Improved Means for Securing Corks in Phials, Bottles, Jars, and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Aug., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 22nd May, 1890-Accepted, 23th June, 1890.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Securing Corks in Phials, Bottles, Jars,
and the like.
JOHN DAVENPORT E. India Merchant % Lloyd & Co. 7 Fen Court Fenchurch
Street London do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A means of effectually securing corks in phials bottles and jars or other
receptacles by the use of a wire band connecting the neck of the receptacle on
both sides through the cork and thereby dispensing with the cost of lead capsules
and rendering it impossible to tamper with the contents without certain detection.
Dated this Sixteenth day of September 1889.
CHARLES MILNER,
Agent for Jno. Davenport.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Securing Corks in Phials, Bottles, Jars,
and the like.
I, JOHN DAVENPORT of 30 Dalhousie Square, Calcutta in the Indian Empire and
care of Lloyd & Co. of 7 Fen Court Fenchurch Street in the City of London East
Indian Merchant 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 :-
My Invention has for its object to provide means for effectually securing corks
in phials, bottles, jars and other like receptacles so that it is impossible to tamper
with the contents without detection and the expense of capsules is rendered
unnecessary.
According to my Invention I secure the cork or stopper in the neck of a bottle or
phial or in the mouth of a jar or the like by means of a wire string or equivalent
connector passed through the neck or mouth of the bottle or the like and through
the cork or stopper inserted therein the ends of the wire string or equivalent
connector being then tied or twisted together and covered with sealing wax or other
suitable cement and impressed by a seal so that the cork cannot be removed without
its being at once apparent that this has been done.
The connecting wire string or the like may be secured in such a way by the seal
or otherwise that after the cork or stopper has been withdrawn a new wire or the
like cannot be put in place of the old one without its being apparent that the old wire
or the like has been removed.
The accompanying drawing will serve to make clear the nature of my Invention
and the manner in which it can be carried out in practice although I do not limit
myself to the precise details shewn.
Figure 1 is an elevation and Figure 2 a vertical section of the neck of a wine
bottle shewing the application of my Invention thereto.
A is a bottle neck in which a cork B is inserted and secured according to my
Invention by means of the wire C which is passed through holes a in the neck Å
and through a corresponding hole 6 made in the cork or stopper B. The two ends c c
of the wire are bent upwards and across the mouth of the bottle and the top of the
cork or stopper B the said ends being then securely tied or twisted together on top
of the cork and covered with or embedded in sealing wax or other suitable cement in
which an impression may be made which will prevent the cork or stopper from
being removed from the bottle without its being apparent. To open the bottle the
wire string or equivalent connector is cut or divided close to the holes a in the neck
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page_text: of the bottle after which the cork may be readily removed by means of a corkscrew
or other suitable instrument, or if the bottle contains aerated or gaseous liquids the
cork or stopper will be forced from the neck of the bottle when the wire or the like
connector is cut.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The herein described means for securing corks in bottles phials jars or the like
consisting of a wire string or like connector passed through holes formed in the neck
of the bottle or the like and through the cork or stopper inserted therein the ends of
the wire or like connector being embedded in cement or covered by a seal substan-
tially as and for the purpose herein before described.
Dated this 22nd day of Max 1800
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
Agents.