Improvements in Securing and Sealing Corks, Stoppers, and the like in Jars, Bottles, Cans, Boxes, and similar Receptacles.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd May, 1899-Accepted, 1st July, 1899
DIEVITICATION.
Improvements in Securing and Sealing Corks, Stoppers, and the like
in Jars, Bottles, Cans, Boxes, and similar Receptacles.
1, FREDERIC HUGHES, of 20, Paget Road, West Dulwich, Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My invention relates to improvements in securing and sealing corks, stoppers
and the like in jars bottles cans boxes and similar receptacles and more especially
for temporarily or permanently securing bottles and the like, the contents of
which are of a gaseous nature and liable to eject the cork or stopper by the internal
pressure, such as is the case with beers, cyders, effervescing wines, ginger beer and
other beverages. In carrying my invention into effect I proceed in or in about
the following manner making reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings
wherein Fig. 1 shows the complete attachment for use in carrying out my inven-
tion, Figs. 2, 3 and 4 are respectively side and front views and a plan of the
attachment in use on a ginger beer bottle. I take a piece of very pliable wire,
cord or thong a and form it into a running or other loop or noose b. Threaded
on this noose is the piece of metal having holes & through which the cord is
threaded and an outwardly turned ledge e having in it the notch f.
If the bottle is to be sealed the piece c may be of lead or other soft material
and have outstanding ears as at y or one such ear. If the bottle is not to.be
sealed these ears may be omitted. The free ends of a are threaded through or
under loops h formed in a disc i of metal or other suitable material and destined to
rest on the top of the cork or equivalent. These loops h may be forced up out
of the material of which is made but preferably each loop is formed by three
cuts meeting each other, the tongue so formed being pushed up and then bent over
the cord by pincers or other means. In the case of stoppers the discs may be
omitted and the cord entered into grooves provided for its reception in the top
of the stopper. The cord a is, near its ends, brought together and clipped between
a piece of metal or other material 7 having serrated edges, the serrations con-
sisting of straight sides m and sloping sides the slope being inwards towards
the knot of the noose. In use the noose is put round the neck of the bottle o
and drawn tight, the free ends are then passed over the top of the cork so as to
bring the disc i on top thereof, one or the other of the serrations on the clip
being placed below the ledge e, and the cords entering the notch f therein. The
sloped sides of the serrated clip provide a wedge like action on the cord and
tighten the fastening. If the fastening is to be sealed the ears 9 are then pinched
over clipping the cord between the ears and the piece c. If desired the seal may
be made further secure by soldering the piece or bail c and the ears g. Any private
device or mark may be impressed on the seal by pincers or other means.
case of a stopper the cords are simply entered into a groove or into grooves pro-
vided therein for their reception. To release the stopper or cord the serrated
clip is pulled from under the ledge c. In the case of screw stoppers the disc i
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page_text: may be omitted and a groove or grooves provided in the stopper to receive the cord
or equivalent a. As some variations are possible in the various parts of my in-
vention I do not confine myself to precisely the shapes dispositions or proportions
shown in the drawings.
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;
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1. For securing and sealing corks, stoppers, and the like in jars, bottles, cans,
boxes and similar receptacles an arrangement of parts comprising essentially a
piece of pliable cord, wire or thong formed into a running or other loop or noose
to encircle the neck of the receptacle, the free ends of the cord or equivalent
being threaded through or passed under loops provided on a disc of metal or other
material destined to rest on the top of the cork or equivalent, the cord or disc
being held in position by a clip having wedge like serrations and passed under
the outstanding ledge of a bail or piece of metal threaded on the noose or loop
portion of the cord, the whole substantially as described in the above specifica-
tion and exemplified by the accompanying drawings.
2. For use with screw stoppers a modification of the arrangement claimed in
Clause 1, the said modification consisting in the omission of the disc referred to in
the said claim, substantially as described in the above specification.
3. A modification in the arrangement claimed in the above Claim 1, whereby
the bail to receive the serrated clip is provided with an ear or with ears for bend-
ing over the clip for the purpose of forming a seal, the whole substantially as
described in the above specification and exemplified in the accompanying drawings.
4. The combination of parts substantially as described in the above specifica-
tion and exemplified in the accompanying drawings and together forming and
operating as improved means for securing and sealing corks, stoppers and the like
in jars, bottles, cans, boxes and similar receptacles.
Dotod this 28th day of Anil 1800
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, E.C., Agents.