which is chiefly applicable
to bottles containing aerated liquids, and consists of a piece of bent
wire or sheet metal hinged or capable of turning on a metal collar or
band of wire which is to be permanently or otherwise secured to the bottle

page_text: neck below the lip. The piece of bent wire or sheet metal has its upper
part bent or formed at a right angle to its two sides, so that when it is
brought into a vertical position it will project over the top of the cork
or stopper, and thereby prevent it from being forced out of the bottle,
but on turning back, the said piece of bent wire or sheet metal so as
to entirely uncover the cork or stopper the latter is free to be with-
drawn.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Baker Philips in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 13th April 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
BAKER PHILIPS, of Kingsland Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Joseph Baker Philips, Her special license
that I, the said Joseph Baker Philips, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Baker Philips, my executors,
administrators, or 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 make, 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 APPARATUS FOR SECURING CORKS AND STOPPERS IN BOTTLES," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Baker Philips, my
executors or administrators, 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 per-
formed, 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,

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Baker Philips, do hereby
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, reference being had to the Drawing
hereunto annexed and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that
is to say-
My said Invention relates to a cheap and simple construction of
fastener for securing corks and stoppers in bottles, and which is chiefly
applicable to bottles containing aerated liquids, and consists of a species
of hinged bridle piece composed of a piece of bent wire or sheet metal
hinged or capable of turning on a metal collar or band of wire which
is to be permanently or otherwise secured to the bottle neck below the
lip. The piece of bent wire or sheet metal has its upper part bent or
formed at a right angle to its two sides, so that when it is brought into
a vertical position it will project over the top of the cork or stopper,
and thereby prevent it from being forced out of the bottle, but on
turning back the said piece of bent wire or sheet metal so to entirely
uncover the cork or stopper the latter is free to be withdrawn.
By the use of this Invention the troublesome process of wiring is
obviated.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood I shall
now procced more particularly to describe the same, and for that
purpose shall refer to the several Figures on the annexed Sheet of
Drawings, the same letters of reference indicating corresponding parts
in all the Figures.
Figure 1 represents an elevation of my improved fastener fitted to a
bottle neck; Figure 2 is a corresponding plan of the same, and Figure 3
is an elevation at right angles to Figure 1, shewing the position of the
fastener when the stopper or cork is released preparatory to its with-
drawal from the bottle.
A is the neck of a soda water bottle, for example, provided with the
usual lip or shoulder a; B is the cork or stopper inserted into the neck,
which cork or stopper is held down securely in its place against the
internal pressure by the species of bridle piece C composed of bent wire
which is hinged or pivotted at each side b, b, to a loop or eye formed in
the separate band of wire D which is either permanently or temporarily
secured round the bottle neck just below the lip or shoulder a. This

page_text: fastener is intended to remain attached to the bottle, so that when the
bottle is refilled and corked it will be simply requisite, in order to secure
the cork in its place, to move the bridle piece or fastener C into the
position shewn in Figures 1 and 2, thus avoiding the trouble and cost
of rewiring at each filling.
Although I have represented the fastener as being made of wire it
may obviously be constructed of a strip of sheet metal, the ends of the
band D being either soldered or rivetted together and the hinge joints
at b, b, being made by rivets passing through the part C and the
.band D.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of the
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used
or carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider
to be novel and original and therefore claim as the Invention secured to
me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,―
First. The system or mode of securing a cork or stopper in the neck
of a bottle or other like receptacle by means of a hinged bridle piece
attached to the vessel and operating substantially in the manner herein-
before described.
Second. The peculiar fastener herein-before described consisting of :
the bridle piece C, hinges b, b, and collar or band D for the purpose
specified.